MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

Mad style has Bob down.

pre-faker reveal:

http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/2013/06/mad-style-favors.html

and post:

http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/2013/06/mad-men-the-quality-of-mercy.html

― dan selzer, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:19 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thanks for posting, these are amazing.

their commentary has been uniformly great

altho tbf they tagged Bob as gay, but not as an out-and-out fraud (which they admit)

their reasoning was A+ tho

haha god i forgot this episode where pete has to say "chip and dip" 1000 times

new loopy theory could be if last week was "fraud" as the 8th circle of hell maybe next we're looking at "treachery." Or maybe that already applies to Don with Ted and Peggy. In any case maybe this does map on to Don hitting "bottom."

Rescreening Rosemary's Baby in honor of this ep and found another MM connection: At xmas time, Rosemary is supposed to meet Hutch in front of the Time/Life buillding, the fictional home of SCDP.

for those who would like to selectively review old episodes, season 1 episode 7 is joan's cutest look EVER

Yeah, I agree with T&L that there is no believable scenario in which Bob isn't actually gay (I'm still seeing people waffling over this). Homosexuality wasn't exactly a bargaining chip in '68.

I like the new SC&P logo

http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/51c081d669bedd9306000003-560-863/press%20release.jpeg

Bob's gay, but that became much less relevant to Pete when he realized that Bob is well-liked, a much better social climber than he is, and that these things are prized at this agency -- something Duck sure never found out. Somehow, in realizing that Bob was completely fake but now indispensable to their huge account, Pete felt the need to bargain as Bob was in the superior positiion. It really goes back to the fact that Pete has never really earned any advancement, he's just been given it quid pro quo.

Bob was totally a rent boy type in the beginning of his social climbing, or so it was implied.

is this a complete list of the gay characters so far?

salvatore
joan's blonde friend who was in love with her
belle jolie guy
kurt of kurt & smitty
david mamet's daughter
manolo
bob benson

When I saw that fake memo the other day, it made me wonder when we stopped using words/letters in our phone numbers. KL = 55, obvs, but when did that practice finally die out? I was sure it was earlier than 1968, but I couldn't find any evidence to the contrary.

my mother in law is in her 70's and a few years ago she was going through her notebook/address book updating some phone contacts that she had lost when her laptop crashed. Mr Veg started looking through it and was dying laughing because she had phone numbers that had exchange letters in them from waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day, still in her address book 50 years later. He's like, "Um I think you can cross that one out, Mom"

then she started asking him to read out the phone numbers to her and he kept going, "KLONDIKE...457...."

The switchover was pretty much done by 1968, but there was probably a lot of public inertia in acceptance. I remember seeing local television ads that used the LL-NNNNN format as late as 1973 or so.

As always, the Internet provides: The Telephone EXchange Name Project (apparently I grew up in the "HYatt" exchange!)

to the gay list also add Lee Garner Jnr.

ah how could i skip over him

Probably too minor a character, but the MC of Don's birthday bash from last season.

apropos of nothing, if a tmbg biopic ever comes out, vincent kartheiser should play linnell and rich sommer should play flansy.

ted is a bit of a dork really isn't he? clothes, haircut, general goofiness.

is this a complete list of the gay characters so far?

dunno if Megan's swinger boss and wife count here

Pete has never really earned any advancement, he's just been given it quid pro quo

Pete has made serious personal sacrifices to win accounts

is this a complete list of the gay characters so far?

salvatore
joan's blonde friend who was in love with her
belle jolie guy
kurt of kurt & smitty
david mamet's daughter
manolo
bob benson

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

+ son of tobacco exec who propositioned sal and was a monster all around

I think I'm conflating him with the belle Jolie guy

So, Bob Benson - Cuban refugee?

^^^ had that thought

Totally a Latino trying to pass (see also Pete's shitty comment about Manolo not being good enough to care for his mother unless he was Spanish).

so the West Virginia thing is a red-herring?

Manolo also name of Nixon's devoted Cuban majordomo.

Oh shit good call.

Brand New made a post about the new logo, and half the comments were from people crying SPOILER!!! JEEZUS!!!

spoiler queens are the fucking worst

14 episodes for season 7 supposedly.

Spoiler!

also don jumps off the building in ep 5

the remaining episodes are flashback clip shows as he falls and remembers all the crazy adventures they had

John Popper contributes special final season lyrics to "A Beautiful Mine."

http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu216/le_bateau_ivre/cb60ea6cbfe65ec980490c282ebedd06.jpg

Captured this add from the new New Yorker issue.

- Two Don's
- Police
- Don is holding someone's hand (Megan?)

lollll

ONE WAY!

STOP!

Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell ref???

in the season finale [SPOILERS] Don murders Joni Mitchell

and puts up a parking lot.

don draper = DD. first D = Duritz. second D = Didit. that's "Duritz Didit." the counting crows killed joni mitchell. weiner's done it again!

isn't this just the poster from March again?

y

Ah, didn't know that

still no idea who that's meant to be in the glasses behind him. if anyone.

clark kent

Cutler, no?