the easy way to do it would be to just straight rip off the most brilliant advertising ideas of yesteryear
"it's toasted"
(yes, i know)
― thomp, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 07:44 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i was kinda under the impression she wasn't so happy in her relationship. then she got all excited for his proposal? message: all girls want to be married at heart, even peggy?
― Mordy, Monday, April 30, 2012 8:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i know this is way upthread, but if theres one thing i cant stand its that this complex, interesting, multi-dimensional character is being expected to stand in for all women, & its what really grates abt the political arguments against this
― man down (D-40), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 07:48 (twelve years ago) link
anyway yeah loved this ep
and my first surreal conversion moment was definitely when january jones goes out in the back yard & shoots at the pigeons in s1
― man down (D-40), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 07:49 (twelve years ago) link
don's name carries weight in the ad world and that he has a mystique
Hard to say how much of this is to do with his talent, and how much with his gargantuan charisma.
I wonder if Roger was obliged to, er, return Marie's favour?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 10:57 (twelve years ago) link
srsly the way some of you come running to bat for this show the moment someone says something even half-critical about it makes community fanboys look reasonable
― Mordy, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
I think you guys are giving advertising too much credit.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
Like there is a Sgt. Pepper of advertising or something.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
I thought there was a direct parallel between Joan congratulating Peggy and saying that it was great she was moving in, without being engaged, and Peggy congratulating Megan. They both seemed really honest, but maybe both congratulators just wanted to really mean it?
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
It's the Purina Chuck Wagon tv commercial. The idea of the dog following the miniature covered wagon through the kitchen had its roots in Stockhausen's "Gesang der Jünglinge."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah Peggy was really enthused, Megan just didn't care that much, or found the victory kinda hollow, because she's probably better than SCDP or for that matter advertising.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
well, and the fact that she could be delivering gold every meeting and people would dismiss it as "eh, boss's wife"
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, felt more like Megan is just stepping on egg shells (or whatever the appropriate folksy saying is) and that she is painfully self-aware of how others in the office see her and may be jealous. Hence also trying to pass off the idea to Don. But yeah Matt probably OTM and this is maybe a bit of her father coming through.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
xp but no one was doing that in the episode--she was actually being given proper and sincere credit and just wasn't feelin it
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
Megan's dad is a great character
for some reason he was REALLY reminding me of Max Von Sydow in Hannah and Her Sisters
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
but no one was doing that in the episode
this struck me as very odd tbh. suddenly the place is a meritocracy?
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, other than the actual client thinking it was Don and Don also doing the "you should shake her hand" thing
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
I loved Megan's dad's Sartre specs.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
I liked his subtly breaking Don's balls -- "Bobby is helping me refill my fountain pen"
Draper family 2, white carpet 0
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
Megan just didn't care that much, or found the victory kinda hollow, because she's probably better than SCDP or for that matter advertising.
I wouldn't necessarily say "better" but I think she's realizing advertising is not fulfilling for her in any way. She probably thought that since she'd been striking out in terms of getting acting work that she could get satisfaction from another ostensibly creative field but it hasn't worked out that way.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
i think stan said something at first, when he came back to his office. besides that, did we see anyone talking about it when don wasn't around?
― danny houellebecq (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
well, Peggy and Megan
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
and in that case it's clear Peggy knew it would be a total dick-move to be less than enthusiastic
tbf Joan knew it'd be a dick move to be less than enthusiastic about Peggy shacking up, too
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
yeah there were obvious parallels there
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
― Mordy, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 7:14 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
asking that a multi-dimensional character (is this really hyperbole or something to you??) be allowed to not represent all women isnt 'being a fanboy'
― man down (D-40), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
i realized while watching this that they've made stan way more likable than he was when he was first introduced. i like that dude now!
people are reading a lot more into how peggy congratulated megan than i did. i just thought her mind was elsewhere. it's easy to be nice when you're putting your competitiveness on the back burner while you deal with other stuff.
peggy puts too much stock into how events that should be personally significant will be perceived at large. it goes back to her obsession with being a modern, worldly city girl, and it's the same stuff with her looking to joan to tell her how to feel about moving in with abe.
― phantompenguin, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
Stan has definitely become much more appealing
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah he's funny.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
i love glen. he's like the loaded gun you see go in to the desk drawer in the 1st act.
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder if there will ever be a Stan episode. Ginsberg has already had more character dev.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
I quite like him in a comic relief position, a bit like a more knowing Kinsey.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
hmm yeah he does kinda have a similar role to Kinsey (who was also one-half of a "team" with Peggy)
gr8080 otm about Glen
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
glen and sally being phone pals is pretty great
― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
LOVE Sally's "she tripped over one of Gene's toys"
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
that was totally a Betty Draper move! only Sally is even sneakier
― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
loved the roger/sally stuff. thought this was a brilliant episode, they're just mining this surreal banality thing really fucking hard now and it's paying off bigtime.
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
what's the age difference between sally/glen?
― phantompenguin, Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
3 or 4 years i think?
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
creepily large
― arsenio and old ma$e (m bison), Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vjdXz.jpg
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
he talked about taking trig, so he's probably either a junior or senior in high school.
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
he's probably 16, she's probably... 12?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 3 May 2012 07:29 (twelve years ago) link
re-watched this episode lol'd at Peggy's "I do" answer when asked if they should eat, irony escaped me the first time around
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
He's not known as Creepy Glen for nothing.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://maxgif.com/cS
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 May 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Just watched the last episode-new fave!
Thought the whole Megan & Don bean pitch was very Samantha & Darren Stevens though.
Loved Pete!
― *tera, Sunday, 6 May 2012 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
The cast is on Inside the Actors Studio in a few weeks. Pretty stoked.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss71/fabrickd/MMITAS.jpg
― Darin, Sunday, 6 May 2012 06:53 (twelve years ago) link
Hate that show but I'd probably watch that.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Sunday, 6 May 2012 07:02 (twelve years ago) link
who is the blonde on the right, january jones?
― Bad Company's Drummer's Daughter (stevie), Sunday, 6 May 2012 09:11 (twelve years ago) link