History Recap / MadMenS1E8TheHoboCode

Peggy is becoming more successful at work, with her ideas for Belle Jolie a hit with the clients. However, her relationship with Pete gets more complicated -- they have sex on the couch in his office, but he acts very coldly towards her when everyone goes to a bar to celebrate her copywriting success. Bert gives Don a $2,500 bonus and urges him to read ''Atlas Shrugged''. Away from the office, Don spends the evening smoking pot with Midge and her beatnik friends; the antagonism between them and the smartly-dressed ad man is mutual. A childhood encounter with a hobo who briefly stayed at his father's farm when he was a young boy (the events of which confirmed to the young Dick what he already suspected, that his father was a dishonest man) is told in flashbacks. Sal, meanwhile, goes to dinner with Elliott, one of the executives from Belle Jolie. They get on well and Elliott invites Sal back to his room; Sal, though, is afraid to follow through on his attraction to men.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Don and Midge's friends go back and forth snarking at each other. He tells them to make something of themselves, and they chide him for selling lies for a living. Don gets the final word when he leaves Midge's apartment.

* ShoutOut: Cooper notes his love for Ayn Rand's ''Literature/AtlasShrugged''.

* TransparentCloset: Sal, upon being propositioned by Elliot. It's not so much that he ''denies'' being gay as much as realizes that it wouldn't be practical to endanger himself by acting upon their sexual tension.
-->'''Sal''': Elliot, I have thought about it. I know what I want. I know what I want to do.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Sal is clearly hesitant to act upon an attraction to Elliot, and isn't given solace by the latter's nonchalance.
-->'''Elliot''': What are you afraid of?

Don is tormented as pieces of his secretive past begin to haunt him. Peggy's professional and personal life reaches new strides. Pete finally moves in to his new apartment. The office celebrates a co-workers success at P.J. Clarke's. Lois, a switchboard employee sets her sights on a fellow colleague. Salvatore Romano gets a little too close with a client from Belle Jolie.

* NotSoDifferent: Bert believes that he and Don share certain qualities with each other. Namely, that they are productive, reasonable, and completely self-interested and unsentimental.

-> ''"The cops. You can't go out there."''
-> ''"'''You''' can't."''

* SlobsVersusSnobs: Don white collar presence is antagonized by Midge's beatnik friends. The condescension is mutual.

* ShoutOut: Cooper notes his love for Ayn Rand's ''AtlasShrugged''.

-> ''"You can't."''

* MyGodAreYouSerious: Sal is clearly hesitant to act upon an attraction to Elliot, and isn't given solace by the latter's nonchalance.
-->'''Elliot''': What are you afraid of?
-->'''Sal''': Are you joking?

-->'''Pete''': I don't like you like this.

* DrivenToTears: Peggy, by Pete. She jovially asks him to dance with her during the office party, and his response is cold.
-->'''Pete''': I don't like you like this.

* TroubledChildhoodFlashback: Don recalls the time that he had a conversation with a hobo that his parents briefly housed in their barn. In the flashback, he reveals himself to be the son of a whore.

* ShoutOut: Cooper notes his love for Ayn Rand's ''AtlasShrugged''.