im watching Mad Men and this show makes zero fucking sense

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ethanol: Jul 13, 2007

sebmojo posted:

This is the best mad men

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNno63ZO2Lw

idgi

# ? Aug 1, 2023 15:20

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# ? May 5, 2024 12:16

Bismack Billabongo: Oct 9, 2012; Wet

Show actually whips rear end, sorry you don�t understand it OP. My favorite episode is the one where Pete and Trudy dance and make everyone else look like loving losers

# ? Aug 1, 2023 15:23

Windows 98: Nov 13, 2005; HTTP 400: Bad post

Bismack Billabongo posted:

Show actually whips rear end, sorry you don�t understand it OP. My favorite episode is the one where Pete and Trudy dance and make everyone else look like loving losers

# ? Aug 1, 2023 15:28

Bismack Billabongo: Oct 9, 2012; Wet

The doctors say he�ll never golf again��

# ? Aug 1, 2023 15:58

Southern Cassowary: Jan 3, 2023

mad men is basically matthew weiner proving he could make armin tamzarian work

anyway here's betty draper shooting carrier pigeons

# ? Aug 1, 2023 16:02

Bismack Billabongo: Oct 9, 2012; Wet

Also not to nitpick but I�m pretty sure it�s not his dad on the train platform but I haven�t watched that one in ages.

In all seriousness just keep watching the show? The end of season three rules and then seasons 4 and 5 are the best of the series IMO

# ? Aug 1, 2023 16:13

Windows 98: Nov 13, 2005; HTTP 400: Bad post

I do like that in Season 4 they decided comedy was good. His lovely old secretary is a hoot. And some other good jokes. I find myself giving a sensible chuckle every episode.

# ? Aug 1, 2023 16:30

Larry Cum Free: Jun 3, 2022; move it or lose it dillweed

If you give up on the show before hearing Jared Harris yell �he had chewing gum in his pubis!!� then idk

# ? Aug 1, 2023 16:31

mojo1701a: Oct 9, 2008; Oh, yeah. Loud and clear. Emphasis on LOUD!
~ David Lee Roth

I also just remembered Don and Lane's Night Out, which included the Great Big Texas Belt Buckle of a steak, watching Godzilla while drunk, and ending the night with a couple of escorts.

Bismack Billabongo posted:

Show actually whips rear end, sorry you don�t understand it OP. My favorite episode is the one where Pete and Trudy dance and make everyone else look like loving losers

And then had Roger put on a minstrel show for his second wife.

Bismack Billabongo posted:

Also not to nitpick but I�m pretty sure it�s not his dad on the train platform but I haven�t watched that one in ages.

In all seriousness just keep watching the show? The end of season three rules and then seasons 4 and 5 are the best of the series IMO

It was his brother. His dad was killed by a horse during the Depression.

Windows 98 posted:

I do like that in Season 4 they decided comedy was good. His lovely old secretary is a hoot. And some other good jokes. I find myself giving a sensible chuckle every episode.

Oh yeah, Season 4 is almost a different show in a lot of ways and I love it.

# ? Aug 1, 2023 16:32

Admiral Bosch: Apr 19, 2007; Who is Admiral Aken Bosch, and what is that old scoundrel up to?

"i'm high everytime i watch it and also i haven't watched the whole thing why doesn't this show make any sense"

# ? Aug 1, 2023 16:48

mojo1701a: Oct 9, 2008; Oh, yeah. Loud and clear. Emphasis on LOUD!
~ David Lee Roth

https://twitter.com/dennisbhooper/status/1686255397890617345?s=20

# ? Aug 1, 2023 16:49

Windows 98: Nov 13, 2005; HTTP 400: Bad post

Admiral Bosch posted:

"i'm high everytime i watch it and also i haven't watched the whole thing why doesn't this show make any sense"

this guy gets it

# ? Aug 1, 2023 16:51

satanic splash-back: Jan 28, 2009

This show is very boring to look at regardless of whatever plot nonsense you enjoy

# ? Aug 1, 2023 16:54

Extra Large Marge: Jan 21, 2004; Fun Shoe

Betty's arc is pretty much over, but I like having her on the show. Uhhhh, what if we just have her get really fat?

# ? Aug 1, 2023 16:55

pencilhands: Aug 20, 2022

I really enjoyed the Jon hamm episode of black mirror would I also like this show

# ? Aug 1, 2023 16:56

naem: May 29, 2011

a lot of guy�s nerdy dominate oscar watching girlfriends forced them to watch this show as it aired

so that you could realize you were being compared to Don Draper and falling short

# ? Aug 1, 2023 17:01

Larry Cum Free: Jun 3, 2022; move it or lose it dillweed

mojo1701a posted:

I also just remembered Don and Lane's Night Out, which included the Great Big Texas Belt Buckle of a steak, watching Godzilla while drunk, and ending the night with a couple of escorts.

We�re not homosexuals, we�re divorced! :wotwot:

# ? Aug 2, 2023 01:55

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

THAT'S WHAT THE MONEY IS FOR

Also this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpUWrl3-mc8

haljordan fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Aug 2, 2023

# ? Aug 2, 2023 02:03

AvesPKS: Sep 26, 2004; I don't dance unless I'm totally wasted.

I always thought there would be a whole thing with Flo and the telephone switch girls but then you never see them again

I always liked how The Walking Dead had to stay on a farm for an entire year because Mad Men sucked up all of AMC's budget, so TWD couldn't afford any other sets for season 2 lol.

Oh and Burt Cooper has no balls

Extra Large Marge posted:

Betty's arc is pretty much over, but I like having her on the show. Uhhhh, what if we just have her get really fat?

Worked for Lee Adama

AvesPKS fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Aug 2, 2023

# ? Aug 2, 2023 02:07

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

AvesPKS posted:

I always thought there would be a whole thing with Flo and the telephone switch girls but then you never see them again

I always liked how The Walking Dead had to stay on a farm for an entire year because Mad Men sucked up all of AMC's budget, so TWD couldn't afford any other sets for season 2 lol.

Wasn't Kristen Schaal one of the switchboard girls? I feel like they either tested poorly with focus groups or the money just wasn't there to keep them.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 02:08

Good soup!: Nov 2, 2010

Windows 98 posted:

I am halfway through the show. Just finished season 3. I've never seen it before. Everyone jerks it off so much I figured I would give it a try. Sorry if this spoils a 15 year old show for you but also dont spoil it for me too ok thanks

Ok so what the gently caress? Don "Dick" Draper? So this dude is in Korea. Volunteered to be in Korea. Get's all upset about it and wants to go home. Fine, that checks out. He kills his commanding officer by taking a terribly unfortunate piss. Then just steals his loving identity? HUH? Why. Why would you do that. It isn't even immediately made clear either. Not until Betty finds his little jerk off box and figures out who he is. She confronts him and he just says he "had to get out of there". In the end they sent home whoever was the survivor. If he just said "yeah my name is dick and this other guy is toast." they'd say "thanks soldier" pin a purple heart on him, and send home. Which is exactly what the did. Why on earth did he need to steal this dudes identity? It just seems so illogical. He knows that he could've just gone home as Dick Whitman and told his family to get hosed and moved to California anyway? Literally nothing was preventing him doing this. He invented the idea he needed to do all these elaborate identity theft schemes for no reason. gently caress, he could've still had a relationship with his brother. A brother who he very clearly states he loved very much but couldn't have him be apart of his life (because of the lies). But... again. Why? He is your brother. Just tell Betty that you have a brother. You've said over and over again that you have no family. But a surprise brother is literally infinitely better than I AM NOT THE MAN WHO I SAY I AM. In fact she would probably be thrilled about it. She hated that Don was so detached from family related stuff.

Furthermore, why the gently caress did Pete get his god drat foot exploded by a lawnmower for absolutely zero reason? They gently caress his poo poo up so bad. Go on and on about how bad it is. May even need to lose his foot. Then just nothing happens. He doesn't walk with a limp. He doesn't ever mention it again. He doesn't even take a break from going to work. It all is like it never happened. I am pretty sure they didnt even fire the secretary. An absolutely insane and pointless plot line that is so tone deaf to the "Serious Drama About Ad Guys Who gently caress" vibe.

Pete knocks up Peggy. She has a whole god drat baby. She even stays in the hospital for an unspecified time due to being chronically depressed. Don just goes there and is like "knock this poo poo off. so what you had a baby.". So you are telling me that Peggy, a small person, not a giant tub of lard, did not realize she was pregnant until like halfway through the pregnancy or longer? Kinsey even makes a joke about her getting fat. So she was visibly pregnant. They hand Peggy a brand new job and literally the day of her promotion while bringing her stuff into her lovely office she just pukes and goes missing for at a minimum a few months. And they just let that fly? It wasn't like she called and said she was having a baby and needed time off. Unexcused multi month long absence and they just kept paying her and she still had a job? these guys are awful at their jobs. keeping this bitch on the payroll for like half a year even though shes gone. And during the exact same time that all this is happening it turns out that Pete's wife Trudy has a barren wasteland of a pussy and she wants to adopt. They were setting this up so nicely for Pete adopting Peggy's baby which is actually his own baby. Nope. They just forget all about it completely and Trudy stops caring I guess. The plot just evaporates.

Which brings me too: Don did the same loving thing. I know he is super important to the company and stock holder and un-firable. But is he though? The show keeps saying how they are sort of a lower or mid tier ad agency. They are buying them out left and right. Don Draper does "adequate" work. He doesn't even have a god drat contract. For guys who say "it's just business" so often you'd think they would have fired his rear end for going missing for a whole month with no explanation. He doesn't even explain it when he gets back.

I would also like to point out that Don keeps having flashbacks that are supposed to make us feel pity for his lovely life and justify why he needed to leave his family so bad he went to war. And none of these flashbacks are all that bad. His mom died when he was a baby he hardly knew her. His step mom seems fine. His dad is an alcoholic rear end in a top hat but show me one farmer from the 40s who wasn't. Oh no my dad got kicked in the face by a horse. Give me a break. I have to assume his dad ends up fine because he was eventually on the train station waiting for his "sons" dead body to arrive. And he didn't look crippled. So why the gently caress are we even bringing this up. Does Don get kicked in the head later as a call back or something?

It's fun to watch tho

ok cool

# ? Aug 2, 2023 02:11

Laterite: Mar 14, 2007; It's Gutfest '89; Grimey Drawer

Don angrily turning off his stereo halfway through Tomorrow Never Knows is one of the funniest scenes in TV history.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 02:12

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

Laterite posted:

Don angrily turning off his stereo halfway through Tomorrow Never Knows is one of the funniest scenes in TV history.

I'd love to know what they paid to get the rights to play like, 10 seconds of a Beatles song.

edit: Holy poo poo, it was apparently $250,000 lmaoooo

https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbea...o%20the%20song.

haljordan fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Aug 2, 2023

# ? Aug 2, 2023 02:12

AvesPKS: Sep 26, 2004; I don't dance unless I'm totally wasted.

haljordan posted:

Wasn't Kristen Schaal one of the switchboard girls? I feel like they either tested poorly with focus groups or the money just wasn't there to keep them.

Apparently so, but if it freed her up to be on Flight of the Conchords then all for the better.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 02:12

Laterite: Mar 14, 2007; It's Gutfest '89; Grimey Drawer

Also I can never think of Mad Men without thinking of Sal ... poor Sal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Rm3ZxOO4s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wswIGHBYmR8

# ? Aug 2, 2023 02:28

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

Pete vs. Lane featuring some sweet 1880s boxing styles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01hfwQL1QUg

# ? Aug 2, 2023 02:35

Original_Z: Jun 14, 2005; Z so good

Adam thought that Mad Men didn't give a realistic view of life in the 60s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLAB_xQlXqc

# ? Aug 2, 2023 02:54

Windows 98: Nov 13, 2005; HTTP 400: Bad post

Don keeps being a giant dick and shouting about how hard he works all the time. 100% of his ideas are spontaneous on the spot in a meeting with a client. He doesn�t do gently caress all.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 04:21

sebmojo: Oct 23, 2010; Legit Cyberpunk

Windows 98 posted:

Don keeps being a giant dick and shouting about how hard he works all the time. 100% of his ideas are spontaneous on the spot in a meeting with a client. He doesn�t do gently caress all.

don? a giant dick? ? don draper....?????

# ? Aug 2, 2023 04:28

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Windows 98 posted:

Don keeps being a giant dick and shouting about how hard he works all the time. 100% of his ideas are spontaneous on the spot in a meeting with a client. He doesn�t do gently caress all.

Windows 98s innovation loads slowly and he's mad

# ? Aug 2, 2023 04:32

Impossibly Perfect Sphere: Nov 6, 2002; They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

OP is too stupid to keep track of which character is which so he probably thinks the show is supposed to be part of the Mad Max universe and is disappointed.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 04:43

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
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I mean mad men definitely gives you a oeespective on what a guy like trump sees the world under the visor of. He is one of these guys.

Imagine tony sopranos watching mad men and that's what trump is essentially trying to do. His comments his womanizing the steaks all of it.

I mean a good day for trump is gigantic steak or big McDonald's meal, get high on Sudafed and fast forward through predator and then bang a prostitute.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 04:43

cruft: Oct 25, 2007

RapturesoftheDeep posted:

The important thing to understand about the show, OP, and something that might help you 'grok' it a little better, is that the redheaded lady is very sexy and a lot of the guys have had or would like to have an affair with her.

Vicariously having an affair with the redhead is the only reason I could ever come up with for considering watching this show. But apparently I didn't think the payout would be worth the cost.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 04:46

Laterite: Mar 14, 2007; It's Gutfest '89; Grimey Drawer

sebmojo posted:

don? a giant dick? ? don draper....?????

# ? Aug 2, 2023 06:50

Gravid Topiary: Feb 16, 2012

more like dong draper

# ? Aug 2, 2023 07:06

Martman: Nov 20, 2006

he did identity theft because he was ashamed of his origins and wished he could be someone else. use your brain

# ? Aug 2, 2023 07:08

TrashMammal: Nov 10, 2022

he did it because nothing is cooler than having a dark secret. hth

e: unless that dark secret is incredibly lame

# ? Aug 2, 2023 07:10

McSpanky: Jan 16, 2005

cruft posted:

Vicariously having an affair with the redhead is the only reason I could ever come up with for considering watching this show. But apparently I didn't think the payout would be worth the cost.

Yeah I can't think of any reason to watch a popular and critically acclaimed period drama either. Just perving on hot chicks :shrug:

# ? Aug 2, 2023 07:36

sebmojo: Oct 23, 2010; Legit Cyberpunk

Jerusalem did a really good watch through if you want to get a feel for it

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# ? May 5, 2024 12:16

Disco Pope: Dec 6, 2004; Top Class!

satanic splash-back posted:

This show is very boring to look at regardless of whatever plot nonsense you enjoy

1) Joan
2) old computers and commercial illustration

These things are amazing to look at.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 10:10

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