History Recap / MadMenS7E11TimeAndLife

* IncrediblyLamePun: Roger and Don debate about who should make the obligatory one of these after Pete announces that he's secured Secor Laxatives.

* MamaBear: Make that two against each other. Peggy (a "Surrendered" Mom) and the StageMom face off against one another after [[ItMakesSenseInContext the little girl gets injured by a stapler]], StageMom threatening to sue and Peggy asking what kind of Mother leaves her child in the company of strangers.

What at first appears to be a failure to pay the lease on time leads to SC&P's discovering that [=McCann=]'s plan is to close down their office and move everyone into the parent company's headquarters. Don devises a plan to move to California as "Sterling Cooper West" and manage the lucrative contracts that conflict with [=McCann=]'s portfolio. However, Ken enjoys toying with his former co-workers before telling them he won't sign on. Eventually, Jim Hobart ([=McCann=]'s CEO) lets Don, Roger, Joan, Pete and Ted know the absorption into [=McCann=] is going to happen and they should appreciate their "victory".

Elsewhere, Peggy's emotions surge when a group of children are at the office for a focus group. Pete and Trudy reunite after a crisis arises involving Tammy's preschool application. After a scuffle upon which Pete socks a pedantic headmaster, he and Trudy find some friendly common ground while pondering their past and future. She reveals regret about forcing him to leave the city for suburbia. Now as a single mother, she's hit on by the men she encounters but notes, ironically, as she ages no one will notice her. Pete tells her she's ageless.

Don tries to find Diana again. Joan has praise from her co-workers and a new love interest, but a very uncertain professional future. As rumors fly, Don's secretary pressures him to make an announcement. The partners call the rest of the staff into the lounge and announce the coming move. Though Roger and Don try to spin the news positively, they quickly lose the crowd's attention as employees wander away in disappointment.

* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: How Peggy's confession to Stan that she had a child but gave it up is told.

* [[BlackDudeDiesFirst Black Secretaries Get the Boot First]]: Dawn and Shirley discuss their job security after word gets out about SC&P being absorbed by [=McCann=]-Erickson, stating that the white (and not as experienced or composed) Caroline and Meredith would edge them out.

* TheDogBitesBack: Meredith, after Don tries to fob her off. Leads to him getting the partners to make the announcement about [=McCann=] to everyone.
--> '''Don:''' Listen, Meredith, sweetheart...
--> '''Meredith:''' Don't "sweetheart" me!

* ...AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: How Peggy's confession more or less is told.

What at first appears to be a failure to pay the lease on time leads to SC&P's discovering that [=McCann=]'s plan is to close down their office and move everyone into the parent company's headquarters. Don devises a plan to move to California as "Sterling Cooper West" and manage the lucrative contracts that conflict with [=McCann=]'s portfolio. However, Ken enjoys toying with his former co-workers before telling them he won't sign on. Eventually, Jim Hobart ([=McCann=]'s CEO) lets Don, Roger, Joan, Pete and Ted know the absorption into McCann is going to happen and they should appreciate their "victory".

** There's one of the [[http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5413/92/16x9/960.jpg partners looking at the camera]], deflated, after being told specifically how they will be dissolved by [=McCann=]. It appears to allude to [[http://static.tvtome.com/images/genie_images/story/2012_usa//m/madmen_s5finale/madmen_s5finale_fivepartners.jpg this]] one from the Season 5 finale ("The Phantom"), where the partners were looking out of a window (and ''away'' from the camera) after purchasing a new floor. The older image conveyed SCDP's expansion as a business, whereas the most recent one confirms its coming end. Hitting this home further, the previous episode took place the episode after Lane's suicide, whereas this one was directed by his actor, Jared Harris.
** When Pete tells Peggy about the firm's absorption, he brings her into his office and [[http://img1.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2015/04/27/pete-peggy/s7-pete-peggy-2.w529.h352.2x.jpg sits with her]] on his couch. The [[http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m67i1q6ISP1qhwiap.png last]] time they were on a couch was in the Season 2 finale ("Meditations in an Emergency"), when it was Peggy dropping a bombshell of information by telling Pete about their baby that she gave up. Also Pete decides to tip her off about the absorption after seeing her being hugged by a child (she's doing a commercial for children), no doubt thinking about the child they had together.
** Also the episode is a callback to the Season 3 finale "Shut the Door, Have a Seat". The agency tries to keep their independence gathering their Californian accounts like they brought to SCDP their major clients in Season 3, but this time they are unsuccessful.

* FeudingFamilies: The real reason the private school headmaster - [=MacDonald=] - rejects the Campbells' application for their daughter Tammy stems from a never-ending grudge that goes back to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe Glencoe Massacre]], an event which sparked a real-life blood feud between the [=MacDonalds=] and the Campbells to this day.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Pete convinces Secor Laxatives to move with SC&P. Roger and Don debate about who should make the obligatory IncrediblyLamePun.

* TookALevelInKindness: Pete scored a good guy hat trick in this episode; defending his ex-wife's honor to a jerkass schoolmaster, gave Peggy a heads up about [=McCann=] so she could get a start on looking for a new opportunity, and giving Joan a pep-talk and telling her how significant she is.