Is that what you wanted?
Don Draper and much of the staff put in a Sunday at the office: American Airlines has moved up the date for the presentation. Don and his creative team deliver the goods on time... only to learn that Duck Phillips' principal contact at AA was fired the morning of the presentation, and they are likely sunk. Roger Sterling arranges for a meeting with a prostitute. At home, Betty Draper is fed up at what she sees as Don's lax attitude toward disciplining the children, especially their son Bobby, who seems to be having a spate of minor accidents. Peggy Olson takes a liking to a new parish priest and even gives him some advice for his forthcoming Palm Sunday sermon. Her sister however is having difficulty with Peggy's successful career and apparently happy private life. Bobbie Barrett visits Don at the office, without an appointment, to pitch her idea for a new TV show. That isn't all that she is after.
The episode contains examples of:
- All for Nothing: After spending so much time wondering how they should properly throw their pitch to American Airlines, Sterling Cooper is informed that Duck's contact there has been fired. This means that, despite all of their best efforts and sacrifices, they have practically no chance at signing on with the company.
- Cooldown Hug: After Don blows his cap, Bobby comes by and apologizes. The two bond a bit when Bobby asks Don about what life was like with his father, and the two eventually hug.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Bert steps on a piece of gum in the office, which gets stuck on his sock (this being Cooper, he never wears shoes). When he spots an office secretary chewing gum, he angrily reproaches her for treating the office like a "subway platform", before telling her to go home. Duck comes by and says not to worry, since Bert will forget about it the next day.
- Don destroying one of his son's toys because of a minor incident involving a spilled glass of milk (and his wife's nagging about instilling proper discipline, by which she means corporal punishment, which Don hates) also definitely counts.
- Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: Averted. Betty wants Don to inflict some Corporal Punishment on Bobby in order to subdue his hyperactive behavior, but Don is appalled by the idea, instead resolving to sternly warn Bobby not to act out again. At the end of the episode, he gets her to understand why he hates this trope.Don: My father beat the hell out of me. All it did was make me fantasize about the day I could murder him.Betty: I didn't know that.Don: And I wasn't half as good as Bobby.
- Graceful Loser: Unlike everyone else at the agency, Roger takes the loss of American Airlines as a client well, telling Don that being in the chase was good enough.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Anita is this towards Peggy. While her little sister, who had a child out of wedlock but evaded the consequences, has a glamorous life as a Manhattan career girl and can date men, she's a miserable housewife with 3 kids, a Mom at home, and a husband who needs time off from work due to an injury.
- Joan and a few secretaries show this regarding Peggy as well; she gets to take her lunch first with the accounts, creatives, and partners (as she is junior copywriter) and Joan speaks of resenting that Peggy is paid more than the secretaries.
- Innocently Insensitive: A bit with Sally, who asks if Paul's African-American girlfriend is actually his maid. For Sally, the only black person that she'd have likely met by this point would've been Carla (her housekeeper). She also comments on the size of Joan's breasts.Sally: You have big ones.
- Orphaned Punchline: "...And my wife says 'DUCK and cover!'"
- Out-of-Character Alert: Oddly enough, Pete has to explain to Roger the woman who was with one of their clients was not a Trophy Wife, but a prostitute.
- Sexy Priest: Father Gill makes his first appearance here, and it's clear that Peggy's family finds him charming.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: The failure to gain American Airlines (even before the pitch starts) makes both Don's firing of Mohawk and Pete's decision to sidle up to the Airline that inadvertently killed his father all the worse.
- Shout-Out: Betty's reading "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" from Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- Tantrum Throwing: After being pestered by Betty to discipline Bobby throughout the episode (and after humiliatingly losing American Airlines without a fight), Don's temper has quietly flared. When Bobby spills something at the dinner table and Betty requests that he do something, an angry Don simply throws Bobby's toy robot against the kitchen wall, before storming off.
- Team Shot: One of the entire main cast
◊ (minus Betty) as they stand prepared for Duck to enter the room.
