1x10 Long Weekend - Mad Men Episode Guide

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Episode: 01x10
Title: Long Weekend
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: N/A
First Aired: Sep. 27, 2007

Season 1 » Episode #10 - Long Weekend

Summary: Don is distraught about losing an important account, so Roger, stuck in the city on Labor Day, tries to cheer him up; Joan and her roommate paint the town.

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Guest Stars:

Mona Sterling	played by Talia Balsam
Gene Driscoll	played by Ryan Cutrona
Abraham Menken	played by Allan Miller
Carol McCardy	played by Kate Norby
Margaret Sterling	played by Elizabeth Rice
Mirabelle Ames	played by Alexis Stier
Eleanor Ames	played by Megan Stier
Franklin Newcomb	played by John Walcutt
Twin #1	played by Jennifer Fouts

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Episode Quotes

	Season 1 / Episode 10: - Long Weekend Pete Campbell: [watching JFK political ad] The President is a product. Don't forget that.
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - Long Weekend Roger Sterling: [to Joan] Are we actually gonna get in a fight over a movie? You know, Mona had a dream once where I hit the dog with the car. She was mad at me all day - and I never hit the dog. We don't even have a dog.

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TRIVIA

Several characters discuss the film The Apartment (1960) throughout this episode. The Apartment was directed and co-written by Billy Wilder; this episode's title is evocative of another Billy Wilder film title, The Lost Weekend (1945).
During his conversation with Joan about the movie The Apartment (1960), Roger (John Slattery) also mentions the movie Psycho (1960). Talia Balsam, who plays Roger's wife and is married to Slattery in real life, is the daughter of Martin Balsam, who plays Detective Milton Arbogast in Psycho.
Joan strongly identifies with the Shirley MacLaine character Fran in The Apartment (1960). Fran is an elevator operator, and, like Joan, is an employee at a large New York corporation who is having an affair with her married boss. Toward the end of this episode, after Joan has helped Bertram Cooper send out telegrams announcing Roger's heart attack, Cooper and Joan leave the office together and he asks Joan to push the elevator button for him, making Joan (temporarily) into an elevator operator and drawing another connection between the characters of Fran and Joan.