......Hi Helen Bishop....Glad you started this thread. Every episode, I find Sally more and more delightful and hilarious and honest and brave.

Whatever else anyone says about Betty clutching her ponytail and shoving her into the closet, I couldn't stop laughing at the way Sally fought back from behind the door.

First she met her mother's match in petulant anger, and then logically argued her position from inside a dark closet. No screaming, crying or self-pity. Sally is a survivor and a nurturer.

While I found the good-bye scene with her father in the Draper foyer really painful to watch, Sally, more often than not, at any given time, takes the bizarre goings-on around her in stride, and sometimes her reactions are completely amusing and comical. Like somewhere inside of Sally there is this tape playing that goes, "Every problem has a solution...."

I'm going to be really really sad if they have to replace Kiernan Shipka for an older actor in the next couple of seasons. She is fantastic and I'm sure we'll see more of her in the future.

Just thought of this and had to share:

The Salamander does not make a mean Bloody Mary. She makes a Light Day Mary.

:-)

i predict that in a few years Sally Draper will become a radical flower child of the late 60's and will reject the hypocrisy of their parent's lives! She will also embrace the Women's Movement, and become an enlightened woman of the 70's in spite of her mother!

Sally did not manipulate those boots out of Betty. Betty gave it to her out of GUILT. Parents do it all the time. My parents bought me expensive stuff when they felt they were being bad parents. (They weren't divorced though)

It's interesting that the little girl playing Sally has a large head. Physically. It's almost as big as her mother's. Anyone notice this? More "butting of heads" to come...

I don't know if anyone else noticed this, (and I may be on the wrong thread) but it seemed as if Peggy and Sally had a bit of crossover in this episode.

Sally snuck a cigarette and got caught, while Peggy snuck one in the office while no one else was there. From what I remember, I've never seen Peggy smoke.

Maybe the smoking was a metaphor for coming of age. Sally is growing up and realizing more adult things, such as how relationships work --or in the case of her parents DON'T work. On the other hand, Peggy is "growing up" and coming into her own at her job. She's changed her look, and even had the courage to ask Sterling for Freddy's old office.

Just my 2 cents...

Sally has brown eyes. It is genetically impossible to have a brown eyed baby with 2 blue eyed parents.

Don and Betty have blue eyes. Bobby has blue eyes. Sally has hazel eyes. Polly has the brown eyes in the family.

Sally is one good bartender, but we all know she can't handle her liquor. As an 8 year-old, where else is she going to get her cigarettes if she can't steal them from her Mom's purse? You have to admit, the child is resourceful! LOL Cheers ;o)

Sally is not the only kid in 50's and 60's to sneak a cigarette from their parents. I know a lot of kids who did it, including me!! Smoking was viewed as a cool grown-up thing, and it had a cetain mystery to it. When I was 8 years old, I remember sneaking one of my Dad's Lucky Strikes and going in the garage to smoke it. It made me deathly sick! My mom knew exactly what I had been up to and I got a good spanking for it.
I never did it again. Years later, however, when I was 17 (1965) I started smoking because everyone else was smoking and it was the "grown-up" thing to do. I thought I was very cool! We hung out at coffee houses, listened to radical poetry and smoked cigarettes! Very cool, indeed!
I finally quit years later.
Smoking did not have the stigma then that it does today. We have to remember that.

.....Well, I accidentally burned a big hole in the living room rug when I was 8. Very traumatic.

To this day, I still build a mean fire.

I think you're right, they are planning something for Sally in the future. She is a wonderful little actress.

And they have had scenes where something dramatic is happening between her parents and very subtly, they pause for a moment on her face to see how she's taking it in. They don't do this with Bobby.