Blowing Smoke
- Episode aired Oct 10, 2010
- TV-14
- 48m
Don makes a bold, desperate move to save Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, but the other partners are furious with his actions. Meanwhile, Sally's psychiatrist suggests that she is improving, bu... Read allDon makes a bold, desperate move to save Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, but the other partners are furious with his actions. Meanwhile, Sally's psychiatrist suggests that she is improving, but Betty is skeptical.Don makes a bold, desperate move to save Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, but the other partners are furious with his actions. Meanwhile, Sally's psychiatrist suggests that she is improving, but Betty is skeptical.
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- TriviaOne of the messages that Megan tells Don he got after his anti-tobacco ad is from an "Emerson Foote." Foote was chairman of the powerful advertising firm McCann-Erickson in the mid-1960s when he resigned and publicly spoke out against the tobacco industry, which was a large part of McCann's business. He later became an anti-smoking activist and the chairman of the National Interagency Council on Smoking and Health.
- GoofsGlen Bishop is holding two full bottles of Coke when he and Sally are confronted by Betty. Glen drops the two bottles and runs, but when the camera switches to the reverse angle, the two bottles are now completely empty.
- Quotes
Don Draper: Recently my advertising agency ended a long relationship with Lucky Strike cigarettes, and I'm relieved. For over 25 years we devoted ourselves to peddling a product for which good work is irrelevant because people can't stop themselves from buying it. A product that never improves, that causes illness, and makes people unhappy. But there was money in it. A lot of money. In fact, our entire business depended on it. We knew it wasn't good for us, but we couldn't stop. And then, when Lucky Strike moved their business elsewhere, I realized, here was my chance to be someone who could sleep at night because I know what I'm selling doesn't kill my customers. So as of today, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce will no longer take tobacco accounts. We know it's going to be hard. If you're interested in cigarette work, here's a list of agencies that do it well: BBDO, Leo Burnett, McCann Erickson, Cutler Gleason & Chaough, and Benton & Bowles. As for us, we welcome all other business because we're certain that our best work is still ahead of us.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Special Collector's Edition: Matilda (2011)
Worse yet, a BAD ACTOR penny, and that's creator Matt Weiner's son as Glen, the creepy Peter Lorre-looking kid that now has a crush no longer on Betty but Sally...
Meanwhile, Sally is so little and chaste while Glen has had a growth spurt, and he resembles a giant cardboard box (especially with that jersey) and looks far too old for the little girl, and not only that but he's like a bad-advice devil on her shoulder, and he should just go away...
I realize this doesn't happen and he comes back after another growth spurt but he's just as robotic as ever... it's amazing how a kid can be forced onto a profession like acting when they cannot act, and will inherit millions and doesn't have to work anyway...
Anyway...
This is the Don's Tobacco Letter episode and it's a pretty good one... Another chance to see Don Draper going against the flow, taking a giant risk, and without anyone believing in him, until they do...
Meanwhile another original cast member returns, and it's Don's first love affair, the progressive Midge, who was once ahead of the times and now that her people have taken over the culture, she seems rather ordinary and...
Well it's not worth spoiling what's become of her, and while it's not as bad as what they eventually do with Kinsey, it's pretty lame...
Anyhow, ugh, Glen needs to go away but... nepotism, you know, you just can't fight it.
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- Runtime48 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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