Field Trip
- Episode aired Apr 27, 2014
- TV-14
- 48m
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8.6/10
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After a fight with Megan during a surprise trip to California, Don decides it's time to get back to work. Meanwhile, Betty joins Bobby on a field trip to a farm.After a fight with Megan during a surprise trip to California, Don decides it's time to get back to work. Meanwhile, Betty joins Bobby on a field trip to a farm.After a fight with Megan during a surprise trip to California, Don decides it's time to get back to work. Meanwhile, Betty joins Bobby on a field trip to a farm.
Vincent Kartheiser
- Pete Campbell
- (credit only)
Kiernan Shipka
- Sally Draper
- (credit only)
Kevin Rahm
- Ted Chaough
- (credit only)
Mason Cotton
- Bobby Draper
- (as Mason Vale Cotton)
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Did you know
- TriviaDuring an interview on the NPR program "Fresh Air," host Terry Gross asked Matthew Weiner to give an example of a story that he had always wanted to tell on the show that he had finally made room for in the final season, and the one he chose was when Betty accompanies Bobby on his class's farm field trip and he trades away her sandwich. Then Weiner went on to reveal that that seemingly small story was actually a close retelling of a traumatic incident from his own childhood in which his own mother really chaperoned one of his school field trips and he really did give away her lunch--he traded her sandwich for gumdrops. He said, "She didn't really participate in school that much. And I was so in love with her and so excited that she had come along, and then I kind of ruined it. . . . I'd never seen her eat, so it was kind of shocking to me that she had brought lunch for her. But I--it was irreversible and something that I would wake up and be crying about, you know, for years, you know, just like, oh, why did I do that? Why did I give her sandwich away? It's funny because it makes her sound bad in a way, and I'm aware of that. But I actually feel like what stories like this show is that maybe it's the combination of a slightly insensitive parent and an incredibly oversensitive child. So I--we both bear culpability in it. But that was a story that I was like, nobody gives a crap about that. Why are we doing that? And I had told that, like, the first week of the first season, and it was in the notes. . . . My mother was always dieting, and sometimes she failed. And she had put on weight at a certain point like Betty did, and then now she's the skinniest person in the entire world."
- GoofsWhen Dawn asks Don about his lunch order, she says, "Chicken salad on rye and a Nesbitt's." [an orange soda that was popular in the 60s] Don confirms the order, but when he's actually shown eating his lunch, the soda bottle in front of him is a Coca-Cola bottle.
- Quotes
Bobby Draper: [to Betty, about his teacher] She likes you.
Betty Francis: Yes, well, that blouse says she likes everyone.
- ConnectionsFeatures My Favorite Martian: Uncle Martin's Wisdom Tooth (1964)
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When it's time to go you shouldn't stick around
Don plays his last, best card to get back to work with SCP. I just don't understand why he makes such a big effort to go back to a place where his partners despise him, rather than turn a new leaf and start with an agency that wants him.
His best move would have been forcing the partners to buy him out - that would have taught them a good lesson - and work for the competition. Instead, he accepts to crawl back in a demeaning junior position. Unless that was a kind of perverted atonement, his decision doesn't make any sense.
Therefore, I found the plot of this episode one of weakest because it defies reason, even the drunkard, distorted logic Don showed at times.
Finally, I never liked Peggy much, but her lines about not having missed Don is utterly despicable and shows what a mean, frustrated, petty woman she is.
His best move would have been forcing the partners to buy him out - that would have taught them a good lesson - and work for the competition. Instead, he accepts to crawl back in a demeaning junior position. Unless that was a kind of perverted atonement, his decision doesn't make any sense.
Therefore, I found the plot of this episode one of weakest because it defies reason, even the drunkard, distorted logic Don showed at times.
Finally, I never liked Peggy much, but her lines about not having missed Don is utterly despicable and shows what a mean, frustrated, petty woman she is.
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