yeah all the gearheads had a big laugh when mad men landed the account - http://jalopnik.com/the-joke-behind-mad-mens-new-secret-chevy-account-493087484
― balls, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 00:58 (ten years ago) link
oh man that's fantastic
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 01:08 (ten years ago) link
It's funnier that they went with the Vega as opposed to the Pinto, which has the more famous disaster story. Although Ford could have been game, as they've been selling Pinto emblem t shirts recently.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 01:09 (ten years ago) link
shades of the invite to the sterling daughter wedding
http://tinypinepress.com/wp-live/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/madmen-screenshot1.jpg
― balls, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
Would that Mad Men could be on long enough to get to where irony is the easiest sell of all.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
XP That one reminded me of the gag in Diner where we find out the couple is going to Cuba for their honeymoon at the exact moment Castro's revolution kicked into high gear.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 01:14 (ten years ago) link
"In a world where Irony is the easiest sell of all..."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 01:15 (ten years ago) link
... one man ...
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link
Can I be a pedantic print geek and suggest that it looks like that invitation is letterpress printed, which is currently the trend and no doubt a fine way to present yourself (Sheffield Product) but back then for people like that, and even now, I'd think it would be much more likely to be engraved.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 01:21 (ten years ago) link
it's like kennedy's braaaaains before yr wedding day a free riiide in a rusted chevrolet
― balls, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 01:23 (ten years ago) link
I keep (apparently mis)remembering Megan having told Don to fuck off for good, but it seems not.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 01:23 (ten years ago) link
Like every time I see them being all lovely I'm like 'surely this marriage ended a few episodes ago'.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 01:25 (ten years ago) link
She did exactly that, but he kept calling and after a while she started not hanging up and then began listening to him talk and then started responding. I think the show has left it up to the viewer to connect the dots, because there wasn't any pivotal "Okay, I'll you back, shitty husband I love!" scene.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 02:38 (ten years ago) link
after months of thinking i was kinda over this show i just sessioned the last five episodes over the course of this evening so i guess i still like it. it's both quite comforting and increasingly disorientingly odd. poor ginsberg, a presumably permanent disappearance even less dignified than that of sal.
also i had a mild mad men quip retweeted by molly lambert and my notifications went craaazy for a few minutes, dunno how people with lots of followers who produce actual good tweets can keep up with the twitter experience.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 02:48 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, he's gone. He's got a show in the fall. On NBC. So...he may be back.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 02:56 (ten years ago) link
I like how this show is structured, how characters kind of flitter in and out of the story. But it's been very disorienting to follow and I think binge watching may end up being the best way to see the show when all is said and done.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 03:02 (ten years ago) link
Though watching it as they slow-drip out the last season it pretty fun. Each episode is like an episode of musical chairs.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
i want a spinoff buddy comedy starring the computer and ginsberg's nipple.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
Good catch w the IBM/holocaust connection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 03:06 (ten years ago) link
In other news, Bob Benson's show w/Buffy & Popeye got cancelled, so he could return w/coffee, Vegas, Pete awkwardness etc.
Although I have enjoyed him as an unseen presence this season.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 03:07 (ten years ago) link
i'm wondering if the split-season was planned before the writing. if so maybe there'll be a cliffhanger.
anyone know the significance of the 'New York Film Festival 1964' poster on Peggy's office wall?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 03:26 (ten years ago) link
a token of handjobs of yore
― balls, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link
saul bass design, presumably a tip to the master
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link
and there's an xp for you
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 03:29 (ten years ago) link
hahaha i'm imagining a vo on tcm: 'nobody could give a handjob like saul bass' *clip from the man w/ the golden arm plays*
― balls, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 03:37 (ten years ago) link
Poor Ginsberg. He had always seemed so sliiightly-fragile, the computer was all he needed to collapse totally :(. The homosexuality stuff was weird/sad too
As soon as he held out that box i knew it was a body part. tbh this is awful but I fully expected him to suicide after leaving Peggy's
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 04:35 (ten years ago) link
Geez, if I were Ginsberg I'd go publicly insane too -- considering how little he has been given to do these past couple seasons in favor of a bunch of tedious bland characters, when Ginsberg is clearly one of the best characters on this show
― sarahell, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 08:20 (ten years ago) link
Man, the scenes with Megan+Stephanie were like watching a fucking bad acting competition. Could Stephanie sound more stiff and square spouting all of that "far-out, man" dialogue? Could not wait for those scenes to end.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
She's even worse in Arrow, if you can believe it.
― Berk errs Gibbs/Ox (aldo), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
People watch Arrow?
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
nah
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
i don't get all this talk about they handle the 'counter culture'; the Roger/ LSD bit was amazing.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
*how
― piscesx, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
I thought the stiffness was kinda the point. not sure anyone sounds natural saying that stuff, it's a pretty transparent affectation--and I imagine it was in 69 too. oh well, discussing acting is sort of a bottomless hole.
― ryan, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
also how awkward the encounter was in general, like they should be a little stiff given the circumstances
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
motherfucker shows up in a doublebreasted suit, starts peeling potatoes, shit gets weird
― famous instagram God (waterface), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
yeah just like January Jones' terrible acting is now at the service of an increasingly forlorn and helpless woman.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
She's a great actress
― famous instagram God (waterface), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
to play Betty Draper--I can't imagine anyone else playing her
― famous instagram God (waterface), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
Her weaknesses are well exploited.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
http://37.media.tumblr.com/3870bf5f8f63561c1be983defe62a3c5/tumblr_n5hcqge6BT1r6epwko1_250.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/7a77095dba86a74eea2598d4184e0241/tumblr_n5hcqge6BT1r6epwko2_250.gif
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/b6ba19f39516f0af78dc672ddd43843c/tumblr_inline_mq8semIPCg1qz4rgp.gif
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
sweet rundown of the 2001 stuff. with pictures! http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/05/these-gifs-showing-the-parallels-between-mad-men-and-2001-a-space-odyssey-are-neat-as-hell/
― piscesx, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
the lip-reading shot was pretty inspired
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
tbh i think january jones is pretty terrible by the standards of super-successful actresses. betty seems to be one person in one scene, another person in another scene. jones seems to struggle to play anything but the surface of the scene, unless there's a close-up pointedly designed to signal some kind of prevarication. but when she plays out a section of a scene in a longer two-shot or master shot (that is, when she has to interact in the frame w/ other actors), she's seldom inspired.
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
i think the character of megan is just kind of underwritten.
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
also everything else i've seen january jones in (which isn't much) she's kind of a void.
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
i should add that one a show this long-running every actor is going to have good days and bad days. although I can scarcely think of any episode where John Slattery isn't in top form.
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
yeah, the cast in this in general is really high quality. Hamm always brings it. Hendricks, Kartheiser, Morse, these guys deliver in every scene imo.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 20:49 (ten years ago) link
she's a fucking monster
― famous instagram God (waterface), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link