MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

They should get a contract for a record company this year. Would be awesome to see Don coming up with the "The Man Can't Bust Our Music".
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There was a point when Peggy was talking w the exec about the 'Lend me your ears' problem where i was thinking "Peggy aren't you supposed to be coming up with the ideas here? Isn't that what an ad agency does? Why aren't you guys going into this meeting with a dozen different ways to spin the problematic Super Bowl spot?"

the way they did meghan's makeup in Hawaii, where she's standing outside the hotel room looking slightly ruddy from the sun (in that still someone posted way upthread)... v v well done

There was a point when Peggy was talking w the exec about the 'Lend me your ears' problem where i was thinking "Peggy aren't you supposed to be coming up with the ideas here? Isn't that what an ad agency does? Why aren't you guys going into this meeting with a dozen different ways to spin the problematic Super Bowl spot?"

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:41 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

cuz they established they didnt have time for a reshoot

But the final solution didn't call for a reshoot either, just some new voice overdub.

yes... that's... exactly... the... point...?

They weren't going into the meeting with a ton of ways to spin it because she didn't know what the real problem was until the obnoxious dudes at the office walked her through the jist of the Tonight Show routine, and by that point it was just a couple hours before the Koss people were in for their meeting?

point of meeting was to convince guy to stay w/ campaign, that there was no real crisis. she came prepared to spin this - pointed out that news story re: war trophies had been in the news for awhile so tonight show joke really presented no new information, no new crisis. client didn't buy it and suggested just scrapping slogan and having dull boilerplate copy about how koss headphones work. peg pointed out this would solve 'ear' problem but leave horrible ad that also had a non sequitor in it. you would have a dull ad that also didn't make sense. not sure if peggy just assumed green bay would beat dallas or if the ice bowl was earlier in the day than the afl championship but either way super bowl is too soon to conceive and shoot whole new campaign so they have to jerry rig something from the old campaign. even now i'm not sure how easy it would be for an agency to conceive and shoot a super bowl ad a week or two before the super bowl (though tbf a super bowl ad means more now than it did for super bowl II), ppl's minds were blown when oreo's twitter account was able to whip up a topical macro during the blackout at this year's super bowl.

(though tbf a super bowl ad means more now than it did for super bowl II)

I wondered about how big a deal an ad would've been then:

It was the first time a Super Bowl was televised live on only one network, which has been the case for all following Super Bowl games. While the Orange Bowl was sold out for the game, unconditional blackout rules in the NFL prevented the live telecast from being shown in the Miami area.

Kiss the south Florida market goodbye, Koss.

you know the funny thing is the day i watched this ep is the day my koss headphones broke :/

worst co-branding stunt ever :(

my leica cheated on me with an advertising person

on the ther hand, my doctor rollerskated to work.

i kinda spaced out during the scene where roger's daughter is pitching him on the fridge idea but she was talking about purchasing the patent for trucking fridge tech? bc that seems like a huge moneymaker

Investing in a fridge truck line. Still seems good, but a thing many people may be working on.

An Internetfull of fan-fic writers out there just created a new file titled "MAD MEN - SOPRANOS CROSSOVER.doc"

http://www.happyplace.com/23042/mad-men-facebook-recap-season6-episode-1

bad

it is bad but i laffed anyway. as opportune a moment as any to remind ppl that mad style is back also: http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/2013/04/mad-style-the-doorway-part-1.html

from that intro they saw room 237

why would anyone spend that much time creating something that bad? like 1/8 of the way though wouldn't you realize how terrible the idea was and just like... stop?

fake facebook walls of big tv shows are pretty popular

that's no excuse.

There were a few old ones for entire tv shows, but I saw one for Game of Thrones last week, so I guess the fake FB episode recap is becoming a thing?

I don't need that in my life

It ws something you could definitely do a lot better, but it's a shit idea.

I liked it.

was not really into this episode at all--maybe there's a decent directors cut where weiner can freely ignore the limitations of programmed television

i thought it was a good episode. the scenes with betty were really grim. it's interesting that her and don are both spiraling, but like, they inhabit different genres (horror and tragedy, respectively).

also i thought roger's reaction to his mother's death -- his repression of his sadness, eventual breakdown, as well as the pithy existentialist remarks he made to the psychologist -- was really compelling.

"It's my funeral!"

funny, I was just thinking after this ep how Betty seems remotely happy for the first time in a while, in general.

Really, what made you think that? I thought the whole tenor of her scenes - both in that dark suburban mansion and in that st marks place dive - was really ominous, not to mention her left field rape comment.

she was totally enjoying her little rape joke

it was still a bleak joke, told within a bleak marriage, in a bleak and dreary mansion, idk

a crushing bore so far

trudy bitches

and eggplant stromboli or whatever

rollatini

another thing i don't care about - besides whether anyone else finds out don draper's former identity - is why don draper is always stepping out on his wife
really don't care why, not interested.

what is eggplant stromboli? that doesn't sound appealing

era infamous for dressing up dishes to give them an erotic veneer

does this season in general feel more heavy-handed than it was previously? or do I deliberately forget these things from previous seasons because I adore all the supposedly minor stuff? like jaguar guy being gross, low class and skeevy.. plus very entertaining & probably a better businessman than the owners of the company right now

era infamous for dressing up dishes to give them an erotic veneer

like Don Draper

this bob benson guy, he works on k street right now, doesn't he. i know this guy. he used to work on the hill and then he went to law school, spent some more time working in big law for a while, joined a lobbying firm. he's training for a half marathon this fall and is a nationals season ticket holder, he just sold his condo and bought a house near H St.

i like those colored glass partition things in pete's apartment.

I remember my uncle's house used to have those type of glass partitions, I thought they were very stylish as a kid.

they're really neat. i'm a sucker for colored glass though.

Occasionally I forget what a low low low person Peter Campbell can be. Then I get reminded.

"What did you say to him?"

Really, Pete? That was your primary concern?

Anyway, Trudy wins.

Loved Don's downmarket pitch.

pete's a slimeball, it's true. glad trudy is getting herself out of that marriage.