1x01 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Mad Men Episode Guide

Mad Men

- Episode 01x01

Episode: 01x01 (pilot)
Title: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 101
First Aired: Jul. 19, 2007

Summary: Don battles to keep a big tobacco account for the agency whilst juggling his problematic love life.

	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Joan: Dr. Emerson's a dream, isn't he? Peggy: He seemed nice. Joan: He has a place in South Hampton. I'm not saying that I've seen it, but it's beautiful.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Pete Campbell: A man like you I'd follow into combat blindfolded, and I wouldn't be the first. Am I right, buddy? Don Draper: Let's take it a little slower. I don't want to wake up pregnant.

DATE: Secretary shown using an IBM Selectric II typewriter. The Selectric II was introduced in 1971. The show is set in 1960.
FACT: Lucky Strike was using the phrase "It's Toasted" prior to 1960.

One of the themes of this episode (and the first season) is the general atmosphere of anti-semitism that pervades the main characters' attitudes and lives. This is referred to both overtly, as when Draper tells Sterling that the firm has never hired a Jew "on my watch," and subtlety, as when the hors d'oeuvre served to Rachel Mencken at her first meeting is shrimp cocktail (shellfish is forbidden under Jewish dietary laws, but since nobody at Sterling Cooper has even rudimentary knowledge of Judaism, they obliviously serve Rachel shrimp anyway).