Look at us. Over here at the kid's table.
Don steps up in class and purchases a new car that is more appropriate for an executive; Sal invites Ken over for Sunday dinner to discuss Ken's new short story; a serious error by Don's secretary could reflect poorly on Joan; the staff reacts to the new objet d'art in Cooper's office.This episode contains examples of:
- Berserk Button: Joan doesn't take Jane's "You're not my Mother" comment too lightly and fires her.
- Brutal Honesty: When sitting down in Bert's office, Harry's eyes are drawn, once more, to Cooper's office painting. He tries to assess Cooper's feelings on it to know how to react, but this backfires when Cooper says it's no one's business, instead asking Harry his opinion again. Harry simply answers that he "knows nothing about art", which might've been the best response, since Cooper says that Harry is valuable to the company for his knowledge in numbers, not aesthetics.
- Call-Back: Ken makes several to his writing success in front of Jane, who herself makes one to when Ken told her that he was an account man.Ken: Accounts.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Jimmy Barrett reveals to Betty that he knows about Bobbie and Don's affair, she responds that people like them make her feel uncomfortable. Jimmy asks if she's referring to comedians.
- Day in the Limelight: For Ken and Sal, who spend time together sharing dinner and talking about Ken's story.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: The camera lingers on the Drapers leaving a picnic's worth of trash on the ground.
- Eye Take: Betty's initial reaction to Jimmy asking what happened with Don and his wife.
- Flashback Echo: Shortly after showing up at a Cadillac dealership, Don has a flashback to his time working as a used-car salesman, which led to him meeting Anna Draper.
- Get Out!: Joan, annoyed with Jane for sneaking into Bert Cooper's office with some of the men, fires her. When Jane drops by Roger's office, however, he ends up overriding the termination.
- Insistent Terminology: Ken doesn't like being referred to as an account man. He's simply Ken Cosgrove. Accounts.
- Likes Older Men: Kitty mentions this as being a reason for her and Sal's marriage, as she grew up a block away from him in Baltimore.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Kitty feels out of place during dinner with Ken, as she has no jumping in point to conversations about Sal and Ken's work, and most of her topics get shot down by Sal.
- My Girl Is a Slut: While angry with Don, Jimmy assures him that Draper is far from the first man to have "had" Bobbie.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Don pretends not to know what Jimmy is talking about when the latter suggests that he slept with Bobbie.
- Secret Test of Character: Harry openly wonders if Bert's office painting is this, citing The Emperor's New Clothes as an example. Either Cooper loves it and others will be forced to like it, or it's meaningless and Cooper knows that anyone who gushes over it is truly a fool.
- Shout-Out: When Smith is pitching his idea to Don about an ad campaign for Martinson's coffee, he gives Don the Port Huron Statement
, and also reads from it.- Jim Henson's advertising campaign for Wilkins Coffee is mentioned as a failed attempt to get young people drinking coffee.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: On the car ride home from the Coupe de Ville, Betty - shaken from Jimmy's analysis of Bobbie and Don - vomits on her lap.
- Wham Line: "You're not Don Draper."
- What the Hell, Hero?: Sal gets a bit of this from his wife for ignoring her contributions to dinner chat.
- You Make Me Sick: Jimmy Barrett lambasts Don for sleeping with his wife, saying that if he was so focused on "stepping out" on Betty, then he could've just done so with a whore.
