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  • Go bang your head against the wall

  • Betty is so immature that it's disgusting.

  • My favorite is when she catches Sally with a dry cleaning bag over her head and warns her that she better not see the dress it was wrapped in on the floor. . .

  • She's the most interesting character on the show.

    If you honestly think she can be summed up as just "bitch" you're not who this show is meant for.

  • This is slightly similar as to how I was raised.

  • She's a beautfiul young woman that gave up everything to be a housewife and is unhappy and frustrated. It looks to me that she resents her kids for that. It's a perfect portrayal of how many women during that era and still today feel.  She reminds me so much of my mother when I was a child and all she did was stay home all day.

  • why everybody hates betty? i think the character is very vivid and interesting, she played the role vary good, and i like her expressions

  • Bitch needs punishment. I hope Don sends her to bitch school in the next season. Maybe bend her over a counter and show her who is boss.

  • my mom makes look betty as a saint! =( lol

  • As this show progresses she turns more and more into a bitch. and not only that but acts more childish, and crazy. I hate her now... but damn she's still sexy..

  • At the end of Season 3, Don is right when he says the kids would be better off with him.

  • I hate Betty.

    

  • GOD, BOBBY!

  • I used to be told to go upstairs but we live in a single story house. I was so confused

  • lmao "go bang your head against the wall." betty is my favourite hot mess on the show next to roger of course. they should have gotten together!

  • GO BANG YOUR HEAD AGAINST A WALL

  • She has her ups and her downs, but the episode where she ends shooting the birds just rocks.

  • 0:40 don then throws the toy against the wall.. epic

  • Its okay for Betty to be a bitch because she looks like Grace Kelly :D

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  • A baby raising babies...:/

  • Idc I still love her hahah

  • Love this nutty Barbie Doll of a wife. Can I have a piece of your hair Betty? Lol.

  • @cinerama62 LOL

  • season 4 would fill a video all by itself

  • Betty Draper is uncannily like my mother. Minus the 60s hairdo.

  • Where's "Don't lie to me or I'll cut your fingers off?" LOL

  • Kinda reminds me of my childhood....

  • Betty's an old rag that never stops complaining about how no one ever helps her, does anything, or is as smart as her. Which is why she's in route to her second divorce.

  • @CaesarRojo I'm worried I'll turn out to be as bitter as her. I often feel just completely let down by people. They may not have even done anything to deserve it. It causes me to seclude myself. I would really like to understand the root of why I feel this way. I can't keep a man, and I have not a single friend.

  • @TheNilesEdge try webmd.com

  • @TheNilesEdge aww come on, i feel like that way sometimes too but keep positive and do nice things because you lke to do them and not because your looking for something (friendship or other) and youll realize that there are lots of good people out there that would love to be your friend

  • @TheNilesEdge As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. You can't keep a man. You don't have a single friend. So What.

  • She's not that bad - my mum's used the freeze line on me a million times when I've tried to run away from the table "Freeze sunshine" - being her preferred statement.

  • lol.. this is great!

  • I wish my mother was that nice!

  • She reminds me of my ex-girlfriend...beautiful but a bitch. Now i'm dating a cute girl who's nice.

  • @Luchik44 shouldnt the fact that shes nice make her more attractive? Men....

  • What a fascinating character...

  • I dunno hasn't everyone heard that tone from their mom a lot in their lifetime? It's not like she neglects them... I think?

  • @panakuken True on top of it, he was terrible at taking care of them the day that Sally wanted to run away.

  • dunno if she's worse than don, whose video would be mostly absent

  • In season 4, Betty slapped Sally for cutting her hair. Too bad it wasn't included.

  • BETTY YOU ARE MY INSPIRATION! I CAN ONLY HOPE AND PRAY I'LL BE AS GOOD A MOTHER AS YOU SOMEDAY, SOMEDAY!

  • I've always loved the way she talks to Sally and Bobby. It is cold, but there is a charm to it

  • That NOT awkward moment when the two top comments are the same.

  • BETTY IS A BITCH. SHES IS A UNGRATEFUL DEPRESSED HOUSEWIFE... she reminds of my mom!

  • @ThePackerboy12 But she's hot.

  • I never liked Betty! 

  • love the older comments about her not being abusive. she slaps Sally and threatens to cut her fingers off in season 4. Don't think you can say she isn't anymore

  • This is one aspect of the show I have trouble watching. I know so many children from that era now all grown up with serious problems from neglectful and young parents who weren't ready for children but had them for societal reasons.

  • I guess the difference is that Don didn't love his upbringing and seems to want better for his kids...even though he doesn't really do much to make it better...that's why he married Betty. A woman who should have been a much better mother however Betty is still in denial about her own abusive upbringing and continuing the cycle of emotional abuse with her own kids. It's a very interesting character even though I dislike her immensely, I'm starting to understand her more.

  • I LOVE Betty. I don't know if I would have wanted her as my own mother, lol, but I think she portrays the way many mothers probably saw parenting at the time. Even my own grandmother was probably like that with my father and his siblings. I'm very anxious to see how her character changes through the entire show until the end.

  • @IceQueen625 Me too! I think Betty will turn out to be with the women's movement eventually. She's such a divisive character and I think it's b/c people realize that there's a lot of truth to her boredom and frustration as a parent, for the 60s and now. Child-rearing isn't the glamourous fun times people think, it's often painful and difficult, hence the personal attacks on this board. Sigh......humans.

  • GO UPSTAIRS.

  • Betty's a good cook, too!

  • LMFAO. Love this show. Now that's parenting. Bored? Go bang your head against the wall. I should be taking notes.

  • SALLY LOOKS FAT ^^

  • I love her,

    Don is the bad parent! he's never at home,he never stays with kids, and cheated on Betty so many times

  • @orbit3386 OMG - i hope you're kidding. This lady is an immature, twisted, repressed woman who was not ready to have children. Though many people were raised this way - many people also had Father

    's like Joe Jackson - both unaaceptable styles of parenting. Don is not involved and has sex with other women - guess who his children prefer. The time he spends with them he is loving and understanding. Betty is always angry and frustrated - like the kids are getting in the way of her life.

  • @orbit3386 Betty is a great mother--love her!

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  • this is not bad parenting, it is giving your kids air to breathe and letting them finding things out for themselves, These days u can't do anything without some kind of nanny state restricting you .

  • @navigator7005 YES! I am so sick of being told by so-called 'experts,' these jerk-offs with multiple degrees how to think, what to feel, what to believe, how to act, what will or will not affect my kid. Oh really, I guess they have crystal balls too? You never know just how kids will turn out even with decent love and guidance. It's all so damn chancy yet society always blames the mother for EVERYTHING while a brass band plays if a man changes just one diaper. F that!

  • guys like her. girls don't. plain & simple.

  • Betty Draper reminds me of the stories my used to tell me about my grandmother when she was a child.

  • Im glad im not the only one that notices how awful she is at being a mother. Everytime her kids do something wrong shell be like "go watch tv" or "go play with bobby".

  • I used to like her and feel sorry for her back in season 1. Now that I'm starting season 3, I'm really starting to dislike her..

  • "Bobby, Sally. Go upstairs." LOL

  • haha nice opening.....I got a hate/sympathy relationship with Betty

  • xD that scene with the gun was so random... and so priceless...

  • She's HORRIBLE. Could there be any better character for this show? Love it! Now go to your room.

  • God, I love Betty. We need a Betty Francis spin-off.

  • Heck, reminds me of my mom.

    "...and STAY outside until I call you for dinner!"

    Ah, the 60s.

  • how come henry francis cant smell what a bitch she is

  • @mystwoman Lol, he will soon enough. Hes just getting it out of his system....

  • Bahaha! This is pretty much exactly how my mom always was! She used to tell us she was on vacation in Hawaii in her mind so she couldn't see or hear us and we weren't allowed to be in the same room as her. And people keep asking me why I don't have any kids!

  • I'll take her up stairs...hell I'll take her anywhere..

  • My nan was like this and my mum was too, and I guess in a small way so am I so I can totally understand this.

  • This is so the Mom I would be, but that's why I'm not having kids

  • She's HOT

  • this missed the best clip when sally was in a dry-cleaning bag and betty was only worried about the clothes being dumped out... other than that, hysterical

  • @beeltea

    I think that was to highlight that people weren't worried about that sort of stuff back then. There was also an episode where she leaves trash on the ground following a picnic.

  • @beeltea Hah, we're playing Spaceman! When I was a littlun I remember my mom telling me to stay away from dry cleaning bags, presumably because little kids were suffocating themselves. I wonder how often that actually happened or if it was more an urban myth thing.

  • don't forget the time when she slaps sally for cutting her hair...

  • @stuckdale

    Slapping your kids was socially acceptable at the time. In one of the earliest episodes (at Sally's birthday party), one of the neighbors slaps another man's son for running through the house too fast and breaking a glass (and the father orders the kid to apologize).

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  • I liked her character in Season 1. But every other season she sucks....

  • Reminds me of my mother.

  • I love the time when Sally is playing and wearing a plastic bag from the dry cleaners and Betty is merely concerned that the clothes the bag was in aren't on the floor.

  • She is really cute.

  • All I've seen is season one but Betty Draper seems to be intended as a deconstruction of the ideal 50's housewife. She is beautiful, loyal, submissive, takes care of her children(in a way that was appropriate for the time) and does not nag or question her husband. She is also a walking shitstorm of psychological problems because of how she was raised and lives. Just my interpretation.

  • You mean this isn't how our parents are now??? I thought it was, except i found Betty to be kinder...

  • That parents were ABOVE kids and In charge. They still are but are stymied by a corrupt system and culture that has disempowered them. There are real limits and if parents don't set them, society will and we all pay the price. I'm truly sick of all the narcissistic brats out there today.

  • Tucsonia - exactly! We have lost sight od the fact

  • she's so so so fit

  • Parenting was usually like this in America at that time period. Parents were the bosses of their kids and didn't try to be their friends, and even sometimes (shudder!) were known to spank their children. I was a product of that era of parenting and I (for the most part) didn't come out messed up because of it; us kids learned that we had to live amongst others and that there were limits to individual behavior. Beats the hell (pun intended) out of today's overindulgent parenting.

  • @tucsonia True that!

  • she cannot act

  • @anThononyian

    It's what makes her so perfect for the role!

  • i find her parenting approach honest. no one really cares that shes not fake and smiley with them. i dont find her children amusing at all. i would be just as annoyed.

  • @hopejustice Sally Draper is one of the most charming characters on the show

  • FREEZE.

  • that's right blondie, tell those kiddies to f**k off will fix all your problems...

  • Love the blonde one.

  • I don't think anyone was happy then. My relatives talk about how much more affordable everything was, but only if you followed the instructions and rules that someone else set up. The rules weren't for everyone, and people were pretty miserable and feeling trapped. I asked my aunt how people coped, and she said, "We drank."

  • @RLviddy we still cope the same way, baby

  • @RLviddy Yeah, judging from the amount of smoking and drinking I've witnessed in just the PILOT, I decided that the 60s for these people were not a happy time LOL

  • ...and the parent of the year award goes to...

  • "Go watch TV."

    *kid watches TV*

    "Stop that!"

  • The new Mommy Dearest.

  • "Sally looks Fat.."

    God, What a horrible thing to say about your daughter.

    "Go bang your head against the wall."

    Yes, Mother..But first. Can I bang your head against the wall? >.>

    "I dont care what they do when their up there. I just like a few hour's of quiet.."

    Well, good for you for not careing what your children do.. No wonder your daughter and son can hardly stand you >.> I wasn't supprised Sally wanted to go live with her father.

  • "Go bang your head against the wall."

    Yes Betty, I will do so GLADLY.

  • She's a lousy actress. Glad she's been relegated to the back burner.

  • The thing is, all thing no-smoking no-drinking no-corporal punishment no-shouting parenting sounds like a really lovely idea, but my mother was smoking a pack a day, drinking while she was pregnant with me, she used to smack me if I did something really wrong, but in a cruel way, she used to shout sometimes too, and I am not running around shooting people or anything, Im perfectly fine. The great thing about cpl. punishment its done and finished. No holding grudges for a week afterwards.

  • @MatthewDavidParr

    My ma was raised like that too. But when my ma raised me, she tell us to do something, once and we responded quickly and did it.. Thank god I turned out good.

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  • i don't know why betty can't smile at her children more often... doesn't she know how beautiful she looks when she does that?

  • @hollywoodshopaholic You know that Betty is a fictional character, right? 

  • @KraftwithaK seriously? i had no idea! i thought this was a reality show!!... i was just trying to say betty never smiles but she's really pretty when she does

  • haha its a great show and heck i love this blonde xD Draper is duche for leaving her

  • Typical 'north american' parents in the 60's, but just as universal

    in todays generation.

  • lol perfect ending

  • Haha you should have had the time when Sallie was wearing a huge plastic bag over her head and all Betty said was "the clothes from that dry cleaning bag better not be thrown on my floor!"

    Not to mention all the drinking and smoking while pregnant.

  • @Sei1863

    haha - i remember that. they were playing "Spaceman"

  • I don't think Betty is a bad mother, she's just human. People baby their kids far to much these days and by doing that they create these completely selfish, overly sensitive brats that don't move out of home till their 30's.

  • @juzzy666 I would hate to be your children, if u think betty's parenting is ok.

  • @juzzy666 Actually it’s a commonly held belief among developmental psychologists that constantly discouraging your children from acting like children when they are, in fact, children greatly inhibits the child's ability to discern their preferences for what they enjoy and/or are good at doing.

    Being cold and rejecting towards your kid’s natural inclinations creates a discrepancy in their mind regarding who they really are and who they are expected to be, leading to larger issues.

  • @criggs187 so very true!

  • I see nothing unorthodox about Betty's parenting as well. Most "MAD MEN" fans seemed to demand that she indulge her children 24/7.  Is this the idea of 21st parenthood?

  • @DRush76

    Sadly yes. I feel well and truly F'd because of it. I expected to actually be able to BE an adult and the pleasures/interests that come with it, instead not only do I have to be the authority figure but I have to 'entertain' her 24/7, pretend to "enjoy" those godawful bake sales and love horrible kids shows/music (that hideous Miley 'person,' or her peers, Selena something, Disney brats, et. al. BARF.) God forbid you actually have adult interests and want time to enjoy them.

  • What I find really interesting is things that she does like leave the house during nap time (when they are something like 5 and 8, much too old for naps!), or drive with them climbing all over the car, or lock Sally in the closet when she is misbehaving. It's a great combination of the parenting style of the time, and of her own skewed view of parenting (which I think is a commentary on the plight of the repressed 1950s American housewife). This show is brilliant!

  • What's wrong with her parenting? She's right, they'll get over it and if they don't then they are simply weak. Life doesn't stop because a child is upset.

    Haha just kidding. She's pretty cool though. Kudos to the writers.

  • This isn't bad. Shouldn't they be told off?

    "Go bang your head against a wall" is a proverb.

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  • the ironic thing is, Betty is just in reality a child playing house.

  • Haha, I hope kenp3L doesn't speak with that stick up his ass outside of making uptight comments on YouTube

  • i wish i could kick this bitch in the head

  • No matter how bad people may make her look, she still super hot.

  • I just feel sorry for her. If I had to live her life I'd be miserable too.

  • 1:03 Anyone with any familiarity with firearms knows that one cannot aim a rifle if one blocks the view of the sights with one's hand. This is not just the character acting. January Jones was not deliberately trying to make her character look like a fool. What we see is that she and anyone working on the set at the time are totally oblivious to the operation of firearms. Also, they have no understanding of people who own them.

  • @kenp3L

    Oh shut up.  Honestly.

  • @Gman256 wrote: "Oh shut up. Honestly."

    Well that settles it then, doesn't it? "I'm angry. You can't talk." Big baby.

  • @kenp3L

    Uhh..No.  You made this scene out to be some sort of gross act of negligence and offense against "people who own firearms". It's just a tv show. Stop being such a drama queen.

  • @Gman256 "negligence and offense" are your words, not mine. I would say that Jones and the set crew are simply oblivious to how one would aim a rifle. Again, I don't think they were deliberately trying to make Jones' character look like a fool. Further, if they have such a profound ignorance of guns, can they really understand those who own them? That's just my (undramatic) opinion. You should, of course, feel free to disagree with my opinion, but to tell me to "shut up" is wrong.

  • the part with the gun is the best

  • LOVE THIS BITCH.

  • The best one is not even in there

    "don't you dare or i'll cut your fingers off!"

  • I've been watching MadMen for years. Betty is getting a bad rap by everybody. Betty is sad, but not an abusive parent. She is honest, in the clip at dinner, Don is the one that grabs Bobby's toy robot and smashes it and then pushes Betty--all she was doing is expressing her frustration. If anybody's the abusive parent, it is Don by showing disrespect to Betty, their Mother. Betty has not been shown spanking the children. Betty is raising as best as she can. It's great TV.

  • @kennyt1230 when Sally cuts her hair she smacks her in the mouth.

  • @kennyt1230 You said it! I don't know why everyone is portraying her as the bad parent. What about Don, who is rarely there for the wife and kids? :-o

  • Honestly this video hardly exemplifies the worst of Betty's parenting if only because it's shown in such short clips you don't really know what is going on in the scenes. A parent saying 'go watch tv' or 'go upstairs' is nothing, all kids get told things like that. What makes Betty doing that bad is the moments she does it the kids are being emotionally neglected. 'Grandpa's just died go watch tv!' THAT is bad, not simply being told to go watch tv.

  • Everyone hates her but I feel desperately sorry for her. Her parenting is a product of the time and she's obviously depressed AND repressed.

  • @homeric85 I feel the same, I feel very sorry for her.

  • @homeric85 don't forget regressed. fucking child woman she is

  • @homeric85 that and, she never grew up- shes a child in a woman's body, and she constantly acts as such

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  • I wouldn't call it abusive parenting per say, it's just that the Betty Draper character is a childish, self centered idiot. An idiot put in charge of a child is never a good thing obviously.

  • Hahaha

  • Shooting the neighbours birds - priceless!

  • Bitchiness but not child abuse

  • People's reactions to Betty reflect more on themselves than on her. LOL . I say this because I feel bad for Betty. She's a flawed lady who needs more than a husband (checked out emotionally) and kids (draining). My own mother got more support emotionally and culturally when I was a kid in the 70s than I currently get AND less demands as a parent while I have more! How is that fair or doable? ITA with the comments about today's ridiculous parenting standards and the judgment of mothers.

  • I hate Betty, she's the most miserable character and a bad mother. She is too controlling over her children and the reason her daughter is seeing a psychiatrist is because she represses her, though this may be to do with the period in which this is set.

  • HILARIOUS and hurtful.

  • "Sally looks fat" lol

  • This is described as "pretty unorthodox" but I think it's the way a lot of kids in my generation were treated.

  • "Go bang your head against the wall."

    "Sally looks fat."

    A good parent would never say those two things.