It's been a long time, but I think it was Betty who slapped Helen?
I'll add: when Betty shoved Don and he shoved her right back.

The rape scene was mucho shocking, I thought....

You guys' choices are great...

I think it was Betty who slapped Helen too.

In no particular order and from both seasons:

10) Betty shooting the birds (good one, Nancy!)
9) Joan telling Roger that she knows men like he knows advertising, and the sneaking around is his favorite part
8) Roger telling Pete he can stay at SC because of "Don's largesse" even though he's totally lying about it
7) Bobby asking Don in the middle of the night why lightning bugs light up when Don is expecting a more serious question
6) Minor details that show that we are more concerned with child safety today - Sally walking around with a plastic bag on her head, the kids playing around in the car while Betty's driving, etc.
5) Joan acting tactfully when her roommate Carol tells her how much she loves her
4) Peggy's successful lipstick copy
3) Don visiting Peggy in the hospital and saying "This never heppened. It will shock you how much it never happened". This is soooo Don Draper.
2) Kurt frankly declaring his homosexuality in an environment where so many people are secretive and repressed.
1) Don saying "I don't have a contract" to Duck.

Good ones! I went back and forth about who slapped whom in the store. I like the idea of Betty slapping Helen better.

Other ones I thought of:

- Betty calling the number on the phone bill and learning it's her doctor
- Sally asking Paul if he gets on top of his girlfriend
- "Mona! Your wife's name is Mona!" (my favorite line -- tied with "My people are Nordic")
- Pete showing up at Peggy's door.
- Duck putting Chauncey outside.
- Freddy peeing himself.
- Pete waxing romantic about killing bear.

Great ones, guys!

also:

Sally telling Joan she has "big ones" (like her mommy has)....!

and Don telling Midge's boyfriend after the pot party(when told he can't leave --cops--)

"No....YOU can't leave..."

I still love Don's line, also to Midge's boyfriend (when asked how he sleeps at night) ~~

"On a bed made of money".... so perfectly "Don"!

Two intense scenes:

Dick Whitman switching the dog tags from the real Don Draper's burned, dead body. It was pretty explicit.

Don/Dick on the train, pretending not to see little Adam calling after him.

Everyone's scenes memories are great!

I cried and cried after that little Adam scene, Mambo....esp. when no one believed him....

Also, when thinking back on that dog tag scene, it seems like it was kind of spur of the moment and not thought about much....he just saw the opportunity and took it....

.....How about Don hurling Bobby's robot at the wall. That one almost made me fall off the couch because it was so unexpected.

I absolutely could NOT believe that Midge didn't bother to check if someone was standing right below the falling television, before pushing it over the ledge. She could have killed people!

And Don decking Jimmy Barrett in the underground casino.

And.....you forgot the one most shocking scene of all, I think, and I hate even bringing it up.....

You know the one. In the lounge.

With Don and Bobbie Barrett.

.....Those aren't favorites, just some of the most shocking.

I agree about the dog tag scene, and hadn't remembered it as being that explicit. I was freaking out when the chain scraped across the real Draper's unrecognizable face, and wondered why Dick didn't just break it, instead.

1-Pete whining "Hells bells, Trudy!"

2-Peggy saying :"is this really happening???" when she was told she got a promotion

3-Don telling Peggy "you sound like a valedictorian" (when she defined the word "rejuvenate" during the Relaxacizer copy presentation) and Don stealing her stuff when he gave the definition of "nostalgia" to the Kodak people.

4-Don looking at the Polaroid and telling Midge "you guys are in love."

5- Don giving his name as Tilden Katz. hehe

6-Pete explaining intently what a "Chip and Dip" is. hehe

7-Don telling Peggy "you have to move forward."

8-Anna telling Don "look at you! You're in the lavendar haze!"

9-Pete pitching the chicken out the window

10-Adam insisting :"That was Dick! I saw him!"

My top ten Roger lines:

1) When God shuts a door he opens a dress
2) Let's go fire someone!
3) Crab, Duck, Duck, Crab
4) You are now head of Television (giving the sign of the cross over Harry)
5) Mirabell, Mirabell!!
6) You are the finest piece of ass I have ever known and it's been an honor to roam those hills.
7) This is Mike Moneybags, I'm Dick Dollars
8) God, I miss the 50's
9) We want to be the kind of organization that everyone has a summer home.
10) I guess l'll have one more drink for the road.

Did I miss any other good Roger lines?

.....No one has mentioned the one where Roger is talking to Draper about Jimmy Barrett, saying something like.....

"No one knows how much that nut means to Utz, and how much Utz means to us."

.....or something very similar. Did anyone else catch that? It wasn't quite as brilliant as "Crab, Duck - Duck, Crab," but it was pretty funny.

As to D&S's #6, I was watching the IMDb vid clips that SCfan posted a while ago, and in one of them Matt mentioned how much more explicit many of these lines were originally written.

He cited that one about Roger and Joan, and said that it had been toned down CONSIDERABLY, presumably for basic cable, as opposed to HBO where The Sopranos, in all its profane glory, first aired.

Man, would I love to get my hands on those original write-ups, or whatever you call them.

Someone should do a post about the OTHER Mad Men, the one that COULD have been on HBO or SHO, with all that goes with being on pay cable.

Joan's rape
Roger leaving Mona for Jane
Pete throwing the chicken out the window
Don and Betty shoving each other
Betty having sex with the handsome stranger in the bar
Sally smoking in the bathroom
Don showing up at Peggy's hospital bedside
Betty's father groping her

I must say, SC, I wouldn't call Dick's decision to switch dog tags spur of the moment; how many of us would actually do that? Maybe if you found some tags lying on the ground, but to steal them off a body (I don't know anything about the military, but that's probably grounds for court martial). I think the dog tag scene needed to be so graphic to show how far Dick would go; he basically has no line he won't cross.

Hahaha I love these!! I'd forgotten all of Roger's great lines! One more:

Don and Roger are talking and Pete joins and says, "Did I miss anything?" to which Roger responds, "No, Don and I talk all the time while you're not around."

....AND, he called Pete "Paul!"

Deliberately!!

I'd love to see a video montage of great Roger lines! How about when Pete was decking Ken and Roger calmly says to Don, "Are you taking the train?"

Mambo...well, maybe the blast jarred his brain just enough so that he was bolder than he normally would have been....??

I can see your reasoning there though.