Look who we found lurking in Palm Springs: Foo Dog! He was hanging out in the eccentric desert palace of the ‘Jet Set.’

A writer and former lackey at a hip furniture store, Johnny Dale,  snagged the image and sent it over with these thoughts about the Old Money / New Money / No Money voids Don finds himself in:

Pointless conjecture: Cooper’s office is blatantly Japanese themed; could the appearance of the Foo Dog here be intended to draw a parallel between Cooper and the menacing Felliniesque aristocrats of this episode?

And if so, what? I guess a case could be made that Cooper is the show’s representation of idly bohemian Old Money, in which case he certainly has a lot in common with Joy’s family and friends, and this Foo Dog would be a reminder to Don that no matter how high he rises in the world he’ll always be New Money, a low-born man who made his fortune by working.

I don’t actually believe that the placement of the Foo Dog was that intentional, though…I’m sure the real reason is that someone said “We need something for this shelf”.

What pretty shelves, though.