+Sam Harnish - You mean Jane (Siegel). Jessica Paré is the actress who plays Megan. Yes, after the honeymoon/the lovestruck weeks after, she was always cold and bitchy towards Roger. I guess she was after a "very expensive" divorce...
this is one of the most memorable scenes in television of the last decade. Their courtship was so fast and every character in this scene INCLUDING Don learned so much about Megan and her confidence here. I love seeing everyone else's reactions. Like she's not the safe/submissive choice that he maybe thought when he chose her over Faye. She really came on the scene here.
Every woman that Don is with is supposed to be an extension of who he is at that time and also a sort of symbolism for the changing times during the 1950s to 1970s
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God, i'm SO in love with this scene. Probably seen it a hunderd times. When people ask 'what is the greatest tv-show of all time?' Often you'll hear The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Seinfeld, Game of Thrones, The Twilight Zone. But for me, Mad Men is the absolute number 1. Perfection in every single way.
I just ended the show, and, sincerely, seeing this scene breaks me. It's sad how nothing last forever in this world. Mad Men just define how life is. People come and people go and you die alone if you commit bad decisions. I will always love this show.
Megan was one of the only fundamentally decent characters in the show. She gave up everything to move to LA and Don cheated on her the first chance he got.
Same here. Just finished watching the show yesterdasy and today can't stop watching all the scenes where Don was having it all. This is the sad truth of life. Things will be given to you and then they will be taken from you. But there is a rare type of people like Don who will do their best to throw all those good things away long before they would be taken from them. Sorry Don. I really feel for you. But you had it coming.
One of the best Mad Men scenes ever. I felt so bad for Megan afterward. Don really was disappointed that she had the surprise party for him. It's nothing worse that planning a surprise or getting a gift for someone and they don't receive it as joyfully as you anticipated.
To be fair, she should have known this was a bad idea. It's not like anyone who knew Don wouldn't have figured out that this would have been a bad idea. It did a good job of highlighting how little they knew each other.
@@michaelcorcoran8768 You are right. And he did inform her that he did not want a fuss made about his birthday but she insisted. One thing I have learned about men is that most of you say what you mean but us women like to ignore it unfortunately.
@@michaelcorcoran8768 Exactly. You can tell Peggy knows immediately how much Don hates this. Anyone who really knows him would not have done this. But the way Don shames Megan for it afterwards is still awful.
I think Don knows this will come back to haunt them at work. Which is why he's so frustrated here. If this had been a private performance, he would have definitely been into it. He knows his colleagues are animals. However, he blames Megan instead of telling her why, he just gets angry. Don wants Megan to be the opposite of Betty but still wants Megan to have the appropriate social graces Betty had as his wife. Megan was never going to live up to his expectations. She tries very hard, but there's no pleasing Don. Even before she left for acting, he wanted her at his beck and call, regardless of how she felt about it. Hence the Howard Johnson fight. I see all these Betty vs Megan arguments online. Frankly, Don is a charismatic individual but a horrible husband. He's the one who failed, not them.
enh, I think a lot of people would find this cringe-inducing. No disagreement he was generally a pretty bad husband. He didn't treat any of the women in his life very well. ....I never realized that contract between Betty and Megan before this comment. Good points. Betty was Grace Kelly. Don wanted a young beautiful wife but she brought her generational mores with that.
Don told her explicitly he didn’t want a party - she put together a surprise party and did a sex kitten dance in public for him. He was right to be angry about it
I think they just got together very quickly with very little insight into each other. If she knew him for a little longer, she'd know he's a very private man who wouldn't enjoy this. If Don knew her a little longer, he'd know she's a free spirit who won't be happy tied down.
absolutely agree with this. Don's not a good husband period. He's got emotional problems and abandonment issues I agree but he's a grown up who's always ready to pack it up and leave. I didn't like Henry Francis at first but after a couple of rewatches, he's a much better husband and an overall better guy to Don. I hope after the end of the show we see him finally be responsible, but we'll never know.
This entire show is about a man who abused and neglected by his parents and then raped as a young teen. The entire show is about a damaged, broken man trying to look like everyone else and trying to live like everyone else. He can't. The reason this is so unsettling for him is that she is in control sexually in this situation and that makes him uncomfortable. He always wants to be in control because sexual abuse victims struggle their whole lives with issues of control after being controlled sexually by someone against their will. I've watched the entire show 5 times through and while we think that it is about how women were oppressed in the 60s, it is really about how terribly he treats women because he has no experience where anyone ever treated a woman with respect, and he was very injured by women in his childhood.
@@allisoncollins9178 Don already has quite a reputation as a womanizer in season 1, though. Probably not enough evidence, you're right. But i'd be curious.
@@FoodLiquorCool I’m not finished with Mad Men yet, but I’ve definitely got a few shows over it: namely, The Wire, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Arcane, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and possibly Snowfall and Top Boy over it, assuming they end up being as good as they’ve been so far.
I do it all the time. Ive been watching it on a loop since 2021, and it takes me about a year to watch them all as I just choose one night per week to watch a few episodes.
She killed it, the pose, movements,. Costume, liittle details were all on point, and the cringy part of not knowing that Don's soul was literally walking out and killing at that moment.. great scene! And my man Roger's conversation with Jane. Roger: "Why don't you sing like him" Jane: "Why don't you look like him"
In all fairness, all Roger had to do was dye his hair black and problem solved. He's as good looking as Don, except at the final season when he just gives up on his hair and shit.
Gavrilo Jovanovic no! those sideburns were awesome!!! but seriously Roger is almost as handsome as Don in my opinion but they don't acknowledge that in the show
***** Any point you try to make is rendered completely nonsensical by things like "yourselfs" and "writters" and "writting" and "Jetti." Please. Anyone who's gone to school past the 2nd grade knows better.
@Lord Farquaad Anyone who has ever been to Montreal cannot possibly deny the strong, French influence . It was classic European French of that era. Yeah we all get the cringiness, but as it was so well stated by Mrs. Kensington to her daughter who cringed out at Austin Powers and wondered what her mother saw in him: You'd have to have understood the times. Megan gave knockout performance!
EXACTLY 😂 you can see difference in 60s movies France was producing steamy movies like "belle de jours" in the USA they were still under heavy censorship. Lol
According to Jessica Pare, she was never sure where to go as an actress until she simply decided to be over-the-top when and where it seemed promising. Happily, the producers of MAD MEN saw the possibilities she brought to the part of Megan Draper.
Not the greatest actress, but apparently she rehearsed this scene like crazy because she was anxious about both the singing and the dancing, and I think she nailed it. And the way the guests reacted - great scene.
+Suzanne Moriarty I think she is hated because she had it too easy in a way. Every single character on Mad men had to struggle to get where they are. She has it all, and it's very easy for her to get things that she didn't even want in the first place - being a copywriter, getting married to her boss. It is handed to her on a plate. When you see how other people on the show like peggy or joan try to climb the ladder in many different ways and what they had to face to obtain what they wanted - you kind of can't help to dislike megan a little. There is this dimension of unfairness to how her character gets its way.
Its the start of the end of meghan and Don. She’s so young and the whirling romance they have and the sudden marriage is so romantic at then end of the previous season but we all knew don was gonna, as he always does, sabotage everything but to be fair not because he’s a bad person but he has patterns which stem from so much trauma in his younger life.. Poor Meghan doesn’t even realize what she stepped into then. Don hates this, hates the surprise bday party. To this day that episode and this moment at the time became so iconic. I’ve rewatched mad men recently and it still remains one of my favorite series. Watching it older and more mature than time even tho I understood and loved the characters, I now fully grasp what the characters. The in depth analysis and how amazing, real the writing is. Sometimes you love them sometimes you hate them but you always understand them ❤ Im always so nostalgic about this show its just so beautifully written about people in a different time but it applies to any time. I used to wait so patiently for sundays mad men episodes
@@jenlindley7780 Joan & Betty were the two most beautiful women on the show for me! Trudy was also really pretty along with Jane but Joan & Betty really stand out... they're the type of women you see somewhere out and never forget about 🗿
In that setting, time period, and that particular group of people,as well as Don's personality, it's the definition of cringe. Not by today's standards, but in that era for sure.
Who likes their girlfriend/wife to be on a public display sexually ? Don would have more appreciated if it was only him in the room and not with "friends-colleagues"
Someone explained it to me like this: imagine your boss's new sexy wife who is MUCH younger than him invites you and all your colleagues to a party at their home, then her birthday gift to him is a really grindy lap dance to WAP in the center of the living room while you all have to watch it. With the spirit of how people were supposed to behave in the 60s, that's essentially what happened here
When he yelled at her after this stellar, loving, jaw-dropping gift to him I was not proud of Don. It really has to be about him, his ego, all eyes on him, all the time. If I were Don, I would be so proud and flattered....knowing I have the sexiest, most talented woman in the room/world and am the luckiest SOB alive. Damn, Don!
Of course he's going to yell at his new wife who does a whore dance in front of his colleages and their wives. He wants to be proud of her instead of knowing that the other men only want to fxck her like a piece of meat.
@@theuofc IDK, I'd want to show her off a bit. I mean, she wasn't scantily clad, with a barely-there outfit doing a striptease. It's only cringeworthy because we know Don was embarrassed and didn't want a party in the first place.
I lost count of how many times I’ve rewound this. Thankfully we are past the age of VHS because I would ruin the tape watching this. She is utterly hypnotizing.
Indiana Deckard Solo Is Don really an i trovert though? He‘s very good with people and enjoys it too. He has moments where he‘d rather be alone but I‘d say he‘s neither a full introvert nor extrovert.
She's hated, because near the end of their relationship she starts being a bitch. She's more lovely to Don than he deserves and I enjoy her character before the relationship goes really downhill. But nearing the melancholic end to their relationship and particularly in their last encounter (at least I think it was their last) when Don is signing papers and decides to give her a million dollars or whatever it was... she... well, her character seemed to change in an instant. Before that everything was definitely rough, but the relationship came to an end because she wanted it to. And Don was obviously not reciprocating things she needed or wanted from him, but it was nevertheless something she wanted. At the end their relationship almost felt like an "I love you, but we're on different paths and I don't think it'll work out. But we should stay friends." And then all of a sudden she's blaming Don for a lot of shit and saying her life is ruined and he's the one who ruined it and that she hated him. It was a fucking out of nowhere change of mood and it tainted her character in my eyes. It felt like I had skipped like 5 episode worth of a character arc when I saw that scene for the first time. I remember checking back to see if I had accidentally skipped an episode or something. I still don't hate her character perse, but that era of her character is definitely something I dislike a lot. I enjoy her personality, but I do wish they had taken everything in different directions. Also though, I reckon people were displeased at Don ditching the doctor and marrying Megan so suddenly. I think the doctor and Dons relationship could have potentially been an even more interesting one. She was more of a match for Don. Megan didn't really know what she was getting herself into unfortunately. But maybe that makes for better TV.
@@BrokenGodEnt I don’t blame her character honestly, throughout their whole relationship she’s pretty loving and supportive to Don even when in season 6 he begins to shut her out completely, and then he makes her quit her successful job as an actress on a popular show to go to LA together and salvage their relationship but he ends up not going and lies to her basically saying he’d rather spend most of his time without her so personally I understand why her attitude towards him changed especially since time had passed and probably thought more about what he did, I do agree though the writers should’ve delved deeper a bit more from her perspective.
I dedicate Mad Men to my late dad, who passed away in November, 2019. My mum n dad are about the same age as the characters, being born in 1934 and 1938
Me too 😅 felt really embarassed for Don knowing he's got all his work collegues there, this is a way too sexy and private song to share it with business... and my man turned to me and said " Please dont ever do something like this at my Bday... Id never be able to go back to work, wayy too embarassing " 🤣
Roger & Jane lmfao. Don & his forced smile look like he wants the floor to open up & swallow him. Their marriage was shallow & baseless from the beginning. She didn't know how much this would embarrass him & he didn't know how not to crush her when she thought she was doing a good thing.
@Bolizen Don has never liked parties, at best he tolerates them. Having a big celebration like this for his birthday was insensitive considering his mother died giving birth to him. So really this wasn't that nice. I think Megan just wanted to show off and wasn't gonna take no for an answer.
everyone blamed her for everything ,but in the end I didn't care what happened to DICK , I mean don. I would have liked to see what happened to everyone else though
@@thesupreme950 They knew plenty about one another. Later on in the episode they talk about how it's not even his real birthday. She knows all about Dick being his real name and in general more about him than anyone else, besides Anna. He was with Betty for 11 years and she knew less about him than Megan after such a short time.
Personally I feel both sides of it, the editing makes her look out of place with the wide shots and other people's reactions, but you can also love her because she is only focused on Don and commits to her performance
I guess its just that Don has no innocence, he's all about appearances and lizard brain. Megan is a free spirited extrovert. They have zero compatibility but each thinks the other is what they should need.
Along with Joan's C'est Magnifique accordion performance, absolutely some of the most lovely parts of the show ❤ beautiful and cute, very hard to pull off a performance like that but Paré has exceeded it!
The amount of confidence needed to pull this off goddam
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And beauty, vanguard style and talent.
Or self delusion.
Great scene. This was the precise moment where Don realised that he couldn’t fully control Megan the way that he could control Betty.
yeah,, and after the party, Don shames Megan for being and dancing sexy 😢 Revealed how insecure Don's character was
Absolutely. He has to have his way all the time or he is cross.. I think Glen as a child is a more wholesome personality.
I forgot Lane Pryce was still alive in this scene. Strange, hard to describe; a unique point in time.
No, Megan jusy more interesting and magnificent than Betty, And Don doesn't like the attention
Harry @ 1:35 😂😂😂
"You could see the soul come out of Don's body "
- Lane Pryce
Wasn’t it Joan who said that?
No joan was not even in the party
He was explaining it to Joan actually. It was very funny. Lane was imitating the whole song and dancing and Don's face of course. It is cringy.
I have tried to find this scene on RUclips and most of Lance's scenes on RUclips and a lot are missing. He was one of my favorite.
the best part of this was when the next day at work Roger gave don shit doing a french impression lmao
Crane saying what he would do with Megan when she's just behind him
Also love Crane freaking out thinking he's fired and Roger asking "what the hell did you do?"
"I made fun of Zou Bisou"
Roger: "So did I. haha!"
He's a funny guy
@@mariasja1234 yes Roger gets some great lines and he pulls them off - that dry humour.
O Mulyk they definitely balance him out with some less than desirable traits though
I love how Bert is just chilling in the corner with a plate of food.
Bert is a way of life
Bert is me. I am Bert.
"Did you buy him a pony?"
That's me at every party, wedding or bar mitzvah I'm obliged to attend.
Continuing to succeed in business, without really trying.
Why don't you sing like that? Why don't you look like him? mic drop!! damn lol
Jessica was the only one who could match Roger's verbal artillery.
+Sam Harnish - You mean Jane (Siegel). Jessica Paré is the actress who plays Megan.
Yes, after the honeymoon/the lovestruck weeks after, she was always cold and bitchy towards Roger. I guess she was after a "very expensive" divorce...
andrew7taylor Shit you are right.
LOL!!! I didn't know if anyone caught that.
He doesnt need to look like Don, because she's with him because of the size of his wallet.
Season 5 was a fracking masterpiece
Stephen Schultz lol!
My favorite!
nonono season four is the best, but season five also, not as much as season 4 but if
Season 5 was the worst by far, I was so relieved when it got good again with s6 and 7.
Gluemonkey
The worst is season 2
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+Mild Milk Gamin lmao 👌
Hahahha
don looks like he's about to pop a blood vessel throughout the whole thing.
I see Don start to enjoy it.
@@themermaidstale5008 He didn't tho.
@@ardenaudreyarji Ultimately, Don was embarrassed and then angry the next morning, but he enjoyed it on some level, it's there on his face.
@@themermaidstale5008 agreed. And Harry Crane at the back getting the hardest boner in his entire life Lol
@@ardenaudreyarji Crane changed from puritanical to sleazy creep.
this is one of the most memorable scenes in television of the last decade.
Their courtship was so fast and every character in this scene INCLUDING Don learned so much about Megan and her confidence here. I love seeing everyone else's reactions. Like she's not the safe/submissive choice that he maybe thought when he chose her over Faye. She really came on the scene here.
yeah, this is the first time im seeing something about Mad Men and after watching it, i really want to start watching whole series.
Spot on. It’s a brilliant scene that subverts our pre-conceived notions about Megan.
Every woman that Don is with is supposed to be an extension of who he is at that time and also a sort of symbolism for the changing times during the 1950s to 1970s
What the fuck are you talking about? You're objectively wrong and need a reality check. Literal fucking virgin.
@@tonysoprano9599who r u talking bout ? ... @ t LEAST respond 2 1 person on HERE! ... BTW Evry1 ... " Tony " HERE? ... NOT official!! ... how do I kno that u ask ? ... because HE'S dEd !!! ...
God, i'm SO in love with this scene. Probably seen it a hunderd times. When people ask 'what is the greatest tv-show of all time?' Often you'll hear The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Seinfeld, Game of Thrones, The Twilight Zone. But for me, Mad Men is the absolute number 1. Perfection in every single way.
“Why don’t you sing like that?”
“Why don’t you look like him?”
One of my favorite exchanges of the entire series
Drop kick to the chest
Nice foreshadowing of Roger ending up with Megan‘s mother.
idk Roger and Don are both equally stunning in my book!
Talk about hitting Roger at his deepest insecurity
😂😂
Don's fucking face lmaoooo he's like wtf
+JustEraseTheSystem Exactly. I lost my shit when I saw that, hahah. He's like "aw shit, she foreal?"
mmmBurekNJAMNJAM lmaoo idk how I would have reacted haha!!
JustEraseTheSystem 😂😂😂😂😂
I just ended the show, and, sincerely, seeing this scene breaks me.
It's sad how nothing last forever in this world. Mad Men just define how life is. People come and people go and you die alone if you commit bad decisions.
I will always love this show.
Megan was one of the only fundamentally decent characters in the show. She gave up everything to move to LA and Don cheated on her the first chance he got.
@@cgavin1 he actually tried his best to be better for Megan
Newsflash: We ALL die alone; it doesn't matter if there's anyone else there or not. It's all you.
Same here. Just finished watching the show yesterdasy and today can't stop watching all the scenes where Don was having it all.
This is the sad truth of life. Things will be given to you and then they will be taken from you.
But there is a rare type of people like Don who will do their best to throw all those good things away long before they would be taken from them.
Sorry Don. I really feel for you. But you had it coming.
@RidgeRunner I get what your saying.
This damn song has been in my head for days. Had to come watch this. May it expel the demon! Devil, get OUT ! OUT!
rybpo7 a little peace of france in your head... thats not so bad ☺
demon is in my head now! 11 f*kcing months later ! thanks a lot :)
rybpo7 saw this by accident because my bitch was watching tv and this shit came up so I came to expel the demon as well.
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One of the best Mad Men scenes ever. I felt so bad for Megan afterward. Don really was disappointed that she had the surprise party for him. It's nothing worse that planning a surprise or getting a gift for someone and they don't receive it as joyfully as you anticipated.
To be fair, she should have known this was a bad idea. It's not like anyone who knew Don wouldn't have figured out that this would have been a bad idea. It did a good job of highlighting how little they knew each other.
@@michaelcorcoran8768 You are right. And he did inform her that he did not want a fuss made about his birthday but she insisted. One thing I have learned about men is that most of you say what you mean but us women like to ignore it unfortunately.
@@michaelcorcoran8768 Exactly. You can tell Peggy knows immediately how much Don hates this. Anyone who really knows him would not have done this. But the way Don shames Megan for it afterwards is still awful.
I think Don knows this will come back to haunt them at work. Which is why he's so frustrated here. If this had been a private performance, he would have definitely been into it. He knows his colleagues are animals. However, he blames Megan instead of telling her why, he just gets angry.
Don wants Megan to be the opposite of Betty but still wants Megan to have the appropriate social graces Betty had as his wife. Megan was never going to live up to his expectations. She tries very hard, but there's no pleasing Don. Even before she left for acting, he wanted her at his beck and call, regardless of how she felt about it. Hence the Howard Johnson fight.
I see all these Betty vs Megan arguments online. Frankly, Don is a charismatic individual but a horrible husband. He's the one who failed, not them.
enh, I think a lot of people would find this cringe-inducing.
No disagreement he was generally a pretty bad husband. He didn't treat any of the women in his life very well.
....I never realized that contract between Betty and Megan before this comment. Good points. Betty was Grace Kelly. Don wanted a young beautiful wife but she brought her generational mores with that.
Don told her explicitly he didn’t want a party - she put together a surprise party and did a sex kitten dance in public for him. He was right to be angry about it
I think they just got together very quickly with very little insight into each other. If she knew him for a little longer, she'd know he's a very private man who wouldn't enjoy this. If Don knew her a little longer, he'd know she's a free spirit who won't be happy tied down.
absolutely agree with this. Don's not a good husband period. He's got emotional problems and abandonment issues I agree but he's a grown up who's always ready to pack it up and leave.
I didn't like Henry Francis at first but after a couple of rewatches, he's a much better husband and an overall better guy to Don.
I hope after the end of the show we see him finally be responsible, but we'll never know.
This entire show is about a man who abused and neglected by his parents and then raped as a young teen. The entire show is about a damaged, broken man trying to look like everyone else and trying to live like everyone else. He can't. The reason this is so unsettling for him is that she is in control sexually in this situation and that makes him uncomfortable. He always wants to be in control because sexual abuse victims struggle their whole lives with issues of control after being controlled sexually by someone against their will. I've watched the entire show 5 times through and while we think that it is about how women were oppressed in the 60s, it is really about how terribly he treats women because he has no experience where anyone ever treated a woman with respect, and he was very injured by women in his childhood.
Meghan managed to keep Don from cheating for an entire season that's more than betty ever could
How can you know that though? the show starts several years into Don and Betty's marriage
@@allisoncollins9178 Don already has quite a reputation as a womanizer in season 1, though. Probably not enough evidence, you're right. But i'd be curious.
Who’s better?
@@randywhite3947Better Every
@@allisoncollins9178Betty says at some point Don wasn't at a previous birth. Probably out there womanizing
Everytime I end up watching a scene of Mad men makes me want to rewatch the whole season. Unquestionnably the best show for me.
Have you seen the wire
@@FoodLiquorCool I’m not finished with Mad Men yet, but I’ve definitely got a few shows over it: namely, The Wire, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Arcane, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and possibly Snowfall and Top Boy over it, assuming they end up being as good as they’ve been so far.
I do it all the time. Ive been watching it on a loop since 2021, and it takes me about a year to watch them all as I just choose one night per week to watch a few episodes.
This scene was one of the BEST and most memorable ones in the entire Mad Men series.
really.....
na
Memorable, far from best
Yup.
I kinda cant get over one, how gorgeous Jessica Pare is, two, how catchy this song is and three, how much I really love Megan (the character)
She looks nasty with those teeth.
She killed it, the pose, movements,. Costume, liittle details were all on point, and the cringy part of not knowing that Don's soul was literally walking out and killing at that moment.. great scene!
And my man Roger's conversation with Jane.
Roger: "Why don't you sing like him"
Jane: "Why don't you look like him"
This is Mad Men’s version of happy birthday mr.president from breaking bad
Sopranos also had a Happy Birthday Mr President scene that had the same "cringe to death" effect...wonder if BB did that as a reference?
At least Mad Men's version has some decent singing.
@@xxczerxx haven’t watched sopranos but I’m glad more people got to experience how absolutely insufferable this kind of scene is
Skyler was even worse😂😂
@@xxczerxx which scene exactly was it?
i love their apartment!
I think the title should be:
*Megan Murders Don Via Cringe Method Torture (720p)*
"Oui oui!"
Julian Escobedo mad men fans are the best fans
Julian Escobedo not fonne lie. I cringed. But it grew on me. Now its stuck in my head. For about 4 yrs now
Julian Escobedo yasss
This was the beginning of the end of the marriage
"Why don't you sing like that?"......."Why don't you look like him" great line
It's harder to watch when you know Don ain't in to it
It’s the moment when don realizes he wants a woman who does as she’s told and doesn’t take any chances
The best thing about this was Roger Sterling taking the piss the next day haha
Yes!
Why dont you sing like that.
Why dont you look like him.
LOL
Roger: *Has Another Heart Attack*
BURN
That was an epic remark. Zingggggg..
Jane came prepared!
In all fairness, all Roger had to do was dye his hair black and problem solved. He's as good looking as Don, except at the final season when he just gives up on his hair and shit.
I named my female dog Zoobie. when I heard this song I laughed to tears and nearly passed out. laughed so hard it changed my brain chemistry.
Take care sir
That’s precious! 🥹
You're pretty fragile.
SHE'S THE ONLY CHARACTER THAT BROUGHT THE SPIROT OF THE 60S.
Perfect late 60s go go chick
The look on Peggy's face through the whole thing was priceless.
Salvatore Romano: "I'm about to end this woman's whole career"
Bruh 😂
@@christianpage1558 Don Draper: I'm about to end this man's career
Hahahahaha!
hahaha me too End it!!!
Ed G-y nah don that himself 😂
2:15 "why don't you look like him?"
I always thought Roger was good looking, am I the only one?
he looked good in the first seasons, but it all went downhill after he got those sideburns
Gavrilo Jovanovic
no! those sideburns were awesome!!!
but seriously Roger is almost as handsome as Don in my opinion
but they don't acknowledge that in the show
[oh yeah] come on; that is one handsome man. but then again Donald Sutherland is the best looking 80 yr old i've ever seen.
***** He's a good looking man for his age, but he has nothing on Don. Don's pretty much one in a million as far as attractiveness goes.
***** Any point you try to make is rendered completely nonsensical by things like "yourselfs" and "writters" and "writting" and "Jetti." Please. Anyone who's gone to school past the 2nd grade knows better.
This was too European for them.
@Lord Farquaad Anyone who has ever been to Montreal cannot possibly deny the strong, French influence . It was classic European French of that era. Yeah we all get the cringiness, but as it was so well stated by Mrs. Kensington to her daughter who cringed out at Austin Powers and wondered what her mother saw in him: You'd have to have understood the times. Megan gave knockout performance!
That's why Don can't handle her
*Canadian, not European
EXACTLY 😂 you can see difference in 60s movies
France was producing steamy movies like "belle de jours" in the USA they were still under heavy censorship. Lol
@@endeavourist5287 FRENCH CANADIAN. BECAUSE ENGLISH CANADIANS ARE USUALLY CONSERVATIVE.
Peggy's face makes me laugh every time.
She looks like this awakened something in her
She knows how much Don hates it.
According to Jessica Pare, she was never sure where to go as an actress until she simply decided to be over-the-top when and where it seemed promising. Happily, the producers of MAD MEN saw the possibilities she brought to the part of Megan Draper.
Not the greatest actress, but apparently she rehearsed this scene like crazy because she was anxious about both the singing and the dancing, and I think she nailed it. And the way the guests reacted - great scene.
She acted in the movie Lost and Delirious when she was a teen.
Now that enough time has passed and I looked at this again, it really is MORTIFYING!!!!
Why ? I liked it .
@@thewrongshoes me too. I actually like it more on rewatches but I also understand and like Megan better too.
I’d be mortified in Don’s shoes too. I don’t even feel comfortable with people singing happy birthday to me…
Full of laught when Roger imitate her at office
Je m’appelle Roger ❤️
Lane raising his eyebrow in recognition of how sexy the song is makes me laugh every time.
Not to mention Roger’s bit at the end. Iconic!
"Why don't you sing like that?"
"Why don't you look like him?" LOL OWNED
Best bit of this was the next day when Roger said " Bonjour!" To Don and then sang " Frère Jacques..." in a sexy way to tease him 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sterling: "Why don't you sing like that?"
Jane: "Why don't you look like him?"
Burn.
I love Megan, she's kind and her personality is beautiful. I don't see why so many people hate her.
***** she didnt know his mother died during childbirth??? why so hostile
Suzanne Moriarty I always found her to be annoying. I feel that she deserved MUCH better than Don.
+Suzanne Moriarty I think she is hated because she had it too easy in a way. Every single character on Mad men had to struggle to get where they are. She has it all, and it's very easy for her to get things that she didn't even want in the first place - being a copywriter, getting married to her boss. It is handed to her on a plate. When you see how other people on the show like peggy or joan try to climb the ladder in many different ways and what they had to face to obtain what they wanted - you kind of can't help to dislike megan a little. There is this dimension of unfairness to how her character gets its way.
cinnamongirl3121 let’s not forget this is all a fake show 😂😂
Your Momma right? Lol
Don't care what anyone says... She
is kind of perfect. Damn what a knock out.
Its the start of the end of meghan and Don. She’s so young and the whirling romance they have and the sudden marriage is so romantic at then end of the previous season but we all knew don was gonna, as he always does, sabotage everything but to be fair not because he’s a bad person but he has patterns which stem from so much trauma in his younger life.. Poor Meghan doesn’t even realize what she stepped into then. Don hates this, hates the surprise bday party. To this day that episode and this moment at the time became so iconic. I’ve rewatched mad men recently and it still remains one of my favorite series. Watching it older and more mature than time even tho I understood and loved the characters, I now fully grasp what the characters. The in depth analysis and how amazing, real the writing is. Sometimes you love them sometimes you hate them but you always understand them ❤
Im always so nostalgic about this show its just so beautifully written about people in a different time but it applies to any time. I used to wait so patiently for sundays mad men episodes
The scene that showed Don and Megan's world are poles apart.
that lil performance made me nostalgic for mad men. damn, that show was everything
Roger Stirlings version is better
Yeah and how he made Don angry lol
It was hilarious
Frere Jacques!hahahahaah
Lol thought you were talking about when Roger sang Old Kentucky Home to Jane at first
@@OneFreemanC17He was!
I don't know what she was saying, but I like how she said it.
kiss kiss
@@esoohamabalo4093 Really ? Somehow that's even worse.
@@johnbowman1076 😆
The Mad Men equivalent of “Happy Birthday Mr. President”
"Why don't you look like him?" LOL! Great line.
The only one on the show who could match Roger's verbal artillery.
"Why don't you sing like that?" ,
"Why don't you look like him?"
Roger: "Why don't you sing like that?"Jane: "Why don't you look like him?"Love it.
Man I am gonna miss this show when it's all over! :(
Rick Scicluna do u?
All Mad Men ladies are so exciting to watch!
except for Peggy
And Betty.
@@LadiesmanBumblebee Betty is the most beautiful one!!! R U blind or something?
@Not Another Minute Joan was otherworldly... seriously. Otherworldly.
@@jenlindley7780 Joan & Betty were the two most beautiful women on the show for me! Trudy was also really pretty along with Jane but Joan & Betty really stand out... they're the type of women you see somewhere out and never forget about 🗿
0:12 I love how you can clearly hear Pete’s laugh over everyone else’s
I don't understand why people think this is cringey. I think it's absolutely adorable, yet sexy.
Me too
In that setting, time period, and that particular group of people,as well as Don's personality, it's the definition of cringe. Not by today's standards, but in that era for sure.
Who likes their girlfriend/wife to be on a public display sexually ?
Don would have more appreciated if it was only him in the room and not with "friends-colleagues"
Someone explained it to me like this: imagine your boss's new sexy wife who is MUCH younger than him invites you and all your colleagues to a party at their home, then her birthday gift to him is a really grindy lap dance to WAP in the center of the living room while you all have to watch it. With the spirit of how people were supposed to behave in the 60s, that's essentially what happened here
When he yelled at her after this stellar, loving, jaw-dropping gift to him I was not proud of Don. It really has to be about him, his ego, all eyes on him, all the time. If I were Don, I would be so proud and flattered....knowing I have the sexiest, most talented woman in the room/world and am the luckiest SOB alive. Damn, Don!
I don't think it was his wanting attention and all eyes on him. More like he was genuinely embarrassed.
@@Pantano63 Yeah, that's really it. I would be quite embarrassed too.
No Megan posted cringe
Of course he's going to yell at his new wife who does a whore dance in front of his colleages and their wives. He wants to be proud of her instead of knowing that the other men only want to fxck her like a piece of meat.
@@theuofc IDK, I'd want to show her off a bit. I mean, she wasn't scantily clad, with a barely-there outfit doing a striptease. It's only cringeworthy because we know Don was embarrassed and didn't want a party in the first place.
I lost count of how many times I’ve rewound this. Thankfully we are past the age of VHS because I would ruin the tape watching this. She is utterly hypnotizing.
1:10 Harry Crane yelling "Oui, Oui! Ouii!!!" kills me!!! LOL
0:25 That's how I usually feel when I'm at a restaurant and I see people coming around the corner with a cake and singing happy birthday
I love the attention to detail. Guitar, amp, PA and microphone are spot on for the period... even the guitar strap.
this was my favorite thing about Mad Men attention to detail
Never understood why Megan was so hated when most of the cast were cold blooded and unlikable.
Except ken ofc
Indiana Deckard Solo Is Don really an i trovert though? He‘s very good with people and enjoys it too. He has moments where he‘d rather be alone but I‘d say he‘s neither a full introvert nor extrovert.
She's hated, because near the end of their relationship she starts being a bitch. She's more lovely to Don than he deserves and I enjoy her character before the relationship goes really downhill. But nearing the melancholic end to their relationship and particularly in their last encounter (at least I think it was their last) when Don is signing papers and decides to give her a million dollars or whatever it was... she... well, her character seemed to change in an instant. Before that everything was definitely rough, but the relationship came to an end because she wanted it to. And Don was obviously not reciprocating things she needed or wanted from him, but it was nevertheless something she wanted. At the end their relationship almost felt like an "I love you, but we're on different paths and I don't think it'll work out. But we should stay friends." And then all of a sudden she's blaming Don for a lot of shit and saying her life is ruined and he's the one who ruined it and that she hated him. It was a fucking out of nowhere change of mood and it tainted her character in my eyes. It felt like I had skipped like 5 episode worth of a character arc when I saw that scene for the first time. I remember checking back to see if I had accidentally skipped an episode or something.
I still don't hate her character perse, but that era of her character is definitely something I dislike a lot. I enjoy her personality, but I do wish they had taken everything in different directions. Also though, I reckon people were displeased at Don ditching the doctor and marrying Megan so suddenly. I think the doctor and Dons relationship could have potentially been an even more interesting one. She was more of a match for Don. Megan didn't really know what she was getting herself into unfortunately. But maybe that makes for better TV.
@@BrokenGodEnt I don’t blame her character honestly, throughout their whole relationship she’s pretty loving and supportive to Don even when in season 6 he begins to shut her out completely, and then he makes her quit her successful job as an actress on a popular show to go to LA together and salvage their relationship but he ends up not going and lies to her basically saying he’d rather spend most of his time without her so personally I understand why her attitude towards him changed especially since time had passed and probably thought more about what he did, I do agree though the writers should’ve delved deeper a bit more from her perspective.
I like her! I don't like Betty.
Only mad men could pull off a cheesy scene like this.
or like the redhead playing the accordion? LOL
Its not cheesy at all. Im italian and in europe a little dinner performance like this is fun and not so shocking.
@@alexia8434 Italy is 2nd world. Who cares.
@@NemoNobody2092 well if italy is 2nd in the world that seems like quite a good ranking to me. I thank you for the compliment
@@alexia8434 So you're pretending you can't read...in an attempt to make a comeback? ok I guess?
People: *why u watch "Mad Men?"*
Me: ☝
I dedicate Mad Men to my late dad, who passed away in November, 2019. My mum n dad are about the same age as the characters, being born in 1934 and 1938
I still cant get over how much she looks like Freddie Mercury!
maybe before he came out the closet he tried a woman first and bam, now his daughter is on mad men
VERY possible haha
Damn then Freddie musta been sexy
Lol she does... Lol again...
Thought I was the only one who saw this!
Mad Men is the only show that could convince the viewer that a moment as euphoric as this is a sign of trouble ahead.
Easily one of my favorite Madmen scenes. I legitimately enjoyed this one.
I love Megan!!
"Why don't you look like him."
Best comeback ever.
I bet there are only a few men in this world who've had a beautiful girl sing and dance like that just for them.
We need more Zou Bisou Bisou Zou in 2022!!
Pete and his smirk - The only constant in the series
One of the greatest scenes in the whole show. The entire season 5 premiere is fucking hysterical.
"Did you buy him a pony?" Cracks me up every time.
This is one of my favorite parts of Mad Men ever. I have this song on my phone with the lyrics memorized.
Nice scene, the show was great, I miss this era of TV
This song got stuck in my head today. Lord make it stop!
In this scene Jessica Paré really delivers a mind-blowing performance. Indeed one of the best I have ever watched in TV.
Unforgettable 😆
Exactly. One of my favorite scenes. I live vicariously through her in this scene. I wish I could be so sexy and bold.
My parents had parties like that.
Bert :"Did you buy him a pony?"
Don:" I remember Roger used to ride a phony named Mirabelle."
Nothing wins french and its charm! What ever they say sounds soooo charming and rooooomantic! Je l’emme!❤️❤️❤️
My favorite part is everyone’s expressions in the beginning and throughout the song.
man she really loved Don
I so miss Mad Men...
I felt embaressed while watching this, but got to admit it was such a catchy scene
why did you felt embarressed?
Me too 😅 felt really embarassed for Don knowing he's got all his work collegues there, this is a way too sexy and private song to share it with business... and my man turned to me and said " Please dont ever do something like this at my Bday... Id never be able to go back to work, wayy too embarassing " 🤣
Roger & Jane lmfao. Don & his forced smile look like he wants the floor to open up & swallow him. Their marriage was shallow & baseless from the beginning. She didn't know how much this would embarrass him & he didn't know how not to crush her when she thought she was doing a good thing.
He's a very flawed character. She did something nice for hjm and he decided to be a cunt.
@Bolizen
Don has never liked parties, at best he tolerates them. Having a big celebration like this for his birthday was insensitive considering his mother died giving birth to him. So really this wasn't that nice. I think Megan just wanted to show off and wasn't gonna take no for an answer.
everyone blamed her for everything ,but in the end I didn't care what happened to DICK , I mean don. I would have liked to see what happened to everyone else though
Meris Megan and Don didn’t even know much about each other at this point so she probably assumed he’d enjoy a party like this.
@@thesupreme950 They knew plenty about one another. Later on in the episode they talk about how it's not even his real birthday. She knows all about Dick being his real name and in general more about him than anyone else, besides Anna. He was with Betty for 11 years and she knew less about him than Megan after such a short time.
I don't know why I love this scene so much. Megan is so beautiful and so lively!
She was always beautiful and lively especially when she moved to Cali. Her outfits from there, like for example in The Runaways were hot AF!
Idk why I keep coming back to this video 😖😖😀😀
Beautiful, they had lovely music in the 60s
Roger Sterling:
Current Status:
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I don't understand why people find this cringey or feel secondhand embarrassment. I think it's lovely and fun.
I found it cringe worthy but I did hate Don for giving her shit about it.
Personally I feel both sides of it, the editing makes her look out of place with the wide shots and other people's reactions, but you can also love her because she is only focused on Don and commits to her performance
I guess its just that Don has no innocence, he's all about appearances and lizard brain. Megan is a free spirited extrovert. They have zero compatibility but each thinks the other is what they should need.
I thought it was cute and sweet. If a woman did this for me I'd for sure be embarassed but I'd love her for it.
Guys don’t want their wife to be kinda sluty in front of their co workers
I can't get that song out of my head, not even Jessica pare, new favorite song
1:40 the attention to detail to make the mic fade out when she pulls it away is part of what makes this scene so good
It hurts like Hell knowing that I'll never have a woman like that singing that way to me. Mon Dieu!
Along with Joan's C'est Magnifique accordion performance, absolutely some of the most lovely parts of the show ❤ beautiful and cute, very hard to pull off a performance like that but Paré has exceeded it!
1:35 the look they give each other, priceless
The perfect timing of "Mon dieu que c'est doux!" and her hands going down is just incredible. I'm loosing control of myself...
I love the next day when harry gets pranked by Stan that's the funniest moment in tv history