MAD MEN on AMC - Seasons 7(a) & & 7(b)

Is that where Duck tries to take a poop on a chair??

No, that's in S5 or S6. He visits Roger about a meeting he's set up, and Roger sends him on his way: at the doorway, just before he leaves, he quickly looks to his right, then looks to his left, like he's lost--he is, and also drunk. It's the perfect summation of Duck the whole way.

Visits Pete, that should say, not Roger.

Duck trying to poop was in "The Suitcase" back in S4 iirc.

Right, right--such a famous episode. I mentioned in the Mr. Robot thread that the guy who plays Duck showed up for about two minutes in one episode.

I think I’m going to rewatch

https://dirt.substack.com/p/dirt-the-mad-men-rewatch

I looked around a bit online for an original copy of Meditations in an Emergency, but was quickly jolted into reality re the price.

S5, not S7, but I'll ask the question here: any thoughts on the way Don handles Lane's forged cheque? I think it's one of the more interesting ethical dilemmas of the show's entire run. I can see arguments on both sides. Doing some Monday morning quarterbacking, you can say it was awful that Don didn't smooth that over--Lane did help save the company, including the money of his own that he chipped in, and the $8,000 or whatever it was almost surely would have been paid back before long. On the other hand, as he explained to Lane, it could have destroyed the agency if word got to the clients, and subsequently he never let anyone else know about what Lane had done.

It's not an ethical dilemma for Don...it's some kind of dilemma.

Just finished a run through of this, great fun.

In response to above. I thought Don’s approach was very jarring, and one of many moments where suddenly SCDP went all clinical business relations over the normal free-breezy and deeply personal relations that had been the standard to that point. Very weird to see Don take what seems to be an ethical stand as well.

I was thinking about Mad Men yesterday when this came on the radio. So many perfect episode-ending songs, but this might be the one that got away for S5 or S6:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ByJ1C0iR4

https://people.com/movies/jon-hamm-and-anna-osceola-are-engaged/

Celebrity news, yes...but this detail...

Osceola, 34, appeared in the series' final episode, where she had a small role playing the receptionist at Esalen, a spiritual California retreat that Hamm's character (Don Draper) attended. At the time, Hamm, 51, was in a long-term relationship with Jennifer Westfeldt. The couple split months later after 18 years together.

Such a Draper move!

Was it her who was made to look like a double for the woman in the actual Coke commercial?

https://joycemillman.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/screen-shot-2015-05-18-at-12-48-07-pm.png

that's her:

https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/don-draper-and-anna-osceola-cat.jpg

I didn't really follow that show after the initital season, but I made sure to watch the finale since I'd heard it has some Esalen/Nepethe/Big Sur thing going on, I wanted to see how they handled it

XP OMG, that's too perfect!