Waldorf Stories
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"Waldorf Stories" features flashback sequences to the 1950s, and further expands on the past affair between a young Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks) and Roger Sterling (John Slattery).
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 6 |
| Directed by | Scott Hornbacher |
| Written by |
Brett Johnson Matthew Weiner |
| Original air date | August 29, 2010 |
"Waldorf Stories" is the sixth episode of the fourth season of the American television drama series Mad Men, and the 45th overall episode of the series. It was written by Brett Johnson and series creator and executive producer Matthew Weiner, and directed by Scott Hornbacher. The episode originally aired on the AMC channel in the United States on August 29, 2010. This was the same evening that Mad Men received the award for Outstanding Drama Series at the 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards.
It is now April, 1965. Don Draper (Jon Hamm) wins a CLIO Award for television advertising, but the celebration is cut short when the team has to return to the office for a meeting with clients from Life cereal. Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) is upset that Don has not acknowledged her contribution to the award-winning ad. Intoxicated and empowered by the win, Don responds to the client's desire for an accessible slogan by bouncing several spontaneous, mediocre ideas off his potential clients. The clients like one slogan, which Don has inadvertently stolen from Danny Siegel (Danny Strong), a dim-witted applicant for a job at the firm and Roger's wife's cousin. After returning to the celebration, Don loses an entire weekend to debauchery. He leaves the party with a brunette jingle-writer (who also won an award), only to awaken two days later in bed with a blonde waitress whom he has no recollection of. To his dismay, the waitress refers to him as Dick.
Peggy is having problems working with the new art director Stan Rizzo (Jay R. Ferguson). As they spend a weekend together working in a hotel room (where Don admonished them to stay until they came up with an ad, by Monday), she finds a way to counter Stan's accusations that she is uptight. Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser), meanwhile, is not pleased that Lane Pryce (Jared Harris) is trying to hire Ken Cosgrove (Aaron Staton) to join the firm.
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