don hasn't seemed to contribute anything in the creative dep't all season -- that's still his job title
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:45 AM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well, at least he's made calls this episode. On the juice, and "rescuing" the account for which the casting went well above the cost. It's nearly nothing. But it's something. Before this episode he was absent completely of his job and all entails, entirely.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 17 June 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
uh he got Chevy
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 17 June 2013 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
and tried his damnedest to get Heinz
you guys have no memories
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 17 June 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
Johnny Fever OTM, saw you said that too. It was all sorts of rubbish.
Don clicking away from Megan on the telly was brutal. Just brutal.
to a different TV show about twins/doppelgangers no less
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:48 AM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM. Megan's line before Don - utterly unimpressed - clicked away, was "Don't you dare ignore me!"
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 17 June 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
Megan's Frenchy villain accent was lolz.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 June 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:50 AM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is true for me tbh
But still.
Don-the-baby should've been used in previous week's "next week on Mad Men." Woulda confused the fuck out of people.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
Haha totally. It was an awkward moment to watch. Just when they asked Don to act as the baby, I really thought him being stiff and all that he wouldn't do shit.
I'm not saying Don did the best of baby-impressions, but he did something, which was already more than I expected him to do.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
i dont think he was unimpressed, i think it was hitting too close to home for someone who was just caught by his daughter cheating on the woman now on his tv talking about someone being a loathesome cheater
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
xp yeah i expected him to dodge that. although "father abraham"
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
ok so in a few years we'll get a Sally-based spin off a la A Different World meets GIRLS.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
ok so in a few years we'll get a Sally-based spin off a la A Different World
sally attends a historically black college?
― dunham checks in (get bent), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 05:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0hu934IF41r6q0fko1_400.pngsally draper, circa 1987
― balls, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 05:28 (eleven years ago) link
midge was a snooze bore #season1
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 07:14 (eleven years ago) link
i don't want this season to end.
― data halls and oate (stevie), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 07:34 (eleven years ago) link
me either it rules!! but i am excited for the finale
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 07:43 (eleven years ago) link
Hold the beat after slattery says he held the marlboro guys balls to see the room register
Cooper's reaction to this was amazing btw.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 12:24 (eleven years ago) link
but there's a huge difference between the two which everybody knows: Don, at the time Pete tried to out him to Cooper, was abslutely essential to the agency, Bob isn't. Pete tried to get rid of Don to clear a path for himself upwards. Getting rid of Bob wouldn't do anything for him. So now he can use his knowledge to control Bob.
This is all true, but Bob's also the crucial continuity guy who the Chevy dudes like (plus everyone in the meeting knew they would hate Pete), which means he's pretty important to the agency, although not indispensable. Plus, Joan's got his back.
I got the feeling that Pete and Bob were partly talking at cross-purposes, and that Pete still only knows half the story, while Bob thinks he knows everything, whatever 'everything' is.
Also this:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/06/17/solution_to_the_bob_benson_mystery_is_on_those_coffee_cups.html
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
"you want me to go get some?" from bob re: the coffee p much made my life
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
lol otm
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
now that pete's on chevy, there's only one thing bob has that pete doesn't: people like him. i think hes just hoping to leverage that
also the execs weren't going to bat for bob per se, they were going to bat for the account. they were right that changing up everyone managing the account would look weird. just changing one guy keeps up the appearance that everything is ok
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
Pete's secretary was weirdly foregrounded this week, bit of bonding with him over the gun etc. Reminds me of how they introduced Megan. I get the sense that nothing good is going to happen to her.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
I love the emergence of psychotic Bob; I would love to see Draper die of cirrhosis in the finale, and then have Season 7 basically be Profit '69 starring Bob Benson.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
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, 18 June 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
what became of Bob's Joan crush? come to think of it there hasn't been much of Joan at all of late.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
it wasn't a crush, it was his usual sucking up. she did end up saving his job, after all (not that he knows about that)
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
Better to have a desperate, lying Golden Boy who feels like he’s forever in your debt for keeping his secret than to have one who never quite trusted you because you didn’t. Pete knows that the Bobs and Dons of the world can charm their way through almost anything and that he’d do well to hitch himself to a rising star (EVERYBODY in Bert’s office defended Bob to Pete) rather than trying to shoot it out of the sky.
this seems otm to me (with the caveat that the senior partners were defending continuity on the account rather than bob himself, but hey 80% of success is showing up i guess)
in hindsight, bob-as-young-don was telegraphed pretty clearly wasn't it?
― discreet, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
Saying it won't wash now, but that first scene in the elevator with Don made me recall (maybe unconsciously) the flashback Don/Roger scene.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
Bob has yet to demonstrate Don's flair for creative problem-solving but we'll see
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
He has potential for creative problem-starting, though.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Misread as problem-staring. But he's got that, too.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
me too
His goofy smile in the elevator reminded me of the flashback of don in the elevator with roger.
― mizzell, Tuesday, April 9, 2013 12:19 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
xp
― mizzell, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
So Pete is going to be Bob's Roger?
― silverfish, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
He'll certainly be cupping more balls than Roger did.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
I just noticed that James Wolk, who plays Bob, was the star of the very short-lived but critically acclaimed Lone Star, where he played a guy who secretly had two families.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if we're going to get a Bob flashback (has any other character had one of those, besides Don?)
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
i liked lone star for the one episode it ran
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
xpost Roger had a flashback involving Don, as did Peggy.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
the flashback that explained how don came to work at sterling cooper included a scene between joan and roger that don wasn't in
― mizzell, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
ah yeah I couldn't remember if it was Don or Roger having that one
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
― dan selzer, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:19 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Thanks for posting, these are amazing.
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
their commentary has been uniformly great
altho tbf they tagged Bob as gay, but not as an out-and-out fraud (which they admit)
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
their reasoning was A+ tho
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― ryan, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
for those who would like to selectively review old episodes, season 1 episode 7 is joan's cutest look EVER
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
I like the new SC&P logo
http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/51c081d669bedd9306000003-560-863/press%20release.jpeg
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― pareidolia, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 03:39 (eleven years ago) link