Let's be Mad Men!

I’m the pen necklace nestled in Joan’s massive mammaries

I'm Megan's massive teeth.

I'm Helen Bishop's Sara Lee cheesecake.

I'm Pete and Trudy.

I'm a Chip 'N Dip!

I'm the actress who plays Sally. You have a good vibe that she will go on to even better roles.

She doesn't.

I’m Fat Betty

I'm weird little Glen.

I’m Margaret Sterling. My wedding was ruined because President Kennedy got assassinated.

I'm fugly, awkward-as-hell young Don. I guess it's true what they say---->ugly kids make good-looking adults.

[quote]I'm weird little Glen.

Connected to showrunner Matthew Wiener as well as big toothed Megan. Both went nowhere.

Over-hyped series. Watch The Sopranos or Breaking Bad.

I'm all the fan conspiracy theories that never amounted to anything (Pete's shotgun, Don isnt DB Cooper nor is the show ending with him falling out the window, Megan isn't being murdered by the Manson family (sadly), etc)

R12 overtly stupid comment. Read R1-R11 and R12 too.

Where is Betty now? Fuck. Where is any of the cast now (with the exception of big dick Dan Draper)?

R15 with luck the only main character that would possobly be still alive is Peggy. And Sally.

I’m the Patio Cola commercial.

I am the slick new mid century modern home the Drapers should have been living in. That colonial thing was nowheresville.

I'm Ginsberg's severed nipple.

I'm Never Gonna Give You Up.

I'm dickmatised Megan Draper. Betty was NEVER dickmatised.

I'm a Sunday afternoon on the couch with some pot, drinks, and snacks watching this series again. I'm time well spent.

I’m the Norwegian Catholics of Bay Ridge!

I’m Miss Blankenship, Don’s secretary who dies at her desk, and Roger’s best line: she died as she lived, answering other people’s phones.

I'm Betty's fantastic wardrobe and hair, while married to Don. Yes, I look picture perfect even though the only humans I will see is the made and children I hate. Someone pass me a cigarette.

I'm the character of Megan. I am a Mary Sue-iest of them all. I don't fit in with the show but Weiner has the hots for me so here I am. I signaled a drop in quality in the show that was never fully recovered

I'm ♪♪ Zou Bisou Bisou ♪♪

I’m the pile of litter left in the park after the Draper family picnic.

I’m the whorehouse. Call me Candy.

I’m the horse that killed Don’s dad with a kick to the face

I'm smarmy Bob Benson!

I’m Salvatore Romano. I am a closeted Art Director and apparently too gay for the show.

I'm Peggy and Pete's love child, only very briefly referred to in one of the later seasons but otherwise forgotten.

I'm Ken Cosgrove, and I'm tap dancing!

I'm Peggy, masturbating in the movie theater.

I'm Bert Cooper's socks.

I’m Banana Republic

I'm fat Betty, trying to reduce!

I’m Ossining. Ossining?

I am “Sukiyaki 🎼” playing at the Chinese restaurant as Don gazes at the Asian waitress through a haze of cigarette smoke…..

I'm Don's ennui, interesting for the first couple of seasons but tired and beyond played out in the latter seasons.

I'm Bobby Draper telling his parents he's "Bobby #6" when they come and visit him at his summer camp.

Wink and a nod to the audience acknowledging how many actors played Bobby.

[quote]I'm Don's ennui

I see you as more of an angst than an ennui.

Good point R43, maybe it was my ennui at watching Don continue to curse his lot in life. He needed to get over it, he was a rich white dude getting lots of pussy. WTF was his problem?

Fat Betty was the best.

[quote] He needed to get over it, he was a rich white dude getting lots of pussy. WTF was his problem?

Imposter syndrome. In his case, well-founded.

I am 4 episodes into the season before I realize that Linda Cardolini is by playing the Dr’s wife.

I'm how it all went to shit after season 1. You watched anyway and pretended it wasn't aimless, slow moving, plothole laden garbage and defended it online by saying..."of course it's repetitive! People make the same mistakes all their lives!"

I'm riding lawn mower. I'm a big hit at a Sterling Cooper office party with everyone wanting to ride me, that is until I ride over Guy's foot.

I'm the Camel cigarettes Roger starts smoking after he loses the Lucky Strike account.

Meanwhile, Don keeps smoking Lucky Strikes.

I am Kurt. I make lov weeth ze men, not ze woman.

I am Mr Gay Jolie's view of Central Park from his apartment that Sal declined seeing, instead rather stupidly chosing to lose his gay cherry to some leather daddies in the Ramble.

I'm Betty's father. My second wife left me shortly after we were married due to my dementia. Probably didn't help matters that I grabbed by daughter's boob at breakfast thinking she was my first wife.

I’m the Hershey bars given to little Don by the whore during his sad childhood spent in the whorehouse picking johns pockets.

I am in the bathroom, jerking off while thinking about tonguing Stan Rizzo’s hairy hole.

I'm Dawn the secretary, the only sane employee in this entire office of crazy white people.

I'm British, tragic Lane Pryce. Don't open that door.

I'm the lawn mower.

I am Joan, being raped on the floor by my hot husband.

[quote]with luck the only main character that would possobly be still alive is Peggy.

Pete was only a few years older than Peggy so he could still be alive at 90ish.

It was established that Joan was born in 1931 so she could still be alive at 93.

Sadly, Joan passed away two years ago.

One night before bed, as she took her bra off, her titties dropped to the floor and snapped her back in half.

I’m “Tapping a Maple on a Cold Vermont Morning,” Ken Cosgrove’s short story. (And if Ken is still somehow alive and 100 years old, I’ll still marry him.)

R26 I’m the balcony all the viewers guessed (hoped) Megan teefs would throw herself off.

I'm "Sterling's Gold" featuring Roger's wit and witticisms over 176 pages

Ken would only be in his early/mid 80s, he was around the same age as Peggy.

I am the too well played animosity between Betty and Sally. My guess is that those two in real life have a fuck ton of mommy issues, with a fat side order of daddy issues. I want to see more.

Peggy was born on May 25th 1939, making her exactly 85 now.

I am the copy of Exodus that Don is reading in Bed. It will help him chat up Rachel Mencken.

I’m Joan’s expanding ass, which no one cares about because of her chest.

I’m Joan’s word of wisdom. “One minute you’re on top of the world, the next minute some secretary runs you over with a lawnmower”.

I'm the oyster and martini lunch that was not expecting the elevator to be out.

I'm Henry Francis. I look great mowing Don's lawn.

I'm Don's boxes, all crumpled from Henry hitting them in the garage.

I'm Bethany's blow job. I wasn't even as good as the Benihana teppanyaki.

I'm the photo of young Betty where the art department photoshops an old pic of JJ so it looks like it is from the correct era, however leave in JJ's huge pre-nosejob nose.

I'm the epitome of crew snark.

I'm Joan, especially later in the show. The viewers are supposed to think of her as especially curvy for that time, when actually she was pretty fucking fat for that time--and for this one.

I'm Weiner's staggering mommy issues that are all taken out on Betty Draper. I'm loathing, hating, pity, contempt, Edipous-y worship et all. Don't hate me though because I make for the best, most interesting character on the show.

*loving, hating, pity, contempt

Yet you saw no need to correct "Edipous-y?"

R80 Oedipus-y!

I'm Roger trying to figure out what type of Jews are coming to the meeting.

"Fiddler on the Roof, cast or audience?"

I’m the Bye Bye Birdie commercial and Sal’s wife realizing that he is gay while listening to him describe it

I’m Trudy - in ten years I will be day drinking and fucking the pool boy. Pete won’t care, he’s banging the latest skit from the secretarial pool.

I’m Lee Garner, Jr. If Sal would’ve let me fuck him, he wouldn’t have been fired.

I’m baby Gene - you but he’s always forget about me.

But he’s. WTF bitches

I didn’t know Baby Gene was “special.”

I'm the bell hop who got a big tip from Sal's Mortadella.

I'm the lucky wardrobe tailor who got to fiit Hamm for his slacks. He was comfortable with me moving it this way and that to get this best drape for Don Draper. He didn't bother changing behind a screen and some days forgot his underwear. Big ol cap and heavy meat and taters dangling for my amusement only.

R77 Joan had too much lunch.

It was more than Joan's rack, it was the way she carried herself and her attitude that made her sexy. It was the same way that Don Draper was hot, but only in clothes.

True R92 but she was too well fed in later seasons.

I’m the computer that took over the lunchroom and Ginsberg’s nipple.

I thought Betty Draper’s father, Gene, was sexy as all fuck.

Fuck me, Grandpa Gene!

I’m Roger Sterling’s black face.

[quote] It was more than Joan's rack, it was the way she carried herself and her attitude that made her sexy.

As Roger said, “Look at you, gliding around this office like some magnificent ship.”

I'm the 1/2 Seconal that Mother Francis give to Sally. They will both pass out in the living room after scaring themselves with the Richard Speck student nurse killings.

I’m the dollar Miss Blankenship would throw out the window if she wanted to see two Negroes fight.

I’m “Dawn”.

I’m “Shirley”.

I'm Joyce Ramsay, Peggy's lesbian gal pal!

I'm Peggy's sister ratting her out to the Priest.

r102 is pretentious

I'm Zosia Mamet. I'm homely as a mud fence and can't act worth a shit. Of course I'm a nepo baby!

I'm Betty's Salem cigarettes. I'm going to kill her.

I’m Anna Draper - please excuse the limp.

I’m Brooklyn’s Norwegian Catholic Community. Blink and you’ll miss me.

I'm the hobo code on the Whitman's fence. A dishonest man lives here.

I'm the Xerox machine that terrifies all the secretaries.

[quote] I'm Zosia Mamet. I'm homely as a mud fence and can't act worth a shit. Of course I'm a nepo baby!

But at least I'm better liked than that fat bitch Lens Dunham here at the DL.

I loved the dynamic between Roger and Joan. I want a guy who acts like that around me 🙁

I am Joan’s accordion - Ooh La La La C’est Manifique!!

[quote] I loved the dynamic between Roger and Joan. I want a guy who acts like that around me

Who whores you out?

R114 more like the first -3 seasons before the gross Jaguar guy

R12 Mad Men is great for someone who doesn’t like violence or gore. To me the top 5 dramas of all time are:

Sopranos

Stranger Things

The Americans

Mad Men

Lost (seasons 1-4)

In that order.

I'm Bobbie Barrett, the best female character out of the 3 core female ones. The men (and alot of the women) in the audience hate me for having the audacity to act like a female version of Don.

I am Jimmy Barrett, Bobbie's husband. I'm almost as great as my wife. I deliver the most brutal take down of a lead character in t.v history, so perfect even Don fans rooted for me here. He had it coming.

I'm the waiter who was jealous of Bobbie because Don rammed his fingers inside her in my restaurant.

I'm Bob Benson's shorts.

R120 Omg I forgot all about him. I remember when I thought he would be the next Tom Cruise with the right vehicle. Mad Men had subtle writing which I loved. Joan knew he was gay and was ln’t about to be his beard even though she respected him. In one of the episodes she came home and learned that her son had been inside all day. He had to go out play because she didn’t want him to become gay. Thats how women back then thought. That some shit my completely polar end of the cultural spectrum black grandma would say.

I'm Sarah Silverman, turning down the s1 role of Rachel the department store owner because I'm not interested in an AMC show.

I'm the mattress made of money Don bragged about sleeping on when the beatnik asked him how someone in advertising sleeps at night.

I'm Peggy Olson and I want to smoke some marijuana.

I’m John Slattery playing someone 20 years older than his peers.

I'm Bobby actor #3 who after he departed said in an interview that January Jones was "mean".

I'm John Slattery coming to January's defense after the kid made the comment. I'm the only co-star to come to her defense.

I'm Talia Balsam and I'm pissed at my husband John Slattery.

I’m because of being Mad Men fan learned that once upon a time Clooney was actually married to a woman his own age.

I’m the man at the neighborhood party who slaps another man’s child for acting up. No one bats an eye.

I’m Betty’s rumaki.

^ It must be so funny to be in on the joke. You embarrassed me

Jimmy Barrett was a truly scary character.

I’m the black maid who finally read Betty to filth. Bitch it’s approaching the mid 60s, enough with your microagressions.

I’m the gay gigolo who threw Pete’s mom off the cruise ship.

I'm Jane, Roger's second wife. I was all about Roger's DILF cock for about 30 seconds, but got bored quickly and when Roger asked me why I don't sing like Megan, I told him it's because he's not as hot as Don. Kinda killed the vibe after that.

I'm the Utz potato chips. I'm about to go national!

[quote] I'm Bobbie Barrett, the best female character out of the 3 core female ones.

Who are the 3 core female characters?

I’d have said Peggy, Betty and Joan.

R136 yes that’s correct. Who else could it be.

I can't even remember Bobbit Barrett or her husband.

[quote] I'm Bobbie Barrett, the best female character out of the 3 core female ones.

This poster must have only watched the season Bobbie was in - she was at best a supporting guest star, for barely a season.

Maybe the poster meant “aside from” the 3 core female characters?

The idea that Bobbie is a core character is nonsensical.

I am the impeccable “Charleston” performed by Pete and Trudy at Roger and Jane’s Garden Party.

I’m the terribly boring waitress Don becomes briefly obsessed with in the final season.

I'm the bear from the movie 'Babe' who's now a Jaguar dealer from Jersey. They give me Joan to help secure my ad account with the firm.

I'm Pete Cambell's receding hairline

I'm Howard Johnson's, Don's new account! The kids like me for the ice cream.

I’m the guy Pete decks for insulting Peggy. Only Pete gets to insult Peggy.

I'm Joan, who apparently reminds Joey of madam from a Shanghai whorehouse.

I'm Peggy's aborted fetus. On a lesser show, I would turn up in the last season as an aged-up angsty teenager out for revenge.

I'm the tarnished 80s primetime soap opera now elevated and made popular again by Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, and even somewhat The Walking Dead.

I'm hot daddy Lee Garner, Junior. Sal blew it (or rather he didn't), could've had a hot, rich daddy. Instead he got himself fired and giving out hand jobs down at the truck stop.

Draper through the ages, per Reddit

I'm Peyton Place. I was a fucking TV institution in the last 60s, on three nights a week watched by millions and millions. Yet, one god damn secretary ever mentions me. Fine. Go watch Gunsmoke and Here's Lucy!

I'm Betty Draper in bed, eight months pregnant with Baby Gene, smoking and drinking Chablis while waiting for Don to wander in reeking of pussy.

R149 none of those shows are soap operas my friend. Just because they have drama doesn’t make them a soap opera. So do you only consider police procedurals non soap operas?

R136 sorry, meant to say "Outside of the 3 core characters"

I am Peter....I used to low key get off on Bob Benson worshipping me and being at my beck and call, I was even somewhat intrigued when he hit on me by bumping his knee into mine...not that I'd swing that way but I admit that the power dynamic made me feel.....empowered. Then that little fairy turned on me and tried to get me fired and replace me! And THEN his chunky Spanish daddy boyfriend not only oogles my ass but then seduces Mother for a fortune and then throws her overboard and kills her. Things are NOT GREAT, BOB!!! though deep down he did me a favor.

I'm the fan wishing Mad Men would come back, in late 70's glory - the characters would be working for different agencies, in their late forties and fifties. Sally and Bobby in their mid twenties. Betty could have survived the lung cancer, would she still be Mrs. Francis? Peggy would probably be EP of a soap opera. Endless possibilities for Don.

What defines “soap opera” for you, r149?

R157 And Sal could had re-invented himself as a big advertising exec in 1970s San Fran.

I'm McCann. We have American Airlines and Coca-Cola.

I’m the plastic dry cleaning bags that the kids play in on one of the early episodes.

I'm Don's enlightenment. I come in the form of a now iconic jingle proving that Don has come full circle and is exactly where he should be.

[quote]I'm the tarnished 80s primetime soap opera now elevated and made popular again by Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, and even somewhat The Walking Dead.

These shows have nothing in common with Dynasty or Dallas.

Yes I know the 80s primetime soaps are sacrament to eldergays but the rest of the world moved on long ago.

I'm Lee Garner Jr.'s sizemeat.

Oedi-poosey

I'm Ken Cosgrove's drug dance.

I'm Bert Cooper's goodbye dance.

Peggy (or Joan, or whoever) as part of a soap opera would actually be somewhat true to form.

Most of the "old school" soaps (Guiding Light, As The World Turns) were owned by Procter and Gamble and had ad agencies as part of the production team. They were basically meant to create content to run in between the ads so that housewives would stay in front of the TV and absorb all the advertising.

I would like to see the show come back in the early '80s since it ended in 1970. Don is disgusted by the Moral Majority and how the regressive values of the 1950s seem to be coming back in style. He's also appalled by the crassness of modern advertisements. The firm's new client is Totino. Don has to spend all day thinking of sassy catchphrases for the firm's mascot, an animated giraffe on a skateboard. 35 years in the industry and he's reduced to selling frozen food to lower-middle class teenagers. He spends his nights drinking neat vodka. Sometimes he opens his desk drawer and stares at his Korean War pistol.

I’m Betty’s glamorous modeling career that she left behind when she married Don

You think Don would've made it to the 80s R169?

I'm The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart Comedy Album. Pete and the boys worshiped me.

I am Harry Crane’s horn rimmed glasses.

r168 und otters, ziz is not a brainstorming zession, schict to the format..

Oedipushy.

[quote]I’m the Norwegian Catholics of Bay Ridge!

This will end in tears.

I'm one of the two gay guys living in squalor in the apartment vacated by the terribly boring waitress in R142. I offer Don a drink, hoping he'll come in and fuck me senseless.

I’m all the mustaches and sideburns that appear on most of the male characters as the 1960s evolve into the 1970s.

I'm Stan Rizzo's tighty whities.

I’m “Not every little girl gets to do what they want. The world could not support that many ballerinas.”

I'm the Datalounger who accurately predicted the lawnmower incident - a TV writer, I guess. As I recall, none of us believed him.

I’m Dr. Rosen (who I think is the sexiest man on the show.)

I'm the framed photo of JFK in the kitchen of Peggy's mother.

I'm Sally Draper. I caught my step-grandmother fellating my dad's boss at a party. I walked in on my dad having sex with a neighbor. My mother wrote me a letter with instructions as to which lipstick shade and gown her corpse should wear at her funeral. All by the age of 16!

I'm Megan Draper; you bitches hate me because you can't be me. Suck it, haters!

That's what the money is for!

^good one!!

I'm Francine. My husband is a cad.

I’m the barefoot teacher that Don cheats on Betty with for the last time during his marriage—resulting in a divorce.

I’m Midge’s nose and heroin addiction

I know this is a let's be thread, but after all these years, I still have a hard time believing that Betty would have divorced Don.

I'm the cliche'd story lines.

R191 I can’t remember - did she tell her 2nd husband about Don’s past? As I recall they had to cover for Don when the government contract the office was going after had to be dumped because Don wouldn’t be able to pass the background check.

I'm Henry Francis' big cock.

I mean, it's not quite the size of Don's big boat, but still, more than enough to please a lady.

I'm Adam Whitman who discovers his big brother Dick Whitman is now Don Draper and wants to be a family again. But Don doesn't want that at all and gives him money to make him go away.

I'm devastated. I hang myself.

Meanwhile, Don changes his mind and decides that maybe they *can* have a relationship.

Oops. Too late.

I'm Megan's kooky redheaded hag scene partner during her brief foray into daytime soaps. I look like an off-market Grayson Hall and the spooky set is supposed to make you think of Dark Shadows, but no one ever says it. I think Megan was playing Veronica Summers #2.

I’m the whorehouse that Dick Whitman grew up in.

I don't work for you.

Mad Men was a great show. One of the greatest. They only made two major mistakes in my opinion. Killing Miss Blankenship. That was almost unforgivable. And bringing on Megan and her teef. Who the hell did she fuck?

Weiner was obsessed with the actress who played Megan. She derailed the show. They had a great ensemble cast and she cut into a lot of screen time that the main cast members should have had.

Everything about her was horrible. She played her part like the show took place in 1988. So yeah. I'm gonna be Megan's teef.

Funny though Megan's mother was spot on and really added a lot to the show. However brief it was.

R196 VERONICA SUMMERS?????? Lol

I'm Henry's afghan

I'm Don's post-Betty divorce apartment with the sunken living room!

I thought Megan (and the actress who played her_ was perfect as the insipid second wife, the Answered Prayers of Don getting away from Betty. In the same way that JJ was perfect as Nordic cunt Betty.

But Jessica Pare/Megan was on the show waaaaaaay too long. That should have been wrapped up in a season, maybe. It went on way too long. As with most shows, there was a bit of treading water between the midpoint and the ending that could have easily been cut.

Did Don and Megan get divorced at the end of the series? I can't even remember.

Yes, R206; Don cuts Megan a check for a million dollars before they sign the final paperwork. Season 7, episode 9, "New Business."

R191 I don’t. They were borderline rich and Betty came form money. She was beautiful and had enough.

I’m the lipstick lesbian that came on to Joan. Poor thing.

I'm the New York smog!

I am Freddy Rumsen’s soiled pants.

I'm the Relaxisizer. Freddy's wife likes me. Peggy didn't mind me either.

R191 I don’t. Betty was still young and beautiful and her life was beyond tedious. Not to mention being constantly humiliated by Don. She got a second husband who treated her better.

Megan felt so out of place in the show. Her name always bothered me too. Her character would have been born in the 1940s. Was there anyone born in the 40s named Megan?!

Her character was also extremely whiny and immature. I don’t see Don putting up with that for very long. Betty could be that way too but at least she was pretty to look at.

Megan always reminded me of Freddie Mercury in the “I want to break free” music video.

[quote][R191] I don’t. Betty was still young and beautiful and her life was beyond tedious. Not to mention being constantly humiliated by Don. She got a second husband who treated her better.

I think women in that era of Betty's class would have just sucked it up and dealt with Don's cheating versus the scandal of a divorce. Not saying that divorce didn't exist, just that women like Betty would not have gone that route.

My mother did.

That was the point, r215. It became a time when a well-to-do woman would NOT have "sucked it up." Perhaps a lesson in history is needed.

That's when things progressed for women. That's what they were showing.

I’m Betty’s big beehive in Italy.

I loved all the main characters, and many of the supporting ones, but Betty was my favorite.

I’m the low caliber people Betty says are taking over the neighborhood.

I am the "woman pleasured by octopus" drawing in Bert Cooper's office. I am very distracting.

I’m Chauncey.

Abandoned in NYC.

Fuck a Duck.

I’m Helen Bishop’s capri pants

I’m Freddie Rumsens urine soaked pants

[quote] I think women in that era of Betty's class would have just sucked it up and dealt with Don's cheating versus the scandal of a divorce. Not saying that divorce didn't exist, just that women like Betty would not have gone that route.

R215 - you are right - but Betty didn't divorce Don because she was fed up with the bad marriage she was in - she did it after she found out Don was a fake and she felt he was way beneath her socially. And true to form, she only did it when she had a backup plan with the very socially appropriate Henry.

I'm Mayor John Lindsay. I'm troubled, preening, and stubborn. I'm the Don Draper of NYC politics!

I'm all the cans of Lysol Joan had to use to get rid of the "funk" of Lane's over-the-weekend suicide.

I'm Marge, one of the telephone operator gals. You might also know me as Flo from the Progressive insurance commercials.

I'm the office boy who stays late and notices Don Drapper is also working late. Luckily manly Don Drapper (Jon Hamm) and his big dick are still in the office --- DRUNK. I deliver mail and he looks the door and tells me he needs help with something.

Let's just say, I get my knee pads out, woof.

^ DRAPER!

i'm the lock of hair

I'm the dumb cunt receptionist who nearly gets her head taken off by Joan for allowing someone to come into the offices without alerting her first. I deserve every nasty word I get.

I’m Betty lusting after Glen when he visits as an adult soldier

I don't allow crying in the breakroom. Cry somewhere else. Like your apartment.

I'm Don's "This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened" advice to new mother Peggy in the psych ward.

I'm the new air conditioner.

I’m Don’s “Carousel” pitch to Kodak.

I'm the toilet.

I’m Rachel Menken-Katz — and this was a dalliance, a cheap affair!

I'm Peaches Rennet; Marie Calvet says that I'm the apple that goes in the pig's mouth.

I’m Betty, locking and loading on those damn pigeons without missing a beat.

I’m the older broad Don Finger Fucks in the restaurant because I’m acting too uppity lately.

I'm Betty getting fucked on the barroom floor.

We're the beatnik friends of Midge.

I'm the enema bottle about to pop Betty takes from the nurse. Nice girls don't shit in the bed when giving birth.

Hi there! Member of the cult Margaret Sterling joined here! According to Mona, I’m lost, on drugs and have venereal diseases!

I’m “I feel sorry for you”

“I don’t think about you at all”

I’m “NOT GREAT BOB!”

I’m Stephanie, who Megan is insanely jealous of for some reason.

I was on DL during Mad Men's run and the Norwegian Catholic thing was the biggest eldergay hissfest I have ever seen on here. It was hilarious and sad at the same time.

Me too, I had to mention it.

And then you had the eldergays who had an Aspie level for details and would get all incensed with the smallest errors. For example, an episode that was set in 1965 showed a two second glimpse of some cleaning product or cigarette brand that wasn't on the market until 1968 (how they remembered this god only knows) and they were off and running about how the show was totally inaccurate and how could the prop department allow that and how lazy and sloppy etc. etc.

It was fucking nuts.

I'm Betty. Dying for everybody's sins.

[quote]the Norwegian Catholic thing was the biggest eldergay hissfest I have ever seen on here.

It made pasta draining look like a tea party with the queen.

I'm DL's odd fascination with Betty. It will take multiple sessions on a shrink's couch to figure that one out.

Oh you ain't kidding R254. My biggest question is did the writers begin to hate Betty or hate JJ? They just totally diminished her character.

I think MW knew JJ didn’t have much range so they kept Betty pretty stilted.

I don't agree. I think JJ perfectly captured that particular type of woman from that particular class in that particular era. I didn't always agree with some of the story choices, but I think JJ did her best with what was on the page.

I loved Betty and JJ. But all of the sudden they just changed the direction of Betty. Especially the weight gain. Girls like Betty don't get fat.

SURPRISE! I’m here to see you!

I imagine that the eldergays who lost their shit over the Norwegian Catholic thing are all dead now.

R258 I believe JJ in real life got pregnant and that’s why they re-wrote her character to be fat. I remember her pregnancy was quite controversial at the time.

I feel like the Betty character had a lot of potential. She slapped Hellen Bishop in the first season but after that her spark went away. I would have loved to have seen Betty run away to Italy and start a new life.

Betty reminds me of my paternal grandmother. Similar backgrounds and social class. JJ played that role really well even with the shitty material she was given towards the end of the series.

At the start of the show, the first couple of seasons, I thought JJ and Betty were indispensable. I never dreamed they would divorce them and put Betty on the sideline. I still loved the show but it wasn't as good without Betty being in the center. I loved her.

Betty was also my favorite and second was Roger

I love Roger. He sold his soul to the devil and is quite pleased with the price he got.

January Jones is not the best actress, but she as Betty just worked. She was excellent in the role and really made it her own.

I'm Bertram Cooper's unseemly fetishizing of all things Asian.

I'd like a Mad Men prequel.

I'm the chicken dinner Trudy cooked and Pete threw off the balcony.

I'm the print shop all verklempt every time I get an order for reams of new stationary each time those meshuggah shmendriks on Madison change the name of their fakakta company.

I’m the old lady who breaks into the Draper apartment and tries to convince Sally and Bobby that she’s their grandmother.

“Are we negroes?”

I'm the idea that Peggy is unaware she is pregnant in the first season.

R265 agreed. Somehow the least convincing actress managed to pull of the most convincing character

R255 It's Weiner's monmy issues. He loved and hated Betty to an equal degree and it showed and made her the most conpelling character to me. She also had the most complete character arc. Those who think the writers just hated Betty weren't really payibg attention, though the Fat Betty thibg always bothered me. That was completely unnecessary.

I'm Joan saying that The Apartment was not believable because it had Shirley MacLaine as a female white elevator operator. The ones in their world are male and black.

I'm the future Ted Baxter in the magazine ad Roger sees when the LSD starts to take effect.

Roger said that, R275. Later in that same episode, Joan is called into the office to help Bert Cooper draft correspondence to clients about Roger's heart attack. When Joan and Bert get into the elevator after finishing (and after Bert tells Joan not to waste her youth on age), Bert asks Joan to press the button for lobby.

I'm the priest Betty talks to at her mom's insistence.

I agree with the person who said Betty and Roger are their favorite characters.

I'm the dropped oranges.

Did everybody hate Peggy and Pete. I loved Bob. With a passion. I was so in lust with that actor and now I can't even remember his name.

I'm Bob Benson's craptastic español

I'm the Cleo Award Don wouldn't share.

I'm the schoolteacher waiting for Don in the car while he's being grilled by Betty about his past. He completely forgets about me. I slink away in shame.

I'm DL fan fic during the series run. In our world Carla the maid comes back to burn the house down with a flame thrower.

I'm Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare....

I loved Peggy. Pete, not so much.

Harry annoyed me, as did that fat guy who read as queeny on screen and then went off to be a Hare Krishna.

If there's Don slash fic with any of the male characters send me links kthxbyeeeee

I'm Depressed Diana!!!

I was born in 1898 in a barn. I died on the thirty-seventh floor of a skyscraper. I'm an astronaut.

The guy who went off to be a Hare Krishna married the blonde from Two Broke Girls.

I didnt like Peggy in the first 3 seasons but she grew on me. Same as Pete. Conversely I adored Joan during the first 3/4 seasons then soured on her. I liked her as the bitchy Queen Been, not as the watered down wife with a kid.

We're the pigeons. Just minding our own goddamn business in the Draper backyard. Then....

I'm Bert Cooper's orchiectomy.

I'm Betty's unappetizing looking cooking,

I’m Betty’s psychiatrist. I have the easiest job in New York and also the most boring one.

I'm Jimmy Barrett and his painfully unfunny television commercial.

I'm the hot groom at the stable where Betty rides. That little tease never puts out.

I'm the TV series with a leading character who is a charmless SOB.

I'm the sobriety, not to be found on this show.

Wow, some of you have incredibly good memories. I watched all seven seasons, but off the top of my head I only really vividly recall the "Peggy quits" scene (where she walks out to the elevator and into her new life to the tune of The Kinks' "You Really Got Me"); Sal Romano and his sambuca with three coffee beans; amateur hour with young Glen; the final close-up of DD at Esalen; and the "Suitcase" episode, but only because I rewatched it to see whether the Emmy fuss was warranted.

[quote] I'd like a Mad Men prequel.

About whom?

Mad Men was a character-driven series with an eye for period detail. There’s no real pre-history that is compelling except for Don’s which was covered.

[quote]I'm the print shop all verklempt every time I get an order for reams of new stationary each time those meshuggah shmendriks on Madison change the name of their fakakta company.

I’d think the print shop would be delighted.

Law Firms used to gave all the partners names on the letterhead.

There would be tons of plot lines to develop in a prequel. Starting immediately post WWII. The establishing of the agency. Bert, Roger's father, A young dominatrix Mrs. Blankenship, Betty as deb. Seeing another period piece set in NYC. There's a lot to explore. Some new characters. I'm not even remotely considering that all the characters have to be related to the original. Plus it would be fun.

I'd like a reboot set in 1980.

The characters would only be 10 years older so could all comeback except Betty.

We watched all their lives change in the decade 1960-1970. What happened between 1970 and 1980?

Don married and divorced again? Sally married or a feminist businesswoman? Bobby gay? Gene a delinquent? Pete and Trudy still together? Peggy and Stan married? Ginsberg a homeless person ranting on the subway? Ken Cosgrove a CEO? Harry Crane killed by a hooker? Joan fat and married or a newly slim, single businesswoman?

I'm the shock when Betty's doctor calls Don to talk about Betty, and even more shocked to find out that was a pretty normal thing for the time period.

A 1980s Mad Men would be interesting.

R307 they already did one: thirtysomething. There was even a "Stop in Willoughby" episode. Lots of angst, less drinking, smoking and fucking around though.

r308 the characters on thirtysomething were a generation younger.

I'm the car interior scenes obviously shot on the cheap.

I'm the litter

I'm the fan who wishes that HBO had picked this up. We would had more language and seen more fucking, tits, asses, and maybe a cock or two.

I'm the astronauts walking on the moon on July 20, 1969, which Sally was uninterested in watching on the TV, preferring to sulk and be cynical in the backyard.

Don called her on her cynicism but it didn't make Sally rush inside to see me.

R312 But would the male bush and penii have been 1960's accurate?

I'm all that cigarette breath. Please don't kiss me.

I'm the Lucky Strikes.

And all the cigarettes. So many cigarettes.

Peggy was loosely based on the real-life ad woman whiz Mary Wells -- and no, not the Supreme, the other one.

Wells started up her own agency at time when women were generally just secretaries and nurses. And she was extremely successful, known for her agency's campaigns "Plop Plop Fizz Fizz", "I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing", "I Love NY", "At Ford, Quality is Job #1" and "Flick your Bic". She was married three times (twice to the same man), had two daughters and four stepchildren. She died in London in May of this year at nearly 96 years old.

She looks like a Kennedy @ r317

Wells's book, A BIG LIFE IN ADVERTISING, is a really great read.

I am Joans perfect breasts on an otherwise dumpy ,zoftig body

I wonder if Peggy would have ended up like Wells (married with children, but still working and going further in her career), or if she would have stayed unmarried and without children (she didn't give up for adoption), but still advancing to high highs.

I think Peggy wanted kids eventually (she said as much to Pete) and she met herself a hot husky hairy dude to make them with dude so I could see her having at least one.

I'm Helen Bishop, receiving a ferocious face-slapping at the supermarket!

Amazing how some DLers have an encyclopedic memory of every single episode of every tv show they've ever watched. I can't remember most of the minor characters listed here, or some of the plot lines. I can't even remember everything that happened on SVU last week.

But some DLers can remember everything about every show they ever watched, even if it was years and years ago.

I'm John Slattery getting a special guest appearance credit in the first season though he is in every episode.

Slattery played Roger so well. He was so smooth yet smarmy.

Does anyone think Peggy has been to crying for unborn children that might have made her complete?

Some people just remember nearly everything. I have a creepy memory even for the insignificant

I remember the episode where Peggy purchased the apartment, and all the real estate queens on here talked about it for weeks. It was almost (almost) as big as the Norwegian Catholic thing.

I'm the colored girl who applied for the receptionist position.

I'm the idea that Joan dated Paul Kinsey. Sorry but I don't buy it.

I'm that neighbor Francine who smoked when she was pregnant.

The idea of Thirtysomething or any similar reboot makes me want to hurl.

R333 is Mr. Mooney

I'm Duck's bare ass crouching to poop on Don's chair until Peggy catches him and, horrified, says, "This is Roger's office!"

I'm Paul's play that everyone mocks but then agrees to do a reading of at the election night party/orgy.

I'm Father John Gill (Colin Hanks) who seems to take a fancy to Peggy.

I'm Duck's life insurance policy.

I’m Rebecca Pryce, not giving two shits that my husband Lane committed suicide in the hallowed halls of Sterling Cooper.

I'm Don puking in the umbrella holder at Roger's mother's funeral.

I'm Bobby Draper burning his chin as Don makes pancakes.

I'm the free advertising for Lucky Strikes, in spite of actual cigarette commercials having been banned for decades.

I'm Peggy's big, fat thighs rubbing together.

I’m Joan basically saying that guy (I don’t remember the character’s name) committed suicide because she wouldn’t fuck him

I’m Dr. Faye Miller, who would have been so much better for Don than Teefs. I’m not married, but I wear a wedding ring to appear more approachable to other women in advertising focus groups.

Dr. Faye was honestly too good for Don

I'm Elaine and I'm 22.......I am around animal carcasses all day. About the bathroom....

I'm people declaring that Elisabeth Moss was beautiful.

I’m hells bells.

I'm Jane Siegel getting the better of that bitch Joan.

I'm Joan's birth certificate stapled to the breakroom's bulletin board.

I'm Pete Campbell's latent sexual attraction to Don's dong.

[quote] I’m Joan basically saying that guy (I don’t remember the character’s name) committed suicide because she wouldn’t fuck him

His name was Lane. Guy was the Brit who go run over by the lawnmower. Do keep up.

"Some people just remember nearly everything. I have a creepy memory even for the insignificant”

r 328 haaa me too. I call it "a head full of useless knowledge"

^^^^^^^^ r328 ^^^^^^^^

I'm the big cherry danish in the back of the food cart that an unsatiated horny pregnant Peggy eyes up and buys after hearing Pete's hunting fantasy. I don't QUITE hit the the spot Peggy needs but I'll do.

I'm the hot sex with- the -ex in a cabin that Don and Betty had at Bobby's camp.

I'm the Draper bed that Bobby breaks by jumping up and down that is never mentioned again.

R345 I'm Cara Buono when she was a brunette.

I am Harry Hamlin's delicious turn as a villain.

I'm Betty's parade of Ford station wagons, each one bigger and better than the last. All filled with a cloud of cigarette smoke, and nary a seatbelt to be found.

R351 - Driver’s license

And no way that she was 140.

That girl (Joan) was hefty. She was AT LEAST 160 lbs. Her breasts alone were sizable, not to mention her hips and ass.

She's also 5'7", so not petite by any standards.

[quote] All filled with a cloud of cigarette smoke, and nary a seatbelt to be found.

Ah, memories.

I'm Duck's poor dog, left outside.

Wasn't Joan's measurements basically what made Marilyn, Jayne and Mamie all impossibly famous and desired at that time? The likes of Twiggy and Cher hadn't come up the ranks just yet. Those were the twilight years of the Rubenesque bombshell.

r366 Marilyn Monroe was not zaftig; the clothing industry has increased the measurements in favor of "vanity" sizing. Nowadays, a 24" waist (which is what she had in 1945 at 120 lbs) is a size fucking ZERO. She was 5'6". There is no comparison whatsoever of her body to that of Joan/Christina Hendricks:

August 2, 1945

Blue Book Modeling Agency

5’ 6”, 120lbs

36-24-34

“Size 12”

February 8, 1954

DOD ID Card

5’ 5 1/2”, 118lbs

August 5, 1962

LA Coroner Medical Report

5’ 5 1/25”, 117lbs

R366 = John Sacrimoni of New York.

she's pushy that one. I guess that's what it takes.

r365, If you're going to be him you should at least learn his name.

this thread is making want to stream the show again. for the third time.

I've streamed about 3 times as well, r371. I get in the mood every few years.

I'm the two sided mirror.

I'm the guys all standing up to salute Joan's ass as she purposely bends over in front of the two-way mirror.

I was hooked from that scene. My mother who grew up in these times had a love/hate relationship with the show.

My uncle, now in his 80s, worked in the Manhattan business world in the 60s and he's told me that the show is frighteningly accurate.

One of the best things about this show was just about everyone I knew was watching and loving it. It was great chit chat.

I'm Jimmy Barrett's fat jokes.

R376 - My parents and their circle of friends all worked in NYC advertising (even on Madison) from around 1970 into the 90s. I've heard too how eerily accurate the depiction of the ad man workplace is on Mad Men. They loved the show. I'm old enough to remember people smoking in a fancy restaurant or on a plane, unapologetic misogyny and racism, three martini lunches and the cocktail hour, women in hats, and having seatbelts in cars being optional. Hard to think it was only 50 years ago.

I'm Joey, the misogynist artist who harasses Joan. I exist only to get fired by Peggy. I am the catalyst for this exchange, a true masterclass in bitchery:

R363 -160-165 probably at the time.

I thought Jayne Mansfield had big boobs but was otherwise a fit lady.

I'm the Rum Sally thought was Mrs. Butterworth's pancake syrup. ("Is it bad?" "Not really").

I'm the handsome man Betty had sex with at the bar.

I’m HBO, which passed on this show but for some unknown reason greenlit John from Cincinnati.

I'm the $5 Sally stole from Gene but brought back.

I'm the hot prison guard in the hospital waiting room.

I'm the negro market.

I'm Peggy calling Ann-Margret shrill.

I'm Don's 1962 Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Don just bought me because he'd really made it in advertising. Betty throws up all over my leather upholstery on the way home from the party where she discovers that Don had been fucking Bobbie Barrett and Jimmy Barrett calls Don garbage.

I'm 1923

I'm the orange sherbet that causes Don to explode at Megan at the Howard Johnson's.

I'm Duck sleeping with Peggy. at least he didn't call her beautiful.

I’m the hooker’s chewing gum found on the client’s pubis.

I have to say, I really hated Linda Cardenelli in her role. I guess that means she did her job. I just didn't get why he'd be so infatuated with her...she's rather "special" looking (read: not attractive at all).

I was so glad when that story arc concluded.

I’m the dog Don brings home after bailing on his kid’s birthday party. Was I ever seen again?

[quote]I'm the negro market.

I'm Roger telling Pete he's going to have to tell the client he had him thrown off a building for even suggesting they focus on the Negro market.

I'm all the handjobs Roger had to give to the Admiral people after Peter had the audacity to think they should look into the Negro Market

R385- I’m Don Draper’s COCK & BALLS that you never got to see and would have seen if HBO not passed on this show .

[quote] I’m the dog Don brings home after bailing on his kid’s birthday party. Was I ever seen again?

Yes, R396, rather constantly. The whole celebrated pigeons-shooting-Betty incident occurred because that neighbor threatened to harm me for jumping up in the air and catching one of his obnoxious birds.

[quote]I'm Peggy and Pete's love child, only very briefly referred to in one of the later seasons but otherwise forgotten.

What? That kid was Pete's? How did I miss that revelation?

You must have missed the episode where they have sex on the couch in the office, r401.

[quote]I'm the bear from the movie 'Babe' who's now a Jaguar dealer from Jersey. They give me Joan to help secure my ad account with the firm.

I'm also Grady Kilgore in Fried Green Tomatoes.

The dog was also seen with Don when Gene gave Bobby the kaiser helmet, and when Sally screamed at the black barbie that reappeared in her bedroom.

Peggy gave up Pete’s child for adoption.

R402 they also had sex the night before his wedding. The baby was conceived then; Peggy was already getting fat when they boinked on the couch

Yes he came to visit her at her shared apartment so presumably hooked up then too before the office couch incident.

Honest to God, I do not remember the Peggy/Pete sex at all. Fuck. I probably have Alzheimer's.

Check this out.

I’m season 2, episode 13, “Meditations in an Emergency.” Peggy tells Pete that she gave away his child.

I’m season 4, episode 7, “The Suitcase.” Don and Peggy discuss whether Peggy regrets giving away the child.

R361, I am Betty’s late father’s Lincoln. She preferred me to all of you.

R314, I understand what you mean about bush, but what about ‘60s penises was different from modern penises? Nearly all American men were circumcised back then, but that’s still mostly true.

I’m the dark, hideous Addams Family house in Rye that Betty moved to with Francis. After the light, bright and pleasant Ossining house, I’m also one of the show’s more obvious symbols.

R395 I got the feeling Don resented the doctor husband and screwing his wife was his personal way of 'bettering' him.

I’m a dead Mädchen Amick getting shoved under the bed by a naked Don. I’m imaginary, but my scene is also the closest anyone gets to seeing Don fully naked.

r392, tastes like perfume

R414 Don didn't need any reason to screw around. He was a dog and I'm surprised he wasn't riddled with STDs.

R396 here. Apparently I found the dog forgettable. Thanks for letting me know it was around for the series.

R413 is it really a symbol though? Because Betty and Henry's marriage seemed much happier than hers with Don.

[quote]I got the feeling Don resented the doctor husband and screwing his wife was his personal way of 'bettering' him.

R395 / R415 Don respected that doctor. Don admired his resolve (and manliness) in skiing through the snow storm to care for a patient. I thought his screwing the doctor's wife was Don's way of wanting to be the man the doctor was, and the only way he could display it was through sex.

I'm Cara Buono's terrible acting.

I had to laugh when Roger gave a speech for Don for an award. He said Don was charming and I thought no he aint. Roger IS charming.

I'm angry Rachel Menken putting out my cigarette in the shrimp cocktail before storming out of the meeting.

I'm Sally's lisp.

^^I come and go^^

I'm Betty's Italian hairstyle. Jeesh what a horror.

[quote]Apparently I found the dog forgettable. Thanks for letting me know it was around for the series.

R396 You forgot about the dog? Big deal. I forgot about Pete and Peggy having sex and Peggy giving away their baby! You have a long way to beat my memory loss...

What was the deal on here with Norwegian Catholics. I remember it was a thing for a while on Mad Men threads.

Basically everyone in Norway is Lutheran; the idea that Peggy's family was part of some tight-knit and large Norwegian Catholic community in Brooklyn was a hilarious and obvious mistake on the show's part.

r428 the eldergays went back and forth hissing at each other because apparently there are some Norwegian Catholics while others insisted that ALL Norwegians are Lutherans. Then it escalated to eldergays recalling their memories of the 1960s and who was Catholic and who was Protestant and in which neighborhood and which ethnic groups and on and on and fucking on. It was insane.

Later in the show, it was shown that while Peggy's father was of Norwegian heritage, her mother was Irish Catholic and Peggy was raised in her mother's religion. The eldergays finally calmed down and all was right with the world and their memories of the 1960s remained intact and unspoiled.

Joan cunting on Piggy was prime Mad Men. That's why you tuned in.

The office drama was always the reason I watched the show, that was where the good stories were. Don and Betty and Don's personal life took up too much time.

I have to laugh when Don called Betty a whore. The pot calling the kettle slut.

I love that scene when Joan and Peggy share a cigarette after Don and Megan announce their engagement:

Joan Harris: Whatever could be on your mind?

Peggy Olson: Can you believe it?

Joan Harris: Happens all the time. They're all just between marriages, you know that. He'll probably make her a copywriter. He's not going to wanna be married to his secretary.

Peggy Olson: Really? Is that what he meant? "She admires you." Jesus.

Joan Harris: That's the way it works for some.

Peggy Olson: You know, I just saved this company. I signed the first new business since Lucky Strike left. But it's not as important as getting married. Again.

Joan Harris: Well, I was just made Director of Agency Operations. A title, no money of course. And if they poured champagne it must have been while I was pushing the mail cart.

Peggy Olson: A pretty face comes along and everything goes out the window.

Joan Harris: Well, I learned a long time ago to not get all my satisfaction from this job.

Peggy Olson: That's bullshit. [They both laugh]

The Joan and Peggy scenes were always very good.

Here's r343's scene

Watching clips on Youtube of the first two seasons and they all look younger than I remember!

I wanted to eat Bob Benson's ass until I got to his small intestines.

Joan also said something like "you'd think he was the first man to ever marry his secretary". She really had contempt for the whole Don-Meghan coupling.

I'm Ken Cosgrove's eye patch.

I'm Ken's cigarette lighter that he left at Sal's apartment. He never noticed it was gone.

I'm Dawn Chambers, the only person of color in the office.

I'm the hair dye job of Pauline Francis.

I'm Shirley, the other person of color in the office.

I came after Dawn, but I rock a short skirt and natural hair.

r442 and r444 meet r100 and r101

Oh dear, we're repeating ourselves. 😀

I'm Betty giving Glenn a lock of her hair.

I'm Salvatore Romano's wife. You don't remember my name off hand, I know. I'm wondering why Sal never touches me. Is he that religious? Or am I just not enough of a woman? I'll try to be more feminine and girly to see if that gets him going.

Kitty.

Bob Benson should have been the new Ripley.

I'm the canary NOT watching Joan and Roger fuck.

I'm Ted Chaugh's stupidly spelled last name.

I'm Peggy's kitchen haircut.

I'm Ted Chaugh, the MAN, the myth, the LEGEND (in my own mind), and I'm a cocky motherfucker who despite having an Asian-sounding last name ("Chow"), am NOT Asian.

I'm Kitty's reaction to Sal's Ann Margaret impression....

^^Ann Margret^^

I'm Harry Hamlin's shocking appearance

Seriously r45. Talk about sunken-AIDS wasting face.

Nowadays everyone would assume he was on Ozempic.

^^meant for r457

[quote] I'm Betty giving Glenn a lock of her hair.

From her chest.

Peggy: You know, you're not a stick.

Joan: And yet I never wonder what men think of me. You are hiding a very attractive young girl under too much lunch.

I thought I was the only one bugged by the name “Chaugh”…

R436 this is a random Peggy/Joan scene I love. Their interactions were better in the earlier seasons...something was lost in the last few years

I'm Don's Draper's purple heart.

I'm the bucket of chicken Betty never picks up.

I'm Dr. Edna treating Betty's inner child.

I’m the wall. If you’re bored, come bang your head against me.

That was great, r463. Of course Joan doesn't ride the subway.

Is there Peggy/Joan lesbian fan porn? Asking for a friend.

This is the best DL thread in awhile. And the Best "Let's be..." since Let's be What's Up Doc.

I’m Peggy’s sandwich, I’m making Joan sad.

I'm the flowers from Genghis Kahn Joan received from Don in one of my favorite episodes: Christmas Waltz.

I'm the plate of spaghetti Megan throws at the wall in the very same episode.

I’m the iconic red star tee worn by Sharon Tate. Teefs wears a version on the apartment balcony leading viewers to pray she will soon meet a grisly end.

I'm the gynecologist smoking a cigarette while examining Joan in the stirrups.

I'm the nose bleeds Jane gets when she goes above 86th st.

I'm the lesbian from Life magazine checking out Peggy's ass.

461 except it wasn’t true. Peggy wasn't hiding “a very attractive girl” due to too much lunch. Her face was ugly and weight had nothing to do with it.

I'm the wondering why Don and Joan never fucked.

I'm the tear-stained Carousel.

I'm Don and Betty never knowing Grandpa Gene let Sally drive...

I'm "Lady Chatterley's Lover"...just having been declared not obscene by Congress...I'm crumpled up secretly in some secretary's handbag....there's really only a few good parts in me and I somehow manage to always open on them.

I’m jai alai.

I don’t want to be Mad Men anymore.

👋👋👋

I'm the church mass said in Latin.

[quote]I don’t want to be Mad Men anymore.

Well, then go ahead and be Follies!

[quote]I'm the wondering why Don and Joan never fucked.

R479 I think because they were really good friends and understood each other's situation.

And also they were the six sexiest people on the show, they had to spread it around.

I'm Betty's iconic black and pink panel dress worn to the McCann casting call. An Italian designer made me for Betty. She was his muse.

R429-There is a scene in the lake season episode of madman or Peggy is talking to a reverend. He’s asking her various questions. She says she’s Norwegian and Lutheran and also Irish and Catholic. Her Archie Bunker type mother was Irish Catholic and her deceased father was Norwegian and Lutheran.

I'm the Hammaconda.

Never seen, never spoken about, but tucked into Don Draper's suits, straining at the very fabric.

R439 I was surprised that more characters in the show didn’t express contempt for Megan. It seemed like everyone kissed her ass after she married Don. That would not be the case IRL.

R492 Betty was certainly no big fan of Megan's. She snarked to Sally (when Sally wanted to visit the Park Ave. apartment at some point that Megan wouldn't have time to look after the kids because she was so busy on the casting couch trying to get a role, any role in a tv show or movie. Betty's runtiness toward other women knew no bounds

I'd like to see Mad Men picked up again and have the show set in the 1980s, as has been suggested. It's been almost 10 years since it ended.

[quote]I was surprised that more characters in the show didn’t express contempt for Megan. It seemed like everyone kissed her ass after she married Don. That would not be the case IRL.

You're joking, right?

R492 that's why so many loathed her. She was one of the most obvious examples of a "Mary Sue" the trope of a girl who is beautiful nice kind and does everything right and everyone likes her. Well at least it was like that for the 1st couple of seasons. They even had Peggy (Peggy!!) worshipping her, completely unthreatened and being amazed at her talents (they had her win an advertising award for fuck's sakes, before Peggy won anything)...it was vomitose, I swear.

I'm Harry, thinking Megan would fuck him in exchange for an acting part.

I'm Birdie, Don's pet name for me. He only uses it when he has to. I usually melt but sometimes not.

I'm Don in my undershirt, fixing Pete's sink. The women are orgasmic at my manliness.

I'm Pete's LA real estate gf, who I mistook for Betty more than once. I'm wondering why Don didn't tap that...

r486, I have no idea what that a joke means

I'm the night janitor. I have a hernia from the daily hefting of garbage bags full of empty gin bottles. I also have emphysema from all the residual cigarette smoke that hangs in the air. But at least I get paid $25 a week.

I'm the pay phone that Sal called his wife from, when he lied after being fired and said he was "working late" when he was really cruising for cock.

I'm Don's soft hands that don't make shit.

r502, but at least you are an employee of the company, not a contractor, you have a retirement plan, stock options, health insurance and 2 weeks vacation.

I'm Don helping Arnold and Sylvia Rosen's son Mitchell dodge the draft.

I'm Betty's exasperated sigh combined with her side eye roll.

I'm the unattractive actors and frumpy actresses playing office workers in the background.

I'm the twin models.

R478 It was a brief and rare moment of kindness from Joan.

I'm Mrs. Blankenship's crossword puzzle glasses.

I'm Joey's dislike of Joan that came from nowhere.

i just watched the twin "models" episode. they were some awkward looking girls

I'm Burger Chef.

I'm John Slattery's nude scene.

I'm the time difference.

I'm the plot jumps. One example is how we never see how Anna Draper goes from being mad at Dick for his identity theft to being his beloved confidante.

[quote] I'm Joey's dislike of Joan that came from nowhere.

Oh, it came from somewhere.

I'm Fleischmann's Margarine

I can't believe it's not kosher!

I'm Flo from Progressive as one of the gals on the switchboard. Just get her candy.

Crista Flanagan from Mad TV played a secretary in Mad Men. She was the one who ran over that guy's foot with a lawnmower.

[quote]I'm Fleischmann's Margarine

And you look it.

that lawnmower scene kills me every time.

I know Betty hated Megan, but I meant the others in the office. Peggy/Stan/Ginsberg all worshiped her. I thought that was an unrealistic portrayal of office politics.

I’m Heinz. Baked. Beans.

R497-That DUMPY FOUR EYES was a FAG.

He was drooling 🤤 over pretty boy Joey in one episode. Joey even called him a FAG after the encounter.

I’m a Sugarberry ham! If you eat too much of me, you’ll need a Secor laxative.

[quote] I'm the plot jumps. One example is how we never see how Anna Draper goes from being mad at Dick for his identity theft to being his beloved confidante.

R517 - in many cases Mad Men did ask us to do a lot of the work of filling the blanks ourselves, but not in this case. The first meeting of Anna and Dick, when she confronts him in the used cars dealership he works in, ends with her saying to him, warmly smiling: "Well, Dick, what do I do with you?" It's very obvious that from the get-go, learning about his circumstances, she fully understand - and accept - him, totally non judgmental. And this is why she was, emotionally, the most important person in his life.

UO here but I low key hated the character of Anna....so angelic, so sweet, so understanding. Everything that came out of her mouth was so sugarcoated. She nearly had a halo around her head. I get that we are supposed to get her bond with Don and why he loved her but it was just too much. You can write nice, loving people without making them seem unreal. The completely earnest, hammy "I'll love you WHOEVER you are!!!" stuff makes me cringe a bit.

The California episodes always felt a little surreal to me. I was willing to suspend my disbelief when it came to Anna and her lack of flaws.

I’m Betty smoking in furious anger at the Heineken humiliation!

R531 I found that the California episodes were always boring but Hamm’s acting was quite good in them as “Dick” and I see why the episodes were necessary

I'm another plot jump was Don going from car salesman to fur salesman where he met Roger.

I think we were supposed to see Anna as Dick (Don) sees Anna. I'm sure she has flaws, but that wasn't the point of the character, nor did the audience need to see her flaws since she had long ago made peace with Dick's (Don's) plight.

R535 I always see this (what I believe is an) excuse for too idealized characters on other shows/movies. In a show with very complicated, flawed but compellung characters it just stood out.

I could also maybe agree if it was just the flashbacks that showed her that way but it wasn't. Anyway it's a minor nit pick but I think it was a flaw nevertheless.

Anna was only in a few episodes. Did she need to be fully developed? I think the most important thing about that character is how she makes Dick/Don feel.

I'm Lane and Pete's weakling fisticuffs in the Board room that everyone is here for.

I'm the sad fate of any gay character on the show.

I am the airline stewardess's lapel wings that she stowed in Don's suitcase after they fucked on one of his business trips. Sally finds me when she opens the suitcase in front of Don and Betty while they cuddle in bed. Sally is delighted; she thinks I'm a gift that daddy brought back for her. Don plays it off but Betty knows exacty what I am and where I came from.

I'm the bad sideburns and Pete's jenky beard in the final season!

I'm the seething hatred for Megan that most fans of the show had.

I'm Betty calling Sally "a little lesbian" when she fixed something.

I’m Sally walking in on Don “comforting” Mrs. Rosen.

I'm on the train trying to talk to Dick Whitman. We served in Korea together.

I'm the previously mentioned child psychologist who had to counsel Betty's inner child.

What wasn't mentioned was what became of me.

I left therapy to work full time in a psychiatric hospital in Port Charles, NY. I was murdered by a serial killer. One who has an identical twin brother.

I’m nosy bitch neighbor and frenemy Francine smoking up a storm while bitching about that tramp Helen Bishop.

R546 I'm Dr Edna's head that ended up in a barrel full of apples and that Cujo aka Carly Corinthos almost fished out with her mouth.

Another MM/GH connection, Jeffrey Vincent Parise who played Carlos on GH was killed of on a Friday and showed up 2 days after in the Mad Men finale playing the retreat guru, and actually uttered the last spoken words of the show.

I’m Bobby’s teacher. My blouse says I like everyone, according to Betty.

I'm parking in the wrong garage.

Who knows why people in history did good things? For all we know Jesus was trying to get the loaves and fishes account

I'm the only one around here who can drink and work at the same time.

I'm the actress from Gilmore Girls. You can project a movie on my forehead and I'm easily the worst subplot besides the ones with Tom Hanks' kid.

I'm the ludicrous introductions at the Heineken party: " Crab this is Duck, Duck Crab".

Thank u R554 - I'm Sally's ballet recital at that party.

I suspect Duck was well-acquainted with crabs.

I'm the taste of liquor that Duck loves on Peggy's breath.

R553 I thought her character was interesting because she had mental illness in an era where it wasn’t really addressed or talked about—unlesss you were hidden away in an institution. She has real chemistry with Pete and they married irl. They divorced recently.

I'm John Aniston making a cameo because they couldn't afford my daughter.

I'm Miss Porter's School.

I'm Don. Doing the headache rob of his eyes. ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

We're Jon Hamm's shark teeth.

r517, That's what the money is for

I'm PIZZA HOUSE!

I'm Don swimming laps.

I'm the knit blanket used to cover Miss Blankenship's corpse so no one will notice she's dead. I was made by Jennifer, Harry Crane's wife.

It was made by his mother and I already claimed it.

[quote]I'm on the train trying to talk to Dick Whitman. We served in Korea together.

R545 Thanks! That was a great scene.

I'm Stan Rizzo's imminent bean ballet with Stan clutching his stomach as he leaves Peggy in the Board room.

I'm Duck's uber clean desk. The only thing he likes on it are ashes.

I'm the pillar in Harry Crane's office.

I'm Don visiting Joan at her apartment, telling her to please not accept the slimy Jaguar manager Herb Rennet's offer to "date" him to secure the Jaguar contract. Joan appreciates Don's gesture but we all know it's too late. The necklace is already nestled in her jewelry box.

[quote] I'm the knit blanket used to cover Miss Blankenship's corpse so no one will notice she's dead. I was made by Jennifer, Harry Crane's wife.

No, you're not. If you were, you'd know you were made by Harry's mother. With her job at the pone company and her children Jennifer had no time for crochet.

^^See R567

OP, this is a great thread. Thank you. If DL had a Top 10 list, this would rank among it.

Mea culpa, R566 and R574

[quote] Joan appreciates Don's gesture

Allow me to disagree, R572. I believe this very encounter was the reason Joan became so resentful toward Don.

When Don came to Joan’s place to stop her from meeting Jaguar’s Herb, we all cheered him and seemingly so did Joan. But her reaction was much more layered. When she caressed his cheek and said “you’re a good one” it was wildly understood she alluded that those who were not were the other partners. But a more subtle reading might suggest that what she was really saying is that if he’s good for opposing her sleeping with Herb, then she must be bad for actually doing it. His gallant chivalry set him apart from her. He broke the Pact of the Promiscuous they emphatically validated in the bar in the previous episode (The Christmas Waltz). He betrayed her. He stuck that knife and he kept twisting it – the deep disappointment he expressed on learning she did do that deed, him losing the Jaguar account (and nastily saying to her “don’t you feel 300 pound lighter”) and to top it all, jeopardizing the company going public, all in the name of some kind of personal integrity. From her point of view, his quest for redemption was an unforgivable self-indulging chain of irresponsible actions, which, objectively, they indeed were. But even more importantly, from a purely subjective perspective, for her it was a constant finger pointing at her own set of values and codes, one she believed she shared with Don.

Surely Duck was a drake?

His birth name was Drake Mallard.

I'm Betty masturbating with the rumbling washing machine while fantasizing about the a/c salesman.

I'm the fabulous mid-century furniture, a piece of which I now own.

Good post R577 I definitely agree that's what happened. Funnily enough she starts getting along well with Pete who everyone reviled for daring to present her with the opportunity, just because unlike Don, Pete just saw it as a solid sensible business move. It's Don that made her feel like a whore (not siding with Joan here, I hate how she turned so bitchy against Don when he meant well, but it is what it is and it's why I love the writing for the characters so much when they sacrifice likeability for complex reality)

Thanks, R577. I never looked at it that way.

R581 from the set? How fabulous!

I'm Duck. Waiting for everyone to go home. So I can make out some checks payable to myself.

I'm the clandestine Sunday night when Roger, Coop, Don, Peggy, Pete, Joan and Harry walked off with the files. And Trudy, the next day bringing 'every kind of sandwich' - my favorite ep.

I'm another time jump where one day they are starting a new company working out of a hotel room and the next they have a big office with many staff.

I’m Betty’s faux fundraiser for Rockefeller - a pretext to impress Henry Francis.

I'm Joan reluctantly playing the accordion and singing for Greg's colleagues.

I don't want this thread to die. OP are you up for creating a Part 2?

I'm not OP, but here's another thread to continue the fun.

I'm Coca Cola's "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" ad.

I am the receptionist in the final episode in a blink and you missed it role who later becomes Jon Hamm’s wife irl

Thanks r591!

I’m former HBO president Carolyn Strauss. I passed on this show!

I'm the mole above the mouth of January Jones.

We're all the times Betty is likened to Grace Kelly.

I’m Betty’s fainting couch! Coveted by DLers everywhere.

I'm Betty's decorator who almost faints when she sees the fainting couch. She demands that Betty tell people the couch is not an item the decorator has chosen.

I'm Katherine Olson who is delightfully critical of everything her daughter Peggy does.