Mine was, "Our ham (Hamm) is worth fighting over."

Believe me, Henry, everybody thinks this is temporary.

"Why must you wallow in that other man's dirt?"

Couldn't have said it better myself, Mom.

"I learned a valuable lesson...never trust a one-legged reporter." 

(I was going to use Don's "everyody think this is temporary" line, but somebody beat me to it.)

"You hit it off, come Turkey Day, maybe you can stuff her..."
More Roger-isms

“Come turkey day, maybe you can stuff her.”
- Roger (my favorite charactar) trying to persuade Don to come to Thanksgiving dinner

“You turned all the sizzle from Glo-Coat into a wet fart." - Roger

Quote from Gaga:




The joke being that Don, if he's lucky, might get to engage in sexual intercourse with his blind date!

"did you enjoy the feuher's birthday party?"


BAWAHAHAHA

"May he live for a sow-zand years." 

Heh.  Yeah, that was good.

And most of all, I would like you to be here on Christmas morning to give it to me (the golden necklace), but I know you can't be. -Sally Draper

"I'm so sorry" ~ Harry as he sat down to be photographed on Santa Roger's knee

Funny and excruciating at the same time.

"He's pathetic."

I don't think the new art guy is going to work out.

ep 03--The Good News

Lane Pryce shouting about his "Texas Belt Buckle".

Lane is the most hilarious drunk on the show.

Agree, Drapery.

As far as one-liners go, though, ep 03 really missed Roger.  For my money, he is the best at Hilarious Pithiness.

Anna's sister (?) to Don painting the living room:

"You just can't keep your pants on, can you?"

You're just a man in a room with a checkbook.  -Patty, Anna's sister (?)

Don sounded more like Roger when he said to Lane: "Does Howdy Doody have a wooden dick?".

Paraphrase of Stephanie to Don, "It would be less creepy for me to hitch hike."

O4O4 "The Rejected"

So many in this episode! Too many to mention, actually!

I will only mention 2 of my favourites, although I had more.

"You Son of a Bitch" ~Pete's father-in-law
I've never really liked Pete, but this scene, combined with the scenes of Trudy after discovering he was about to become a father, really showed me what this kid could be made of! Go Pete! And also, Go Pete and Trudy as a couple! I have my moments when I wonder if Pete and Trudy are just playing house, but the scene that pans out from them from behind, sitting on their couch (it reminded me of the Mad Men logo, to be honest!), quite satisfied with their lives, makes me think that they are a true team, right or wrong.

2nd Favourite:
Husband: "Did you get pears? Did you get pears? Did you get pears?"
Wife  :"We'll discuss it inside."
~Don's neighbours.

I loved this little scene. It made me laugh hard, but it also made me wonder. I haven't quite sorted out the purpose of this little moment--it's the one scene from this episode that I haven't quite figure out yet. Has anyone else got definite views of this moment?

"Nevermind him. Before you can sell your soul, you first have to have one."

Yeah, the meaning of those pears is lost on me.  It must have some significance, though, since they ended the episode with that.  Or maybe they realize everyone will think it's supposed to have meaning, so they tossed in something with no meaning...it just kind of...is.

"My name is Andy Warhol and...I just finished eating a hamburger."

Yeah, whatever, pal.  Ha.

The only thing I could get out of the "pears" scene was that perhaps Don was thinking, "At least they have each other."
He has no one. And how sad is that? Maybe the doc was right about him getting remarried after all?

I just saw this on the AMC website about the "pears".

I've got the answer to the riddle about the old man and the pears. His insistent inquiry to his wife (did she get pears?) was all to do with his slavish devotion to his beauty routine. Did you know that Pears was/is a famous English soap, and was once advertised using a likeness of the most beautiful English woman of her day, Lillie Langtry?

Ahhh. So that's it. Now that you mention it NCMadMan, he did have lovely skin.

Sally:  "I know that a man pees inside of a woman."

Phoebe:  "You need to talk to your mother."

Joan: "They're not very subtle, are they?"

Translator: "No, they are not"


I didn't get it until the second viewing... she was talking about the laughing businessmen and he was talking about her ginormous boobs.  Neither of which are the least bit subtle.

New Art Guy talking about the bobbing bird: "We're trying to figure out what makes it work."

Don: "I'm trying to figure out what makes you work."

"MR. PETERS AND MR. STERLING ARE HERE." Five seconds after they enter the room.

Gotta love that Mrs. Blankenship...

Do you know the river of shit I'm gonna get from her mother? Don Draper

I agree that Layne is the most hilarious drunk on the show.  I loved when Don and he are at the comedy show and they're being heckled and Layne shouts out, "we're not homosexuals...we're divorced."  with his slurred accented speech i was cracking up!

I love the show and I would love to be a part of it.  I've entered the casting call contest to win a walk on role.  I'd love it if you would vote for me.  It only takes a second!

http://bit.ly/d5cb1O

Thanks!

Does anyone know why the head Honda guy says "David Ogilvy" while Joan is speaking to him about restaurants? It just seemed so random to me. If someone has an explanation I would love to hear it. Thanks.

(I know very little about David Ogilvy other than that he was an impressive ad man from the Mad Men era, and that he wrote a famous book about advertising.)

Joan said "I hope noone's taken you to Benihana", and he responded "David Ogilvy".   So my interpretation was that David Ogilvy had taken them to Benihana. 

Although I don't know how he understood her question as I don't recall the translator chiming in on that one.

Lots of good ones this episode:
"It's a motorcycle with doors. The nice thing is it has windows so you can see your brains spatter against it when it crashes." --Lane Pryce

"Have a drink, it'll make me look younger." --Roger to Joan

"Christ on a cracker!" --Pete

"It's a cantaloupe!" --Pete

Pete is priceless, isn't he? He always comes up with the most archaic expressions!

The thing I've noticed about Pete is that when he gets angry or upset, just before he delivers his line, he figets/bounces like he's sitting on a hot skillet. It's pretty funny.

oh, and...

@ Rusty:

Thanks for the explanation. I re-watched the scene, and yes, I do believe you are correct! I don't understand about the lack of translation either. There were a few scenes where the translator seemed "un-needed." Idk.*shrugs*.

Hmm. So David Ogilvy took Honda to Benihana? Was that a jab at Mr. Ogilvy? A wink? Tongue-in-cheek? I'm not totally up on the subtleties of New York advertising social dances in the 1960's...

@mneely490:

Ha! Yeah, Pete is pretty self-conscious. He sorta likes to get a sense that his "audience" is ready for his joke before he delivers it. He needs that security. It's odd (hmm, I felt like Trudy just now, saying that!)

Pete makes me so uncomfortable! But I love it, because he delivers! Who would he be, today? Who is the 2010 equivalent of Pete?

Another thing about Pete...sometimes when he gets angry/upset, he just simmers, and gets this disturbing look in his eye. Then he either explodes, and/or says something super-nasty. Look back at many of his cutting remarks to both Trudy and Peggy, you will see this (although Trudy usually puts him back in his place. Peggy isn't always in the position to do so.)
Once, he sat silent while the "boys" at the office said some pretty crappy stuff about Peggy--he just sat there, brewing, then turned on Ken Cosgrove I think it was, and punched him in the nose.

Pete, who I initially hated, is really growing on me as a character. He's so like an onion. But then, aren't they all? (Aren't WE all?)

"You're chickenshit.  I can work like this.  Let's get liberated."

Peggy to Stan

Roger:  "They don't give out awards for what I do."

Joan: "Which is, what, exactly?"

Girl at the bar asks if DD is "attached."

Roger says,"attached to the glass?  Definitely."

Roger has superb timing.

One of Dons best lines of the episode:
"Oh. Okay..."

Mrs. Blankenship: <barely audible> "I don't work for you!"

During the interview with Jane's cousin...

Don (to Peggy): "It's an idiom. Did you know that?"

Peggy (oh, how Peggy rocked it this episode!):

"I only changed one...little...thing."

I told him to be himself...that was pretty mean I guess. Roger Sterling

Peggy in her new leaderly role, even to DD:

"Fix it!"

Thinking a bit more about "Waldorf Stories", another of my favourite lines comes from Don. Peggy was complaining to him about how awful the new art director (Stan?) was to work with, blah blah blah, and Don says something to her like "It's not his problem, it's YOUR problem. You need to find a way to make it work". I know it's not verbatim, but that is the jist of it.

Although it sounded harsh at first, I found this to be extremely good advice (for anyone)! It felt like another one of Don's nuggets of wisdom which are scattered throughout the series. It was satisfying when Peggy, although her nose seemed a bit out of joint on hearing this advice, later came to embrace it in the hotel scene.

Don to his staff in the Aquanet role play (the one they pretended to drive a convertible with two women and two men in it):

Too much story. Everytime i hear 'and then' there is another change for the ladies at home to misunderstand.

It's so condensending that it makes me laugh.