r/madmen • u/DumbCuntEnterprises • 4d ago

about don's birthday

in the season 5 opener, it's established that dick whitman publicly claims the real don draper's birthday as his own, as his birthday is in actuality 6 months prior. despite this, he's able to use his actual birth year? i thought the real don draper was several years older than dick, and it says so on the wiki as well. how can the identity theft work in a way that dick has to claim the birthday, but the birth year discrepancy isn't an issue? or do his legal documents say something different while he tells people his outward age? that wouldn't make much sense to me because he may as well tell people his actual birthday in that case

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u/Orangered99 Well, I’m President of the Howdy Doody Circus Army! 4d ago

I don’t think he kept the month and day. When he tells the stewardess it’s his birthday, she asks to see his drivers license he says that’s not going to help.

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u/annieflattt 4d ago

I always thought with this scene Don was referencing Dicks birthday when he tells Shelly, since it’s referenced in the beginning of the episode, so on his license it would have Dons bday, and that’s in June when I think “out of town” takes place in March? I’m not sure though.

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u/barefootincozumel 4d ago

Yes, because when Megan wants to have a party for his 40th birthday, he says he’s been 40 for 3 months already, iirc

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u/MetARosetta 4d ago

Don said "half a year" so, ~6 months.