Midge’s best friend. Archie’s wife. Abe’s secretary.

S1E1 - Compares measurements with Midge, and expresses her excitement about seeing Joel perform.

S1E1 - Watches Joel bomb at the Gaslight

S1E2 - In exercise class with Midge, Imogene questions Midge about what happened with Joel, and reveals that he’s been staying with her and Archie.

S1E3 - Midge and Imogene take a stroll through central park, and Midge shares her concerns about Ethan’s strange behavior recently.

S1E4 - As Midge clears out her old apartment, nostalgic flashbacks: Archie, Imogene, Joel and Midge play charades, Archie and Imogene attend a new year’s party for 1956.

S1E4 - Joel mentions to Midge on the phone that he has his own apartment and is no longer staying with Archie and Imogene.

S1E5 - Archie calls Joel and Penny to let them know that he won’t be accompanying them to The Music Man (visually implied to be at Imogene’s behest).

S1E7 - Imogene visits Midge and helps her to pack the loot bags for Ethan’s birthday party. The two of them disturb Abe, who repeatedly gets Imogene’s name wrong.

S1E8 - Archie and Imogene attend Estelle’s birthday party at the fairground.

S2E2 - Imogene barges into Midge’s bathroom to find Susie in the tub. She has just got back from a trip to visit her family in Iowa, and is wondering why Midge hasn’t told her about getting back together with Joel, or Joel quitting his job, or Paris. Midge promises to explain in exercise class.

S2E4 - Rose asks if Imogene knows any men to set Midge up with, but Midge tells her she doesn’t.

S2E8 - Midge takes Imogene to the Stage Deli for a farewell lunch before going on tour.

S2E8 - Midge calls in to Imogene’s baby shower from Pennsylvania when she realizes that she got the dates mixed up and is missing it. Imogene is initially upset, but eventually forgives Midge.

S2E10 - Midge visits Imogene in the hospital right after Millicent’s birth. Later, Midge discusses the incident on stage, causing her to be kicked out.

S3E2 - Imogene attends exercise class with Midge before her tour, and is insecure about her supposed post-birth weight gain.

S3E6 - Imogene comes to the nearly-complete Button Club to tear Archie a new one for all the time he’s spent away from home.

S3E7 - Archie explains to Don how he’s been banished from his house at night and has been living with Joel at the factory.

S3E8 - On Joel’s request, Midge takes a walk with Imogene and pleads on Archie’s behalf. Imogene goes straight from this meeting to sign up for Katharine Gibbs School of Secretarial & Executive Training.

S3E8 - Imogene types in a class at Katharine Gibbs School of Secretarial & Executive Training.

S4E1 - At the club, Archie vents to Joel about life with Imogene, telling him that she bought a dog, is always away at secretarial school, and defused his attempts to talk with her by getting abruptly naked.

S4E2 - Imogene helps Midge move back into her old apartment.

S4E3 - Midge and Imogene hock tupperware.

S4E6 - Imogene shows off her typing skills to Abe, who is very impressed.

S4E7 - Imogene pops by the Wolford and meets Midge’s coworkers. She listens in as Gloria tips Midge off about a gig performing for Jackie Kennedy.

S4E8 - Archie and Imogene come to visit Moishe in hospital after his heart attack. Archie tells Joel that he blames himself for it, because of the bag of money that was stolen from him. Imogene is simply there to provide comfort for others.

S4E8 - Imogene comes to the Village Voice offices to help Abe with his typing. She clashes with Isobel, who used to do this, and sits in the background as Abe and Gabe try to secure an obituary for Moishe from the New York Times, and the team contemplates possible election outcome headlines.

S4E8 - When a call comes from the hospital late at night to the Village Voice offices, Isobel rouses Abe to tell him and Abe rouses Imogene to send her home.

S5E5 - (Flashforward) While visiting Joel in jail in 1987, Midge mentions offhandedly that Imogene is working for her.

S5E6 - (Flashforward) At the Testi-Roastial of Susie Myerson in 1990, a surprise video message from Midge is played. It was recorded by Imogene, who can be heard fiddling with the camera equipment throughout.

S5E9 - Imogene arrives mid-taping of The Gordon Ford Show to watch Midge’s debut set. She sits beside Archie and Joel. Despite Gordon’s attempts to block her, Midge does eventually succeed in doing the set by doing it without authorization. Imogene watches with glee. When the topic of Penny Pann comes up, Archie and Imogene corroborate Midge’s story to Joel.

IMOGENE: This place is perfectly filthy!
– S1E1

IMOGENE: He’s very… “Avant Garde”
– S1E1

IMOGENE: It's always those girls.
MIDGE: What girls?
IMOGENE: Those shorthand girls. Girls who go to secretarial school and learn shorthand, and that gives them entrée to our husbands. And once they have entrée to our husbands, our husbands entrée right into them.
MIDGE: Shorthand girls.
IMOGENE: I could have been a shorthand girl. I could have gone out into the workforce with my shorthand, but I didn't… I got married. I did it the right way.
MIDGE: Longhand.
IMOGENE: That's right.
– S1E2

IMOGENE: Oh, no, Ethan knows, because kids know everything. They're like those monkeys who know a tsunami's coming before everyone else. They know.
– S1E3

IMOGENE: Why does he call me Dody?
MIDGE: She was my friend growing up. It's sort of a catchall for whoever he sees me with.
– S1E7

ABE: And, young lady, I heard through the door that your name is not Dody… what is your name?
IMOGENE: Imogene.
ABE: I'm not gonna remember that.
– S1E7

IMOGENE: Stop using Iowa as an excuse for everything. My family may be dairy farmers, but they have a phone.
– S2E2

ROSE: Don't your friends have anyone to set you up with?
MIDGE: Nope.
ROSE: Not even that little blonde thing that talks all high and chirpy?
MIDGE: Imogene. Nope, all her friends are Gentiles.
– S2E4

MIDGE: You can't get fat from reading about food, Imogene.
IMOGENE: You aren't a scientist.
– S3E2

IMOGENE: These are your children, Archie. I just thought, since you're not home anymore, you might forget who they are and what they look like. And this is the reason you have those three children. Again, just to jog your memory.
ARCHIE: You don't think you're being a little dramatic?
IMOGENE: Am I? Maybe. People do weird things when they've been in isolation for too long.
ARCHIE: You're hardly in isolation. Your mother's there. The kids are there. And, by the way, you wrote the wrong name on one of those pictures. Unless you changed Eric to Pete while I was out.
IMOGENE: Ha! That was a test. Thank God you passed.
– S3E6

MIDGE: Well, this is lovely, isn't it? Perfect weather, like out of a movie.
IMOGENE: And in this movie, what does the spunky brunette want to talk to the little blonde dish about?
– S3E8

IMOGENE: You know, when we first started dating, Archie would sit outside my house for hours. The police never arrested him because, you know, he's Archie. He looks like a choirboy. He was a choirboy.
MIDGE: Mm.
IMOGENE: He's got a lovely baritone, by the way. But they would shoo him off. And the next day, he'd be right back there, sitting in the tree next to my bedroom window.
MIDGE: Romantic. With just a hint of creepy.
IMOGENE: I thought he'd be in my tree forever.
– S3E8

MIDGE: Be nicer, Imogene. We like Antonio.
IMOGENE: Sorry. It's my Nordic grandmother. I inherited her chilly rage.
– S4E2

IMOGENE: So I'm hired?
ABE: I will never let you leave.
IMOGENE: I'm a hostage! Yay!
– S4E6

IMOGENE: Midge has always been quietly assertive. One of the many reasons why I love her.
– S4E7

IMOGENE: Jackie? Jackie Kennedy? Oh, my God. I want to be her very best friend!
– S4E7

IMOGENE: I had nothing to do with this, so I'll just be the person who pats people's arms.
– S4E8

IMOGENE: Fuckity-fuck.
– S5E6

IMOGENE: Midge! Beret!
– S5E9

1. Pilot
2. Ya Shivu v Bolshom Dome Na Kholme
3. Because You Left
4. The Disappointment of the Dionne Quintuplets
5. Doink
7. Put That On Your Plate!
8. Thank You and Good Night

2. Mid-way to Mid-town
8. Someday...
10. All Alone

2. It's the Sixties, Man!
6. Kind of Bleau
8. A Jewish Girl Walks Into the Apollo...

2. Billy Jones and the Orgy Lamps
3. Everything is Bellmore
6. Maisel vs. Lennon: The Cut Contest
7. Ethan...Esther...Chaim
8. How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?

6. The Testi-Roastial (voice)
9. Four Minutes

• Bailey De Young also appeared in the Palladinos’ previous series, Gilmore Girls and Bunheads, as Heidi and Ginny Thompson respectively.

• List of Characters