Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

Hate that show but I'd probably watch that.

who is the blonde on the right, january jones?

I guess, though I can't imagine her actually laughing.

oh my god it's a gilmore girl??

fb update from a friend: "Rory Gilmore you get back to Star's Hollow right this instant! You'll always be too young for Pete Campbell."

i don't think i love the beatles montage

Well, there goes the budget for the rest of the season...

ginsberg bringing the lols.

campbell was incredible this ep

It's incredible that he was able to seduce a gilmore girl, yes.

Also, Mr. Belding really let himself go.

I think she was in a headspace to fuck anyone who didn't have two heads. Pete was lucky. And now he's a stalker. Except, wtf was that heart in the foggy glass? This has disaster written all over it, except this is Mad Men...so we'll probably never see anything about it ever again.

Peggy failing at the banter slayed me.

The Beatles montage at the end was a bit on the nose but I thought it worked pretty well.

pete in the hotel room also great.

Also "on the nose" endings are awesome and adorable. I like it when shows aren't afraid of artifice. That's always been a mad men strength.

Also, Mr. Belding really let himself go.

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was it really Mr. Belding?

i saw "mr. belding" references on twitter and not having seen much saved by the bell i thought it might be a reference to the ad agency foote, cone & belding.

also, i'm drunk right now; been gulping manhattans for two hours.

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Hey hey hey, what is going on here?

(The answer is apparently a lot of non-dairy whipped topping)

poor peggy, she really got a lot of shit heaped on her this episode, with the "pizza house" phone calls and don calling her jealous and messing up the tag line with cool whip... the writers just did not want to let her win.

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lolled so hard at "pizza house"

and they are pushing the dramatic parallels thing so hard this season. i like it, but it's starting to feel overdone.

alexis bledel is really pretty, huh.

expect we'll be seeing trudy pretty soon, probably at the office.

Context is everything, of course, but her face has a very 50s/60s quality about it that I'd never realized before.

also, don puts the needle down near the opening of the side but the song is at the end of the side!

i suspect this will become a major plot point.

apparently bledel is actually 30 years old but no way does she look it.

"i suspect this will become a major plot point."

Unlike Lost where that crazy version of RAW POWER where "Search & Destroy" is IN THE MIDDLE OF RECORD and they just never mentioned it again.

also, don puts the needle down near the opening of the side but the song is at the end of the side!

I thought they got this right actually...? when he lifts up the needle it's at the end of the record

yeah, and i thought he put the needle down more towards the middle/end. maybe i need to rewatch, but megan did make a big point about how don had to play this one particular song.

loved the bit with the elevator

yeah, and i thought he put the needle down more towards the middle/end. maybe i need to rewatch, but megan did make a big point about how don had to play this one particular song.

She said, "Start with this one," which the Beatles themselves did, as that was the first song they recorded for Revolver.

lol @ Don telling Roger he doesn't want Megan to end up like her mother

I'm watching this episode pretending Roger is taking acid every time he's off-screen.

Tomorrow Never Knows was a great closer to this episode, which takes place around october of 1966, so we see the 'early 60's' coming to a close here; basically, along with Roger's acid trip a while back, Megan laying on her back in the acting class, the elevator thing....it feels like shit is about to get weird, as I like to imagine everything did the second 1967 rolled around.

100% love Megan now btw.

The Beatles thing was so cool. Maybe the fading into the other stuff was kinda eh but it's so great that they were looking for something to replace the Beatles, ended up with that 30-year-old song, and then when he finally hears them it's mind-bending sounds from The Future.

The rain was foreboding enough...then that elevator thing. Totally over the top ominous foreshadowing but awesome.

And moments like Harry coming to the phone booth because Pete opened the door after they made eye contact then arguing over who initiated...that's why I watch Mad Men.

Regarding the Beatles...Don takes the record off halfway and walks out of the room. He's not impressed with the present/future? The music continued for everyone else.

And moments like Harry coming to the phone booth because Pete opened the door after they made eye contact then arguing over who initiated...that's why I watch Mad Men.

this was awesome, biggest laugh of the episode for me

He's not impressed with the present/future? The music continued for everyone else.

last shot was of Don leaving the room. the music continued over the credits.

and yeah, clearly turning his back on the new generation. He was raised in the 30s! His biggest dream was indoor plumbing lol

Well he also didn't take the acid. But I'm impressed that they're keeping him more than a one-dimensional fuddy duddy. He's clearly ambivalent about Megan's acting dream but he also seems to realize the respect it deserves.

Makes me think of in the Zappa autobio how he characterized the music industry at the time: old out-of-touch dudes smoking cigars and saying "I don't know what this racket is, but it's what the kids love and it sells"

my reaction to the use of the Beatles went from incredulity --> lol of course, MONTAGE! pot smoking! okay this is a little obvious --> Don taking off the record = point made, perfect

And moments like Harry coming to the phone booth because Pete opened the door after they made eye contact then arguing over who initiated...that's why I watch Mad Men.

yeah, this was great. such a perfect snapshot of guilty paranoia, trying so hard to seem "normal" that everything goes weird.

joan's dismissal of megan was awesome too.

I think Joan is mostly otm about Megan and Don. I like the friendship that she has built up with Peggy this season.

they have an interesting dynamic going on - Joan seems to acknowledge their natural affinity for one another, but otherwise the friendship seems driven by Peggy's need for advice/to spout off. Joan never comes to her about anything. She mentioned her (ex)husband only in passing for ex.

Makes me think of in the Zappa autobio how he characterized the music industry at the time: old out-of-touch dudes smoking cigars and saying "I don't know what this racket is, but it's what the kids love and it sells"

Also the anecdote from "Easy Riders..." about studio execs in '67 wanting to "make movies about nothing, like that Blow-Up picture."

Which reminds me of Don being an Artfilm buff back in the early days (bonding with Bobbie Barrett over Hiroshima mon amour).

did people ever really eat cool whip straight? serious question.

Morbius to thred

uh every child of the 70s did that at some point, I'm sure