You know the only place he's frequenting c. 1968 is an early grave.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
so what's up with Bob lying about his dad
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
huh?
― Bob Bunsen (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, he said his dad was dead in the first ep of the season
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
and then this episode Bob told Pete this doctor/nurse he was recommending had nursed his dad to health
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
BACK to health
also: Peggy hasn't hit bottom yet imho, she still has to get the "I told you so" speech from her mother
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
His father is a Bunn coffeemaker. xp
― ...also i'm awesome (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Surely someone can be nursed back to health and then die at a later date.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
nah, there's something wrong with that dude.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
the whole point of that character is for him to eventually drop the other shoe
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
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 didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
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
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
except the actor plays him as way more ingratiating and obseqious
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
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...
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
it's possible that the other shoe is SURPRISE there's a funny smell coming from Bob's basement
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
bob
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― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
<3 YES
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
in five years we'll all either be working for him or dead by his hand
― From the home of the underground railway and stuff (symsymsym), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
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 accentjaguar guy is from jersey iirc -- he has the accent
i don't know the rosens' backstory but their accents are more generic.
― leno dunham (get bent), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― i, norbit (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Peggy's mom totally has the accent
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
i grew up in brooklyn and i don't have an accent, but my parents (native new yorkers) totally do.
― leno dunham (get bent), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― leno dunham (get bent), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
It all depends on when Welcome Back Kotter went off the air.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
xp - those were still on the air in my formative years!
― leno dunham (get bent), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
I've spent my whole adult life working away my accent. Peggy's "one more drink" line is so true, ya.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― leno dunham (get bent), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
Oh for unfortunate.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
Betty being hit on at the big society party totally reminded me of her and Henry's first meeting
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
I miss Fat Betty. :(
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
except she was pregnant when henry came on to her
― mizzell, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
will lol if Betty gets pregnant from her indiscretion with Don btw
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
i will roll my eyes forever if that happens
― 69, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
so far they've had 3 unwanted pregnancies from one night stands, what's one more
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― balls, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
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 i'm awesome (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― balls, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
people slam doors, ride in elevators
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
henry's clearly got some kink in him
― balls, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
My dvr cut off just after the "next week on" bit started, so I'll be in the dark.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
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).
― balls, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
cool thanks
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― balls, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 20:16 (eleven years ago) link