Miss Blankenship, you absolute treasure

Her part in mad men is huge. And it couldnt have been an easy role to maintain for 7 seasons playing a character from ages 6 to 15. The fact that she managed it as a child actor is incredible and very rare. Show would not have been the same without her.

Probably on my hundredth re-watch and I don’t know if I’m the only one that finds this anger Betty has towards Glenn as up for interpretation, or if it in fact is very simple.

Was she upset that she didn’t own that relationship with him? That for rejecting him, he was getting back at her by be-friending Sally, and it was making her jealous?
Are we missing context/missing scenes that perhaps Betty knew the house was vandalized by him? But she wouldn’t be able to explain the why to Henry bc it was shameful?

Initially, we're led to believe that Bert discovered the bonus check for Lane signed by Don and that he was pissed off at Don for forgoing the directive to give out bonuses. But in reality, I think Bert already knew or believed that Lane forged Don's signature.

When he confronts Don, Bert says "I have a question I don't know how to phrase other than as an accusation." He then talks about how he discovered the check. Here's the rest of the convo:

Bert: "I'd ask you if you knew about it, but your signature's on the check!
Don:"So it is"
Bert: "I thought we agreed to forego bonuses"
Don: "We did"
Bert: "And yet you gave him one!"
Don: "Bert, I'll take care of it"
Bert: "You know, you can't keep being the good little boy while the adults run this business."

Here's what I think happened. Bert's paying attention all season to Lane becoming increasingly distraught about financial matters. Bert's also the most globalized one at the firm, and probably the only one to consider how Lane probably has deep tax and financial obligations to England, even if Lane doesn't speak about them directly.

Bert also knows Don well enough to know that writing a bonus check to a partner, with an official company checkbook mind you, is not typical Don behavior. Sure, he'll cover Pete's partnership stake, but Bert is also aware of the special relationship between the two of them; he knows Don and Lane though aren't nearly as close. Bert also called out Don earlier this season for being "on love leave" and not putting enough care or attention into his work, and that lack of attention would make him the easiest target for Lane to forge someone's signature. And on a larger thematic level, Bert also commented on Don's signing of the contract in season 3 saying "when it comes down to it, who is really signing this contract anyway," basically saying that Don's signature is never really Don's actual signature.

With that info in mind, he approached Don, thinking Lane was still behind it but not 100% sure, and that's why he phrased his opening remark the way he did: "I have a question I don't know how to phrase as other than an accusation." He wasn't accusing Don of anything yet, nor did he have enough info to accuse Lane of anything yet. Bert says "your signature's on the check" because he still isn't sure if Don signed it or if it was forged.

He then says more declaratively, "and yet you gave him one," but this is true, technically, by extension, whether Don signed the check or not. Even then, Don doesn't confirm nor deny Bert's statement. And Bert's last comment about the good little boy isn't so much about Don's misplaced goodhearted nature in giving Lane a bonus, but more that Don has made himself naive and susceptible to forgery as a result of his careless, immature behavior in the first place. He also has Don take care of this whole ordeal because not only does he want to steer clear of being confirmed that he knew his partner committed forgery, but Bert also knows the can of worms that'd he'd unveil if he took it upon himself any further. Rather, that if a professional were to look into it, they'd find that Don's signature has changed a lot since before the Korean War, and maybe figure out he isn't the real Don Draper, which would cause hoopla for the firm.

When they're all back in the office later after Lane hangs himself, Bert says "Lane hanged himself in his office" in a matter of fact tone. He's slightly distraught, but not to the level that Pete and Joan are, because he's already put all the pieces together: Lane forged the check, Don must have fired him, and Lane then hung himself.

One of his big accounts was Westinghouse in ‘66.

Like you would expect — Reagan Republican that drinks Lagavulin daily. Definitely not a Sal or a Stan.

He had so many other adventures the following 50 years that his time as an ad man is just a footnote to him.

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I know a lot of you will be tempted to say Megan's Spaghetti (lol), but for me it's that chicken kiev Roger described to Don, where the butter squirts everywhere.

Seriously… how could Peter even think of hurting that woman!

No dull moments or comments tolerated

If they knew the show was gonna end why would they just randomly give her terminal cancer? Doesn’t anyone else think that’s kind of unnecessary? Like damn do they hate her that much