fuck all y'all i'm a peggy/stan shipper, steggy 4 lyfe.
― reddening, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
our logo is a stegosaurus wearing a tan fringed jacket
― reddening, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
lololol
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link
...or Betty's!
her eating disorders were brought up a few times, eg Bobby assuming she wouldn't eat the sandwich
― Gritty Shakur (sic), Thursday, 1 May 2014 00:54 (ten years ago) link
Molly Lambert has been killing it re Mad Men this season over at Grantland. Worth checking out. She's developing a VERY interesting voice in these reviews/critiques, and she seems to take the time to develop a take on most things in most episodes, which for me aides my enjoyment of the show.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 1 May 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
otm - I've loved her Mad Men reviews even when she was doing them back at thisrecording some years back, and they've only gotten better since.
― Roz, Friday, 2 May 2014 04:56 (ten years ago) link
Don drunk and w/Freddy - ew.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 May 2014 02:52 (ten years ago) link
Freddy saved the day!
Has Bert ever been that hateful before? Jesus.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 May 2014 03:11 (ten years ago) link
Bert is a Randian. Makes sense, I think.
― DonkeyTeeth, Monday, 5 May 2014 04:05 (ten years ago) link
http://previously.tv/m/2014-05-04-mad-men-stare-anim.gif
― balls, Monday, 5 May 2014 06:03 (ten years ago) link
Watched with the idea that Don is taking everyone down with him but dropped the idea after Freddy handed him the line.
― *tera, Monday, 5 May 2014 06:11 (ten years ago) link
i really just wanted all the marigold stuff to be over with so we could get back to don and his crazy orbit. the show doesn't handle the counterculture well.
― nurse with attitude (get bent), Monday, 5 May 2014 06:24 (ten years ago) link
the show doesn't handle the counterculture well.
It really doesn't; this was even worse than when Betty went to the lower east side. I assume the only reason we didn't hear someone on the commune say, "Hey, who brought John Q. Establishment from Squaresville?" when Roger arrived is because it didn't make the final edit.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 5 May 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
I don't at all like the idea of Don in AA.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 May 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
i do!
― balls, Monday, 5 May 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
He emerges in 1970 as a proto-Romney.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 May 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
wrong draper
― balls, Monday, 5 May 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
I understand there was "Meet the Mets"
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 May 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
mittens = these guys
http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/daily/vulture/2012/03/26/26_bobbydraper.jpg
― balls, Monday, 5 May 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
The first time Don went to the office was once again so greatly filmed. The first symmetrical shots, the silent horror in the empty office. Also, lol at Don throwing the mets stuff in the trash, then the next time we see it it is hanging on the wall. The editing of this show is so great.
― Frederik B, Monday, 5 May 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
Amazing episode
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 May 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
Ginsburg's couch full of farts line cracked me up
― Dan I., Monday, 5 May 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
commune stuff was lolz. don drunk at the office was painful, just wanted to look away from the flailing desperation. loved his stoneface when he got his assignment from Peggy.
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 May 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
loved his stoneface when he got his assignment from Peggy.
^ this! It was perfection.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 May 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
The first symmetrical shots, the silent horror in the empty office. Also, lol at Don throwing the mets stuff in the trash, then the next time we see it it is hanging on the wall. The editing of this show is so great.
― Frederik B, Monday, May 5, 2014 11:17 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also chucking his typewriter against the window, end of ep hes working on the typewriter
― johnny crunch, Monday, 5 May 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
and the Hollies! ref'ing back to his Kodak slide projector pitch
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 May 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
been killing it with the music this season imho
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 May 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
I hope this season is not as dumb as it looks in this picture
http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/upload/wire/2014/05/05/a11c0df2_f0eb_9342_5f08_f267b89ea443_MM_704_JM_1212_0445/lead_large.jpg
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Monday, 5 May 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
Ginsberg only owns two shirts
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 May 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
yeah hollies' 'on a carousel' was so perfect
― balls, Monday, 5 May 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
I thought it was a little on-the-nose, but eh, who cares, Bobby Elliott rules.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 5 May 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
heeey, finally started watching this season and catching up
Seeing Don throw the typewriter and get shitfaced at the office was depressing as hell. I've got to hand it to Joel Murray, his Rumsen-presenting-Draper performance was excellent. It'll be great if we get to see Draper-as-Draper in the series again, but no one is going to let Don do that for now.
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 5 May 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
I appreciate that I really have no idea where this is going, what the endgame is for Don etc. Obviously he's got to remove a few obstacles (Lou, and Cutler to a lesser extent, possibly Crane) before he's anywhere near back on top. But maybe that just isn't gonna happen and this is going to be a total downward spiral ending.
Bert being super-harsh not entirely unwarranted or uncharacteristic. He's pragmatic, above all else.
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 May 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
Lou is the worst sort of middle manager. I don't think the dude has any idea what is good. SCP really seems dated with Lou not giving a shit about awards or creativity.
I kind of thinks this ties back to the question the business school guy had for Joan -- how many of their accounts are on contract, and how many are on commission? The ration went from zero commissions sixteen years ago to 50% commission now. If they're just churning out shit work, half their business is going to melt away.
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 5 May 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
ratio, rather
In the early 1970s, the chain introduced first the Funburger, followed by the Funmeal, with specially-printed packaging that included stories about Burger Chef and Jeff's adventures and friends (including the magician Burgerini, vampire Count Fangburger, talking ape Burgerilla, and Cackleburger the witch), with riddles, puzzles, and small toys.
I had never heard of this chain before
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 May 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
I can see this show making Don work his ass off getting back in the good graces of the SC&P people only to have to company fold simply by virtue of being old and out of touch.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 May 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
There was a Burger Chef close to my house when I was a kid, and I remember their Funmeals once came in the shape of a Indy-style racecar (it was just a molded plastic lid on a cardboard box, but I remember it vividly for some reason).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 May 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
it seems like a company with Joan, Peggy and Crane on top is the logical direction - where Don fits into that scheme is not clear
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 May 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
great ep. said this a bunch of times, but they've done so much great work with the characters over the seasons that they can pretty much just thrust them into sorta contrived situations (don working for peggy!) and let them write themselves and it's compelling as hell.
― ryan, Monday, 5 May 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
that tim conway show they mentioned - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn-On_(TV_series)
― balls, Monday, 5 May 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
Liked don reading Portnoy's Complaint
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 5 May 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
more convincing than Don reading Inferno.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 May 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link
ah was wondering what that was, I couldn't make it out
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 May 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
The network eventually replaced Turn On with a revival of The King Family Show. The controversy led ABC to reject a pilot written by Norman Lear, stating that the lead character was "foul-mouthed, and bigoted", out of fear that it might anger its affiliates again. CBS liked it, picked it up as All in the Family, and began airing it in 1971.
HA.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 May 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
I wanna see this now
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 May 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
an affiliate deciding to just not come back from commercial is hilarious
― balls, Monday, 5 May 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
Chuck McCann! was a legendary TV kids' comic/host, still kickin' around at the Friars Club in NYC
I think I may be appearing as a child pedestrian this season
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 May 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
sorta contrived situations (don working for peggy!)
contrived or not this is a top-5 t.v. series run-extender principle
― j., Monday, 5 May 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, May 5, 2014 12:57 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not a whole lot to go on, but I'd watch the shit out of this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zny4LxAC0C8
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 5 May 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link