Ok, Betty all dressed up on her way to meet what's his name-Congress guy-help.

I predict Pete and Peggy will arrive at the office at the same time, getting on the elevator with Hollis. Pete will immediately notice Peggy is wearing the Hermes scarf she received from Duck, and Pete will be plenty steamed about it.

okay I haven't been close yet. here goes.. Don and Betty's kids hanging out with their Aunt and Uncle and cousins while Mom and Pop are away on vacation/buisness trip. Sally has done something to make one of her cousins cry and the situation is handled admirably by her Aunt. obscure, no chance this is why I never win

@BoyToy... psst... Henry Francis. Or as a friend of mine IRL likes to call him, "the belly toucher". Did Elisabeth Moss really live in your building for a while? Cool. OT but I actually live very very near the comedian David Cross ("Arrested Development"). Saw him once.

My prediction is for an opening scene featuring Joan somehow. Missed her last week.

Hi BoyToy...right... this is a left fielder...but I'd love it.
Don on a Manhattan street - flagging a cab- runs into Rachel Menkin Katz... they share the cab... (but we don't know what they say)

I would like to see Don run into Rachel again, too.

I don't like the teacher. I get stalker/psycho vibes from her. Like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.

I would like to see Don run into Rachel again, too.

I don't like the teacher. I get stalker/psycho vibes from her. Like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.

@Melba-Ya never know with this show! Sounds good-luv her w/him.
@blue-yeah, never got that prize I wanted for Racy for winning the 1st round :(

Room full of burning candles;
Music from Pagliacci playing loudly on the Hi-Fi; Dozens of photographs of Don taped to the walls; The back of someone's head sitting in a chair;
Cut to opening theme.

Betty in a hotel room in Santa Fe, NM. Don is in a business meeting with Conrad Hilton.

Peggy finds Chauncey in a dark alley. She sees by the tags that Chauncey belongs to Duck and has a reason to drop by Duck's house. Peggy and Duck play Duck, Duck, Goosed all night. Pete drops by Duck's house to tell him to leave Peggy alone - Peggy walks out of Duck's bedroom dressed in her Marilyn Monroe maidenform outfit. Pete has the same look on his face that Don had when he discovered Sal with the bellhop. Curtain down...... Cheers.

@Drink-as witty as you may be, this link is only for a real prediction of the opening scene. There is another link for goofy thoughts that would probably suit you. :)

@Drink&Smoke that sounds better for the end of an episode great idea

A wide shot of the SC offices half empty due to half the staff (and most senior managers) on vacation. And it's August (Betty refers to their 2 month old) so we're inching forwards in the year.

Anybody want to take a flyer on an exact date?

August 5 - Nuclear test ban treaty
August 7 - "Gidget Goes to Rome" released
August 8 - Great Train Robbery in England
August 18 - James Meredith graduates from U Miss
August 28 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his I Have A Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Pete was reading Ebony so there may be some civil rights background events

@Auburn Annie-so what is your opening shot prediction? That is what the thread is for. It's not Wikipedia!

don out for a morning jog - bring the looooove back to MM!

@boytoy: Actually, I have been right about the opening character, 5 weeks in a row. I just posted my predictions on the Open Thread. Okay, I'm due to get shot down in flames. My guess is that the scene will open at the SC offices, & either Moneypenney or Lane Pryce (Richard Harris's son! Played John Lennon in film 'The Two of Us'!) will be part of the opening. Or, else it will open w/ Don.

I have never posted any show or season predictions, but I will post some now: I have a feeling we will see a television playing in this episode, maybe see more of Harry. That's important. I agree w/ all of you, this is how Joan comes back to SC, maybe just in a temporary worker position in the TV Media Dept. She'll either be working w/ Harry, & she'll have to take over duties for him due to illness (or his wife or baby become ill), or Joan will come in as a temporary replacement for Harry (same reasons) up front. The British will be responsible for bringing Joan in as a temporary, & I believe it will be the British who promote her up. They will behave this way toward Joan based on her actions during the foot accident. Maybe she & Harry will be fighting it out the way Pete & Ken are (altho Ken either doesn't know it, or doesn't care.) Instead, I believe Joan will be brought in, once again, to "save the day", & will reap the rewards for it this time. Then her spouse will want her to quit (she'll be working too many hours, or something, & not be home to get his dinner, etc.)

Roger & Joan will be together again, & Joan will push Jane out. Maybe Jane will leave because of her drinking, or because she will fall for a younger guy. I think there's a good chance of that - Jane will divorce Roger, & they may not have a prenup. It's 1963, & she'd get their new house.

I think Roger will become ill again, & Jane won't be able to handle it, or it will happen when he's w/ Joan.

Either way, I think the British will bring Joan back & do what SC never did, give her the opportunity she so richly deserves.

@racy: your insight into this show is positively scary.

Is this the thread for our predictions? I mean, if I wanted to predict something for the opening scene of episode 8, is this where I do that? Just wanted to be sure.

Come on fifty-two, you know u want to. We won't laugh or judge, if you are willing to make such a scary guess! I know it's hard to go out on a limb and put your one cent in, instead of two, but you could win, we would be so proud of you!

It is the end of August and Pete is reading the paper , shocked at the news about the march on Washington.
" A thing like that"

Hey! BoyToy! Clean the ol' bifocals. First line of my entry reads:

A wide shot of the SC offices half empty due to half the staff (and most senior managers) on vacation.

Hello?? The offices at SC.

Auburn-- thanks for the August '63 dates. You never know when Weiner will use something for reference, do you?

I predict that the episode will open with Carla worrying to Betty about Sally's temper. And I have a bad, bad feeling that the Drapers shouldn't go out of town right now.

I'm goin' out on a limb, a very very weak limb....

We'll open with Joan at home with Dr. Rapist. He'll be lamenting that the new job she applied for won't pay enough and she has to get her old job back at SC.

Betty and Henry Francis at the Resevoir. Henry, striped down to his shorts, jacknives in. Betty, watching, scowls: "Eeewww...I have to drink that water."

TakeFive nice to see you! "Eeeww"... LOL! Bettys a champion scowler isn't she...

Who won? It was clearly August, I think we knew that b4 the airing, no big surprise there! But who was the opening scene?

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