MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

this show does v well-timed pukes

i know it's way premature, but this is feeling a bit off - not as confident in itself or something.

betty is so odd, i love it

I've in love with David Eisenhower, er, Ken Cosgrove.

i also love how pete acts like being diplomatic in these meetings is v essential to the process here. i suppose we don't find out what's happening with trudy until next week at least?

any theories on how the lighter switcheroo will pay off? does it somehow lead to blowing his assumed identity? or just another red herring that goes nowhere?

i had assumed that the identity thing as a matter of concern/interest had gone away some time ago? it doesn't feel that important but idk, it might just be my perspective on it

maybe - just couldn't think what else would be so significant about the kid getting his lighter, possibly with a name and unit number on it? though it would be pretty crazy for don to carry around a lighter with his real name on it

pete blew the cover on don's identity in season 1 or 2 and nobody even cared iirc?

yeah nobody cared, i'm kind of hoping it doesn't come up again

i thought that was midge at the end of the episode, by the way - i'm guessing they just look somewhat alike?

but the army doesn't know - they would presumably care more than the ad men about a GI going awol and stealing a dead officer's identity - but yeah, you're right it has been a dead issue in the show for a long time

but all it will probably end up being is the secretary tries to get the lighter to the kid but they find out he's already been killed in vietnam

Besides, it's just a lighter. Hardly definitive proof were it to show up that a man is walking around out there with a stolen identity.

i thought that was midge at the end of the episode, by the way - i'm guessing they just look somewhat alike?

That was Linda Cardellini. I'm always happy to see her in anything.

High vs. Drunk.

you guys, Mrs. Hazel Tinsley

Abe looks a lot like my dad did circa 1973

ugh I'm such a sucker for this fuckin show.

would be kindof amazing if this show had the stones to have don commit suicide

http://www.theonion.com/articles/mad-men-premiere-features-group-of-actors-who-are,31960/

''Mad Men' Premiere Features Group Of Actors Who Are Scared To Death Of Never Making Transition To Film'

1) Li'l Carmine!!!
2) I assume the ref'd Tonight Show routine was a real thing, does anybody know who the actual comedian was?

this was great. reveal that Don had been boning the doc's wife for months was a real :0

don't stick your dick in those holes, don

That was Linda Cardellini. I'm always happy to see her in anything.

I thought that looked like her, but it seemed insane to me that she would be cast as someone old enough to be the mother of a kid in college.

that was not Linda Cardellini guys come on

hmm Bill Geerhart's twitter sez:
the comedian referenced in tonight's Mad Men episode is Milt Kamen. He was on with guest host Phyllis Diller on 12/22/67.

That was Linda Cardelllini, she just had a ton of make-up on.

the comedian referenced in tonight's Mad Men episode is Milt Kamen. He was on with guest host Phyllis Diller on 12/22/67.

Milt Kamen might have been on that episode, but he didn't tell that joke:

The Tonight Show episode that the characters reference on the episode is very real: A quick look through TV Guide Magazine's archives proves that Phyllis Diller did indeed guest host for Johnny Carson on Friday, Dec. 22, 1967. "Johnny does not host during the holidays," Weiner notes. "We actually had a line, cut for time, in which Peggy asked her co-worker if Phyllis invited the comedian to sit over on the couch." Weiner wanted to stress the cultural impact of The Tonight Show at the time and why a joke on the show would cause Peggy's client to freak out. "I can't even explain it to young people what a universal experience it was [when] people watched [Tonight]," Weiner says.

But here's the creative license: Weiner says he doesn't actually have evidence of a comedian on that Diller-hosted Tonight Show making such a joke about the war. "I hope it's not disappointing to people," Weiner says. "This is based on reality but the scenario is not real. The court martial really happened and there really was this event. And there were quite a few instances of comedians talking about the war on The Tonight Show and clients being very upset."

that was not Linda Cardellini guys come on

I didn't recognize her at all, but her name was in the credits.

She's also 37 IRL, so kid-in-college isn't inconceivable.

it was totally linda and she was gr8

wow that is crazy

funny how we were just complaining about her shitty post F&G career

pretty good episode. man 2 hours is a lot to take in. loved the scene where they asked the SCDP creative guy (Stan?) whether the Hawaii ad made him think of death: "Yeah man, that's why it was so AWESOME."

what was with that scene between Betty and Henry in bed after the girl played the violin?! just go hold her arms down and put a rag in her mouth. wtf was supposed to be going through Betty's head when she said that stuff

yeah that was pretty jaw dropping, Betty's bizarre-o rape fantasy

was I the only one thinking of this ridiculous movie during Betty's search for violin girl

thought it was clever structure that the opening quick flash of the heart attack made you think "is Don dead?" during the first part of the Hawaii sequence (plus he didn't speak for like the first 15 minutes). then he presents the ad and you see that while he was in Hawaii Don was thinking "am I dead?"

"I smell creativity in here"

Betty's weirdo rapey chat with Henry notwithstanding, I thought the creepiest bit was Harry perving on Roger's daughter.

roger in analysis is a gold mine for lols this season

it made me wonder why Roger would even begin analysis in the first place, absent somebody browbeating him into it

but yeah it does bring the lolz

otm to daria way upthread -- totally getting major Don vibes from Peggy's input with the creatives

yes I love Rog in analysis

a gif of Peggy's underlings doing their "Three Ideas" needs to happen.

lol

this bob fellow

what is his deal

can't decide if he's just a sad kiss-ass or if his ambition will make him do something really nasty to someone

thought it was interesting that, after Ken browbeats him in front of the secretary, he doesn't lash out at her to try and regain his dominance like, say, Pete might have back in the day.

I spent most of the episode thinking that Bob was pretending to work for SCDP

loved betty in the big city.