'Mad
Men' Episode 5
Recap: Can
Anyone Take Orders Around Here?
“This is Scout. He can
Take anything but an order.”
Lou Avery’s “Scout’s Ho**r” cartoon, discovered by Stan at the SC&P copy machine, may certify Lou as the ultimate fuddy-duddy to ever grace the ad firm’s Gotham ******s. But, what the cartoon — and its caption, specifically — really accomplished was setting the mood for the entire
Episode of “The Runaways,”
Mad Men’s fifth
Episode in its final season.
See Also: 'Mad Men' Episode 4 Recap: Don and Roger Battle Computers and Hippies
Who is bucking authority in
Mad Men*this season? Who can't
Take orders? In “The Runaways,” Lou’s employees at SC&P routinely make their boss the butt of jokes; Betty refuses to fall in line as the silent politician’s wife and fights with her husband, Henry; Sally continues to snap at Betty and Betty’s maternal values, defiantly distancing herself from her mother; Megan fails to follow Don’s instructions when a pregnant Stephanie arrives on her doorstep; and, of course, Don continues to outwit the SC&P powers that be (Cutler and Lou, in particular), who are hellbent on seeing Don’s demise.
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