Real title: "The Grown-Ups"
Odd way to start the episode...Don and Betty do not appear for about 10 minutes.
Pete gets passed-over in the race for the Sr.VP job. He takes this as being 'fired'.
It is not, but anyone who has been there knows it's code for 'start looking for a new job fast'.
The wedding of Roger's spoiled brat daughter is looming. She complains that the gift Daddy's new wifie gets her is 'TOO NICE'?? We all know what's about to happen anyway.
Pete again, now at home crying to HIS hot wifie. She's actually helpful for once and supports him. Wow, what happened here?
Finally, we see Betty wake up to an empty bed, and figures Don is out screwing around again.
She is pleasantly shocked to find him holding the crying baby. Is there still hope for them?
Next Day, Peggy leaves work to "Go fuck a Duck" (hee hee) again. She's mentally checked out of her job....good bet she will leave soon..but is it wise to sleep with your boss to be?
Then it happens..the JFK assassination that we've known was coming soon, but in this epi. was a big surprise. Everything stops ..it is the 'end of the world' as they knew it for everybody.
Back to Peggy and Duck. After having his sex, he tells her what's going on. What a typical guy!
Back to Pete and Trudy: they decide not to go to the wedding, even though Trudy is already wearing a great dress for it. (we see later that his rival Cosgrove IS there). Bad move Pete.
Now to the now not-so-big Wedding: Roger (who was at his best, imo) gets the few who did come to all sit together....about 1/2 showed up.....the Republicans? (JFK wasn't as popular then as most will have you believe today)
He then goes into the kitchen to find his youngie wifie and most of Sterling & Cooper (Including Cooper) watching the goings on after JFK on TV. There is no wedding cake!! "Go buy a cake" he orders.....uh where?
Then Betty's 'flame' shows up and greets a hot young lady. She calls him "Daddy". She looks familiar, a somebody of someone else? Isn't that her with...Cosgrove? His wife? Maybe why he got the promotion?
Then more and more fallout from 'JFK'. It took over the entire episode. Maybe for all who were not old enough to be there? One uplifting thing..the bride is suddenly much nicer and seems happy for the first time ever....like she finally is counting her blessings.
Don and Betty kiss while dancing...like kissing his sister...dead. More confirmation of this death comes later at home..it's really over for them.
The old saying "Be careful what you wish for". Don is getting just what he wanted...out of love with Betty.....but Suzi Creamcheese won't be there for him...
Nice last touch. Peggy goes to work and shows Don an aquanet ad that looks exactly like the 'dead Kennedy Lincoln' as seen from the 'Zabreuder film' angle. she said it was done beforehand...a foreboding sign?? She thinks it'll be "OK" to use it in a few weeks...uh no it won't...EVER...
Suddenly Peggy seems VERY clueless....her affair with Duck, now this.
Episode ends with Don alone in his office; the song "End of the World" plays....fade out.
