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Pete CampbellPlayed by Vincent Kartheiser

Pete signed Mohawk Airlines and turned it over to Roger Sterling, thus effectively deposing Roger as Head of Accounts. Now living in the suburbs with Trudy and their child, Pete took a driver’s education class where he obsessed over a winsome teenage girl. In the wake of Charles Whitman’s shooting rampage at the University of Texas, Pete and Trudy threw a dinner party for Don, Megan and Ken and Cynthia Cosgrove, during which Pete felt emasculated when Don fixed their broken faucet. Pete found that his increasing success at the firm did not fill the emptiness of his life. After a chance encounter with a neighbor, Beth, he became obsessed with wanting to repeat the experience. The affair ended unhappily when Pete discovered Beth, a depressive, had forgotten him after undergoing electroshock therapy.

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Pete Campbell Quotes

“A man like you I’d follow into combat blindfolded, and I wouldn’t be the first. Am I right, buddy?”
Season 1, Episode 1: “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”

“I love you. I’m giving up my life to be with you, aren’t I?”
Season 1, Episode 1: “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”

“You know what? I have good ideas. In fact, I used to carry around a notebook and a pen, just to keep track. Direct marketing? I thought of that. It turned out it already existed, but I arrived at it independently. And then I come to this place, and you people tell me that I’m good with people, which is strange, because I’d never heard that before.”
Season 1, Episode 4: “New Amsterdam”

“You’re in the city now–it wouldn’t be a sin for us to see your legs. And if you pull your waist in a little bit, you might look like a woman.”
Season 1, Episode 4: “New Amsterdam”

Trudy: “I just don’t understand why the bear is talking.”
Pete: “The bear is not talking. It’s what the hunter imagines the bear to be thinking.”
Season 1, Episode 5: “5G”

“By the way…Matherton? He has the clap.”
Season 1, Episode 7: “Red in the Face”

“The president is a product. Don’t forget that.”
Season 1, Episode 10: “Long Weekend”

“What do people do? Is that what you would do?”
Season 2, Episode 2: “Flight 1″

“I’m a red-blooded American male!”
Season 2, Episode 4: “Three Sundays”

“Hell’s bells, Trudy!”
Season 2, Episode 12: “The Mountain King”

“If I’m going to die, I want to die in Manhattan.”
Season 2, Episode 13: “Meditations in an Emergency”

“Why does it have to be like this? Why can’t I get anything good all at once?”
Season 3, Episode 1: “Out of Town”

“My great-great-grandfather Silas Dyckman would have turned his boat around if he had known that the city would one day be filled with cry babies.”
Season 3, Episode 2: “Love Among the Ruins”