Fascinating how the kids in the playhouse are mimickimg what they hear their parents say every day at home. I dont like your tone, take your shoes off, I dont like sleeping on the couch... And slapping someone elses child?
And how NEGATIVE the dialogue is. Not passive-aggressive, just aggressive. Everyone rushed to get married and have kids after the war, was stuck (little or no divorce), and took it out on their spouse.
@@JOHN----DOE Yup. And the drinking was just out of control. The wives at home sipping on their highballs and taking their prescription feelgood pills, and the men guzzling at work all day. Gin, vodka, whiskey. Mad Men really depicted accurately. By the time they get home (driving whilst drunk mind you) both parents are tipsy. Alcohol disengages common sense and sensibilities. Brings out aggression a lot of the time and shortens patience. The kids were either fully neglected or downright abused by the parents at this point. They were sent out on the street to play until the streetlights went on or the sun set to get out of the parents hair. Its no wonder boomers grew up all f'd up with this going on around them. And this just the tip of the iceburg. Lets not talk about beatings with belts, being locked in the cellar with no dinner, forcefeeding the kids to eat a dish for days that they did not like even after mold starts growing on top, being called derogatory names like stupid or good for nothing. The Greatest Generation were far from it and raised the angry, selfish, self absorbed boomer generation. I shoukd know.
Poor Betty. All that hard work and Don just blows it at the end. Have your breakdown AFTER the party please. So sad that they could not communicate. Everything locked up inside everyone all the time.
Basically summarizes Don's character and why he ends up falling apart. He's content for a bit, gets into a period of existential depression and thinks about running away, then he does something unpredictable and people around him (in this case Betty) have to deal with it. Because its just Don being Don. Eventually this pretty much drives everyone away.
He finally returns late that night, the party long over, accompanied by a dog. Don gives Sally the dog as a birtday gift. This recalls what Rachel told him about how a dog can be everything to a little girl.
Gosh. Imagine slapping someone else's child! 😮 And the child's dad tells the child to go fetch his mother to clean it up. He isn't about to do it, no he's too busy drinking.
Me too. I was mildly interested, and then when he started filming the party, with the Mozart in the background, I suddenly realized I was watching something real. When he watched the train pass in the middle of the night, and then brought home the dog, I was completely won over.
Slapping someone else's child... then having that child's father make said child apologize to the man who slapped him... The 60s were a very special time.
Need more of that nowadays, too many soft parents leading to soft kids who question if they are really men or women. As politically incorrect as it is to say this, its the truth. Spectrum, GTFO out here.
man, fatherhood represented true pieces of work back in those days! the gaul to hit someone else's kid, and then be condescending to say that the one strike 'was good enough'.
@@cattyelse2372so much better 😢 look at the kids they raised.. the boomers basically ended destroying our world with their selfishness because no one ever loved them
The dog thing actually happened to me it wasn’t her sons bday but she was gone allllllll day after she was already cheating on me and said she stopped, came back with a fucking dog, without even telling me anything or speaking to me all day while she was gone. When i tell you this shit is real and happens and traumatizes peoples emotions smh. I just wish Bets lived.
Anyone else think that Don exhibits some of the behaviors of someone with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)? His self-sabotaging and escapist fantasies of running away combined with a markedly and persistently unstable self-image and sense of self. His past of a traumatic childhood and war time experience solidifies this too.
It goes to show you that supposed. Well to do families are just toxic and human as anyone else. Today if that man was caught slapping a child he could be charged with child abuse.
Betty wanted to show the world that she could have it all by throwing a party that was focused on her child's birthday but also geared towards the adults, which turned out being a bit of a disaster. Backstabbing, kids running and screaming, stuff knocked over etc. And then Don takes the cake by literally driving off with it. 😆 I just love how metaphorical this show is.
Fascinating how the kids in the playhouse are mimickimg what they hear their parents say every day at home. I dont like your tone, take your shoes off, I dont like sleeping on the couch... And slapping someone elses child?
And how NEGATIVE the dialogue is. Not passive-aggressive, just aggressive. Everyone rushed to get married and have kids after the war, was stuck (little or no divorce), and took it out on their spouse.
@@JOHN----DOE Yup. And the drinking was just out of control. The wives at home sipping on their highballs and taking their prescription feelgood pills, and the men guzzling at work all day. Gin, vodka, whiskey. Mad Men really depicted accurately. By the time they get home (driving whilst drunk mind you) both parents are tipsy. Alcohol disengages common sense and sensibilities. Brings out aggression a lot of the time and shortens patience. The kids were either fully neglected or downright abused by the parents at this point. They were sent out on the street to play until the streetlights went on or the sun set to get out of the parents hair. Its no wonder boomers grew up all f'd up with this going on around them. And this just the tip of the iceburg. Lets not talk about beatings with belts, being locked in the cellar with no dinner, forcefeeding the kids to eat a dish for days that they did not like even after mold starts growing on top, being called derogatory names like stupid or good for nothing. The Greatest Generation were far from it and raised the angry, selfish, self absorbed boomer generation. I shoukd know.
Poor Betty. All that hard work and Don just blows it at the end. Have your breakdown AFTER the party please. So sad that they could not communicate. Everything locked up inside everyone all the time.
Basically summarizes Don's character and why he ends up falling apart.
He's content for a bit, gets into a period of existential depression and thinks about running away, then he does something unpredictable and people around him (in this case Betty) have to deal with it. Because its just Don being Don.
Eventually this pretty much drives everyone away.
He finally returns late that night, the party long over, accompanied by a dog. Don gives Sally the dog as a birtday gift. This recalls what Rachel told him about how a dog can be everything to a little girl.
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He probably stole the dog lmao
“Happy birthday baby” he forcefully gave Sally a kiss only then Sally wiped off the kiss and went straight to the dog , lol
Gosh. Imagine slapping someone else's child! 😮 And the child's dad tells the child to go fetch his mother to clean it up. He isn't about to do it, no he's too busy drinking.
Important to mention that his wife is Fkng pregnant
I know right, the good ole days!!
This is how it was back in the day. In some cultures, still is.
Back in the '80s, that was phased out, but adults were still allowed to yell at you, which is considered taboo today.
Yes, miss the old times.
When discipline was a good word
This is the episode that got me into the show.
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Same
Me too. I was mildly interested, and then when he started filming the party, with the Mozart in the background, I suddenly realized I was watching something real. When he watched the train pass in the middle of the night, and then brought home the dog, I was completely won over.
Slapping someone else's child... then having that child's father make said child apologize to the man who slapped him...
The 60s were a very special time.
Need more of that nowadays, too many soft parents leading to soft kids who question if they are really men or women. As politically incorrect as it is to say this, its the truth.
Spectrum, GTFO out here.
man, fatherhood represented true pieces of work back in those days!
the gaul to hit someone else's kid, and then be condescending to say that the one strike 'was good enough'.
they did the best they could.what did you expect?
@@cattyelse2372so much better 😢 look at the kids they raised.. the boomers basically ended destroying our world with their selfishness because no one ever loved them
The dog thing actually happened to me it wasn’t her sons bday but she was gone allllllll day after she was already cheating on me and said she stopped, came back with a fucking dog, without even telling me anything or speaking to me all day while she was gone. When i tell you this shit is real and happens and traumatizes peoples emotions smh. I just wish Bets lived.
I have seen this house before!
Anyone else think that Don exhibits some of the behaviors of someone with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)? His self-sabotaging and escapist fantasies of running away combined with a markedly and persistently unstable self-image and sense of self. His past of a traumatic childhood and war time experience solidifies this too.
Definitely!
No. He just didn’t want to be in a room with schmucks. It’s that simple.
@@longwalksguidemenerdwalk8866 how about both? its not like Don isn't without his own conflicting emotional and mental turmoil
and Betty is a narcassistic mother, criticising Sally looking fat in the picture.
Anyone somewhat reminded of that diary of a wimpy kid book where Greg's dad just buys a dog because he feels like it
Hey, as a kid, I would've taken Sara Lee cheesecake over that grocery store cake any day.
Anyone know the song at the end?
It goes to show you that supposed. Well to do families are just toxic and human as anyone else. Today if that man was caught slapping a child he could be charged with child abuse.
I understand why he left. Literally the most excruciatingly boring party filled with uninteresting and fake people. I'd have left, too!
Betty wanted to show the world that she could have it all by throwing a party that was focused on her child's birthday but also geared towards the adults, which turned out being a bit of a disaster. Backstabbing, kids running and screaming, stuff knocked over etc. And then Don takes the cake by literally driving off with it. 😆 I just love how metaphorical this show is.
Didn’t seem that bad. He left cuz he’s just a selfish husband and father. a lot of bad fathers are like that
I think the point of the episode was the banality of marriage
It's his daughters birthday though. This is one of many times he was a flop dad.
applauding an absent, mentally-checked out, selfish alcoholic who didn't bother to show up to his own daughter's birthday. the bar is in hell.
I can’t believe everyone in the comments is being harsh to Don. Who the fuck could live like this? He took a short sabbatical from the fake bs.