Peggy stabbing Abe was dumb. They should have let the bursts of unexpected gore start and end with the lawnmower. As a recurring motif it gets stilly.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, May 27, 2013 1:21 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
stabbings are some of my fav parts of this show
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
it felt like a really silly way to break up Abe and Peggy. I mean, of all the things.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
but what is life if not punctuated by bursts of unexpected gore?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
I don't understand hating on the stabbing. I was dying laughing at the broomstick w/ knife spear as soon as I saw it.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
I guess I just don't buy Peggy as being quite the hapless wreck she's become in that apartment. She's an outer borough girl, she's not some shrinking violet.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
was the stabbing thing a shout out to "side effects"?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
j/k
spoilers and shit
was curious about the historical background for peggy's new apartment and the gentrification of the upper west side, and i found this article from 1969. a pretty interesting read: http://nymag.com/news/features/47182/
― ryan, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
if she didn't stab him, he couldn't have explained that he wasn't breaking up with her because she stabbed him. that was what made it work.
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
― ryan, Monday, May 27, 2013 9:37 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
thank you! will read. did you notice this was written by the guy who wrote goodfellas?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
It is an area in which Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis sends her son to a school that is within a block and a half of a Japanese supermarket, an Israeli coffee house with a floor show, a gypsy palmist, a hardware store specializing in "Bueno Bargains," an excellent Jewish delicatessen (Gitlitz), a pizzeria, a Lebanese restaurant (Uncle Tonoose) and a religious-articles store that sells evil-eye repellents, love potions and numerology books.
― leno dunham (get bent), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
i want to live in that sentence.
reveal of silent Harry Crane in the first meeting was so good
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
re: outer borough girls...parts of the outer boroughs were, and still are, essentially the suburbs.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
first few paragraphs of that article feature a bit of gay-baiting too, ouch.
it was published literally TWO DAYS AFTER STONEWALL. whoa.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
Befitting this most recent episode's maladroit lesbian subplot.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 05:15 (eleven years ago) link
i thought that was a great but excruciating episode. i have such foreboding about everything that happened, from betty and don, to the stabbing of abe, to peggy and ted, to the continued misery of meghan. poor, poor meghan.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 06:48 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking of Stonewall...you think Sal may make an appearance before the finale? Midge, Duck, Freddy and Paul were all resurrected for an episode or two, after all.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 07:00 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think he will but I hope he will. Who would he show up to interact with?
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 07:11 (eleven years ago) link
Don runs out of women, seeks Sal out after seeing Midnight Cowboy.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 07:15 (eleven years ago) link
Awesome to see Duck again btw
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 09:33 (eleven years ago) link
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:00 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"i have strong feelings both ways"
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, May 28, 2013 2:00 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sal wasn't really the type of frequent a place like stonewall. more of a working-class bar AFAIK.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
You know the only place he's frequenting c. 1968 is an early grave.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
so what's up with Bob lying about his dad
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
huh?
― Bob Bunsen (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, he said his dad was dead in the first ep of the season
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
and then this episode Bob told Pete this doctor/nurse he was recommending had nursed his dad to health
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
BACK to health
also: Peggy hasn't hit bottom yet imho, she still has to get the "I told you so" speech from her mother
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
His father is a Bunn coffeemaker. xp
― ...also i'm awesome (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Surely someone can be nursed back to health and then die at a later date.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
But wasn't it suggested that the nurse had just nursed Bob's dad back from the brink, thus he was available? It's possible though that Bob was just fibbing to save Pete's blushes over offering him help on the nursing front.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
nah, there's something wrong with that dude.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
the whole point of that character is for him to eventually drop the other shoe
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
it's possible that the other shoe is SURPRISE he's a good guy and he's gonna make joan happy forever but i am inclined to doubt it
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Peggy's mom will also, I'm sure, mention her daughter's age age in one of those discussions where her middle name also gets an airing.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
I've been thinking of Bob as a sort of male version of Meghan - a wide-eyed, essentially good-hearted naif who is being set up to be swallowed whole by the soul-sucking joylessness of the advertising world
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
except the actor plays him as way more ingratiating and obseqious
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
I think he's the anti-Draper in the sense that he's working under an alias for nefarious purposes. Don't know which nefarious purposes yet, but...
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
it's possible that the other shoe is SURPRISE there's a funny smell coming from Bob's basement
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
bob
http://cdnl.complex.com/mp/620/400/80/0/bb/1/ffffff/7b9d779ed56e23e7e3d7e860829167b3/images_/assets/CHANNEL_IMAGES/POP_CULTURE/2012/10/the-30-rock-season-premiere-best-lines/30rockhazelcopy2_345705.jpg
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
<3 YES
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
in five years we'll all either be working for him or dead by his hand
― From the home of the underground railway and stuff (symsymsym), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
something that was keeping me up last night: how many of the characters are actually *from* NYC/NJ? how many of them have "new york" accents?
peggy's from brooklyn -- no accent.ginsberg's from the lower east side i think -- heavy accent.pete is a manhattanite -- he has an old-timey upper east side cartoon villain mcmoneybags accentjaguar guy is from jersey iirc -- he has the accent
i don't know the rosens' backstory but their accents are more generic.
― leno dunham (get bent), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
An exchange from Season 4:
Peggy: Are you from Brooklyn? Abe: I am. Peggy: Me, too. Abe: I don't hear it. Peggy: One more drink and it'll come out.
― i, norbit (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Peggy's mom totally has the accent
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
i grew up in brooklyn and i don't have an accent, but my parents (native new yorkers) totally do.
― leno dunham (get bent), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link