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"New Amsterdam"
Mad Men Season 1, Episode 4
EPISODE Fundamentals
Air date: August 9, 2007
Writer(s): Lisa Albert
Director(s): Tim Hunter
Guest star(s): Randy Ogelsby (Walter Veith); Aaron Staton (Ken); Rich Sommer (Harry); Bryan Batt (Salvatore); Maggie Siff (Rachel Menken); Michael J.X. Gladis (Paul); John Slattery (Roger Sterling); Rosemarie DeWitt (Midge); Andy Umberger (Dr. Wayne); Christopher Allport (Andrew Campbell); Joe O'Connor (Tom Vogel); Robert Morse (Bert Cooper); Darby Stanchfield (Helen Bishop); Alison Brie (Trudy Campbell)
MINI Synopsis
Pete's professional and personal lives become more complicated as he struggles to assert power in both. While facing pressure from his wife regarding a new apartment, he further alienates Don and endangers his own position at Sterling Cooper.





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Pete and his father disagree.
MUSIC in this Episode
Song Title Artist Scene
Driving Instructor
Bob Newhart
Opening
Manhattan
Ella Fitzgerald

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GETTING DOWN to Business

DOUBLE-Dealing
Lies, back-stabbing, deception
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Pete Campbell
Relationship: Boss/subordinate

Double-dealing: Pete tried to pitch an idea to a client behind Don's back.

Outcome: Don fired Pete but then was forced to rehired him.
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Pete Campbell
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Double-dealing:

Outcome:
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STOLEN Glances
Office liaisons, tawdry affairs and hot encounters
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Rachel Menken
Relationship: Don/Rachel

Scene of the 'crime': Sterling Cooper back hallway

How did this affair start? Flirting began when they met.... they want more but he's married.
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Rachel Menken
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SIGNS of the TIMES
MAD MEN Historical and Cultural References
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Pete tells Trudy he makes $75 a week/$3500 a year.
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The apartment in New York Pete and Trudy are looking at is for sale for $30,000.
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The Draper children are watching "Little Rascals" on television. This was a popular television show which began in 1955.
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Glen Bishop is watching "The Real McCoys", a television series created in October 1957.
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We've Come a Long Way, Baby
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Pete bringing 2 'female cousins' to entertain the client.
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DICK WHITMAN verses DON DRAPER
Dick Whitman and Don Draper
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MAD MEN Quotes
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Roger Sterling: I bet there were people in the Bible walking around, complaining about "kids today."
Don Draper: Kids today, they have no one to look up to. Cuz they're looking up to us.
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Pete Campbell: I have ideas.
Don Draper: I'm sure you do. Sterling Cooper has more failed artists and intellectuals than the Third Reich.
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Roger Sterling: I bet daily friendship with that bottle attracts more people to advertising than any salary you can dream of.
Don Draper: It's the way I got in.
Roger Sterling: So enjoy it.
Don Draper: I'm doin' my best here.
Roger Sterling: No, you're not. You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do.
Don Draper: What about shaky hands, I see a lot of that with you boys?
Roger Sterling: No joke. Your kind with your gloomy thoughts and your worries, your all busy licking some imaginary wound.
Don Draper: Not all imaginary.
Roger Sterling: Yeah, boo hoo.
Don Draper: Maybe I'm not as comfortable being powerless as you are.
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Don Draper (to Pete): You do your job, take him sailing, get him into a bathing suit, and leave the ideas to me.
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Andrew Campbell (to his son Pete): I run into you at the club, you're working. At a restaurant, you're working. Taking people to dinner, wining and whoring? That's not a job for a white man.

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BEST Episode Moments, BIGGEST Episode Shockers
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Don firing Pete because he made a sales pitch behind his back.
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Roger telling Pete he's rehired all because of Don - that Don fought for him when in reality, Cooper is the one who made them keep Pete on.
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Pete and Trudy purchase an apartment with financial help from Trudy's parents.
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