I voted for The Mountain King as my favorite episode. Anna Draper is the warmest, most satisfying character ever introduced to this series. It is a pleasure to spend an hour with her. The questions being answered are rewarding, and the Tarot reading is fascinating.

I voted for the last episode, Meditations in an Emergency because of the many "confessions"

I loved the scene between Peggy and Pete when she finally tells him about their baby. The acting was spectacular to put it mildly.

Also it was fun watching Duck set his own trap and then fall into it. I loved watching Don bide his time and then Duck's meltdown when Don said he'd had no contract.

Maybe it was sentimental because I knew it was the last episode---for 9 months (same amount of time it will take for Betty to have her baby!)

I didn´t get the poll...

I voted for "Meditations in an Emergency" because Don is back after his symbolic baptism in the waters of the Pacific, and there is hope for him, Betty, their marriage, and the new life they created.

Very difficult to just pick one but my choice is for The Mountain King if only to see Don help get his life back in focus after spending time with Anna.

Agreed - The Montain King, for introducing Anna Draper at length, and for giving us more of Dick's/Don's background (and for answering the burning question of who got the book mailed by Don.)

Hands down, it was 3 Sundays that did it for me. The visuals and symbolism of the episode; the SC team staged to present a knock out presentation to AA, then the wind was sucked out when it was going to be a pass. Colin Hanks' character giving Peggy the egg on Easter Sunday, as a symbol, as forgiveness of her pass transgression.

The Jet Set was my favorite of Season 2. It was totally unpredictable. And like a dream. Don showed a side that made him even more complex.

Episode 7: "The Gold Violin": I love the episode name and what it means. To have something so lovely, yet it can not ever do what it is made for. It says so much about the coming '60's. Like the beautiful violin that can never play a song, the hippies grew up and became the man. Being a hippie or flower child was like being a gold violin. The idea was pretty, but it was never to be real. though one might think the mAd Men were like the violin, they were not. They only show/ed us what we want/ed to see or hear.

"The Mountain King" brought into question how did I get here and what am I going to do now? Don has always been grappling at how to find Don. When he fell into a serious relationship the pieces of who he wanted his identity to be were finally coming together. As years passed that underlying problem, who am I and why am I still so alone?, continued. Fast foward to 1962 Don finds himself in the company of the real Mrs. Draper, his only true friend. Thus he relinquishes his "Don Draper shield", in the only place he can, where he looks into a reflection of flaws and selfish decisions of the years that have past. Consumed with confusion, frustration, and guilt simultaneously Don falls into a coma -like -state where he is incapable of going back to his broken home. It's in "The Moutain King" where we see Don pause to breathe in and exhale it all out. The involuntary self-realization that this episode causes impacted me in a way that I ranked it as the best of season 2.

Damn, I wish I could have gotten my vote in. For me, Episode 6, "Maidenform," epitomized a central theme of the show, which is that women of the 60's could not have their cake and eat it, too. At least not without overcoming certain obstacles and burning a few bras: bras which were featured quite prominently here, using icons Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy as the supposed female role models of the day.

The person who tried to break this mold, albeit unsuccessfully, was Peggy. She sets out to prove that “not everyone is a Jackie or a Marilyn,” however acting on this idea is another story. When she dives headfirst into shark-infested waters by showing up at the Can Can Club that night decked out in all her feminine splendor, all she really becomes is another piece of meat for them to chomp on. In an earlier episode, Bobbie Barrett urges Peggy to be a woman and to avoid being a man at all costs if she had any intention of getting ahead in the business world. Her attempt is noble, however Pete's warning stare had the backwards effect of taking a beautiful butterfly and shoving it back into its cocoon so that it could reemerge as something more suitable for the likes of Sterling Cooper.

“Maidenform” also offered a clear illustration of the Madonna-whore complex, not only with Peggy’s brazen move, but also by what Don views as Betty's blatant disregard for modesty when he sees her serving cereal in a yellow bikini. "It's desperate," he tells her, and her perkiness quickly turns to dejection. She is the mother of his children, thus she cannot simultaneously be his object of lust. It turns out to be the same scenario between Pete and Peggy, which is ironic since you would think she's nothing but a couple of romps on the couch for him. This episode turned a new leaf for the two by one subtle yet powerful exchange of glances.

I also loved the opening...just another day in the life of a female of the 1960's trapped in some way by the constraints of fabric, elastic and lace; worshipped, yet deemed too fragile to compete in a man’s world.

On top of that, Pete looks like an absolute imbecile throughout most of the episode. Who doesn’t love to see that?