disastermouse
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"You should see what you look like." Halluci-Pfc Dinkins
Don falls off a building at the beginning of every show.
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Mad Men - Season 6 - Sundays on AMC
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"You should see what you look like." Halluci-Pfc Dinkins
Don falls off a building at the beginning of every show.
Mr. Saturn
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I always took the opening credits to be about loss of control and feeling overwhelmed by everything, hence the floor opening up and the silhouetted man falling and all of advertisements that are seen as the man falls.
I wouldn't be surprised if you're right about that though.
petethepanda
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Anyone watching dvr'd on directv this week have their recording wind up standard def? No idea why this happened.
SteveWinwood
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I think the Sharon Tate/Megan theory holds up a bit because the show has been focusing on a lot of the violence happening around them in this time period.....it's preparing you for something to happen to someone, and I don't think Abe getting robbed and stabbed was the end of it.
Edit: If not Megan, someone faces some kind of violence near the end of the season.....too much foreshadowing for them not to.
Edit: If not Megan, someone faces some kind of violence near the end of the season.....too much foreshadowing for them not to.
disastermouse
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When did this happen?? I must have missed it somehow.
Ken getting stuck with Bob is hilarious, actually.
disastermouse
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You talking about Abe getting stabbed?
Last episode.
I was browsing Gaf on my phone when I watched. LOL.
BannedEpisode
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I was waiting for Ginsberg to reveal that he was born in a concentration camp during his argument.
Cornballer
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Just checked and mine is fine.
Supermanisdead
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Ginsberg is gonna kill Bob Benson.
Everything this show is gimmicky as hell *. It's the execution that makes it what it is. The death symbolism is just getting thicker and thicker as the show goes on, I think it's silly to think it won't lead to anything.
* Someone got their foot run over with a lawnmower at an office party once, for crying out loud.
Bunsen is going down the elevator shaft double fisting café.
I will have my closure with that damn elevator shaft before this series finishes its run!
Once we found out last night that Don and Roger were meeting Harry in LA, I thought, this could be it....but the timing doesn't fit. We're in 68', the murder's happened in 69'. Perhaps next season on a follow up trip?
Rosemarie's Baby was released in 68' and the photo of Tate in the tee was shot on the set of that picture. That's likely the only connection with Megan and that red star shirt. I think people are reading to far into it.
Something terrible is going to happen, but I doubt it'll involve a parallel to the Manson Murders.
I will have my closure with that damn elevator shaft before this series finishes its run!
Once we found out last night that Don and Roger were meeting Harry in LA, I thought, this could be it....but the timing doesn't fit. We're in 68', the murder's happened in 69'. Perhaps next season on a follow up trip?
Rosemarie's Baby was released in 68' and the photo of Tate in the tee was shot on the set of that picture. That's likely the only connection with Megan and that red star shirt. I think people are reading to far into it.
Something terrible is going to happen, but I doubt it'll involve a parallel to the Manson Murders.
Just saw Sunday's episode. Lots of babes in this one! I didn't like the fact that Don "tripped" from smoking hash, that would never happen. There had to have been a full 10 minutes of Pete complaining throughout the episode.
Also, was that Danny guy actually in the show at one point? I don't remember him. If they were going to see someone they knew when they went to California, I wish it could have been those people Don met the first time he went. Claus the doctor, that girl Joy, etc.
Good episode all around though!
Edit: Can we come to a consensus on this Bob Benson/Bunson thing? I heard a pretty clear Benson this episode, but there are a good number of people on here using the "u".
Also, was that Danny guy actually in the show at one point? I don't remember him. If they were going to see someone they knew when they went to California, I wish it could have been those people Don met the first time he went. Claus the doctor, that girl Joy, etc.
Good episode all around though!
Edit: Can we come to a consensus on this Bob Benson/Bunson thing? I heard a pretty clear Benson this episode, but there are a good number of people on here using the "u".
I'm not sure what the timeline has to do with anything. No one's suggesting that Megan *is* Sharon Tate. The show has gone to pains to avoid trodding all over actual history and that'd be a pretty huge break from reality.
A lot of stuff is piling up, though.
We need a montage of Pete complaining throughout the series.
Schattenjäger
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What hasn't anyone made a big deal about Danny Siegel ? That was hilarious
Leona Lewis
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It's Benson, but like with Chaugh-uh-uh, Roger's derisive names are more fun to use.
Because the show seems to revel in doing cameos for characters no one cares about. I want to know what Sal's up to :-(Schattenjäger;61096577 said:
brianjones
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he was jane (roger's ex wife) cousin
don stole his idea and gave him a job for it iirc
i was wondering about don tripping
He was a relative of Roger's during his second marriage that Don had to interview as a favour. You might remember Don and Peggy interviewing him and finding out that his portfolio was simply a scrapbook of ads he really liked.
He was working at SCDP for a while until they had that big round of layoffs. He was one of the first to go.
slightconfuse
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i feel the Don in the present day theory is still valid for some reason
brianmcdoogle
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Maybe Sal and Kinsey become a romantic couple in Hollywood, and return to New York to plot their revenge against Don, but while trying to kill him, they accidentally push Pete into the elevator shaft?
Get the teleplay to Weiner immediately.
Supermanisdead
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Ew Sal could do much better.
brianmcdoogle
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I'll send it along with my final episode spec where it ends with old man Don, in the 1990s, in the headquarters of McDonald's giving his one final pitch for their new campaign: The Arch Deluxe.
Ignatz Mouse
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Don wasn't tripping on hash, that was an oxygen-deprived hallucination. I've passed out a few times and that sleepy/happy feeling was what that seemed like to me.
-Pyromaniac-
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Or it was just spiked. These are hippies we're talking about during a time where drug experimentation was heavy.
Ignatz Mouse
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Too close to home! I worked McD's corporate during those years!
Trent Strong
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I'd make a good husband, Jenny.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Yeah, that was goddamn weird.
Cornballer
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- IGN review
- NY Mag: This Week's Mad Men Was All About Second Chances
- Slate commentary: Part 2, Part 3
- NY Mag: This Week's Mad Men Was All About Second Chances
- Slate commentary: Part 2, Part 3
BenjaminBirdie
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"I have to go now. My planet needs me."
Note: Ginsberg died on his way back to his home planet
StopMakingSense
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It's another one of those 'signs of the times' things like the polluting thing. Rape used to be acceptably joked about back then. Really weird, but true.
Steelyuhas
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So I watched this Sunday night, but thanks to a particular episode of Game of Thrones, I have next to no memory of what actually happened on Mad Men lol.
Going to have to rewatch this week.
Going to have to rewatch this week.
Red Liquorice
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/coffee spit.
Cornballer
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It's well worth a rewatch, like usual. I took another look last night and got a lot more out of it - particularly the Peggy/Joan conversations.
Bobby Roberts
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He's Herb Tarlek from WKRP in Cincinnati.
So far as the "Sharon Tate" stuff goes - I don't think anyone who is nosing around that theory honestly thinks Megan is a Sharon Tate STAND-IN, or that the writers are going to 1-for-1 "ripped from the headlines" Law & Order-style insert a Helter Skelter remake into Mad Men. But Sharon Tate is being used as shorthand for a similar sense of unease and foreboding. What that could translate to in terms of plotting is up for debate, but I don't think anyone's actually pushing forward the notion that what happened to Sharon Tate is EXACTLY what's going to happen with Megan in EXACTLY the same way.
Ignatz Mouse
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This has been said before, but it is so, so, so wrong.
BenjaminBirdie
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I actually thought Mad Men was more tense this week lol
ZedIndyLil
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I think Harry Hamlin killed it in the last ep. He's actually built up some good character work in recent years.
Bobby Roberts
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So wrong it's RIGHT!
(who said it before? Was it me? Most people I know don't even remember WKRP)
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