Madmen 3.11 "Ghosts of Christmas's Past" (my title)
My other title maybe more appro: "The Shit Hits the Fan"
The real title: "The Gypsy and the Hobo," has lots of parallels as well. Which is Don? Both?

First, Betty does her homework and finds out that 60's divorce laws screw over women. Big changes since then.
Then Don is finally confronted by Betty with the "First Ghost from the Past".
She finally corners him while Sweet Suzi Creamcheese is in the Caddie, waiting, waiting, waiting...to go away for the week.
Man, if i were him, i'd run out the door and drive away, and call Betty from Mystic. She might be toting a vase!
Instead Don faces the music, and retells to Betty, in his broken sentence style, the whole story of his life. Like an AD 'pitch'. Where was the storyboards? If we didn't already know it, it wouldn't have made much sense. Just show her the dog tags already! "This is me....this is the officer i became...."
We feel sorry for him, he gets an Emmy nod for sure. What will Betty do?

Suzi finally walks home near the end of the episode, she really does love him. I was wrong that she was setting up a con on him? She was only worried about losing her job, like i bet she has before in past affairs.

Meanwhile, the 2nd "Ghost of the Past"; we are subjected to a seemingly unimportant subplot of Sterling's old flame that he 'let get away'. She shows up to re-affirm her attractiveness now that she's 50-ish. She's not old "horse-flesh", or even chopped liver! (Get the mention of "The Misfits"? About a 50'ish Clarke Gable and fading Marilyn?)
I'm sure they were telling the story of ALPO dogfood (100% meat!)...that later is a big hit when Ed McMahon sells it on the Tonight Show.
These days she'd be with 20-ish boytoys, just like Sterling is with his 20-ish girltoy. I don't see the point, unless she plays the 'woman scorned' and tries to destroy him for not sleeping with her. His cute dumb wifie has more to worry about from "Pneumatic Joan". cuz: It'll get back to wifie via enemies of his (aka ex-wife), that Sterling has been trying to find a "suitable position" for Joan, who is "expensive", and is his one true love.

Then, in the 3rd sub-plot of the night, we see Joan's loser hubby fail at everything, take it out on Joan, who knocks some sense into him with that vase. No, a ceramic vase would not knock out a guy...that's a movie trick.
He gets the great idea to join the Army (They take everybody; and hey, Elvis did it!) just in time for the big build-up in Viet Nam after JFK gets killed. He's toast....He'll end up in a MASH tent, change his name to "Hawkeye" and get killed in a camp overrun like in "Platoon". So Joan will be single in no time, and will want to come back to S&C, or whatever it turns into after the Brit's sell it to Duck Co.

It ends with the parents taking the kids trick or treating, dressed as The Gypsy and the Hobo, Don is dressed as a "respectable business-man on his way to work" and looks foolish in that causal setting.

Sure wish Madmen had a full season of 24 episode a season..it's been great, and as it's finally getting down to it..and it almost over. :(