Mad Men: Episode 3 - My Old Kentucky Home

It's odd man out week on Mad Men. Lots of day in the life type vignettes. Interstign episode construction and lots of hats! Roger throws a Kentucky Derby Party, Peggy smokes some pot and everyone gets drunk!
More... Peyton List makes her first appearance of the season! She uses it to rub her post secretarial pool triumphs in the face of the other girls particularly Joan.

Meanwhile, the JV team is busy casting the new Patio (psst "Diet Pepsi" sounds better) ad and oogling girls long enough for Campbell/Cosgrove to tell them they have to work all weekend on the Bacardi add while they go to Roger's for a Derby Party which is all just a pretext for this weeks two major themes - casual racism (is bad) and feeling left out (is awesome). Which might be one theme, but you have already stopped reading so this is my own vanity exercise and I don't care what you think.

At home, Poppa Gene is making himself at home by making his Granddaughter read "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" to him at home. She repays him by stealing 5 bucks. Poppa Gene casually accuses Carla of taking it (racism!) and Carla busts it trying to find the money before things turn for the worst. Sally realizing what she has done "finds" the money and is punished by having to read more of that dreadful book out loud. The End.

At the Derbey party, Roger puts on some black face and sings for his guests, as you do. Draper squirms - did Draper have a black friend growing up or something? Everyone else seemed to be having a good time. Every lady makes it a point to wear a hat except Betty because she's amazing to look at and even pregnant is all manner of hot. Trudy and Campbell completely fit and charleston their way through the party. Rich Sommer's character is completely out of place. His wife's awful hat is the visual queue you are looking for. Draper and Betty could care less about fitting in. Draper proves this by commandeering a bar and making a drink for the Ghost of Christmas Future who verbalizes the whole point of the episode by talking about how a self made guy like him never fits in at places like this. Don relates so much that he actually tells an honest story about peeing in the back of the cars he used to park as a valet at the nice restaurant back home. Peyton List throws herself at Draper and gets caught by Roger. Draper tells Roger to grow up. The End.

In her own way, Joan is busy desperately trying to fit in by hosting a dinner party for daterape doctor, his coworkers and their wives. It's all quite compelling - See Joan cook, see Joan serve, see Joan quote Emily Post, see Joan realize that Daterape Doctor is not only a dateraper but also a douchebag, see Joan power through all that - just her and her awesome accordion skills. The End.

At the office, the creatives are stuck at work all weekend on the Baccardi campaign. Smitty pressures the couch commie (who went to Princeton! wtf) to get them some of that green. They don't want to share with Peggy because they suck and I guess want Tom Cruise Light (the drug dealer) all to themselves. Peggy finds her pluck and demands that she "would like to smoke marijuana". Two hours later, Smitty and the Couch Commie depart to be mediocre somewhere else while Peggy gets all their work done, high as a kite. The End.