who was Carla? I'm so bad with names in this show
Drapers' maid
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
agree about Roger's first wife, that's a good one
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/1027/3098sam_carla2.jpg
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Granted Trudy's a brand new mom, but she has potential.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Carla was an A+ mom :)
I feel good about Trudy as a Mommy
carla had all those kids with nick tortelli iirc
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
i picture canks as like being in prison coveralls in some sort of '30s-era juvie institution in that post
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
talking in yr sleep again dude
― balls, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
wrong thread hahaha
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
just working through some shit here guys
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
hee hee
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
omg @ betty draper dream
― moullet, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
that was very sopranos
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
but not as good
― Number None, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
it wasn't even as good as Betty's first dream sequence, but it was kinda a lackluster episode over all
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
the whole thing's been pretty lacklustre thus far.
― jed_, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
it's been two fucking episodes. sheesh.
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
feels like more
is betty's cancer going to mean that she is the nude mannequin in the promo artwork?
― fka snush (remy bean), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― balls, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
Was really surprised they picked thyroid cancer for the cancer scare. I guess it was maybe common at the time given the A-bomb blast parties and events in Vegas a decade earlier?
Acne treatments in the 60's ended up causing thyroid cancer later down the road.
― *tera, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
Hamm director.
Hamm may not have directed Betty scenes tho
not all of Carla's kids were with N. Tortelli iirc (though she did fear him during separations because he could make her pregnant with a look also iirc)
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
Footnotes of Mad Men is back in action again: http://madmenunbuttoned.com/
And sloppy X-ray-ing. Thyroid cancer is common and relatively easy to treat.
As someone who has experienced both over and under active thyroid, I knew that's what the doctor was going to say when she asked for the pills and he went for her throat. Thyroid controls metabolism, so if it's not working due to being under active or the cancer, your metabolism slows down and you gain weight. "get the kind that makes you fat" -Betty.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry about the link. Zing touch acting up.
Harry is good-natured but has a lot of weak good ol' boy-isms that he keeps trying on. It's like he is trying to look young, but already has this mentality built up so that all his jokes and references just seem dated. Kind of hilarious when he's telling a story that obviously seems pretty cool to him about Heston, and he's high and stumbling over it in a near-giddy manner, completely oblivious to the fact that he's speaking to someone who has no clue what he's talking about.
― mh, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 10:52 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
who in the hell wouldn't know who charlton heston was in 1966? that's like, i dunno, not knowing who tom hanks is now.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
more like not knowing who kevin costner is now really
― balls, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
15 year olds? Few tv channels, no home video, if you didn't see a variety of movies, you'd possibly miss out. Or it's supposed to be a "kids knew no one over 30" thing.
― mh, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I took it as the latter, he was in plenty of notable stuff in the 60s, but probably nothing that Young People would care about until Planet of the Apes.
― Boo-Yaa Too Rough International Boo-Yaa Empire (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
― balls, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 9:37 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no, costner hasn't been in a hit movie in... 10 or 15 years? heston was in e.g. el cid in 1961. he was also a prominent hollywood activist (for civil rights etc.).
i mean i can see her not really giving a shit or not having seen one of his movies (even the ten commandments?) but not having heard of guy is a little farfetched.
but whatever.
you know what' freaking far-fetched? the idea that folks at a major ad agency would not have thought to open a TV department in 1961-62. that's the one mad men plot point that strikes me as the most egregiously anachronistic.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
didn't they put hamburgers in front of the tv dept way back when?
also, yeah, her not knowing who charlton heston is kinda suprised me. heston was an a-list star at that point. be like some kid today not knowing who george clooney is, really. which isn't all that farfetched, i suppose...
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
People are dumb:http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/who-is-paul-mccartney
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
least credible thing to me abt this episode: SCDP figured the best way to enlist the rolling stones in an ad campaign would be to go to a show and try to sign the band in person. points for moxie and all, but i'm sure the stones had reps to handle such stuff, even in 1966.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Tuesday, April 3, 2012 11:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the equivalent in 1966 honestly would be the girl not knowing who i dunno al jolson is.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago) link
liked the allen klein namedrop, but was sort of hoping harry would meet up with andrew loog oldham. or was oldham out of the picture by 1966?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
Oldham sold his share of the Rolling Stones' management to Allen Klein in 1966, but continued in his role as the band's de facto manager and producer until late 1967.
I doubt Klein would have allowed people to go through anyone else but him to get to the Stones while they were in the US, and particularly while on Klein's home turf of NYC.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 05:27 (twelve years ago) link
no ways! jolson was long dead in '66, dead probably the year that girl was born, and he would have been 80 freaking years if he'd lived. he hadn't been a major cultural presence a quarter century. heston, otoh, was in his early 40s and had recently starred in several big, flagship productions, one of hollywood's biggest stars at the peak of his "mature" career. not the kind of guy most teens would be flocking to see, but still...
it makes sense to me that a lot of young people nowadays wouldn't know from paul mccartney. at this point, paul's glory days are some 30-60 years distant. that's comparable to kids in the mid 60s drawing a blank on jolson. to find a modern equivalent for kids back then blanking on heston, you'd have to find someone who first showed up about 25 years back and is still getting lead roles in blockbuster oscar bait. like say brad pitt, johnny depp or george clooney.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 05:33 (twelve years ago) link
edit: "no ways! jolson was long dead in '66, dead probably the year that girl was born, and he would have been 80 freaking years old if he'd lived. he hadn't been a major cultural presence in a quarter century."
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
the show isn't saying ALL teenagers didn't know who he was
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
I'm getting a bit tired of this show now. Also I can't stand Betty.
― We Need To Talk About Trayvon (admrl), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 06:35 (twelve years ago) link
Megan is really working my nerves ... soooo whiny!
― sarahell, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 06:51 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I like Megan
― We Need To Talk About Trayvon (admrl), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 07:00 (twelve years ago) link
haha i like Betty.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 07:00 (twelve years ago) link
AA Gill in The Sunday Times wrote that Mad Men is becoming vacuous and is a victim of its own success....but never really went into reasons WHY.
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 10:15 (twelve years ago) link
Because editor asked him to.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 10:23 (twelve years ago) link
I read that Gill piece (dunno why i do it to myself) and it seemed like his usual trolling. Also, he called Christina Hendricks "the top-heavy redhead"
― Number None, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 10:41 (twelve years ago) link
Was Gill a good critic at one point or am I just imagining it?
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 10:42 (twelve years ago) link
not in my memory anyway
― Number None, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 10:53 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not loving Megan. Well, I love her choppers but not much else.
I liked that weird awkwardness at the Heinz dinner. It seemed very underlined that this conversation would have gone a whole lot more smoothly with someone like Betty. Not that I am any great Betty fan but she can at least handle business small-talk. Whereas I dont' think Megan really gets the bigger picture ie dinner goes well = business goes well.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link