He's an escapist in a lot of ways." The diagnosis: A deep-down narcissist who may never change. "Don definitely meets the clinical description of narcissistic personality disorder — grandiosity, lack of empathy, and obsession with one's own power. It's an extreme form of egocentrism.

Over the years we've seen Don Draper's first wife endure philandering, divorce, massive weight gain, a thyroid cancer scare, and advances from creepy neighbor-kid Glenn, but this episode creator Matthew Weiner really let the chilly chain-smoking suburban mom have it: She has metastatic lung cancer, with at the very ...

Don is Sterling Cooper's golden boy. After threatening to leave, his annual salary jumped from about $35,000 per year to around $45,000. Plus, he became a partner.

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.