Donald Draper, our main male character, is at work. The newly married man came back from his honeymoon for there to be Chinese and chickens in the chief's office. The staff paid them to be in there.
Donald has a meeting with his co-workers and a woman dressed fancily. They discuss how she could attract more customers and talk about a car ad whose ad is more attractive than the actual car. Donald admits none of them has been to her store on Fifth Avenue.
Don and this woman goes on a "date" to her store where she gives him cuff links. Cuff links are at the ends of the sleeves and link the cuffs together. She leads him outside where there are dogs kept in a fenced area. She tells him how she used to talk to the original dogs a lot. She made it a bylaw to name each generation of dogs the same names.
She looks at Don sadly with this look in her eyes. She talks about how she spent most of her childhood in the store as her dad was working. She has just one sister and she said it was easier to handle the dogs. Don gets the impression she is sad thinking she was unloved and he tells her don't tell me you were always unloved and proceeds to kiss her.
She moves in for the kiss with tears in her eyes, looking as if she felt so lonely for most of her life. Don admits he is married and she is disgusted.
Don and Betty are in their bedroom in the morning when the daughter comes in as it is her birthday. Betty reminds him to set up the playhouse. He does it as he drinks beer. Betty has her hair in curlers and when she takes them out her hair is beautiful. She makes drinks and I love this scene - her fingers are beautiful and hands are adorned with jewellery. Her nails are pink and overall her hands look so feminine. She mixes drinks elegantly with a spoon and places it on the table.
She offers drinks for everyone and tells them what is offered at the party. Kids will have peanut butter sandwiches as she knows they all eat those. Kids run around as the adults stand up very tall and still.
Betty asks Don to film the party as he always forgets and to get the cake. Don is doing the bare minimum - throughout the entire day he seems so lazy and reluctant to do any fatherly things.
Betty invites an outcast to the party - a divorced woman with a son. Betty invited her only because she saw her buying balloons. The other mothers are dismayed. This woman is the only one who comes in with pants and a present with Christmas wrapping paper. She enters the home without the owner's presence. Betty reacts with forced little smiles.
Don goes out to get the cake but does not come home. One couple leaves early after the man thinks there will be no cake. The divorced woman offers to bring a cake she has and Betty gratefully accepts. The cake is brought in and it is a tiny cake and kind of messy. Betty tries to cut the cake with force as it is very hard and she narrows her brows.
Don is shown sitting in his car then is home. Betty comes in to find the kids with a dog and Don exhausted. Betty does not know what to say. Don picks up his daughter and wishes her a happy birthday. Once out of his grasp his daughter reaches to hug the dog.
Donald has a meeting with his co-workers and a woman dressed fancily. They discuss how she could attract more customers and talk about a car ad whose ad is more attractive than the actual car. Donald admits none of them has been to her store on Fifth Avenue.
Don and this woman goes on a "date" to her store where she gives him cuff links. Cuff links are at the ends of the sleeves and link the cuffs together. She leads him outside where there are dogs kept in a fenced area. She tells him how she used to talk to the original dogs a lot. She made it a bylaw to name each generation of dogs the same names.
She looks at Don sadly with this look in her eyes. She talks about how she spent most of her childhood in the store as her dad was working. She has just one sister and she said it was easier to handle the dogs. Don gets the impression she is sad thinking she was unloved and he tells her don't tell me you were always unloved and proceeds to kiss her.
She moves in for the kiss with tears in her eyes, looking as if she felt so lonely for most of her life. Don admits he is married and she is disgusted.
Don and Betty are in their bedroom in the morning when the daughter comes in as it is her birthday. Betty reminds him to set up the playhouse. He does it as he drinks beer. Betty has her hair in curlers and when she takes them out her hair is beautiful. She makes drinks and I love this scene - her fingers are beautiful and hands are adorned with jewellery. Her nails are pink and overall her hands look so feminine. She mixes drinks elegantly with a spoon and places it on the table.
She offers drinks for everyone and tells them what is offered at the party. Kids will have peanut butter sandwiches as she knows they all eat those. Kids run around as the adults stand up very tall and still.
Betty asks Don to film the party as he always forgets and to get the cake. Don is doing the bare minimum - throughout the entire day he seems so lazy and reluctant to do any fatherly things.
Betty invites an outcast to the party - a divorced woman with a son. Betty invited her only because she saw her buying balloons. The other mothers are dismayed. This woman is the only one who comes in with pants and a present with Christmas wrapping paper. She enters the home without the owner's presence. Betty reacts with forced little smiles.
Don goes out to get the cake but does not come home. One couple leaves early after the man thinks there will be no cake. The divorced woman offers to bring a cake she has and Betty gratefully accepts. The cake is brought in and it is a tiny cake and kind of messy. Betty tries to cut the cake with force as it is very hard and she narrows her brows.
Don is shown sitting in his car then is home. Betty comes in to find the kids with a dog and Don exhausted. Betty does not know what to say. Don picks up his daughter and wishes her a happy birthday. Once out of his grasp his daughter reaches to hug the dog.