Pete Campbell on Mad Men went from being a real dyckhead to a real one

[phillycavsfan]

In the beginning of the show he's the biggest little shyt in the office. Got Peggy pregnant and almost raped an au pair. But then he got his a$$ whooped by Lane Pryce and he starts redeeming himself.



Pretty much the only non-racist in the office, and a dude that (in the last few seasons) was always loyal to Don.

There's a lot of examples of characters going from good to bad but not the reverse.

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Pete had a really interesting arc. I think he became a better person as his parents died off. His dad died early in that plane crash and then his mom died fukking with Bob Barker's mans and em

This shyt still kills me everytime I think about it.

They foreshadowed Pete's opinions on race in the same episode. Him and Don watched Roger singing in blackface like and

Lane rolling his sleeves up on Pete and calling him 'a grimy little pimp' with Sterling, Don and Cooper watching like was classic though

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

In the beginning of the show he's the biggest little shyt in the office. Got Peggy pregnant and almost raped an au pair. But then he got his a$$ whooped by Lane Pryce and he starts redeeming himself.



Pretty much the only non-racist in the office, and a dude that (in the last few seasons) was always loyal to Don.

There's a lot of examples of characters going from good to bad but not the reverse.

Don never was shown to be racist IIRC. But yeah, I agree.

 

[jwinfield]

Pretty much the only non-racist in the office, and a dude that (in the last few seasons) was always loyal to Don.

Like @PlayerNinety_Nine said, Don and Pete were the only two people that wasn't feeling Roger in blackface. Don had the , left to go make an old fashioned and met Hilton, Pete had the .

First scene of the series is Don talking to an older black man about why he smokes Lucky Strikes, he gives the white manager the when he asks if the black guy is being a problem.

Lane rolling his sleeves up on Pete and calling him 'a grimy little pimp' with Sterling, Don and Cooper watching like was classic though

 

[Lootpack]

Pete is the one I sympathized with the most when it ended. Dude had a lot of unlikable qualities at the start, a fukkin slimeball he was really. But I liked how he changed for the better throughout the course of the show and became a lot more relatable towards the end. That personality glow-up was something crazy. It's one of the things I like about the show...people are complicated. You can be good, you can also be bad, and you can grow.

The nicer his personality got, the farther his hairline receded it seemed.

Harry Crane on the other hand...yikes. Dude got worse and worse. Breh was on his Weinstein type shyt.

 

[Tommy Fits]

Pete and Peggy had the two best character arcs on the show

 

[phillycavsfan]

Pete and Peggy had the two best character arcs on the show

I'm rewatching the series and I'm even more disgusted now that Don chose Megan over Dr. Miller.

 

[PortCityProphet]

Lane rolling his sleeves up on Pete and calling him 'a grimy little pimp' with Sterling, Don and Cooper watching like was classic though

I havent seen this show in years yet i still remember this scene.
Joint had me rollin

 

[GoldenGlove]

 

[MartyMcFly]

I mean..yeah sure props to Pete for that and his arc, but I can't call anyone a "real one" after getting knuckled up by an old ass man in front of everyone. Especially after said old man called him a grimy little pimp

 

[jwinfield]

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Because they were shooting on location, Slattery didn't want to wait on set in his blackface make-up, so he made sure he only headed over to shoot when they were ready to roll. Once they got the green light, they drove over. "And when I open the door to the van, and there's literally like a six-foot-six black motorcycle cop," Slattery remembered, noting the extras on set looking at him jaw-slacked, and Rich Sommer (Harry Crane) in particular.

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

I'm rewatching the series and I'm even more disgusted now that Don chose Megan over Dr. Miller.

Faye Miller would have peeled him back like an onion and he knew it. For a guy with as many secrets as Don, that was a situation in the long run. Megan was someone he thought he could run that Betty game on - put her in a doll house and keep feeding her dollars till her shyt started to make cents. Times had changed though - Megan was on some liberated shyt. It was a wrap when Don's age started to catch up with him.

Faye was right when she said that he only liked 'the beginning of things' too.

 

[Tommy Fits]

I'm rewatching the series and I'm even more disgusted now that Don chose Megan over Dr. Miller.

 

[Sterling Archer]

Pete and Peggy had the two best character arcs on the show

By far.

 

[jwinfield]

Faye Miller would have peeled him back like an onion and he knew it. For a guy with as many secrets as Don, that was a situation in the long run. Megan was someone he thought he could run that Betty game on - put her in a doll house and keep feeding her dollars till her shyt started to make cents. Times had changed though - Megan was on some liberated shyt. It was a wrap when Don's age started to catch up with him.

Faye was right when she said that he only liked 'the beginning of things' too.

Was reading somewhere that Don left Faye because she knew him, didn't she tell him early on that he was going to get married again?