MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

also: Peggy hasn't hit bottom yet imho, she still has to get the "I told you so" speech from her mother

His father is a Bunn coffeemaker. xp

Surely someone can be nursed back to health and then die at a later date.

But wasn't it suggested that the nurse had just nursed Bob's dad back from the brink, thus he was available? It's possible though that Bob was just fibbing to save Pete's blushes over offering him help on the nursing front.

nah, there's something wrong with that dude.

the whole point of that character is for him to eventually drop the other shoe

it's possible that the other shoe is SURPRISE he's a good guy and he's gonna make joan happy forever but i am inclined to doubt it

Peggy's mom will also, I'm sure, mention her daughter's age age in one of those discussions where her middle name also gets an airing.

it's possible that the other shoe is SURPRISE he's a good guy and he's gonna make joan happy forever but i am inclined to doubt it

I've been thinking of Bob as a sort of male version of Meghan - a wide-eyed, essentially good-hearted naif who is being set up to be swallowed whole by the soul-sucking joylessness of the advertising world

except the actor plays him as way more ingratiating and obseqious

I think he's the anti-Draper in the sense that he's working under an alias for nefarious purposes. Don't know which nefarious purposes yet, but...

it's possible that the other shoe is SURPRISE there's a funny smell coming from Bob's basement

bob

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<3 YES

in five years we'll all either be working for him or dead by his hand

something that was keeping me up last night: how many of the characters are actually *from* NYC/NJ? how many of them have "new york" accents?

peggy's from brooklyn -- no accent.
ginsberg's from the lower east side i think -- heavy accent.
pete is a manhattanite -- he has an old-timey upper east side cartoon villain mcmoneybags accent
jaguar guy is from jersey iirc -- he has the accent

i don't know the rosens' backstory but their accents are more generic.

An exchange from Season 4:

Peggy: Are you from Brooklyn?
Abe: I am.
Peggy: Me, too.
Abe: I don't hear it.
Peggy: One more drink and it'll come out.

Peggy's mom totally has the accent

i grew up in brooklyn and i don't have an accent, but my parents (native new yorkers) totally do.

it's a topic that really interests me because my mom has told me i'm "pretentious" for not having an accent like hers. like i'm abandoning my roots or something.

It all depends on when Welcome Back Kotter went off the air.

Or All in the Family.

peggy has been pretentious about brooklyn/manhattan in the past, like when she went on a blind date with a delivery guy from her neighborhood.

xp - those were still on the air in my formative years!

I've spent my whole adult life working away my accent. Peggy's "one more drink" line is so true, ya.

wasn't paul kinsey from new jersey also? there was that exchange about him starting out at princeton as a jersey boy on scholarship before his transformation into ivy league foppishness.

An interventionist grandmother helped me to swerve a Minnesota accent and phrases like 'oh, jeez!' that emphasise it. She did not help my sister, whose vocabulary is all of those phrases and not a lot else.

Oh for unfortunate.

Betty being hit on at the big society party totally reminded me of her and Henry's first meeting

I miss Fat Betty. :(

except she was pregnant when henry came on to her

will lol if Betty gets pregnant from her indiscretion with Don btw

i will roll my eyes forever if that happens

so far they've had 3 unwanted pregnancies from one night stands, what's one more

lol when that dude hit on betty at the fundraiser i did wonder if all rockefeller republicans in the 60s were horny sleazeballs (on up to rockefeller himself i guess). had somehow forgotten that january jones is ridiculously beautiful. wondering if fat, relatively sane/happy betty was just a pupal stage and new campaign wife milf betty is the imaginal stage, a smarter more twisted butterfly that can toy w/ the likes of don draper when she's bored and looking for some road beef.

xpost I imagine the electshck fried Rory Gilmore's eggs, because I would have almost bet money that Pete got her up the kite during their last fling.

except she was pregnant when henry came on to her

That's one of things that will always make Henry slightly creepy to me, even though he hasn't done anything too sinister since then.

also next week on mad men kinda tipped it's hand this week right? i think i might have a faint clue about some things that might happen next episode.

people slam doors, ride in elevators

henry's clearly got some kink in him

My dvr cut off just after the "next week on" bit started, so I'll be in the dark.

vietnam mentioned, joan mentions she's seeing someone (probably bob, who had coffee again at joan's place in those fucking shorts), joan reacting to something on tv (this was july from angel angelof shootings reference so guessing next episode is august - joan reacting to chicago dnc? soviet tanks rolling into prague? prince harald of norway marrying a commoner? probably the last one).

cool thanks

90% of that is pure conjecture on my part, it just wasn't the completely the standard nearly dada 'next week on mad men' spot, i think characters may have even spoken complete sentences.

henry's clearly got some kink in him

― balls, Tuesday, May 28, 2013 4:03 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, was betty teasing him with the kidnap/rape fantasy?

vietnam mentioned, joan mentions she's seeing someone (probably bob, who had coffee again at joan's place in those fucking shorts), joan reacting to something on tv (this was july from angel angelof shootings reference so guessing next episode is august - joan reacting to chicago dnc? soviet tanks rolling into prague? prince harald of norway marrying a commoner? probably the last one).

White Light/White Heat entering the charts at #199?

next week on mad men: bob benson couldn't hit it sideways

Sal too busy suckin on a ding dong

o no 'duck and sally inside' - and duck was in this episode!

abe has a change of heart, mails himself to peg, gets stabbed again.