The Return of the Teacher
I am not sure what future Matt Weiner has planned for Don and his teacher, but if he wants to bring her back at some time in the next few years, he has a perfectly good and plausible excuse. There is a very good chance that Bobby will be in her class some day. I can't remember what grade she teaches, but I can certainly imagine Bobby telling his father some night at dinner(assuming Don asks him how school went that day) "I'm going to have Miss Farrell for my teacher next year. Sally says she is really nice." The parent/teacher conferences will take on a whole new meaning.
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Eeewww...good point, zerelda. It's going to get very sticky and tension-filled if Suzanne does not put some geographical distance between herself and Ossining.
I've wondered why a young single teacher like herself is teaching at a school in a family-type suburb. Wouldn't there be more single people (men) in the city? Although some don't agree, I think she's got enough good looks to find herself a suitable, non-married man. But if she's stuck in the suburbs where the majority are families, she needs to request a transfer to a more metropolitan area.
I've wondered what (if any) moves she's taken to "go where the single men are." Church? (Since this was 1963 when church/synagogue was part of many if not most folks' lives). Join a "hiking club?" Anything. We don't know if she's even tried to meet single men.
I hope her and her brother disappear. What a pathetic storyline.
"I'm sure 'Suzanne', 'tension', 'sticky', and 'Eeeeww', have all been used in the same sentence in this industry before." Roger Sterling
“I’m sure ‘Suzanne’, ‘tension’, ‘sticky’ and ‘Eeewww’ have all been used in the same sentence in this industry before.” Roger Sterling
Not too hard to figure why she's there. It's a job, probably paying more for less work than NYC. Additionally, it's a train ride from NYC, including Greenwich Village. Plenty of people to meet there every evening. Just have to be Cinderella and catch the last train home.
OMG - Suzanne's visiting the Village and goes to the experimental theater organized by Midge's boyfriend/husband(?) Roy. Or, being the creative, imaginative type, she writes a play for it. Things quite open there, she meets Midge and they get to talking. "Ossining? I once knew an advertising man who lived out there..." "Oh, you've met Don Draper?"
Maybe she catches the train to and from NYC and barhops and one of her pickups will bump her off ("Looking for Mr. Goodbar") ~~ and Don will read an article in his morning newspaper about a school teacher getting murdered in the not too distant future!
Greetings, SCfan. ;o) That school teacher is a strange one isn't she? I thought she was a stalker when she showed up on the train, but yet she is okay when Don calls it off. I can't seem to figure out where MW is going with this story line?
That teacher will be jogging past Don's and Betty's house now. That icky brother of hers will be calling and pestering Don. Unfortunately, we haven't seen the last of those two.
Hi Drink! You shouldn't be such a stranger! (something tells me you've been a'lurkin' to avoid all the fireworks on this forum lately) can't blame ya.
Well, "Colonel Obelzer", are you brushing up your Classic Christmas tree story to tell us all in a few months?
ha ha
You know me too well, SCfan. ;o) Yes, the blog "has been a blazin'" (as Colonel Obelzer would say) and I've decided to stay clear of the flames. When did troll season start? I've sure gotten a lot of mileage off of that classic 1960's Christmas tree story. I'll have to post it for those who survive troll season.
Hi Drink&Smoke!
I agree with SC...we need to see more of you!!
Please share the Christmas tree story again!
Maybe the trolls will turn into elves?
SCfan: I think you are on to something with your reference to "Mr. Goodbar." I suspected that Suzanne did not want to meet an eligible man, get married and have kids possibly afflicted with birth defects like her brother. The teacher in "Looking for Mr. Goodbar," who did not want to pass her birth defect on to future children went cruising in bars. Being a teacher is their substitute for being a mother.
I think she is taking off, and Don/Dick is going with her...
Take5, scary! When I read the Zerelda's post I was going to post your words exactly. Happy Halloween.
PanAm53, Love Love Love the Mr. Goodbar reference. Very, very.
Also, when Don picked up Suzanne when she was jogging, a news report about the "career girl murders" was being broadcast, perhaps foreshadowing Suzanne's demise.
Hey 60's child, good to see you too. ;o) You think Don is going to run off with Suzanne? If she cooks better than Betty, he might just do that. Cheers.
That's happened to me before too, Deep Dish...whole phrases posted just as I would have. "Mr. Goodbar" reference was chilling indeed. ( We're past Halloween; I hope that means Suzanne has escaped a scary fate (!)).
Looking forward to tonight...!
@Polar Bear: Yes indeed. That sentence is often used by Paul Kinsey late at night in his SC office when he's looking for inspiration. It goes like this:
" Oh, I'm so tension-filled trying to beat (!)
Peggy on this Western Union idea...beat
Peggy, beat Peggy...beat...Eeewww...sticky.
Oh Suzanna!"
(Then writing furiously: "Oh
Suzanna! Oh Suzanna! Oh Suzanna! Oh!...)
The night maid found that phrase scribbled
furiously over and over on both sides of a piece of paper (a la "Jack Nicholson's "ouvre" in "The Shining,") and she threw it away as Paul slept on peacefully.
Hi Drink&Smoke!
Thank you!
Well, we can only hope Suzanne lets Don have salt!
You can tell Don likes Suzanne's cooking (i.e. the slice of nut bread). She's the only one of Don's women that looks like she knows her way around the kitchen.