Why did Ted leave Mad Men?

Ted just wants a pharmaceutical. Peggy wants to have a catch phrase. It's interesting to watch Don not be satisfied with their answers — yet they are. I also loved that scene between Ted and Don, where they're preparing to pitch SC&P West to McCann.
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Does Ted leave his wife for Peggy?

He shows up at her place and they sleep together, but despite his promise to leave his wife, it's Peggy he ends up leaving. Here's Your First Look at the Mad Men Season 7 Premiere!
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Why did Don Draper take a leave of absence?

While the new agency (rebranded Sterling Cooper & Partners, SC&P) was successful, at the end of Season 6, he was forced to take "a leave of absence" from the new firm because of his erratic behavior, which cost the firm a possible advertising account with Hershey Chocolate.
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Why does Peggy quit?

Towards the end of season five, Peggy accepts a job offer from another agency, CGC, and quits her job at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. However, following a merger between SCDP and CGC, Peggy finds herself working again with Don Draper.
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Does Don Draper get fired?

Lou told Jim they weren't going to get the Commander cigarettes account, with which they hoped to make big money while forcing Don to resign. That's when Jim decided to go ahead and get Don fired anyway, for breaching the humiliating agreement they forced him to sign when he came back to work.
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What happened Roger Sterling?

Roger is the last of the Sterlings, and now the family name won't even live on in the form of the company his father built. Even though Kevin is his son, his last name is Harris. He wisely decides to divide his estate between Ellery (his grandson) and Kevin.
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Does Don go back to McCann?

Peggy acts as a harbinger of Don's return to McCann and his winning of the Coke campaign during their phone conversation earlier in the episode when she tries to convince Don to return to his life in New York City.
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Is Gene Don's baby?

Eugene Scott “Gene” Draper is the youngest child of Don Draper and Betty Hofstadt.
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WHO adopted Peggy Olson's baby?

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Peggy reaches that level in Season 7, when she wins the Burger Chef account with a perfect pitch about the changing structure of families as America heads into the 1970s. She also reveals that she gave her baby up for adoption to Stan, a man with whom she has spent four seasons building intimacy.
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Why did Mad Men stop smoking?

Don Draper wrote a similarly high profile, stand-taking letter, "Why I'm Quitting Tobacco." It's the centerpiece of Episode 12 of Season 4, called "Blowing Smoke," in which Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce must come to grips with losing the Lucky Strike account.
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Is Mad Men based on a true story?

Full of day-drinking, chain-smoking, and extra-marital affairs, AMC's Mad Men is often accused of overplaying the more hedonistic aspects of 1960s advertising culture - but it was actually inspired by events from a real ad agency during the immortalized era.
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How many affairs did Don Draper have?

Don Draper may have had 3 wives in Mad Men, but that didn't stop Sterling Cooper's creative director from having affairs with 19 women in the series. Don Draper (Jon Hamm) had 19 mistresses throughout Mad Men's seven seasons, not counting his three wives.
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How many wives did Don Draper have?

Over the course of Madmen's run, Don Draper has two wives.
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Did Peggy and Don sleep together?

Her colleagues often assumed that she built her career by sleeping with Don, but they've never had that kind of relationship — thank goodness. And thank goodness that Matthew Weiner has stated they don't have intentions of turning Don and Peggy's relationship into a sexual one.
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Who does Peggy Olson end up with?

However, by the end of the series, Peggy finally finds her man. He just happens to be Stan, who has been right in front of her the whole time. The two finally get romantic at the very end, and it's what she deserves.
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What is Betty Draper's problem?

When she sees her doctor, Betty is shocked to discover that her recent lightheadedness is a sign of aggressive, advanced lung cancer that has begun to spread throughout her body.
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What happened Peggys son?

He tells Peggy to forget it ever happened, the significance of which is clarified when Peggy finally confronts Pete at the end of season 2. She informs Pete of their baby's existence, telling him she gave the child up for adoption.
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How old is Don Draper meant to be?

In the Mad Men season 2 premiere, "For Those Who Think Young," Don gets an insurance physical and his doctor advises him to adjust his current daily diet of two packs of cigarettes and five Old-Fashioned cocktails due to his 36 years of age.
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Do Betty and Henry get divorced?

Kennedy." Cooper dismissed it, saying, "This country was built and run by men with worse stories than whatever you've imagined here." Betty discovered the secret in season three, which, combined with Don's years of infidelity, spurred her to finally divorce him and marry Henry Francis.
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Why is Betty fat in season 5?

During the filming of the show, Jones became pregnant before season five. According to People, the show's creative team got around this in an inventive way. They put Jones in a fat suit and had a subplot revolving around Betty gaining weight.
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What happened Bobby Draper?

Bobbie has been reinstated into the Martian military and is now posted aboard the Xuesen.
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Was McCann Erickson real?

If you're familiar with the course of the AMC show's seven seasons, the last of which airs next Sunday, you know that the real-life 113-year-old advertising agency McCann Erickson has lingered throughout as a sort of menacing villain, either competing with or threatening to absorb Sterling Cooper, the scrappy and ...
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Why did Roger sell to McCann?

The sale was meant as a play by Roger to save Don's job and get rid of Jim Cutler, however after several months it was discovered by the partners, that as a subsidiary of McCann it cost too much to remain independent and would be dissolved into their parent company.
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What is the message in Mad Men?

It exposes the differing pressures men and women face daily due to their gender in the 60s and illustrates the difficulty the older generation faced in adapting to a seemingly youthful and volatile society. As well as demonstrating the power of acceptance be it in oneself or in one's circumstance.
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