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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes -- Peggy and the Exam

I reviewed the first episode again for the third time and still picked up on things I had not before. One was towards the end of the show when Peggy goes to get an exam for birth control pills. As the doctor was talking to her she happened to look over at the calendar and it was March. That night she had a go-around with Pete -- the pills don't work that fast! There are thirteen episodes and if she saw that it was March and delivered in November. Well you do the math. I love a good mystery. It takes delicious writing to try to speculate on the events that have happened and the events to come.

Posted by Phoebe
April 23, 2008 11:54am

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By Clayton Neuman on April 23, 2008 12:27 PM

Patricia,

Perhaps Peggy got the exam at the beginning of March, and delivered end of November. Either that or delivered a month early?

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By MM on April 23, 2008 9:27 PM

Anagramatically Yours...

As our favorite protagonist is introduced in episode one, Donald Draper's inner character and outward disposition is revealed quite clearly anagramatically in the episode's title:

"Smoke get's in your eyes" = "Seeker, yet misogynous"

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-MM