Mad Men/Recap/S4/E06 Waldorf Stories

Don is interviewing Jane Segal's cousin Danny for a copywriting position at SCDP. All of his ads are the same (The cure for he common...). Don lets him go but Roger insists he hire him purely out of nepotism. His meeting with Life Cereal is cancelled, and the team is off to the Clio awards. Don wins for his Glo-Coat ad, but the Life executives are back at the office waiting for him.

Cue an embarrassing, drunken version of Don's nostalgia speech from The Wheel. When the similarly drunk Life people aren't impressed, he uses Danny's slogan (The cure for the common breakfast), and Pete has to take control of the situation. Then Don goes out and gets more hammered than we have ever seen before. He beds a jingle writer and wakes up, two days later, with another woman who knows his real name.

Meanwhile, Lane plans on bringing Ken Cosgrove, Accounts, to the agency, angering Pete and reigniting their rivalry. And finally Peggy has to deal with a new art director, Stan Rizzo, who's arrogant, confrontational, and lazy. He won't even wear a suit to work! When he makes a big stink about nudity, she one-ups him by getting naked. He follows sheepishly, unable to control his...involuntary actions.

She goes to a recovering Don warning him about the new Life tagline. Don offers Danny money for the slogan, but Danny wants a job. And he gets it. And it so happens that's how Don got his job in the first place.

This episode contains examples of:

 * Crowning Moment of Funny: Miss Blankenship adjusting her wig.
 * Noodle Incident: Apparently, Don at a hell of a lot of french fries while he was blacked out and claimed that someone was his sister.
 * Raging Stiffie