Work continues on the diet cola commercial featuring an Ann-Margret look-alike. Roger throws a party. Don suggests that he and Betty not attend, but Betty has already bought a dress. Don meets a potentially valuable client at the party. Peggy works overtime with Kinsey and Smitty on the Bacardi rum account, and when they seal themselves in Kinsey's office to smoke pot, she wants to join them. Joan and Greg host a small gathering.
This episode contains examples of:
- Artistic Stimulation: "I need it for inspiration." Actually, Peggy never asked why he was smoking pot. She wanted some herself because, at work, she wants to be treated like One of the Boys. Ironically, she actually does get inspiration while stoned.
- Black Face: Roger sings the song named in the title of the episode with this kind of make up.
- Classically-Trained Extra: The actress auditioning for the Ann-Margret look-alike role has a background in classic theater, including a secondary role in Moliere's 17th-century play Tartuffe, only to audition for a role that reduces her to her appearance.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Only Pete is genuinely offended by Roger's blacked-up minstrel act. Don is perturbed too, but only because he thinks Roger is making a fool of himself. Otherwise sympathetic characters such as Trudy Campbell and Ken Cosgrove laugh along with the rest of the audience, although whether they are laughing at Roger or with him is unclear (not that that distinction really matters as far as this trope is concerned).
- Deliberately Cute Child: When Sally claims she "just found" grandpa's five dollars, she comes across as this.
- Drugs Are Bad: Olive does not think Peggy should be doing drugs. Peggy has another opinion: "My name is Peggy Olson, and I want to smoke marijuana".
- Drugs Are Good: After significant inhalation, Peggy says "I am so high right now."
- Historical Domain Character: Conrad Hilton (though not yet identified as such) meets Don Draper.
- Innocuously Important Episode: Greg's career troubles, Henry Francis, and Conrad Hilton are all introduced in this episode.
- In Vino Veritas: When Peggy is under the influence, she makes some very honest statements to Olive.
- Love Makes You Dumb: According to Don, people do not think Roger is happy because he has Jane, they just think he is foolish.
- Male Gaze: Harry Crane asks the potential Ann-Margret look-alike to "Do that twist one more time." Peggy tells him he is just a spectator and not involved in the selection of an actress.
- Greg's colleague's wife discusses a practice of announcing a "code pink" when there is an attractive unconscious woman in the hospital.
- Politically Correct History: As always, averted, but definitely one of the most shocking instances.
- Product Placement: According to the
Word of God, this trope influenced the use the historical domain character, but the trope itself was averted. Hilton contacted them discussing how Conrad Hilton could be used on their show. Negotiations did not go well, but they decided to use the character anyways. - Roaring Twenties: Eugene believes he is in this trope, and tries to get rid of all the alcohol before the police arrive. Also, Pete and Trudy do a great Charleston.
- Shout-Out: Sally reads to Eugene out of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Paul quotes TS Eliot. And Conrad asks Don if he's seen A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
- Stay in the Kitchen: Of a sort between Joan and Greg. Joan is performing her hostessing duties excellently, but Greg acts like she is too stupid to know how vacuum cleaner cords work or how to arrange seating for dinner parties.
- Stealth Insult: The meeting between the now Joan Holloway Harris and Jane, who's now the new Mrs Sterling. They are outwardly polite to one another but the dialogue and their history make it clear that Jane is doing her damnedest to show up her former superior and is nervous while Joan clearly has no respect for her.
- The dinner party is one for Greg as it becomes obvious that Joan impresses everyone with her cooking, martini-mixing, beauty, fashion sense, economic know-how, sense of decor, and hostessing. Compared to her and his colleague who is poised to be promoted in the surgical field, it's clear that Greg is considered a loser. It's more obvious when the wives come to chat with Joan in the kitchen.The fact that Greg can get a woman like you, makes me feel good about his future.
- The dinner party is one for Greg as it becomes obvious that Joan impresses everyone with her cooking, martini-mixing, beauty, fashion sense, economic know-how, sense of decor, and hostessing. Compared to her and his colleague who is poised to be promoted in the surgical field, it's clear that Greg is considered a loser. It's more obvious when the wives come to chat with Joan in the kitchen.
- Title Drop: Roger's Black Face act is him serenading Jane with a rendition of "My Old Kentucky Home".
- Unable to Support a Wife: It's more and more obvious that Joan and Greg will have to continue living in her bachelorette apartment as he is not likely to move up in his career. Greg's boss's wife even warns Joan not to have children right now and she is thankful he married someone as intelligent as she.
- What Does She See in Him?: Greg's boss's wife and the news of his surgical mishap makes it clear to Joan that everyone finds Greg to be a loser (albeit politely) and that he really lucked into marrying a woman as intelligent and socially savvy as she.
- The fact that Greg can get a woman like you, makes me feel good about his future.
- Your Answer to Everything: Eugene tells Don, "You people, you think money is the answer to everything."
