The Arrangements
- Episode aired Sep 6, 2009
- TV-14
- 1h
Don has reservations about a misguided potential client who wants to sell jai alai as the "new national pastime." Meanwhile, Sal produces the "Patio" television commercial, Peggy searches fo... Read allDon has reservations about a misguided potential client who wants to sell jai alai as the "new national pastime." Meanwhile, Sal produces the "Patio" television commercial, Peggy searches for a roommate, and Betty's father passes away.Don has reservations about a misguided potential client who wants to sell jai alai as the "new national pastime." Meanwhile, Sal produces the "Patio" television commercial, Peggy searches for a roommate, and Betty's father passes away.
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- TriviaAction takes place on June 11th, 1963, the day a Buddhist monk (Thích Quang Ducset) set himself on fire in Saigon in a ritual suicide to protest government anti-Buddhist policies, and over the two days prior.
- GoofsGrandpa Gene is rummaging through his WWI memorabilia and tells Bobby how he shot a German soldier in the head and kept his helmet as a souvenir. However, the helmet is the old style Prussian helmet (Pickelhaube) with the spike on top. These helmets were quickly found to be ineffective and by the time the US entered the war, these helmets had been replaced with steel helmets, so it's not something the German soldier would have been wearing.
- Quotes
Karen Ericson: Everyone on the first floor loved your humourous ad. You seem like someone I could really be friends with, not like the last girl.
Peggy Olson: [awkwardly] Well, I'm fun! And I love to have... fun.
Karen Ericson: She was always keeping her door shut, and I think you should only close your door for one reason.
Peggy Olson: What's that?
[Karen smiles and raises her eyebrows]
Peggy Olson: Oh!
Karen Ericson: I just don't get along with women like I do men, but she left to get married, so I must be some kind of good-luck charm. Do you have a steady?
Peggy Olson: No, I- I'm still playing the field.
Karen Ericson: There are so many interesting men out there. Except sailors. I have a couple of rules. One of them is I don't like sailors.
Peggy Olson: [confused] No sailors, I agree.
Karen Ericson: So Peggy Olson, I have to ask: are you Swedish? Because I am.
Peggy Olson: [apologetically] Norwegian.
Karen Ericson: Well, we won't tell my parents. I'll make appointments and come by at five. Or do you want your girl to do it?
Peggy Olson: I finish up around six.
Karen Ericson: Well, then tomorrow?
Peggy Olson: Most days. Can we look on Saturday? Oh, but not this Saturday, I...
Karen Ericson: You work on Saturday?
Peggy Olson: Not every Saturday. And Saturday nights, never. I'm out in the city... ready for fun...
- ConnectionsReferenced in Talking Dead: The Code (2018)
I watch his acting and think, he must have done some great things going back to the 1950's, but, instead he's one of those kind of old actors that started out old... there are a lot of them, and a few are on this show...
The scenes with Gene and Sally are brilliant... She has great chemistry with the old man (it kind of reminds me of Breaking Bad when Skylar has scenes with Saul Goodman... polar opposites clicking in the strangest but most natural of ways)...
On the b-story (well, Gene is also a b-story), the whole rich kid trying to make his weird sport famous is kind of silly, and seems here for comic relief... His father, however, played by iconic actor David Selby, has a good scene though...
However the greatest scene is when Sal breaks out with his true colors in front of his poor innocent (and extremely naive) wife, who needs tending, and winds up like a deer in headlights after his commercial reading... which eventually leads to Sal's... well...
Let's just say that Season 3 is the final season where we get the original characters all together: it's still great but never quite the same after that.
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