Mad Men C to Z S3:E2 Love Among the Ruins

Betty and William discuss their father's health and his future, while Roger's daughter plans a wedding. The firm hopes to represent Madison Square Garden, and Peggy is disenchanted with the Bye Bye Birdie ad idea for a diet soda. Change the conversation and rewatch with us!

Podcast Episode Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:34 Bye Bye Birdie: Let's assume we can get a girl to match Ann Margret's ability to be 25 and act 14

04:14 Antique stores might have a weird smell, but Don is backing Betty on this shopping trip

05:08 Penn Station: I don't think it's crazy to be attached to a Beaux-Arts masterpiece

08:21 I don't want to walk down here every time we lose a client. This is an advertising agency.

I'll wear out the carpet.

10:38 Oh, look - Princess Grace swallowed a basketball.

12:26 A dinner no one wants to attend: Like the Bordeaux grape, may we all grow better with time

13:34 Yes, I can blame her. She comes into his life, he suddenly takes ill, and she abandons him!

15:49 Seeing her on my wedding day's going to ruin it. She's young enough to be my sister.

18:08 What does he want? A Cyrano de Bergerac to make New York fall in love with him.

19:37 I even got Gloria a chicken parmesan. Well, great - we'll mail it to her. She's in Boca Raton. She's not coming back!

21:01 It's so crowded in here, I feel like I'm on the subway. [Fawning laughter]

22:28 All of a sudden I could give two craps about that wedding. All I want to do is win.

25:17 Let's say change is neither good nor bad - it simply is. It can be greeted with terror or joy. A tantrum that says "I want it the way it was," or a dance that says "Look - something new."

28:17 Those homes are for people who don't have families, William.

31:37 You're an army man, Gene. Drop your socks and grab something.

36:07 Bye Bye Birdie, Peggy style

38:50 You told me to go out and get this account. I did. I did my job, and now you're telling me it's all for nothing because you forgot to check with your boss first.

40:04 Peggy, you understand how this works. Men want her, women want to be her.

43:46 You're the only one around here who doesn't have that stupid look on her face.

44:37 Where's your drink?

45:56 You want him? You got him.

49:48 I work at an ad agency in Manhattan. And I work for a real jerk.

52:03 The heat is on. We've got to get rid of the stuff.

53:10 This was fun.

55:17 We dance around the pole in a timeless celebration of the renewal of springtime.

56:51 Want to talk about Pampers?

57:44 Episode wrap-up and listener shout-out