MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

the "zou bisou bisoudio" defense

Don realizes he's been married to Peggy since season 2.

I need to dust off my old theory about cooper's balls being reincarnated into two supernatural beings named Bob and Mike. I think I wrote about that before Bob even appeared!

stealing this idea

this thread is almost as good as the show itself

If I would have known that people would be getting paid to blog about insane "megan is dead" theories I might have developed this into a blog. it's only marginally dumber.

On the battlefield in WWI, Gene's body was inhabited by a demonic entity called FRANK. Another entity named DON overtook the body of a G.I. named Dick during the Korean war. DON is of the white lodge, FRANK the black lodge. On Gene's death, FRANK took form inside Betty as "little Gene". In future episodes we'll see DON enter the red room where he will speak with two small men who are in fact BERT's lost testicles.

― wk, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 19:04 (2 years ago)

a demonic entity called FRANK

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100316231636/borderlands/images/b/b3/Tvsfrank.jpg

ha!

I need to dust off my old theory about cooper's balls being reincarnated into two supernatural beings named Bob and Mike.

So Benson and Ginsberg, then? Already been established that the latter is a Martian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwwHmAF2iR8

ok fucking hilarious that a guy as ott anti-spoilers at weiner letting this fly - http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-mad-men-megan-draper-matthew-weiner-20130614,0,373942.story

Are you relieved that Megan Draper will survive this season?
YesNo

"The show must go on" - Freddie Mercury

weiner's been known to dispel some fan rumors while the season's in-progress. last season when don stared down the empty SCDP elevator shaft, i was convinced someone was going to end up plunging to their death until weiner did an interview saying "ffs you guys it was meant to be symbolic."

i like how this show's unpredictability has people scrambling to try and divine signs like that... "if megan isn't going to die then why is she wearing that t-shirt" is pretty ridic on the face of it

pretty amazing that t shirts were still in their infancy in 1968!

yeah it's funny, before this season tom and lorenzo did a post basically saying 'yes we've seen room 237. no we don't think that's what we do. (plz god don't let that be what we do).' and then this season is when the internet pretends this show is lost all of a sudden (even w/ lane's suicide last year it was normal foreshadowing, not some pop tarot card reading). do think that the increased violence and playing w/ heavy imagery (i mean they even namedropped mark lindsay last week, what next is megan gonna have an ex-bf who's a hairdresser?) is pretty clearly a way to obliquely address that fucked up shit going on at large w/o having a character for some reason die in vietnam or get murdered by a band of wandering hippies. plus if you're janie bryant (whose profile is kinda crazy huge right? can you name another tv costume designer?) and weiner's haggling you for a t-shirt and you come across one and it's from a sharon tate photoshoot OF COURSE you're going to go w/ that right? crazy that t-shirts are apparently something that comes in really w/ the 70s, no wonder they went so nuts for iron-ons, shit must've blown their minds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shirt

that is a truly great wikipedia entry

A Taiwanese's T-shirt

unusual wikipedia articles in details

The political and social statements that T-shirts often display have become, since the first decade of the 21st century, one of the reasons that they have so deeply permeated different levels of culture and society.[citation needed]

the world record for "most t-shirts worn at the same time" is less than 300

there is a lot that is preposterous about that sentence

http://mlblogssnapshots.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/drive_scenes20686620500px.jpg

i am overheating just looking at that

well that looks the opposite of erotic

mr staypuft? is that you?

LOL @ "T-SHIRT PUT-ER ON-ER"

well that looks the opposite of erotic

― j., Saturday, June 15, 2013 11:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, i'm sure a little googling around will discover folks who think otherwise...

Why the fuck would he need a sweatband

to keep the sweat out of his eyes?

Why the fuck would he need a sweatband

Because here in America putting on T-shirts counts as athleticism?

haha i was skimming and i thought it meant people gathered wearing tshirts, at the same time, together. i was like, surely this is topped at most concerts on earth.

ive been rewatching madmen season 1. anyone else done this lately? ken cosgrove was such a sleaze back then.

also don otm in episode 1, to pete: “Advertising is a very small world and when you do something like malign the girl from the steno pool on her first day, you make it even smaller. Keep it up, and even if you do get my job, you’ll never run this place. You’ll die in that corner office, a mid-level executive with little hair who women go home with out of pity. Want to know why? Because no one will like you.”

i was just watching season 1 and 2 as well! ken WAS a sleaze, they really reversed course on him, or perhaps he just finds confidence, since his sleaziness seems especially fratty and trying to impress early on.

noticed how often don calls betty "birdie" in the first two seasons and then the "bye bye birdie" start of season 3. pretty clever. it becomes even more clear as the show goes on how carefully constructed as a "season" the show is sometimes. it really hits its stride when watching it all at once like this. week to week it sometimes feels halting and repetitive rather than (as it does when it watch them back to back) rhythmic and cohesive.

which is why im not really sure what to think of this season until it's all over and i can watch it all at once.

thought the bit about the rothko painting in season 2 was interesting ("maybe it doesn't mean anything, maybe you're just supposed to experience it") since the show often seems like the exact opposite--or maybe its just that the particular kind of dramatic inertness they seem to favor simply invites hyper-active interpretation.

“Advertising is a very small world and when you do something like malign the girl from the steno pool on her first day, you make it even smaller. Keep it up, and even if you do get my job, you’ll never run this place. You’ll die in that corner office, a mid-level executive with little hair who women go home with out of pity. Want to know why? Because no one will like you.”

remember when don was hot?

i mean, i seriously don't mind having bob and ted as eye candy these days...

and Stan don't forget Stan

so the cops on the poster from March were a red herring too? or are we still expecting something huge is gonna transpire in the next 2 weeks?

stan has his bearish charms, it's true.

starting to find ken cosgrove hot, honestly, in addition to those mentioned above

otm

Yeah looking back at that poster, you wonder who the woman Don's holding hands with. I guess it's Megan. He seems pretty distracted at the moment. It sort of looks like he just passed by his old self, briefcase in hand, so maybe we are gearing up for him leaving the company or something. He's pretty much gone in his mind already.

He and Mrs. Rosen will run off together, change their names to Bob Mathews & Betty Cantor, and follow the Dead on tour, eventually becoming part of their organization.

i think re: the imagery of the show, including these posters, theyre usually trying to broadcast something a lot less complicated than what viewership ends up reading into it

tonight's is the first non-Weiner-written/co-written show since episode 2.

starting to find ken cosgrove hot, honestly, in addition to those mentioned above

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, June 16, 2013 5:59 PM

I always did! The blander the better for me.

uncharacteristically flabby acting from Hamm in that Betty phone conversation.

omg bob benson is don draper

"Are you suicidal? I'm your ride home!"

Ok. What happened between Campbell and the cryptoqueer?