Stephanie looks proud of what she apparently sees as a major breakthrough, and then after Don sends the kids off to pick the lemon tree in the backyard, Stephanie gives Don something from Anna -- her engagement ring from the real Don Draper. Don asks Stephanie if she doesn't want it, but Stephanie tells him that Anna wanted him to have it, and she wouldn't mess around with that; besides, she doesn't believe in marriage. Well, this episode is going to prove you wrong, missy! Stephanie goes on to say that she's not going back to school right away, and when Don asks what she's going to do, she says she doesn't know, which is the beauty of it -- she's got her whole life ahead of her. "So do you." The notary then knocks on the door, and when Stephanie goes to get it, Don takes another pensive look at the "Dick and Anna" painted in the corner. And hey, this is the part of the paragraph where a joke goes, but if you want me to make one you can't end the scene like that.
Don, Sally, and Bobby return to the pool, where they find Megan standing in the water next to Gene, who's sitting on the edge. Sally and Bobby tell Don to come in, unfazed that he's fully dressed, but Don begs off, saying he's beat...
...but, after sitting in his room for a while, staring into space...
...he appears in his bathing suit, cannonballs into the water, and starts playing with the kids. Some puppies and kittens then start frolicking by the side of the pool, which does nothing to increase the cuteness factor of the scene.
Later, Don and the older two kids are planning their line of attack for the Disneyland visit the next day when there's a knock at the door. Sally gets it, and it's Megan and her friend, "Camille," both dressed to go out, and Megan says she just wanted to check that he didn't need anything else. Don tells her he's fine, so after Camille, in a French accent, tells them they're going to the "Whiskey A Go Go," the two of them head out, with Don kind of pointedly watching them go. Bobby then, in what I'm sure is a first, gets the episode title by asking about visiting Tomorrowland, which I'll certainly admit is a better name than "Epcot Center," which is where I went when I was a kid. He adds that he doesn't want to ride an elephant but instead fly a jet, and Don wisely refrains from telling him how that might already have happened if he hadn't screwed the pooch with NAA.













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