Mad Men S3 Episode 9:
Wee Small Hours
Podcast Show Summary: Mad Men Season 3, Episode 9: Wee Small Hours
Conrad Hilton and Lee Garner, Jr. prove to be difficult clients, while Don and Betty deepen their relationships with Suzanne and Henry, respectively. Set your sights on the moon, and re-watch with us!
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Conrad Hilton and Lee Garner, Jr. prove to be difficult clients, while Don and Betty deepen their relationships with Suzanne and Henry, respectively. Set your sights on the moon, and re-watch with us!
View the full transcript for this episode
Follow Jenna and Steve on social media @MadMenCtoZ. If you like our podcast, thank you for sharing, subscribing, and leaving us a positive review - that's what the podcast's for!
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Steve's Star of S3-E9: Sal Romano |
"He's a bully."
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Sterling Script Lines - S3: Episode 9
1) Betty, to Don, about Hilton and the baby (and inadvertently, Don): I want what I want when I want it.
2) Suzanne, about the I Have a Dream Speech: I'm going to read it to the children on the first day of school. Don: Do you think they can understand it? Suzanne: I think they already know it. And it will be nice for them to hear an adult say it. 3) Don, to the creative team about the Hilton campaign: Give me more ideas to reject. I can't do this all by myself. 4) Lee Garner, Junior: What do you think, Harry? Harry: I think you're the client, and we should do what you want. 5) Harry, to Paul: I'm not going to panic and do something stupid like I usually do. Paul: That's a good start. 6) Connie, to Don: You're like a son. In fact sometimes you're more than a son, because you didn't have what they had. 7) Roger, to Harry: And you made an executive decision to do nothing? 8) Conrad Hilton: There's nothing about the moon. Don: Right now that's not an actual destination. 9) Roger, to Don: What do you think accounts does? Besides limit your brilliance? 10) Betty, to Don: They want to have a fundraiser Don: I don't care, as long as I don't have to go. |
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Podcast Time Stamps - Mad Men S3:E9 Wee Small Hours
00:00 Introduction
01:24 "I want what I want when I want it."
Conrad Hilton, Baby Gene, and Betty's fainting couch fantasies
04:33 "I'm going home. And the whole point is to run there."
Don finds Suzanne in the early morning, Martin Luther King Junior's I Have a Dream speech, and which pieces of history societies enjoy remembering or prefer to suppress
14:30 The first time Don ever got to work early
15:08 An old-fashioned letter-writing romance
17:51 "Give me more ideas to reject. I can't do this all by myself."
20:18 Sal directs the Lucky Strike TV commercial
We compare whether Conrad Hilton or Lee Garner Junior is the bigger bully
24:21 Don goes looking for Suzanne; it's the first day of school
27:58 Lee Garner Junior proves he is the bigger bully
32:29 Letter-writing and Lies, with a side of wine
36:53 "I can't work with him. He's no good."
We beg to differ, Lee Garner Junior. #JusticeForSal
Also, "I'm not going to do anything stupid like I usually do."
#YouAbsolutelyWill,Harry
40:24 "You're like a son to me."
47:02 "I wanted to see you. I drove past your exit a dozen times."
49:04 This Lucky Strike meeting is somehow worse than the one when Roger had a heart attack
50:51 Every time we watch, we hope this scene goes differently
1:00:50 Don, we're hosting a fundraiser
1:02:26 "Good night, boss."
1:03:03 Let's have a fundraiser
1:03:37 "How do you say fresh towels in Farsi? Hilton."
But the lesser bully wanted the moon.
1:09:03 "I'm actually the person who briefs Mr. Francis."
When the guest speaker takes the fun out of your fundraiser
1:15:52 "What do you think accounts does? Besides limit your brilliance."
"I'd tell you, but I don't want to hurt your feelings."
1:17:41 "Maybe it's not supposed to happen right now."
1:21:18 Sal has a genuine conversation with Kitty and lives happily ever after with Elliot from Belle Jolie. He definitely doesn't just call Kitty from a pay phone near Central Park. And he starts his own firm, "where copy follows art, not the other way round," and gets everything he ever wanted. That's what should have happened.
1:22:33 "You only want this because I'm new and different. I know how this ends."
1:24:12 Closing song, Episode wrap-up, and listener shout-out
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Brands & Companies in this episode of Mad Men - Wee Small Hours
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Hilton Lucky Strike |
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Cultural References mentioned in this episode of Mad Men - Wee Small Hours
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Things We Should Have Said
- We should have mentioned that the title, Wee Small Hours, obviously represents a lot of late-night scenes from this episode. Frank Sinatra's 1955 song with the similar (redundant) title, In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning includes the lyrics "When your lonely heart has learned its lesson / You'd be hers if only she would call," and in the next episode, there's some question about whether Suzanne, Don's current mistress has called or not.
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