airdate: 10/4/2009
written by Lisa Albert and Matthew Weiner
directed by Phil Abraham

• "You shouldn't be kissing boys. Boys kiss you." - Betty [to Sally]
  
  
• "New York in August? It's like a great big melting wax museum." -Ken
  
  
• "When you don't have any power, you have to delay things." - Betty
  
  
• "Moneypenny hasn't self-destructed, but it's only a matter of time." - Pete [catching Joan up on the office situation]
  
  
• "What do you like to drink? You're German, right? I can us some beer, or Riesling? Schnapps?" - Pete [trying to seduce his neighbor's German au pair]
  
  
• "You always get that guilty look on your face when you see little children." - Trudy
  
  
• "Every kiss with them after that is a shadow of that kiss." - Betty [explaining to Sally why first kisses are important]
  

• Betty's mysterious new friend (and benefactor?) revealed his actual name and title: Henry Francis, Governor Rockefeller's Director of Public Relations and Research.
  
  
• Betty speaks fluent Italian.
  
  
• Don and Betty have fun pretending to be strangers at a sidewalk cafe in Rome.
  
  
• Joan reveals that Greg is now studying psychiatry.
  
  
• Joan is now working at Bonwit Teller as a temporary floor manager.
  
  
• Sally's anger and self-image issues mirror Betty's own neuroses to an increasingly alarming degree.
  
  
• So little is going on at Sterling Cooper during the vacation month of August, that the bored staffers are killing time by launching ketchup-filled water balloons across the office.
  

• Aside from one brief early scene in the nearly empty offices of Sterling Cooper (featuring a bored Pete, Ken, Paul, Harry, and Lois), none of the action takes place in the office.Peggy, Roger, Sal, Cooper, and Lane don't appear in this episode at all.
  

• In a playful scene in which Don "picks up" Betty at a sidewalk cafe in Rome (in front of two handsome young Italian men), we get a brief glimpse of what Don and Betty's early relationship might have been like.
  

• DISCUSSION THREAD
  
  
• DISCUSSION THREAD

• This episode takes place in August 1963. The most notable historical event of that month is Martin Luther King's August 28 delivery of his "I Have A Dream" speech.
  

• Pete, clumsily trying to seduce his neighbor's German au pair, offers her a choice of beer, Riesling, or Schnapps.
  

• Joan has found work at Bonwit Teller (a department store located at Fifth Avenue & 56th Street). The Bonwit Teller building was demolished in the 1980s by Donald Trump to make way for his Trump Tower.
  

• ---Aside from one brief early scene in the nearly empty offices of Sterling Cooper (featuring a bored Pete, Ken, Paul, Harry, and Lois), none of the action takes place in the office.
  

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