this thread is almost as good as the show itself
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Saturday, 15 June 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
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)
― wk, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 19:04 (2 years ago)
― wk, Saturday, 15 June 2013 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
a demonic entity called FRANK
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100316231636/borderlands/images/b/b3/Tvsfrank.jpg
― dunham checks in (get bent), Saturday, 15 June 2013 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
ha!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 June 2013 02:01 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Murder in the Rue McClanahan (jaymc), Saturday, 15 June 2013 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
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
― balls, Saturday, 15 June 2013 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
Are you relieved that Megan Draper will survive this season?YesNo
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 15 June 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
"The show must go on" - Freddie Mercury
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 June 2013 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― persona insufficiently memorable (reddening), Saturday, 15 June 2013 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
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
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 15 June 2013 03:44 (eleven years ago) link
pretty amazing that t shirts were still in their infancy in 1968!
― piscesx, Saturday, 15 June 2013 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― balls, Saturday, 15 June 2013 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shirt
― dunham checks in (get bent), Saturday, 15 June 2013 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
that is a truly great wikipedia entry
― From the home of the underground railway and stuff (symsymsym), Saturday, 15 June 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
A Taiwanese's T-shirt
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 15 June 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
unusual wikipedia articles in details
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Saturday, 15 June 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
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]
― From the home of the underground railway and stuff (symsymsym), Saturday, 15 June 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
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
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, 16 June 2013 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://mlblogssnapshots.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/drive_scenes20686620500px.jpg
― piscesx, Sunday, 16 June 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
i am overheating just looking at that
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 16 June 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
well that looks the opposite of erotic
― j., Sunday, 16 June 2013 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
mr staypuft? is that you?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 June 2013 04:47 (eleven years ago) link
LOL @ "T-SHIRT PUT-ER ON-ER"
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 16 June 2013 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
― 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...
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 16 June 2013 07:28 (eleven years ago) link
Why the fuck would he need a sweatband
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 16 June 2013 09:25 (eleven years ago) link
to keep the sweat out of his eyes?
― data halls and oate (stevie), Sunday, 16 June 2013 10:47 (eleven years ago) link
Because here in America putting on T-shirts counts as athleticism?
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 16 June 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
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.”
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, 16 June 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ryan, Sunday, 16 June 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ryan, Sunday, 16 June 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
“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?
― dunham checks in (get bent), Sunday, 16 June 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
i mean, i seriously don't mind having bob and ted as eye candy these days...
― dunham checks in (get bent), Sunday, 16 June 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
and Stan don't forget Stan
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 16 June 2013 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― piscesx, Sunday, 16 June 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
stan has his bearish charms, it's true.
― dunham checks in (get bent), Sunday, 16 June 2013 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
starting to find ken cosgrove hot, honestly, in addition to those mentioned above
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, 16 June 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 June 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 16 June 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 June 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
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
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, 16 June 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
tonight's is the first non-Weiner-written/co-written show since episode 2.
― piscesx, Sunday, 16 June 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, June 16, 2013 5:59 PM
I always did! The blander the better for me.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 June 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
uncharacteristically flabby acting from Hamm in that Betty phone conversation.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 June 2013 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
omg bob benson is don draper
― johnny crunch, Monday, 17 June 2013 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
"Are you suicidal? I'm your ride home!"
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 June 2013 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
Ok. What happened between Campbell and the cryptoqueer?
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 June 2013 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
sally's beginning to resemble ariel pink.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 17 June 2013 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
I was going to ask what happened w/r/t Bob Benson in that scene too, because I can't figure it out
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Monday, 17 June 2013 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
Porpoise Song!
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 17 June 2013 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
Aw!!! Future lung cancee casualty!
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 June 2013 03:05 (eleven years ago) link