MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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Great episode, things are really shaking up for everyone. Good for Peggy! Out-selling the Big Guys.

This was like the first episode where I sort of hoped everything just came crashing down for Don.

It is coming crashing down for Don. His adulteress tells him she prays he will find peace...

*smash cut to summer of love*

First decent joke for a season and a half.

And it's pretty obvious she's step-step-stepping out on him.

I will never understand ILX's hatred of Harry. all the scumbags on this show and Harry's the monster?

he's just a schmuck.

yeah i could see why rog and bert tried to assuage him but i wish they had just called his bluff, he's always seemed a lightweight who got his position by sheer circumstance and whose job could almost certainly be done as well if not better by someone else (by joan for example).

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khozde8d2zI

sneak preview of new daft punk track at 1:55

Posting this again in higher quality...because it deserves it.

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daaaamh Tilda Swinton lost weight!

Totally didn't get that Ted & Peggy also didn't get the Heinz Ketchup account. Thank u for clarifying, blogs!

thought there'd be a big deal that Stan leaked it and there'd be reckoning. He lucked out there.

Totally didn't get that Ted & Peggy also didn't get the Heinz Ketchup account

Really?

Seems like that was a common misconception. J.Walter Thompson got the account.

Didn't Peggy say "they bought it in the room" or something? Or was the JWT bombshell later?

Didn't Peggy say "they bought it in the room" or something?

Yeah - I thought that meant the Heinz had bought Peggy's concept in the room, without even waiting to weigh up the two options (didn't even know there was a third company going after the tender, which I thought was secret, which surely was why it was awwwwwkward when Peggy bumped into the Don Draper gang.)

It is possible there was a missing bit to our dl - I also didn't get that Don was schtupping the doctor's wife in the first episode thanks to seven phantom minutes.

I thought the line was "J. Walter Thompson bought it in the room."

Yeah - I should also add that I mistakenly assumed 'J Walter Thompson' was the name of Ted & Peggy's company...

I interviewed for an internship at J Walter Thompson when I was still in college, but they called me unexpectedly for a second phone interview and I was way too hungover to give any sort of coherent answer; when I heard J Walter Thompson it gave the scene a smidge more pathos.

thought there'd be a big deal that Stan leaked it and there'd be reckoning. He lucked out there.

kind of a moot point since ketchup guy was shopping around anyway.

that was marginally better but nothing this season has gotten all four wheels off the ground just yet

Yeah it seems to be cruising so far. Nothing particularly defineable, just something's missing. Maybe a weightiness or tension.

TNC on his waning enthusiasm.

Don not changing while the world changes around him has kind of always been the story....?

was interesting that he just out and said he was against the war this episode. Liked this episode a lot more the second time around, noticed a lot of little details - recurrence of penny motif, matching b&w whore/mother/crone outfits, anti-tobacco undertones etc

also it wasn't clear to me before but I guess they have the Dow Chemical account now thx to Don's scenery-chewing in the last season? nutty.

cosgrove

also lol @ kenny not even acknowledging Peggy at the diner

they mentioned landing Dow in the premiere. the ad mockups w/the couple Don said "didn't exist" were for them.

was interesting that he just out and said he was against the war this episode.

That threw me a bit, but it actually makes sense.

re: pennies

Roger in the last ep: "Turns out the experiences are nothing. They’re just pennies you pick up off the floor, stick in your pocket, and you’re just going in a straight line to you-know-where"

Madchen Amick called Don her "bad penny" when she ran into him in the elevator last season

Don tells the whore at the whorehouse he "dropped a penny" when he was really watching Uncle Mack bone his stepmom through a keyhole

"I'll tell you the same thing I told my daughter, if you put a penny in a jar everytime you make love in the first year of marriage, and then you take a penny out the jar everytime you make love in the second year, you know what you'll have? A jar full of pennies."

re: pennies

Roger in the last ep: "Turns out the experiences are nothing. They’re just pennies you pick up off the floor, stick in your pocket, and you’re just going in a straight line to you-know-where"

Madchen Amick called Don her "bad penny" when she ran into him in the elevator last season

Don tells the whore at the whorehouse he "dropped a penny" when he was really watching Uncle Mack bone his stepmom through a keyhole

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i hate this kind of shit. can just see matt weiner rubbing his hands together while dropping in these pointless motifs and muttering, "the internet's gonna love this..."

I am the internet I guess

yeah don specifically opposing war makes sense plus by 68 public support of war had dropped considerably

Month Percentage who agreed with war
August 1965 52%
March 1966 59%
May 1966 49%
September 1966 48%
November 1966 51%
February 1967 52%
May 1967 50%
July 1967 48%
October 1967 46%
December 1967 48%
February 1968 42%
March 1968 41%
April 1968 40%
August 1968 35%
October 1968 37%
February 1969 39%
October 1969 32%
January 1970 33%
April 1970 34%
May 1970 36%
January 1971 31%
May 1971 28%

i read that as "this ny liberal jewish guy is clearly against the war, so i'll say i'm against it to"

if he was talking to some conservatives he'd probably say he was for the war

just dinner table conversation no?

xp you don't understand "penny" is the name of his dog

I usually have the inflation calculator site open while watching Mad Men. The $23k Harry got would've been $143k today.

The $.01 he gave to Lindsey Weir would be $.06 today. And it's the sixth season. It's all a rich tapestry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bcd-zmB4vk

i read that as "this ny liberal jewish guy is clearly against the war, so i'll say i'm against it to"

if he was talking to some conservatives he'd probably say he was for the war

I dunno, remember he experienced a rather similar Asian war himself...

was mel supposed to be jewish? is 'mel' a common jewish name? or does ted mcginley just code as 'jewish' to some ppl?

honestly I never thought much past 'swinging tv-executive' to really wonder

yeah I dunno where the "ny liberal jewish guy" comes from

midtown generally

*rimshot*

maybe amster thought 'well this guy's a degenerate and he holds power in mass media - gotta be jewish!' i don't know, assumed i missed a line like w/ j walter thompson landing heinz

im just gonna move this over here

he was always liberal republican

― balls, Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:48 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my hunch where characters would lean in 68

pete, peg, cosgrove (?) - rfk
abe, ginsburg - mccarthy
stan - paulsen
draper - rockefeller
sterling, crane - nixon
cooper - reagan

― balls, Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:54 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no way is Draper voting for his ex-wife's new husband's bro

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:55 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and Cooper's been pimping Nixon since Season 3 at least

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:56 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also lol wrong thread maybe eh

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, April 24, 2013 7:00 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cooper was pimping nixon in season one but he's a goldwater guy and randian and damn near quoted reagan on medicare at that party. i could see him being establishment enough to go nixon though. good point about don not giving henry francis any business and romney's already flaked out by this point so he'd probably be a nixon guy also. and o this is the wrong thread lol.

― balls, Wednesday, April 24, 2013 7:04 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can't really see Don going for Nixon's sweaty awkwardness.