On the flip side, we were treated to a flashback of Don meeting Roger, a chance encounter that took place in the furrier that Don worked at back before he became an ad man, and was still an overly eager kid with a lot to learn, just like Jane’s cousin. Have we ever seen Don smile this much in a single episode? He puffed his chest with pride when Roger noticed the black and white ad for the furrier on the wall (featuring a young Betty as the model), even when he said the tagline was a “stupid question”. And he provided exemplary customer service; he was always a good salesman. But he was also persistent, even pesky, much like all these young upstarts (including Pete and Peggy, of course) who he seems to barely tolerate now. We got a glimpse of that as happy drunk Don pitched slogans to the execs from Life cereal, many of them completely lame, before stealing one a sober Don didn’t even like. Lucky for Don, the client, plied with drinks and spoilers on Peyton Place from name dropper extraordinaire Harry Crane, was enchanted, and simply too mesmerized by the glamour of Madison Avenue to even want to sleep on it.
