BEST SALES PITCH EVER - DON DRAPER SALES PITCH

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  • @polyphoniczeitgeist465
    @polyphoniczeitgeist465 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +150

    "Good Luck at your next meeting" absolute PERFECT intonation, gesture and facial movement. God damn I love this show.

    • @mygoogleemail2063
      @mygoogleemail2063 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      It was brutal. He was a killer who knew the smell of blood.

  • @markwollin5484
    @markwollin5484 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    "Good luck at your next meeting"... that was as cold as ice and the greatest 'close' statement I've ever heard.

  • @terryhaircastle5702
    @terryhaircastle5702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +359

    I like to imagine it's Pete gently playing the synth in the boardroom as Don speaks, helping to build the mood of the pitch with live music 😂

    • @Dezzyyx
      @Dezzyyx ปีที่แล้ว +4

      lmao underrated comment

    • @ToddJir
      @ToddJir ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's hilarious!

    • @szahmad2416
      @szahmad2416 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Who do you think Don was referring to when he said "Sweetheart...?". Pete was doing both the music and the lights 🤣

    • @nevveRo
      @nevveRo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ✈️✈️✈️

    • @dennisaguilar835
      @dennisaguilar835 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ironically Pete is a huge music fan 😂😂.

  • @lennyg3684
    @lennyg3684 2 ปีที่แล้ว +879

    As a person in marketing /sales for 25 years.... This is the best sales pitch I have ever seen.

    • @kristopherryanwatson
      @kristopherryanwatson ปีที่แล้ว +15

      ive been in the industry for about 14 muself. I have delivered dozens of pitches before to clients and have seen many pitched as well. this is incredible to watch.

    • @gpsportmgmt
      @gpsportmgmt ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They didnt buy tho right? They basically were depressed and said "good luck".

    • @stevenjosephson8522
      @stevenjosephson8522 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@gpsportmgmt If memory serves, Duck said they cancelled their next meeting before leaving the building and signed on.

    • @ConradMontgomery
      @ConradMontgomery ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Brilliant clip, and how right you are.

    • @mikeabel7577
      @mikeabel7577 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@gpsportmgmt That's not what happened. The Kodak guys canceled their next meeting and signed with Sterling Cooper.

  • @rowananderson8318
    @rowananderson8318 3 ปีที่แล้ว +692

    The way duck leans in like "good luck at your next meeting" is PERFECT, one of the best deliveries of any line I've ever seen

    • @_Snapper
      @_Snapper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      its potent

    • @stratiswashburn
      @stratiswashburn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      @@_Snapper it’s toasted

    • @eugene5509
      @eugene5509 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@stratiswashburn I like it...

    • @TheNerdForAllSeasons
      @TheNerdForAllSeasons 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      When you know, you know.

    • @ccnomz
      @ccnomz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Duck was perfect as icing on Don's cake. But he wanted to be the cake ... stupid little duckling.

  • @Multi18only
    @Multi18only 3 ปีที่แล้ว +396

    That musical theme just makes the whole scene.

    • @ionitaa
      @ionitaa 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I guess you watch and enjoy a lot of motivational montages

    • @omarlittl3
      @omarlittl3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ionitaa thats not necessary

  • @dineshkalidasan4991
    @dineshkalidasan4991 ปีที่แล้ว +215

    "Takes us to a place where we ache to go again"... this dialogue is so deep and dope. Like he said "Nostalgia is like a Twinge in the heart" that we desire to feel it. Hats off to the writer 👏

  • @gnarfgnarf4004
    @gnarfgnarf4004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +467

    I worked with computer salesmen back when mainframes cost millions. Every good salesman was a showman at heart, with a penchant for theatricality. A good salesman makes you visualize yourself with the product.

    • @psulion31
      @psulion31 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well said

    • @yashsarda6224
      @yashsarda6224 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nicely written

    • @ralphholiman7401
      @ralphholiman7401 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Same thing with trial attorneys. Every good trial attorney I ever saw in court, was a showman. Johnny Cochran comes immediately to mind.

    • @chrissaenz6213
      @chrissaenz6213 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ecstacy2921 wrong.

    • @chrissaenz6213
      @chrissaenz6213 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes. In sales-speak, we call that "put them in the picture" and "put them in the ether".,

  • @fredofromchicago777
    @fredofromchicago777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +494

    Madmen is easily one of the top ten series of all time. The writing is incredible and it pushed the boundaries on a story line. The character development is fantastic. Perfect casting. Bravo.

    • @playbackproductions1
      @playbackproductions1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Have you ever seen Dharma and Greg? It's just as good.

    • @xpez9694
      @xpez9694 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@playbackproductions1 lol

    • @maxibonkiswa
      @maxibonkiswa ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s strange when people say someone was perfectly cast. You’ll never know

    • @mkultra2456
      @mkultra2456 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I wanna see Tony Soprano come in and start beating Don Draper with an ice bucket.

    • @Bubbles99718
      @Bubbles99718 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I worked it a bunch of times as an extra. The clothes looked sharp but they were uncomfortable.
      :)

  • @jamess7264
    @jamess7264 2 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    Don almost sold himself on being a happy, content family man. Great scene.

    • @huracan200173
      @huracan200173 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      He was, at some point. When he lost his way is subtle, and that's exactly the storyline in mad men. He understands what happiness is much much later on. But he could've been happy before, with Betty and the kids, but never knew how.

  • @cyclops86
    @cyclops86 2 ปีที่แล้ว +328

    When I saw this video was the first time back in the early 2010s, I was young, with no losses.. and I cried. After 2019, after having lost my mother to lung cancer, I see older photos of our family and my mom and I truly understand the meaning behind this scene. Beautiful, tragic in it's realism.

    • @kpfree5982
      @kpfree5982 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That's quite touching, bless you brother, I hope life treats you well.

    • @brianbell564
      @brianbell564 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kpfree5982 And the same for you. That pitch brought tears to my eyes too.

    • @Gukworks
      @Gukworks ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Love

    • @leonhughes9014
      @leonhughes9014 ปีที่แล้ว

      condolences... glad you managed to have photos to remember .. peace my friend !

    • @guitaroso
      @guitaroso ปีที่แล้ว

      Jeez man - we might have been twins in another life - 2021 for me

  • @sallymiller1359
    @sallymiller1359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +440

    Made me tear up just watching this missing my parents and my old life with them and family, now gone

    • @GmoneyMozart
      @GmoneyMozart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Damn...I guess we all have to experience our own carousel eventually, where the times change, and the memories are all we have left, but at least they were great memories.

    • @sallymiller1359
      @sallymiller1359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@GmoneyMozart Beautiful sentiment, friend, a lot of people don't even have that.

    • @welshfreedom1451
      @welshfreedom1451 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Sally Miller hope ur okay.. peace and love from Spain 🇪🇸

    • @sallymiller1359
      @sallymiller1359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@welshfreedom1451 God bless you, friend. i'm OK, good days and bad like everyone else. Our country is being torn apart, glad my parents aren't here to see that.

    • @rondobson1828
      @rondobson1828 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@sallymiller1359 All these people on "opposite" sides have far more in common than not. Unfortunately, certain foreign entrepreneurs make a lot of money promoting the idea that we're on opposite sides.

  • @GladiatoreXD
    @GladiatoreXD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +890

    I am surprised Jon Hamm’s career didn’t take off as high as he deserves. I would have seen him as the perfect James Bond. So versatile and charismatic.

    • @RideYEG
      @RideYEG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      I believe he battled depression throughout his role as Don. Probably just wants to take it easy now

    • @arealperson641
      @arealperson641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      When someone has been in a role for that long it's not easy for the audience to imagine them in any other role

    • @90boyle
      @90boyle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      James Bond is British mate.
      Jon Hamm is Brilliant though.

    • @GladiatoreXD
      @GladiatoreXD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@90boyle if he is a good actor I presume he can learn British accent. Wouldn’t be a 1st

    • @90boyle
      @90boyle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@GladiatoreXD it really doesn't work like that in terms of accents and theres other factors.

  • @royksk
    @royksk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +245

    Selling emotions, some bloody good scripting here.

    • @mikev5582
      @mikev5582 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Convictions sellsemotions buys; logic pays

  • @ChernorizecHrabyr
    @ChernorizecHrabyr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    The brilliant irony of this moment, Don showing slides of him and his family for work, while he avoids going with them on a trip in actuality.

    • @jeffreyroedel9804
      @jeffreyroedel9804 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I don't think the irony is lost on Don though, and that makes the scene even more powerful, and tragic. Brilliant.

  • @jmahan1178
    @jmahan1178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    That is easily one of the most powerful scenes in television history.

    • @daldude97
      @daldude97 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Absolutely. They didn't just knock it out the park, that ball is in orbit!

    • @tatata1543
      @tatata1543 ปีที่แล้ว

      I bet if you asked a hundred people one might have a vague memory of it, there’s little about it that is memorable.

  • @johndoe-bw8wx
    @johndoe-bw8wx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +612

    If only Don was as good at running his personal life as he is running a pitch..

    • @mattturner7531
      @mattturner7531 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      One is make believe, the other isn't. Don always did better with make believe.

    • @nwaezeemmanuelonyekachi8191
      @nwaezeemmanuelonyekachi8191 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@mattturner7531 he gets his act together later on, very late in the show though

    • @albertgaspar627
      @albertgaspar627 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      and that's the entire point, just like the show Ray Donovan.

    • @jonathanlerner4898
      @jonathanlerner4898 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The one inversion was when he "shit the bed" with Hersey. Cut to the next scene, when he drives with his kids to show them his decrepit childhood home - one of Don's biggest efforts to set his personal life straight.

    • @Clarence_Oddbody
      @Clarence_Oddbody 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Like Randy in “The Wrestler,” The only place he gets hurt is out there.

  • @patrickwentz8413
    @patrickwentz8413 3 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    Fantastic writing and acting. The look on the faces of the two Kodak men is priceless at the end.

    • @rabbt3496
      @rabbt3496 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      They did not even realize what their product was lol

    • @stevenjosephson8522
      @stevenjosephson8522 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      They got the callow Harry Crane (who'd started fooling around on his wife at that point) to leave a fucking business meeting *in tears*. That's a pitch.

  • @scott2836
    @scott2836 3 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    Don’s presentation reminds me so much of the “People will come” speech from the movie Field of Dreams. It has that same narrative sense, the same appeal to nostalgia, the appeal to connect emotionally (and perhaps on a level they will not completely understand, at first).
    Both are brilliant moments that are timeless and evergreen. Some of the finest writing and acting around.

    • @shahanshah7622
      @shahanshah7622 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      gotta appreciate this comment, i went and watched the clip.. then the movie because of it. great observation

    • @scottg2946
      @scottg2946 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fantastic observation! Field of Dreams is so much about nostalgia, and that speech is very much like Don's delivery here. I've seen both many times but never put the two together.

  • @craigberger4096
    @craigberger4096 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    This episode is probably 15 years old, but it still remains one of the best on television. This is particularly and excellent show of how to sell a new technology.

    • @alonenjersey
      @alonenjersey 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I've got the first three seasons on DVD box sets and I still prefer it over so much of the crap that's out there now.

  • @gavinvalle5653
    @gavinvalle5653 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Duck showing that, when he needed to be, he was almost as cool as Don: "Good luck at your next meeting."

  • @StGeoRUSH619
    @StGeoRUSH619 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    My Mom and Dad had one of these, and this scene brought me back to my childhood. This pitch made me cry.

  • @mygoogleemail2063
    @mygoogleemail2063 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I was really struggling with this series before this. I didn't understand what they were trying to do. This pitch was a huge moment of clarity.

  • @onastick2411
    @onastick2411 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Just for this scene alone, the writer/director deserve an award. The words, sliding you back to those distant places, lost in the swirling eddies of time, Don's face, almost crumbling, showing the world of regrets, those shifting silent shadows of the past, such a jealous creature.
    Into my heart an air that kills
    From yon far country blows:
    What are those blue remembered hills,
    What spires, what farms are those?
    That is the land of lost content,
    I see it shining plain,
    The happy highways where I went
    And cannot come again.
    A. E Housman.

    • @MagnusvonYoshi
      @MagnusvonYoshi ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Matt Weiner, showrunner and co-writer of this episode, actually DID win the Emmy for Outstanding Writing that year, but not for this one. He got it for the pilot episode.

    • @pavansridharan2098
      @pavansridharan2098 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for this outstanding poem

    • @jaehoony88
      @jaehoony88 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Mad Men didn't win nearly as many awards as it deserves because Breaking Bad was also airing at the same time. Those were amazing years for TV.

    • @gnarfgnarf4004
      @gnarfgnarf4004 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also the timing, the pauses, the pacing... masterful.

  • @responsiblejerk2328
    @responsiblejerk2328 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    And as usual, the ad pitch means so much more in the context of the characters in the room. Brilliant.

  • @yashsinha1236
    @yashsinha1236 2 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    The Hersey's pitch was also on the same lines of selling nostalgia. The only difference was that Don actually broke during that pitch. It's incredible how they wrote his rise and fall (and rise again - coca cola) throughout the 7 seasons

    • @nopejoeandangie
      @nopejoeandangie 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He missed the pitch tho, coulda been like: "I grew up in a Kentucky whorehouse, the best girl there was named Carousel..."

  • @nathanday01
    @nathanday01 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I've seen this series three times through. I knew what I was going to see. I didn't need to watch it again, but, as the clip shows, I wanted the nostalgia. And now I have tears in my eyes.

  • @loplop7029
    @loplop7029 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This might be the greatest three minutes of television ever. I’m glad somebody else thinks so.

  • @irishjoe5868
    @irishjoe5868 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    One of the finest television shows ever. Can say enough.

    • @joshuaa901
      @joshuaa901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I’ve seen breaking bad and watched game of thrones & still feel this is the best series I’ve ever watched

    • @saymyname6419
      @saymyname6419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@joshuaa901 just finished watching it again and still want more

    • @shrijitasgable
      @shrijitasgable 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes exactly, this is even better than those.

  • @myfirstnamemylastname1395
    @myfirstnamemylastname1395 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Spectacular writing, accomplishing everything in a single scene.

  • @mikesalvaggio20
    @mikesalvaggio20 3 ปีที่แล้ว +511

    Good luck at your next meeting

    • @stephensinclair8127
      @stephensinclair8127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      This line is brilliant on three levels; it breaks the tension, it tells you the scene has ended, and it tells you the impact the scene had.

    • @emmanueloluga9770
      @emmanueloluga9770 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@stephensinclair8127 beautiful

    • @robertsantosuosso3740
      @robertsantosuosso3740 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      The 1960s version of the mic drop.

    • @carolinagoldbug983
      @carolinagoldbug983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@robertsantosuosso3740 Nowadays, Duck would have said "Boom". I like "Good luck at your next meeting" better.......👍

    • @DG-nq5ex
      @DG-nq5ex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I really should have used this at one of my job interviews.

  • @MarekUtd
    @MarekUtd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    As my old sales manager used to say "people don't buy on logic, they buy on emotion".

  • @topleybird2443
    @topleybird2443 3 ปีที่แล้ว +413

    Don using his own family as a means to sell photo projectors is just masterful. It’s such an interesting lie exactly b/c it’s a lie that he believes in, and b/c he believes it he can convince anyone of it. All of America in fact.

    • @aap71
      @aap71 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Nietzsche said the blackest of lies is the half truth. It bears the weight of memory and the lightness of elation.

    • @aap71
      @aap71 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      See, I added that last part.

    • @monjier
      @monjier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's almost like he believes in the lie because he believes in his lie. It's as real as he is.

    • @threelegmulti2630
      @threelegmulti2630 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      One can recognize a solution without implementing it. I don't understand why that's hard to fathom..

    • @emmanueloluga9770
      @emmanueloluga9770 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@threelegmulti2630 what do you mean

  • @jonathanlerner4898
    @jonathanlerner4898 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Props to the music director here. If this was just Don's monologue without the brooding music, his character would seem...like a slight dullard. The music wins this fantastic, memorable scene.

  • @bobosputnik
    @bobosputnik 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "good luck at your next meeting." Perfect.

  • @belleyboy
    @belleyboy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "It's a twinge in your heart more powerful than memory alone" what writing.

  • @winstonwolff
    @winstonwolff 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Don slayed that pitch. The first time I saw this episode it produced a real emotion, a real response to a fictional story. The show's writers were incredible and Jon Hamm's delivery was often spot-on. I really expected him to be A list after this show.

    • @bravoalley228
      @bravoalley228 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      do you feel that he is not an A-lister?

  • @paulquinnvoiceover8354
    @paulquinnvoiceover8354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    As a copywriter in my old life, finding the core of what influences a behavior was the real target. Boy oh boy, Don Draper found it.

  • @eduardochernia
    @eduardochernia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I was as emotional as Harry when Don was done with the presentation.

    • @CharlieBrown20XD6
      @CharlieBrown20XD6 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Where DID Harry go?

    • @jwainer4397
      @jwainer4397 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CharlieBrown20XD6 back to his reality. he was overcome with guilt after cheating on his (maybe pregnant) wife a short time before this scene during an office party. I think that is right, it's been a while since I watched this series.

  • @formyownedification3879
    @formyownedification3879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This scene was an exceptional climax to the season. It tied in a lot of things that were going on throughout the show.

  • @j.mauricerojas3650
    @j.mauricerojas3650 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The musical accompaniment was amazing: just the right amount of build and volume. Kudos to the sound/music people!

  • @NityalPhysio
    @NityalPhysio 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This is soo deep and you can empathize on his feelings. Beautifully presented.

  • @Divedown_25
    @Divedown_25 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    We had those at home and when some neighbours had been on vacation they invited for a showing, memories so clear in my head as a small child in the 60s70s. I took a lot of dia-projector photos growing up and had them instead of paper photos... memories. great scene

  • @tvtitlechampion3238
    @tvtitlechampion3238 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That bit about going home to a place "where you know you are loved" was inspired. Just cuts right through.

  • @stanthelyftman6871
    @stanthelyftman6871 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is how a master sales person, thinks, speaks and acts. Well done, great show, great writing and great acting!

  • @EvanDahill
    @EvanDahill 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    One of the great TV moments. Gives me chills every time I see it.

  • @gojosatoru1442
    @gojosatoru1442 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    “Good luck on your next meeting” the level of sarcasm and double meaning is amazing in this show

  • @killerdude35
    @killerdude35 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I truly believe the the guy who ran out of the room crying wasnt acting! That pitch was brilliant!

    • @rankoorovic7904
      @rankoorovic7904 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      In the episode his wife leaves him because she finds out he cheated.

    • @inquisitor4635
      @inquisitor4635 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rankoorovic7904 selling the illusion

  • @captainkip4624
    @captainkip4624 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They say that marketing is the difference between dead greasy birds and finger licking good. That clip proves the concept. It was very well done.

  • @luislaplume8261
    @luislaplume8261 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Even though not 1 member of my family and their ancestors ever worked for an ad agency, this is the best sales pitch I ever heard! And I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s. 😊

  • @herropreasesankyou
    @herropreasesankyou 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Nostalgia is actually translated as longing for home. Nostos was the word the Greeks would call the return voyage. After months out at sea, in foreign ports, the idea of finally sailing home is a bittersweet reminder of how far away you are and how long you have been gone, and that, perhaps, there no longer is a home to return to.

    • @jttasb
      @jttasb 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My reply is not a translation or definition, but I read somewhere, or saw on a show, someone describe "nostalgia" as "a combination of familiarity and distance" and I thought that was a good way to describe the feeling.

    • @herropreasesankyou
      @herropreasesankyou 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jttasb But, that's more sentimentality than nostalgia. The key difference is the pain, ache, or longing you get with nostalgia. You wish to return, but there is nowhere to return to any longer. Like a childhood home that now houses strangers. And you're the stranger.

  • @garylens1
    @garylens1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    That guy command his presence. The autonomy and audacity he had was a quality that women and men desire. Great show

    • @ghostbond1074
      @ghostbond1074 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eh, one day he's found dead in the parking lot because someone socked his lights out after he when to far and gave them to much bullshit.

    • @joshrandall5297
      @joshrandall5297 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're trying too hard.

  • @saqibkhan-pi5vo
    @saqibkhan-pi5vo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Watched the show during the lockdown and now watching these clips. Amazing content. Thanks Don!

  • @dandavis8300
    @dandavis8300 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Am I the only one that loved the Harry Crane character as comic relief? Here, Don picked his brain to figure out this pitch because Harry's sleeping in his office since his wife threw him out. Now he flees the room to avoid being seen crying, but goes right in front of the screen. Works hard, good at his job, but not quite attractive enough or glib enough; always a day late and a dollar short. Like the rest of us.

    • @yirgster9842
      @yirgster9842 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I didn't like him as comic relief. I thought him mostly despicable.

    • @dandavis8300
      @dandavis8300 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@yirgster9842 --That's part of what makes him funny! See he wasn't nearly as despicable as Don or Pete. He didn't drive 2 men to suicide, by turning his back on his brother or firing a desperate man on Christmas Eve. He didn't rape anyone or try to pimp out his wife like Pete Campbell.
      And when he finds Kinsey in a cult, he gives him money to get out. He's basically a decent guy. Oh, and when he walks out of this meeting in tears because his wife kicked him out, it's hilarious.

    • @andreww5574
      @andreww5574 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      wasn't he discovered for having an affair and sleeping at the office? I think Don's pitch made him miss his wife and he probably rushed home to mend things

    • @dandavis8300
      @dandavis8300 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@andreww5574 --Yes and things like that are always happening to him. Like Megan standing right behind him when he says what he'd like to do to her or getting locked out of the last partners meeting which would have made him rich because he's a little too greedy. He always gets punished for his sins right away, whereas Don or Pete seem to slide.

  • @RM-dc6zd
    @RM-dc6zd หลายเดือนก่อน

    one of the best scenes in any medium, ever - although it helps if you have been watching the show and understand the backstories and context. Pure poetry. Profound. Multilayered. Metaphorical. Transcendent. Who hasn’t watched this and thought of a previous relationship, a path not taken? or perhaps thought of their parents, who used the carousel itself when forcing us to sit through their slide shows. How we try to capture and save a reality that can never fully be captured and saved. Although that never stops us from trying. We can capture some element that helps us recall, and provides nostalgia - the bittersweet ‘pain of an old wound’ indeed.

  • @Hudler
    @Hudler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's the stunned look on the faces of the Kodak execs who don't know what sort of verbal reaction is appropriate to respond to such brilliance that has become my favorite part of this scene.

  • @downunderrob
    @downunderrob 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The first time I saw this, I actually cried. Don Draper at his Best.👏👏

  • @YoungBizWhiz
    @YoungBizWhiz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One of my favorite scenes from the show - and there were a lot of them 😀

  • @ilovebrandnewcarpets
    @ilovebrandnewcarpets ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I watched this years ago, and I didn’t really “get it.”
    I watch it now…and it’s all I can do to not cry.

  • @aboazarim
    @aboazarim ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It´s amazing how they recorded and mixed the sound. It really sounds like in the 50s/60s.

  • @RtripleA
    @RtripleA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    So many awesome levels to this...the pitch, the emotion, the creativity and the music is THE cherry on the cake...Brilliant writing and without question one of the best tv shows ever, along with Game of Thrones!

    • @4mevrywhr2evrywhr
      @4mevrywhr2evrywhr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You lost me at Game of Thrones

    • @davidowens5898
      @davidowens5898 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Game of Thrones....?!!! Yer kidding? That series fell apart at the seams by the last few episodes. As if the writers just foned it in.......started out pretty good tho.

    • @RtripleA
      @RtripleA 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @david owens Nope, not kidding, I thought GoT was awesome, although, I agree they got sloppy towards the end. In terms of character arcs, they rushed it and messed it up. Mad Men however, was on point from start to finish👊🏾

  • @localtrottingfrance8260
    @localtrottingfrance8260 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    excellent and one of the best sales pitch I have seen so far.... storytelling at its best

  • @sm70911
    @sm70911 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Amazing writing / tone / and Ducks scene wrap up kills it.

  • @zackamania6534
    @zackamania6534 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Loved the inclusion of the Hollies “Carousel”

  • @jahfoolay3150
    @jahfoolay3150 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A pure masterclass in the persuasive power of advertising.

  • @jackjax7921
    @jackjax7921 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you watch this casually it has full of life lessons, appreciation of nuances and subtleties.
    Now if you watch it with the marketer's eyes, holy shit...New layers of psychology.

  • @Hartfordland
    @Hartfordland 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember watching it when it first aired. The pitch was his best..viewers knew it watching it for the first time.

  • @erichodge567
    @erichodge567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    Wow, I don't know how I missed this episode; looks to be from Season 1, since Sal is still in the show. Anyway, that was a great scene. Starting in 1999 with the Sopranos, we were
    treated to a series of historic television shows: The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad. A real golden age of TV drama.

    • @FaresTk
      @FaresTk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It's literally the ending of season 1.

    • @prachetasnayse9709
      @prachetasnayse9709 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mad Men would’ve lasted longer but they were competing against GoT so they just decided to wrap it quickly.

    • @hux2000
      @hux2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sal was in MM through season 3.

    • @erichodge567
      @erichodge567 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hux2000 , my memory is shot.

    • @nickgeorgiou7770
      @nickgeorgiou7770 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Don’t forget Better Call Saul. But I agree we are lucky TV has been a savior of movies.

  • @alexn3190
    @alexn3190 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’d almost forgotten how much I loved this show. 😢

  • @Bitingyouintheeye
    @Bitingyouintheeye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    If you look at the entire show as a whole this is his highpoint in his work. From that pitch to the end of the show it’s all downhill for him, until his very last idea (on a hill) the personal emotion he uses through the slides, can be seen as what makes him successful, he needs that aspect of his personal life to be happy and in order for his work to function. When his personal life is in turmoil, his work suffers. The carousel is allowing him access to the feeling of his family, in order to close the deal. If only every other product he had to sell could somehow incorporate his family, so he could tap into it, he would also be successful at work, and successful within.

  • @aphysique
    @aphysique 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    To a place we know we are loved, because that's what it's really all about!

    • @MisterMoreno10457
      @MisterMoreno10457 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@HolyBeared120th sounds like Las Vegas 🤣

  • @ThePlaton20
    @ThePlaton20 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    BTW I know some Greek and Don's description of the term "nostalgia" is only partly correct. It consists of 2 Greek words, nostos and algos. Algos does mean pain, but the pain is connected to the Greek word "nostos" which translates most directly as "homecoming." However nostos has a much older, deeper implication in Greek which goes back all the way to the Homeric period. That deeper meaning has been lost in the English language, and nostos implies not just a simple "homecoming" but an epic journey returning to home from a distant land. Homer used the word nostos to describe the return of Odysseus to his homeland after years of fighting in Troy hundreds of miles away from his homeland in Ithaca. Normally it took 6-8 weeks to make that journey but for Odysseus it took 10 years.

    • @torys8236
      @torys8236 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed. To some, nostalgia feels like what should take 6-8 weeks actually takes 10 years. So, the meaning can still most certainly be appropriate.

    • @flyingdutch9818
      @flyingdutch9818 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      By the way, nobody cares, pedant.

    • @Sam-um9nu
      @Sam-um9nu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      thanks for sharing this

    • @mikewoodson6930
      @mikewoodson6930 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree, and yes you are spot on. Good stuff.

    • @Cedillallidec
      @Cedillallidec 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@flyingdutch9818 What is wrong with you? What is going so wrong in your life you need to write this foolish and rude note? Get yourself together. One can only feel utter pathos for you.

  • @uncleray3354
    @uncleray3354 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember this TV ad, and my family bought it and used it every holiday

  • @ShahidKhan-ke8fe
    @ShahidKhan-ke8fe ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Duck Philips had the easiest line: "Good luck at your next meeting!"

  • @drichsk
    @drichsk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    A beautiful, heartbreaking scene.

  • @serafinacosta7118
    @serafinacosta7118 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No bar charts, no power point presentations. On a board room. He comes up with Caroussel and sells it to assuming retail buyers. That is brilliance. Kudos to the screen writers.

    • @zacharyhicks6237
      @zacharyhicks6237 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They came up with it before. There were meetings before this. Sal even had to make art for it. It wasn't off the cuff, but it was still brilliant.

  • @galicredstone
    @galicredstone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Quite possibly the best 3 minutes of television every produced.

  • @johnkeviljr9625
    @johnkeviljr9625 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    First time I've seen this scene since the first time I saw it, when it first aired. It is just as compelling now as it was back then. Deeply stirring.

  • @shumyinghon
    @shumyinghon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    he is talking about himself, thats what makes it so touching

  • @andyshaw8870
    @andyshaw8870 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This really is, the best sales pitch I’ve ever seen.

  • @daisybluegroff
    @daisybluegroff 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This show stands out because it’s quiet, it reflects the era and contrasts current shows that are so kinetic. It moves slower than most, it’s like fine whisky.

  • @jerryware1970
    @jerryware1970 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is why Madmen is one the greatest shows ever made.

  • @dawood121derful
    @dawood121derful หลายเดือนก่อน

    I never realized how much I miss the times of my childhood. It surely wasn’t perfect but it was magical.

  • @malesilverfitnessmodel
    @malesilverfitnessmodel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    An epic piece of TV filmmaking. Thanks for the memory.

  • @dplunk13
    @dplunk13 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Good luck at your next meeting" was said with so much swag.

  • @bustersbrounce3047
    @bustersbrounce3047 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was a great show. These don’t come around often enough.

  • @xpez9694
    @xpez9694 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is simply an example of the powerful use of metaphor. This is put to great use to symbolize the potential value of photographs in a slide machine. Advertising uses the poetics of language to give meaning to products. Metaphor allows the transference of meaning of something onto something else. "This is not a wheel, it is a carousel."

  • @davidmc1489
    @davidmc1489 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never seen the show......but man....remember slide shows.....fuq a power point presentation....he killed it with nostalgia

  • @totaleXess
    @totaleXess 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This comments section feels like home. Love you guys

  • @lennyg3684
    @lennyg3684 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    The best sales pitch ever.

  • @RDASoccer
    @RDASoccer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very fine show and so very well acted. This captures what Madison Avenue was like in the '60s.....

  • @elizabeths4371
    @elizabeths4371 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Absolutely True and given the cultural chaos we meet on every front today, people are DESPERATELY LONGING for a return to those "good old days" now like never before.

  • @Rushmore222
    @Rushmore222 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It's amazing how sterile and ordinary that presentation becomes without the softly gripping piano and strings in the background. Well tailored music in advertising is just as effective a mood inducement tool as the imagery.

  • @davedondero2685
    @davedondero2685 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The best scene in one of television's best dramas. 'Nuff said.

  • @Famdockevin1
    @Famdockevin1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It will be said that *this* was the golden age of “Television.” The dramas of this decade were hands-down some of the best of writing, filmography, acting, and direction. Mad Men may not have been for everyone, but it may have been the best of those dramas. Scene after scene after scene of brilliance.

  • @Clutching.My.Pearls
    @Clutching.My.Pearls 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I worked at Leo Burnett from 1969 to 1975, then as I like to say, my second tour was from 1985 to 1996. My experience was beyond wonderful and those early years were definitely the Mad Men days. Oh and Don Draper was based on Draper Daniels, from Leo Burnett.

  • @estebanquinones5918
    @estebanquinones5918 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Nostalgia it's delicate but potent In greek nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound its a twinge in your heart far more powrful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship its a time machine. It goes backward and forwards......it takes us to a place where we ache to go again"
    Fuck man...........

  • @mlauren629
    @mlauren629 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hamm's voice.....is gold! Damn

  • @joshrandall5297
    @joshrandall5297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can hear Paul Anka's "Times of Your Life" in the background. I believe that was also used for a Kodak ad.

  • @carldietz7349
    @carldietz7349 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Its not a wheel, its a carousel. Nice!

    • @TheBehm08
      @TheBehm08 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *presentation*

    • @dayra6425
      @dayra6425 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s not a space ship it’s a time machine