In a way, that lesson about the hobo code was his first foray into advertising as each symbol represented and communicated something more than what it appears on the surface.
Smart cookie, I never thought about that. Very true. I always thought of it as the hobo and his lifestyle/codes were the first time Dick realized there was more to life outside of what his family offered.
I remembered it as that specific hobo made the mark on the gate in chalk. But now I realize it was carved and he wouldn't have had the time to make it. it had been there well before then. Some other hobo put it there.
I don’t see him as easy going but he does have those bright eyes like he is trying to get somewhere and he lacks some of that stoic attitude he usually has at work.
It was genuis (or plain lucky) for Don to say that Roger told him, "Welcome aboard" after supposedly hiring him. Roger is a Navy man. It's EXACTLY what he'd say.
@@stainville3123 and for some reason, sex never entered the equation. It would have actually made sense to have her along as his cousin. Gosh, could you imagine the different person he could have been if Anna had been a public part of his life? Obviously less dramatic but probably a hell of a lot healthier having her around as a proper conscience and not some relic of his shameful beginnings and risky life choices.
@@beemoney19 Going even further than that, he could have benefitted from actually having Anna as his wife. He seemed to really admire her. As someone who has married for a little while now, the feelings of lust wear off. If you admire and respect your spouse (and they admire and respect you), you have an excellent setup for an extremely happy marriage in the long run. But that would not make for good television, unfortunately.
I was fine and then instantly shed into tears when Don describes Betty and it’s her laugh and how she looks at him. It instantly reminded me of my ex who I still truly love and believe I love because of her, to this day. I love you Joanna. See you in another life… Amour Fou ❤️
Maybe it's because I watched this show in it's entirety on Netflix, but I absolutely loved every second of it and didn't really noticed the way seasons changed. What I did notice was the way society changed and the show depicted that.
My friend, db cooper died in woods a long long time. And yu know dickj/don woild do that, not his styl3. Interezting theorym i to this day am not surprised it would end on pacific coast. But missing the come references makes me wanna smack my head with o e of my vans al jeff spicoli.
9:35 OH THAT'S SO INTERESTING Before 1929. One of the things that caused the crash was that alot of US farmer took loans to mechanize their farms. This made production go through the roof. This drove the price of fruits and vegetables wayyyy down. And so eventually, they couldn't pay all their debt because of that
This is why they were in a cooperative/cartel, they were all working together to keep prices higher by not having to compete against each other with underbidding and lowering profits.
In the first season, when Adam Whitman tells Don/Dick that Abigail died of cancer, his response is "Good." That pretty much tells you how much Don/Dick hated his stepmother.
Da Vo The look Don give in the elevator he totally suckers Roger . played him like a fiddle lol classic Don , my son and I call him Don Raper,he takes what he wants
*Future hobos trying to decipher all the hobo codes he wrote on the wooden beam in the barn cause they don’t know he was just trying to explain the whole code to young Dick* : 👁👄👁
xTheOxx Why am I absolutely certain that I heard the same quote from someone else in the series? Was it recycled later on? Or was it in another movie perhaps?
I love the way that Jon Hamm plays the characters of Dick Whitman and Don Draper as almost 'polar' opposites, great writing and great acting; the director changed everything from hair to makeup and clothes.
I agree! Post-war Dick Whitman seemed to have a certain joy in his eyes each time, as if he's always grateful for the new life he has. Idk if it's just me but I also like how he used to style his hair with a neat yet normal look - I think it contrasts Don Draper's perfectly combed mane of hair.
"I had a family once. A wife, a job, a mortgage. I couldn't sleep at night tied to all those things. And then Death came to find me." He's telling Dick about his own future, a life of quiet desperation. "Don" achieves the American Dream but it doesn't satisfy him or his inner yearnings. Like the hobo, he seeks -- in times of uncertainty or crisis or ennui -- to unshackle himself from a life others envy and wander the earth as his hunter/forager ancestors would have. We are the beasts that caged ourselves. Some animals do well in captivity; others do not. Dick is the latter. So was the hobo. They were kindred spirits. That's why he was made an honorary. Dick was a natural-born "hobo." And underneath all the veneer and bullshit he understood the foundation of the Hobo Code: "The universe is indifferent."
Also, if you look at the scene they talk for the first time, you can see that Dick is being presented to Don mannerisms - the way the hobo holds a cigar, the way he speaks, builds a story and uses his tone of voice and rythm. It's all Don.
This is the best Mad Men collection I've seen. Yes it is almost all about Don but the show does chronicle his life. His childhood were some of the most powerful scenes in the show. They give real back ground on what led to Don being "Don".
Archibald Whitman sure was a piece of work. It’s strange to think whatever empathy Don learned in the early days was probably from observing Abigail’s interactions other people.
Yeah what strikes me is what an ill-tempered man his father is… how Abigail seemed to have more humanity. Yet she also hit him after he got abused by Aimée.
@@MalloryNewcomb I assume she projected her husband's mistakes and wrongdoings on Don and after what happened, she did what she wanted to do with Archibald: Beat him up for how ungrateful she felt he was.
I absolutely love the clip with young Dick Whitman and the railrider explaining "hobo code". Such a minor but very neat detail into Depression-Era American History. You can still find markings and graffiti like that, especially down south.
My great grandmother used to feed hobos during the depression. She asked one why her family's house was always frequented more often than others. He took her and my grandfather outside and showed them the marks on their fence that showed they were friendly and had good food. I've always remembered that even before this show.
@@moncorp1 My grandmother would feed hobos. They come of the train, and knock on the back door - never the front. She would feed them breakfast, and they would be on their way. Never heard of the Hobo code, but wouldn't be surprised if there was a marking of some sort outside her home.
Have to hand it to the person who made this video. I've been seeking out a video like this for a while; I'm very happy to have this one. As well, holy crap you must have spent a year editing this video.
NONESENSE!! I loved Don for the sake of the show.......but let's face it this is FICTION.... a story. If you knew anyone REMOTELY close to what Don Draper is in real life......you'd have ZERO respect for them. Don Draper is impossible imagine as real person.No way does this level of drive, talent and success in his business life ever co-exist with the guy Don is at his core as person who so totally lacks the integrity or courage that sees him building and attempting to build a life on a lie so big it can bring him down at any moment. Great story, fun to watch but in reality......completely unbelievable and impossible to feel pity for especially considering how many people he draws into his life and hurts why his deception becomes known to them. The only winners are Bert Cooper and Anna Draper both of who gain advantage from his deception. Everyone else.....is hurt. If Don Draper were a real person....you'd more likely think he was a TOTAL JERK than feel any pity for him.
I'm struck by the woman's advice to Don on the train...he took it, alright...and ran. He later gave Peggy the same advice when she was in the hospital.
Holy shit I just realized the scene where they arrive at the brothel takes place shortly after his dad died. The actor that played the young version of Don went through puberty between the seasons but chronologically he would still have been a little kid when Aimee raped him. It was already fucked up enough as it is but that realization made it even worse.
I literally just now realized the Don more then likely got Rodger Drunk in that encounter. Purely to lie to him the next day about being hired. Thats some evil genius shit right there man.
To anyone watching this, Mad Men is the best TV show of all time. I loved piecing together Dick's story from the out-of-order flashbacks and missed them tremendously when they stopped.
Mad Men is my number three favorite show of all time, and IMO the second best show of all time. The Wire is my favorite and IMO the best. The Sopranos is my second favorite and IMO third best.
Never noticed the age incongruity between season 1 10 year old Dick Whitman seeing his half-brother be born with the season 6 scenes of teenage Dick arriving with still pregnant step-mother.
I always like to think it was a metaphor, that he was mentally still a young boy even though he was physically a few years older. I know it's not what the writers were actually doing, but I like to smooth it over that way
I disagree. In flashbacks, Dick was shown as 5 years younger when his half-brother was born than when his step-mother was pregnant with Adam. It's a goof or sloppiness. Dick Whitman was born in 1926: his father was killed in 1936 when he was kicked by the horse. Adam was born less than 9 months after. But the new timeline has Adam's birth right as he said he was 8 in 1950 in Seaason 1. Both timelines are both right and wrong. Disappointing.
Oh, the irony- the ad that Don wrote portrayed Betty as a confident woman that would buy her own fur coat- but instead he bought it for her in an attempt to impress her, date her and eventually expected her to be his demure, submissive wife when they got married.
If it weren't for the damn cigarette in the trench, Dick Whitman would never probably have become Don Draper. This show has a tryst with cigarettes, so many plot points revolve around it.
Haven’t watched Madmen since it ended but the TH-cam algorithm has me watching every darn this clip on the platform. Seeing these scenes in chronological order is pretty awesome. Don’t know if there will ever be another show like this, this really set the gold standard in television dramas.
Opinion: 25:50 when Don says “Just go. I cant” and the other guy just believes him-this is the first moment when Dick Whitman become Don Draper. It was the first time that he was just able to lie with no explanation, and they believed him. He feigns a heavy heart when he really was panicking at what he was going to do when he got to the station. And he was able to smoothly fix that panic, no questions asked. This was when he learned to be the guy he needed to be.
Hopefully I'm not repeating a comment, but it's a cool easter egg that at the end of this video in that episode, our "true" first introduction to a younger Roger Sterling features him ordering using a line in incorrect French. At the very end of the series we see him for what I believe is the last time ordering using a line in correct French next to the woman he would finally be happy with: Megan's French mother :)
she was the first woman who showed Don any kindness, and it was in the context of her seducing him/taking his virginity. No wonder Don later became a sex addict - it wasn't the sex itself he was after but a woman's affection. But in his mind they were one and the same.
26:35 "you got your whole life ahead of you, forget that boy in the box" This line not only means he has to live his life as Don Draper but forget that he was Dick Whitman. Like when he told Peggy to "move forward" and that it will "shock you how much it never happened"
I really don't like that line at all. It sounds forced to create a thread for people like us to notice, hey, that's why Don went the way he did. I also find it hard to believe that, during a war when boys were regularly being brought in a box, someone would say something so heartless to a stranger. For all she knew, that was the soldier's best friend. And then to have her touch is hand in a "I want you to f---- me way? Sorry, more poor writing, which is surprising for a show written so well.
@@gheller2261 I think that's a fairly limited reaction/reading. The memories all have a somewhat stylised and overwrought quality to them - they seem more dramatic than the usual current scenes because they are memories.
Jon Hamm did some of the finest acting ever with this character. The look in his eyes in those first few shots... it's the look of a man remembering his unresolved childhood trauma.
I remember an interview with Matt Weiner where he said at first he didn't want to hire Jon Hamm because he didn't want a conventional "leading man" - but then when he did the audition,he remarked that "that man did not know his father", and knew he was the right actor...
I feel so bad for don. He was a bright eyed kid who volunteered to fight. Was just scared at first (who wouldn’t be) and it ended up being a nightmare scenario.
He volunteered because it was his only idea to get out of the dead end shithole he was in. I sincerely doubt he had any grand ideas about the war, the army, or even his country. Just a kid who wanted to get out.
@@stellviahohenheim Haha that’s the point of the show-you arent really rooting for anyone, except maybe Peggy. But man all the characters are interesting!
It's a little sad in retrospect to see his first encounter with Anna Draper. You'd hope that the fact that giving up his deception at being caught in a lie resulted in a beautiful friendship would help him overcome his eventual need to defend all his future deceptions even when the jig is obviously up once more. I guess that aspect of him is an undeniable part of himself
Do any of you know how awesome that it is that Don, surely aided by his hardscrabble childhood and youth, hoodwinked a job out of Sterling. Roger was thinking to himself, " I didn't think that I was that drunk". Way to go.
they should make a whole movie about Dons life before Mad Men. I also would want to see storylines about his mother, his dad and stepmum. Especially her, I just can´t imagine how someone can become such a horrible person to a child. Even though he is not hers, she hates him and tells and shows him that every day, so sad :(. Also I would love to see storylines about the real Don Draper and Anna Draper, and of Betty, Peggy and Joan!!!
No one is going to feel sorry for Don's stepmom? Her husband dies and she has to become a bed wench for her brother in law. Besides her having to service customers.
I just noticed that the farmhouse in season 7 where Roger Sterling forcibly collects his daughter Margaret is the same farmhouse as the one Don lived in, where the hobo visited.
That’s so interesting! Behind the scenes, I bet they didn’t intend anyone to notice they reused the location, but it’s fun to imagine that it actually is the same house in-universe.
i like how it is never clear if roger said "welcome aboard" or if don was just banking on him being too drunk to remember that he didn't say it lololol
Don :"You hired me." Roger : "When?" Don : "Yesterday. You said welcome aboard." then later in Season 6, Episode 12... Pete : "who hired you?" Bob : "you did." Pete : "when?" Bob : "I was with Ken. You walked in, complimented my tie, and walked out. It was the best day of my life."
I loved watching these flash back scenes. It probably could have been its own show. Seeing how his family shaped him into the person he’d become is probably the most interesting and tragic part of the show.
"The locals stopped coming three days ago, which, by the way, is not good." It means the civilians know they're about to be overrun within the next few days.
Nice little detail they added. Reminds me of villages in Iraq and Afghanistan where we'd patrol through most days and there's people everywhere life as normal then one day you head out and there's no-one there, everyone's cleared out and the butthole pucker factor hits 11.
The scene where Dicks’ father refused to sell his corn and do his own things and then get convinced or forced by his wife is the same situation when Don didn’t want to sign the contract. Further Don always refused to do what the majority or the other Partners wants to do in a crucial situation. like father like son, and that’s where the real tragedy starts and ends in pain/death.
It's because some of the scenes that take place earlier chronologically were only filmed in later seasons, but they used the same actor for kid Don and he had visibly aged by then.
19:20 I got a theory that Don bought that house when got richer... 'Cause he take the kid to that same view, and we can see all the other houses are just a lot of complex, short buildings... just the old house stills a house... I think Don did buy this house.
Just recall he once commented that when he first started working at the agency, he was warned to never get on Joan's bad side and that he was terrified of her. At the time, she was young and the mistress of the son of one of the founding partners.
So they moved in with uncle Mack when dick whitman was a teenager when he said I dropped a penny but then somehow he went back in time to when he saw his little brother being born ?!
It's like his memories are blurring into one. He was most likely a teen when Adam was born, but that mental depiction of what he said echos way back from childhood. "She's not my mother." To "he's not my brother"
The characters in this show are so well defined. Great acting, great writing. Don Draper, Dick Whitman are a development of his past life. He wants to leave it. A rebirth.
In a way, that lesson about the hobo code was his first foray into advertising as each symbol represented and communicated something more than what it appears on the surface.
Smart cookie, I never thought about that. Very true. I always thought of it as the hobo and his lifestyle/codes were the first time Dick realized there was more to life outside of what his family offered.
Well said!
Holy
I remembered it as that specific hobo made the mark on the gate in chalk. But now I realize it was carved and he wouldn't have had the time to make it. it had been there well before then. Some other hobo put it there.
The saddest part is when he doesn't accept Adam in his life. Adam would have played along with whatever Don said.
That honestly got me so messed up . Adam just wanted to be apart of his brothers life ,,, he wanted no money,,, he was so proud of his brother
I like how he looks so innocent and easy-going when he first meets Roger. Totally different from what Don would become after that
Success changes you. We all start out as eager innocents before power touches our soul.
Brilliant acting on Jon Hamm's part. It's subtle and believable.
He was
You see the same thing with Peggy. I think it's just the culture of the workplace
I don’t see him as easy going but he does have those bright eyes like he is trying to get somewhere and he lacks some of that stoic attitude he usually has at work.
Always wanted to see all these scenes in chronological order, thank you very much!
Closure
It was genuis (or plain lucky) for Don to say that Roger told him, "Welcome aboard" after supposedly hiring him. Roger is a Navy man. It's EXACTLY what he'd say.
i guess it was a lucky strike
@@MauricioH.I love a good pun.
All cap. He never hired him.
@@m.serhat3895You think???
@@m.serhat3895 No shit dummy, that's the point.
He seemed so happy when he was around Anna. It’s a part of him you never see in the show otherwise.
with her, he was always just Dick. Not a man hiding from his past
@@stainville3123 and for some reason, sex never entered the equation. It would have actually made sense to have her along as his cousin. Gosh, could you imagine the different person he could have been if Anna had been a public part of his life? Obviously less dramatic but probably a hell of a lot healthier having her around as a proper conscience and not some relic of his shameful beginnings and risky life choices.
@@beemoney19 Going even further than that, he could have benefitted from actually having Anna as his wife.
He seemed to really admire her. As someone who has married for a little while now, the feelings of lust wear off. If you admire and respect your spouse (and they admire and respect you), you have an excellent setup for an extremely happy marriage in the long run.
But that would not make for good television, unfortunately.
Thanks for describing what we see?
I was fine and then instantly shed into tears when Don describes Betty and it’s her laugh and how she looks at him. It instantly reminded me of my ex who I still truly love and believe I love because of her, to this day. I love you Joanna. See you in another life… Amour Fou ❤️
Its like watching a totally different show
Joshua Williams It always felt that way as the seasons passed by, especially when the office changed.
Maybe it's because I watched this show in it's entirety on Netflix, but I absolutely loved every second of it and didn't really noticed the way seasons changed. What I did notice was the way society changed and the show depicted that.
@Matthew Reichlin don found peace, shown by smile b4 the coke ad.
My friend, db cooper died in woods a long long time. And yu know dickj/don woild do that, not his styl3. Interezting theorym i to this day am not surprised it would end on pacific coast. But missing the come references makes me wanna smack my head with o e of my vans al jeff spicoli.
Yeah, like a gritty version of the Waltons.
9:35
OH THAT'S SO INTERESTING
Before 1929. One of the things that caused the crash was that alot of US farmer took loans to mechanize their farms. This made production go through the roof. This drove the price of fruits and vegetables wayyyy down. And so eventually, they couldn't pay all their debt because of that
This is why they were in a cooperative/cartel, they were all working together to keep prices higher by not having to compete against each other with underbidding and lowering profits.
"You've got your whole life ahead of you. Forget that boy in the box."
Chills, man. Every single time
EVERY single time. EVERY single time....
It may sound harsh. But it is not bad advice. Then again it’s easy to say that to someone. But then again, it is not bad advice.
similar to what he tells Peggy later--"it will shock you how much this never happened"
Brilliant and horrorfic.
@@jpmnky Well there's a couple of problems with it, the implication is that she's about to have sex with Don
This is the epitome of fake it till you make it.
!!!
Anna was really like this family, the true affection he never had, i love their relationship
He was truly happy with her. Look at the way he is.
If it wasn't Anna, other people would've exposed him. But she didn't.
His true mother.
I don't understand why he and Anna just didn't stay together.
@@althesmith life doesn’t work like that
In the first season, when Adam Whitman tells Don/Dick that Abigail died of cancer, his response is "Good."
That pretty much tells you how much Don/Dick hated his stepmother.
Didn't realize until now that the model in the ad in "Heller's luxury Furs" is Betty!!
That is an incredible observation. I can't believe I never noticed that. Nice job.
ok my mind is gone forever
Good fuckin eye
This is how they met ! He brought fur coats to the shooting site where she was there
It's actually incredible detail in the show
Nice catch!
oh my god, he got him drunk then he lied his way in.
I thought Roger actually hired Don when he was drunk. The interesting thing about this show is how lots of stuff is left for imagination.
That's how men score so often with women... :)
fake it till you make it.
@@RonJohn63 Yeah, that's rape dude.
In classic don draper style
The flashback from when Don meets Roger was without a doubt THE boldest cutaway I've ever seen on TV. This show is really a landmark artistically.
The way Don gets hired is brilliant and hilarious.
Maybe Roger didn't even hire him, Don knew he wouldn't remember anything so he came, tricked him, and succeeded
True, Don conned himself in unless the drinking interview was cut short Than what actually happened. It's meant to be ambivalent I think.
Da Vo The look Don give in the elevator he totally suckers Roger . played him like a fiddle lol classic Don , my son and I call him Don Raper,he takes what he wants
I took it as a given that Don was lying. Didn't even cross my mind that Roger might have actually hired him
Do you know that episode
*Future hobos trying to decipher all the hobo codes he wrote on the wooden beam in the barn cause they don’t know he was just trying to explain the whole code to young Dick* : 👁👄👁
"I'd tell you to go to hell, but I never want to see you again."
xTheOxx
Why am I absolutely certain that I heard the same quote from someone else in the series? Was it recycled later on? Or was it in another movie perhaps?
I was about to say this too, I feel like it's said towards the end of the series by someone else too
@@kuba7543 I honestly thought that Roger said it in the show. Maybe he it was him at some point
@@kuba7543 the hippie that roger's daughter joined - him .
It is now when I read this in the comments section, I get its meaning.
I love the way that Jon Hamm plays the characters of Dick Whitman and Don Draper as almost 'polar' opposites, great writing and great acting; the director changed everything from hair to makeup and clothes.
Woulda been funny if they used a lookalike actor for him to really hammer the point that he was a different person
I agree definitely masterpiece work
I agree! Post-war Dick Whitman seemed to have a certain joy in his eyes each time, as if he's always grateful for the new life he has. Idk if it's just me but I also like how he used to style his hair with a neat yet normal look - I think it contrasts Don Draper's perfectly combed mane of hair.
Man, I miss Anna Draper as much as Don does
She understood what he was and accepted him -- loved him.
@Tucker Nelson just proves how good the writing is, the character doesn't need a lot of screen time and still capture our feelings
Its Hanna*
@@CrusaderDom3 Anna is her name.
That hobo changed Dick's life.
plz explain the meaning of that scene for me! I still couldnt really understand what between Don and that homeless guy.
"I had a family once. A wife, a job, a mortgage. I couldn't sleep at night tied to all those things. And then Death came to find me."
He's telling Dick about his own future, a life of quiet desperation. "Don" achieves the American Dream but it doesn't satisfy him or his inner yearnings. Like the hobo, he seeks -- in times of uncertainty or crisis or ennui -- to unshackle himself from a life others envy and wander the earth as his hunter/forager ancestors would have. We are the beasts that caged ourselves. Some animals do well in captivity; others do not. Dick is the latter. So was the hobo.
They were kindred spirits. That's why he was made an honorary. Dick was a natural-born "hobo." And underneath all the veneer and bullshit he understood the foundation of the Hobo Code: "The universe is indifferent."
thank you
Also, if you look at the scene they talk for the first time, you can see that Dick is being presented to Don mannerisms - the way the hobo holds a cigar, the way he speaks, builds a story and uses his tone of voice and rythm. It's all Don.
Tremendous analysis.
This is the best Mad Men collection I've seen. Yes it is almost all about Don but the show does chronicle his life. His childhood were some of the most powerful scenes in the show. They give real back ground on what led to Don being "Don".
Don (Dick) spent his entire life repressing the fact that he was unloved and unwanted. By the later seasons he's no longer able to repress that pain.
Archibald Whitman sure was a piece of work. It’s strange to think whatever empathy Don learned in the early days was probably from observing Abigail’s interactions other people.
Yeah what strikes me is what an ill-tempered man his father is… how Abigail seemed to have more humanity. Yet she also hit him after he got abused by Aimée.
@@MalloryNewcomb I assume she projected her husband's mistakes and wrongdoings on Don and after what happened, she did what she wanted to do with Archibald: Beat him up for how ungrateful she felt he was.
I absolutely love the clip with young Dick Whitman and the railrider explaining "hobo code". Such a minor but very neat detail into Depression-Era American History. You can still find markings and graffiti like that, especially down south.
My great grandmother used to feed hobos during the depression. She asked one why her family's house was always frequented more often than others. He took her and my grandfather outside and showed them the marks on their fence that showed they were friendly and had good food. I've always remembered that even before this show.
@@moncorp1 My grandmother would feed hobos. They come of the train, and knock on the back door - never the front. She would feed them breakfast, and they would be on their way. Never heard of the Hobo code, but wouldn't be surprised if there was a marking of some sort outside her home.
Bums today are real hardcore. Must be the opiods and alcohol.
As if people didn’t drink in the “olden days”!
It’s also a really brilliant way to illustrate the moment that Dick finds out his father isn’t a good person
Have to hand it to the person who made this video. I've been seeking out a video like this for a while; I'm very happy to have this one. As well, holy crap you must have spent a year editing this video.
I feel pity for Don, always have. He's a product of his environment, never asked to become what he became.
We are all, somehow, a byproduct of our enviroment
Eh? He never made any choices of his own? He's utterly helpless? Is he completely without agency?
It’s probably weird as a woman but I identify with and feel so much more sorry for Don than for Betty.
NONESENSE!! I loved Don for the sake of the show.......but let's face it this is FICTION.... a story. If you knew anyone REMOTELY close to what Don Draper is in real life......you'd have ZERO respect for them. Don Draper is impossible imagine as real person.No way does this level of drive, talent and success in his business life ever co-exist with the guy Don is at his core as person who so totally lacks the integrity or courage that sees him building and attempting to build a life on a lie so big it can bring him down at any moment. Great story, fun to watch but in reality......completely unbelievable and impossible to feel pity for especially considering how many people he draws into his life and hurts why his deception becomes known to them. The only winners are Bert Cooper and Anna Draper both of who gain advantage from his deception. Everyone else.....is hurt. If Don Draper were a real person....you'd more likely think he was a TOTAL JERK than feel any pity for him.
Series finale would've been better if he were caught and he threw himself off his office window before the Feds barge in
I'm struck by the woman's advice to Don on the train...he took it, alright...and ran.
He later gave Peggy the same advice when she was in the hospital.
Sometimes.....you have to run
The attitude of an entire generation!
Holy shit I just realized the scene where they arrive at the brothel takes place shortly after his dad died. The actor that played the young version of Don went through puberty between the seasons but chronologically he would still have been a little kid when Aimee raped him. It was already fucked up enough as it is but that realization made it even worse.
@@nath-wp7xp he was under 18. Children can't give consent dude, this isn't the fucking Middle Ages
Reginald Thatcher - plus he was saying "no" at the time.
It's pretty clear that it fucked with his head and added to his dysfunction as an adult.
How did it fuck with his head? What dysfunction was added to him?
@@nath-wp7xp it made him think all women were whores?
@@BarbieAllNightDance so?
don's childhood and youth was horrifically depressing.
This is a chilling video. Respect to whoever edited this
Don's smug little smile as the elevator closes..
He was like "This guy is easy" Lol
I took it with the end of the video as the end of the Whitman identity too
Only now I realize he had a smirk right before the elevator closes.
I literally just now realized the Don more then likely got Rodger Drunk in that encounter. Purely to lie to him the next day about being hired. Thats some evil genius shit right there man.
If a man has a vice like that why not exploit it?
Getting him drunk probably wasn’t something he had to do lol
Roger realized that on the elevator.
I don’t think it was planned. I think it was when he saw Roger almost fall over from being so drunk that the idea popped into his head.
18:55 "I'd tell ya to go to hell, but I never want to see you again."
Have always LOVED that line.
yo mood 😂
I want to get in fights just so I get to say it
To anyone watching this, Mad Men is the best TV show of all time. I loved piecing together Dick's story from the out-of-order flashbacks and missed them tremendously when they stopped.
Mad Men is my number three favorite show of all time, and IMO the second best show of all time. The Wire is my favorite and IMO the best. The Sopranos is my second favorite and IMO third best.
"the only unpardonable sin is to believe that god cannot forgive you" this really sums up this show for me
Never noticed the age incongruity between season 1 10 year old Dick Whitman seeing his half-brother be born with the season 6 scenes of teenage Dick arriving with still pregnant step-mother.
I always like to think it was a metaphor, that he was mentally still a young boy even though he was physically a few years older. I know it's not what the writers were actually doing, but I like to smooth it over that way
Looks like they used the same kid over 7 years to be honest..
incongruity In this youtube video but not in the show since the scenes are seasons apart
I disagree. In flashbacks, Dick was shown as 5 years younger when his half-brother was born than when his step-mother was pregnant with Adam. It's a goof or sloppiness. Dick Whitman was born in 1926: his father was killed in 1936 when he was kicked by the horse. Adam was born less than 9 months after. But the new timeline has Adam's birth right as he said he was 8 in 1950 in Seaason 1. Both timelines are both right and wrong. Disappointing.
@@FunkSoulBrother7 Nah, still incongruous. We just didn't notice because of the 4 years apart.
It seems that Don's schemes for Roger always involve getting him drunk first
Dick made Anna much more happier than Don ever did. A very unusual relationship, but a genuine one.
Oh, the irony- the ad that Don wrote portrayed Betty as a confident woman that would buy her own fur coat- but instead he bought it for her in an attempt to impress her, date her and eventually expected her to be his demure, submissive wife when they got married.
so true... unfortunately January Jones was a terrible actress- could’ve been so much more of a dynamic, iconic character
and it's still such a stupid question
@@JavMacHer excuse me? the rocks the role, all the frigidness, all of the stress just boiling underneath, while she pretends everything's peachy.
"You write the lie" -Beatnik guy from S1
If it weren't for the damn cigarette in the trench, Dick Whitman would never probably have become Don Draper.
This show has a tryst with cigarettes, so many plot points revolve around it.
Cigs were the iPhone of the 20th century.
Haven’t watched Madmen since it ended but the TH-cam algorithm has me watching every darn this clip on the platform. Seeing these scenes in chronological order is pretty awesome. Don’t know if there will ever be another show like this, this really set the gold standard in television dramas.
Have you watched The Sopranos?
@notsure9962 it's up there, but Mad Men is twice as good.
Opinion: 25:50 when Don says “Just go. I cant” and the other guy just believes him-this is the first moment when Dick Whitman become Don Draper. It was the first time that he was just able to lie with no explanation, and they believed him. He feigns a heavy heart when he really was panicking at what he was going to do when he got to the station. And he was able to smoothly fix that panic, no questions asked. This was when he learned to be the guy he needed to be.
Interesting how 1960s Don lights his cigarette the same way as Lt. Draper did...
Hopefully I'm not repeating a comment, but it's a cool easter egg that at the end of this video in that episode, our "true" first introduction to a younger Roger Sterling features him ordering using a line in incorrect French. At the very end of the series we see him for what I believe is the last time ordering using a line in correct French next to the woman he would finally be happy with: Megan's French mother :)
You're right!
Wow Ana was a wonderful person he needed a mama so bad to love him no matter what.
Ana legit wife goals
she was the first woman who showed Don any kindness, and it was in the context of her seducing him/taking his virginity. No wonder Don later became a sex addict - it wasn't the sex itself he was after but a woman's affection. But in his mind they were one and the same.
Don't be scared kid, you ain't a man yet...
26:35
"you got your whole life ahead of you, forget that boy in the box"
This line not only means he has to live his life as Don Draper but forget that he was Dick Whitman. Like when he told Peggy to "move forward" and that it will "shock you how much it never happened"
I really don't like that line at all. It sounds forced to create a thread for people like us to notice, hey, that's why Don went the way he did. I also find it hard to believe that, during a war when boys were regularly being brought in a box, someone would say something so heartless to a stranger. For all she knew, that was the soldier's best friend. And then to have her touch is hand in a "I want you to f---- me way? Sorry, more poor writing, which is surprising for a show written so well.
@@gheller2261 I think that's a fairly limited reaction/reading. The memories all have a somewhat stylised and overwrought quality to them - they seem more dramatic than the usual current scenes because they are memories.
@@gheller2261 Actually she did ask Don/Dick if he knew the soldier and he said "A little", so she probably assumed they weren't close.
Jon Hamm did some of the finest acting ever with this character. The look in his eyes in those first few shots... it's the look of a man remembering his unresolved childhood trauma.
I remember an interview with Matt Weiner where he said at first he didn't want to hire Jon Hamm because he didn't want a conventional "leading man" - but then when he did the audition,he remarked that "that man did not know his father", and knew he was the right actor...
The greatest decision Roger never made. What a great backstory, what a great edit! Well done!
38:57 In English, Roger is saying,
“Waiter, my name is Roger.
I am a taxi, please.”
Give him a break, he was drunk.
The way Hamm’s face changes when confronted at 28:28 is always really well done, one of my favorite scenes
I feel so bad for don. He was a bright eyed kid who volunteered to fight. Was just scared at first (who wouldn’t be) and it ended up being a nightmare scenario.
He volunteered because it was his only idea to get out of the dead end shithole he was in. I sincerely doubt he had any grand ideas about the war, the army, or even his country. Just a kid who wanted to get out.
This stands alone as a very tightly edited story, which I found to be riveting, having never seen the show these presumed flashbacks are from.
Oh you should really watch it. These aren’t even the best parts of the show
Why do people like you even do this? So bizarre. This was like half an hour long.
@@jukihiwi tried, it's too much of a slowburn with no interesting characters that i can root for
@@stellviahohenheim Haha that’s the point of the show-you arent really rooting for anyone, except maybe Peggy. But man all the characters are interesting!
"Can I buy you a drink?"
"....it's 10 am!"
Cut to them having drinks
Never laughed harder at a scene
freaking awesome montage dude! the end is brillant
Don got raped and he got beat for it. Poor young man.
Don did NOT get raped.
@@Jay-Jonesyes he did. He was a kid and couldn’t consent.
Who would have thought that Father Intintola experiences with Dick's family would shape the counseling given to Carmela in the Sopranos.
It's a little sad in retrospect to see his first encounter with Anna Draper. You'd hope that the fact that giving up his deception at being caught in a lie resulted in a beautiful friendship would help him overcome his eventual need to defend all his future deceptions even when the jig is obviously up once more. I guess that aspect of him is an undeniable part of himself
6:21: “I’m a gentleman of the rails...”
Reminds me of Don telling Bert’s ghost,
in Season 7,
that he’s “riding the rails”.
Do any of you know how awesome that it is that Don, surely aided by his hardscrabble childhood and youth, hoodwinked a job out of Sterling. Roger was thinking to himself, " I didn't think that I was that drunk". Way to go.
they should make a whole movie about Dons life before Mad Men. I also would want to see storylines about his mother, his dad and stepmum. Especially her, I just can´t imagine how someone can become such a horrible person to a child. Even though he is not hers, she hates him and tells and shows him that every day, so sad :(. Also I would love to see storylines about the real Don Draper and Anna Draper, and of Betty, Peggy and Joan!!!
No one is going to feel sorry for Don's stepmom?
Her husband dies and she has to become a bed wench for her brother in law. Besides her having to service customers.
@@prosay a husband who had beaten her into mulitple miscarriages at that.
26:22 that just has to be one of the most devastating scenes, specially knowing what happened to the kid
@Te B. OMG yes. This scenario my feel sick. Poor Adam .
I just noticed that the farmhouse in season 7 where Roger Sterling forcibly collects his daughter Margaret is the same farmhouse as the one Don lived in, where the hobo visited.
That’s so interesting! Behind the scenes, I bet they didn’t intend anyone to notice they reused the location, but it’s fun to imagine that it actually is the same house in-universe.
i like how it is never clear if roger said "welcome aboard" or if don was just banking on him being too drunk to remember that he didn't say it lololol
Don is like the Bizarro Costanza. He’s tall, handsome, has great hair, is charismatic, and his lying actually works in his favor.
The lieutenant draper had a very low morale.
Don :"You hired me."
Roger : "When?"
Don : "Yesterday. You said welcome aboard."
then later in Season 6, Episode 12...
Pete : "who hired you?"
Bob : "you did."
Pete : "when?"
Bob : "I was with Ken. You walked in, complimented my tie, and walked out. It was the best day of my life."
I loved watching these flash back scenes. It probably could have been its own show. Seeing how his family shaped him into the person he’d become is probably the most interesting and tragic part of the show.
Forget that boy in the box
yes man... u got it... i thought the same
The woman who says that looks a lot like Trudy
"The locals stopped coming three days ago, which, by the way, is not good."
It means the civilians know they're about to be overrun within the next few days.
Nice little detail they added. Reminds me of villages in Iraq and Afghanistan where we'd patrol through most days and there's people everywhere life as normal then one day you head out and there's no-one there, everyone's cleared out and the butthole pucker factor hits 11.
Thanks so much for this!!!! You did a great job.
The scene where Dicks’ father refused to sell his corn and do his own things and then get convinced or forced by his wife is the same situation when Don didn’t want to sign the contract.
Further Don always refused to do what the majority or the other Partners wants to do in a crucial situation. like father like son, and that’s where the real tragedy starts and ends in pain/death.
Anna Draper is one of the few people to see through Dick Whitman's lies. Realest Draper
somehow I feel like when his dad took away the homeless man's nickel, that was worse than all the shit that Don usually does
Him daydreaming about his real mother is so moving.
The Hobo Code was one of the best episodes of television I’ve seen, ever.
So the bit where his mother gives birth is a continuity error as Don gets younger then older again?
It's because some of the scenes that take place earlier chronologically were only filmed in later seasons, but they used the same actor for kid Don and he had visibly aged by then.
Afonso Sousa thank you, I was wondering why he was older when they first arrive at the brothel but then was somehow younger once Adam was born.
God, Anna was just the absolute best. Another heartbreaking storyline to an amazing show.
"It's 10 A.M."
*next scene appears on a bar"
XD
I can't believe how many people never realized how don actually got hired. Obviously Roger never actually hired him...
Just noticed that it's Betty who is the model in Don's fur coat ad!
19:20 I got a theory that Don bought that house when got richer... 'Cause he take the kid to that same view, and we can see all the other houses are just a lot of complex, short buildings... just the old house stills a house... I think Don did buy this house.
Its 10am.
[Cut to hard liquor]
The scenes with Aimee were hard to watch. He gets violated, and then beat for it.
The little baby in a box at the middle of the night...it sounds almost biblical. Moving scene.
"Garçon! Je m'appelle Roger, je suis un taxi s'il vous plaît" 😂
He’s still not completely telling the truth. His clumsiness killed her husband.
i would like to see a movie w/ the beginning of Don's career at Sterling Cooper... like, he telling ppl "I'm Don Draper, the new boy" xD
Just recall he once commented that when he first started working at the agency, he was warned to never get on Joan's bad side and that he was terrified of her. At the time, she was young and the mistress of the son of one of the founding partners.
Sometimes i think don lied to roger and just convinced him he made that decision the day before
The beginning of Mad Men. Awesome show
That was fantastic! Thank you so much!
So they moved in with uncle Mack when dick whitman was a teenager when he said I dropped a penny but then somehow he went back in time to when he saw his little brother being born ?!
It's like his memories are blurring into one. He was most likely a teen when Adam was born, but that mental depiction of what he said echos way back from childhood. "She's not my mother." To "he's not my brother"
The scene of the brother being born is from an earlier season, the arrival/penny scenes are from later seasons. The actor aged.
I love the actor playing Dick’s Dad.
Something truly scary about him.
They don’t make character actor faces like that anymore.
Had a Robert Ryan look to him.
When uncle mack kicks out the evangelical - I nearly shit my pants that whole dialogue was incredibly humorous.
Look at Don's smirk as the elevator doors are closing at the end.
The characters in this show are so well defined.
Great acting, great writing.
Don Draper, Dick Whitman are a development of his past life.
He wants to leave it. A rebirth.
The Pay-Doe ad was brilliant. And I doubt Roger ever hired Don or said “welcome aboard.” 😂
the only unpardonable sin is the belief that God cannot forgive you.
Fuck God.
@@cgavin1 i just think it's a powerful saying/scene, no matter ur beliefs.
@@cgavin1 alright edgelord
Don is wearing the same shirt in the finale at the commune.
The *same* shirt? Because, after all, a white dress shirt is a white dress shirt.