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[Apple Jack]

I don't remember the beatles on the wonder years, aside from the cocker cover. Weiner says he was told it's never been done.

 

[Ted Lange as your Bartender]

I don't remember the beatles on the wonder years, aside from the cocker cover. Weiner says he was told it's never been done.

This is what I was thinking ofMy link

It absolutely could have been a cover version, its been awhile. Not a big deal either way.

 

[Marvin]

For $250K, you can have the Beatles on your soundtrack

You have to wonder if the song being on the show resulted in a big spike in it being downloaded on iTunes.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

In the last five years there haven't been any. It was a little less certain before that. It says Weiner was told this was the first time a song was used on a show, but I'm not sure that's accurate.

"Dinner For Schmucks", the Steve Carell/Paul Rudd movie used "Fool On The Hill" for the opening credits.The studio paid 1.5 million.

http://www.showbiz411.com/2010/07/20/song-for-shmucks-beatles-score-1-5-mil-for-fool-on-the-hill

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Maybe Weiner should have done with Paul what Louis CK did with Pete Townshend: just call up and offer some ridiculously low fee, and hoped Paul took it as a joke like Townshend did.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Maybe Weiner should have done with Paul what Louis CK did with Pete Townshend: just call up and offer some ridiculously low fee, and hoped Paul took it as a joke like Townshend did.

Didn't Townshend give it to Louis for free because it was an awesome use of the song?

 

[Marvin]

Maybe Weiner should have done with Paul what Louis CK did with Pete Townshend: just call up and offer some ridiculously low fee, and hoped Paul took it as a joke like Townshend did.

Didn't Townshend give it to Louis for free because it was an awesome use of the song?

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Maybe Weiner should have done with Paul what Louis CK did with Pete Townshend: just call up and offer some ridiculously low fee, and hoped Paul took it as a joke like Townshend did.

Didn't Townshend give it to Louis for free because it was an awesome use of the song?

Stop it.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Maybe Weiner should have done with Paul what Louis CK did with Pete Townshend: just call up and offer some ridiculously low fee, and hoped Paul took it as a joke like Townshend did.

Didn't Townshend give it to Louis for free because it was an awesome use of the song?

http://www.avclub.co...ason-par,61969/

A guy I talked to today is looking into something." And it went on and on. And finally, she said, "Well, Pete Townshend wants to know exactly how it's being used, and he wants to see the show. He wants to see some episodes." So I wrote him a synopsis of how it would be. I described it very carefully, and we sent him the DVD of five episodes from last season. And then, I don't know, three or four months later, it felt like, he came back to us and said, "Can you send me 7,500 bucks?" [Laughs.] Yeah! And so the whole thing cost $15,000, which is ####### nothing!

 

[Good Posting Judge]

In real life, apparently it's not a huge industry secret that Jessica Pare was and is sleeping with a high level married AMC executive with children. And rumored is part of the terms of Weiner's new deal with AMC included a provision to feature Pare prominently.

Link?

 

[Premier]

Doubt that last part highly. Weiner isn't writing his show based off someone else's orders.

 

[gump]

My guess is Megan will be exposed, that's the direction the show is taking, to be something akin to what Don's real mother was like. Poor, ignorant, uneducated, unrefined, basically a more urban form of prostitute.

Interesting theories....and great description of how Megan got Don. So on the above...Megan is deceiving her father as well, making him believe she married Don for love?

 

[The_Man]

My guess is Megan will be exposed, that's the direction the show is taking, to be something akin to what Don's real mother was like. Poor, ignorant, uneducated, unrefined, basically a more urban form of prostitute.

Interesting theories....and great description of how Megan got Don. So on the above...Megan is deceiving her father as well, making him believe she married Don for love?

Plus, her father is a professor so while Megan might not be rich, she is probably highly educated

 

[Apple Jack]

Doubt that last part highly. Weiner isn't writing his show based off someone else's orders.

Yeah, that's hard to believe. Not the part about somebody screwing an exec to get a gig; that happens everywhere, everyday. But Weiner being told what direction his creation is going to go. Sounds like complete bs to me. He strikes me as the kind of guy who would sooner drop the show altogether than be whipped like that. Or at least take it elsewhere.

 

[Rove!]

every episode this season seems to have at least one reference to suicide or falling from a height.

In this ep, we had the elevator incident and Pete made a reference to suicide.

 

[-jb-]

every episode this season seems to have at least one reference to suicide or falling from a height.In this ep, we had the elevator incident and Pete made a reference to suicide.

What were the others? :lazy:

 

[Rove!]

every episode this season seems to have at least one reference to suicide or falling from a height.In this ep, we had the elevator incident and Pete made a reference to suicide.

What were the others? :lazy:

I'm sure there's some in various places on the internet, but a few that come to mind:The long lingering shot of the balcony when Don chased Meghan around the apt.Pete's stereo reminds me of a coffinAt Don's surprise party, somebody made a crack about going over the balconyI seem to recall Roger makining a comment about throwing somebody out the window...

 

[Apple Jack]

every episode this season seems to have at least one reference to suicide or falling from a height.In this ep, we had the elevator incident and Pete made a reference to suicide.

What were the others? :lazy:

The only other falling reference I recall was Roger fantasizing about throwing Pete through the window a couple episodes into the season. But there have been countless references to windows; windows opening, window not opening, a new office that has windows, and the Y&R water balloon incident. Now Don nearly walking into an elevator shaft. I forget the suicide reference from Pete. What did he say?

 

[Wrighteous Ray]

I forget the suicide reference from Pete. What did he say?

In talking to the life insurance guy, he mentioned that the suicide provision in his work policy was almost expired. Something like that.

 

[jwb]

yea, someone (Pete?) is probably going down that elevator shaft we now know is faulty.

 

[Apple Jack]

yea, someone (Pete?) is probably going down that elevator shaft we now know is faulty.

I wondered about that because we didn't see Don tell anybody about it, but there's no way he doesn't report that to maintenance. He's not a flake.

 

[Marvin]

Megan Draper is not who she says she is and nothing about her will eventually add up over time. The show has written most of the major characters into a corner. The only way to shake up the show is and to reinvent the conflict between the real **** Whitman and the fake Don Draper, is to have Megan become the female Don Draper right under his nose. Consider that Draper only got a job with the agency because he met Sterling and while Sterling was drunk, took advantage of the opportunity and convinced Sterling that he had, in fact, hired him when clearly he had not. Megan on the other hand, manipulated her way onto Don's desk, waited for his marriage to collapse, then encroached on the good will of his children. Don only first noticed her when he realized she was very good with his children. Which is something he was at least used to with Betty. For all Betty's faults, at least she served the role of handling the children and keeping them out of Don's way and life. Don's mother was also a prostitute and ignorant and uneducated and lived in poverty. Megan over time has carefully approached Don and shown all of her maternal, faithful, educated and refined traits, or at least the appearance of them. Megan was able to achieve what most of the other women on the show have not, she got him to commit completely. She was able to do this because while all the other women approached Don with the mindset of what Don could do for them, Megan did so with the mindset of what Don could do for her but with the appearance to Don that it was about what Megan could do for Don as his surrogate mother figure. My guess is Megan will be exposed, that's the direction the show is taking, to be something akin to what Don's real mother was like. Poor, ignorant, uneducated, unrefined, basically a more urban form of prostitute. And this exposure will start to unravel Don's own secret identity. The reason Don will stay with Megan is she presents the mother figure he's always wanted. The reason Don even was willing to ask that question is because Megan is likely just like him. Deceptive and manipulative. Except he's too arrogant to even consider that there are other people like him, taking advantage of the war and the changing role of society and how women operate in that workforce, looking to climb the social ladder through deception. In real life, apparently it's not a huge industry secret that Jessica Pare was and is sleeping with a high level married AMC executive with children. And rumored is part of the terms of Weiner's new deal with AMC included a provision to feature Pare prominently.

Hey how 'bout that.

 

[Wrighteous Ray]

yea, someone (Pete?) is probably going down that elevator shaft we now know is faulty.

I wondered about that because we didn't see Don tell anybody about it, but there's no way he doesn't report that to maintenance. He's not a flake.

I don't think the elevator shaft is actually faulty. Seemed like Don's dream when he killed the ex-girlfriend.

 

[Apple Jack]

yea, someone (Pete?) is probably going down that elevator shaft we now know is faulty.

I wondered about that because we didn't see Don tell anybody about it, but there's no way he doesn't report that to maintenance. He's not a flake.

I don't think the elevator shaft is actually faulty. Seemed like Don's dream when he killed the ex-girlfriend.

Don was actually in bed and had a Tony Soprano food-poisoning type fever dream when he killed the ex. There were no indications here that it was a dream.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

yea, someone (Pete?) is probably going down that elevator shaft we now know is faulty.

Chekhov's Elevator?Not gonna happen, btw.

 

[Marvin]

Please don't turn this into some sort of "Lost" thread.

 

[Apple Jack]

Please don't turn this into some sort of "Lost" thread.

What do you mean? I quit on Lost about five episodes in.

 

[Marvin]

Please don't turn this into some sort of "Lost" thread.

What do you mean? I quit on Lost about five episodes in.

You lasted 4.5 episodes longer than I did.I'm just not a fan of people making wild-### predictions about what will happen next.

 

[NMYMND]

Falling down the elevator would bring up an LA Law comparison or two.

As far as death, possibly suicide, the season 5 poster got it started.

And the theme is rolling along, according to some.

 

[Wrighteous Ray]

yea, someone (Pete?) is probably going down that elevator shaft we now know is faulty.

I wondered about that because we didn't see Don tell anybody about it, but there's no way he doesn't report that to maintenance. He's not a flake.

I don't think the elevator shaft is actually faulty. Seemed like Don's dream when he killed the ex-girlfriend.

Don was actually in bed and had a Tony Soprano food-poisoning type fever dream when he killed the ex. There were no indications here that it was a dream.

Yeah, they didn't show him waking up or anything. But the elevator shaft wasn't where the rest of the elevators were. And Don's reaction was far more muted than it would have been if that was real life. I don't think it really happened.

 

[Apple Jack]

yea, someone (Pete?) is probably going down that elevator shaft we now know is faulty.

I wondered about that because we didn't see Don tell anybody about it, but there's no way he doesn't report that to maintenance. He's not a flake.

I don't think the elevator shaft is actually faulty. Seemed like Don's dream when he killed the ex-girlfriend.

Don was actually in bed and had a Tony Soprano food-poisoning type fever dream when he killed the ex. There were no indications here that it was a dream.

Yeah, they didn't show him waking up or anything. But the elevator shaft wasn't where the rest of the elevators were. And Don's reaction was far more muted than it would have been if that was real life. I don't think it really happened.

It was right next to the elevator he had just put Megan on.

 

[jwb]

yea, someone (Pete?) is probably going down that elevator shaft we now know is faulty.

Chekhov's Elevator?Not gonna happen, btw.

Yea, you're probably right

 

[Wrighteous Ray]

Yeah, they didn't show him waking up or anything. But the elevator shaft wasn't where the rest of the elevators were. And Don's reaction was far more muted than it would have been if that was real life. I don't think it really happened.

It was right next to the elevator he had just put Megan on.

Anybody got it DVRed? The way I remember it, he heard the elevator and had to walk over towards SCDP to look in the doors.

 

[The_Man]

My wife has been on the suicide thing since the break in the middle of the first episode of the season when Megan went out onto the balcony in the middle of the night after Don's birthday party. I strongly agree that the hints for a Pete suicide attempt are there.

 

[Marvin]

Yeah, they didn't show him waking up or anything. But the elevator shaft wasn't where the rest of the elevators were. And Don's reaction was far more muted than it would have been if that was real life. I don't think it really happened.

It was right next to the elevator he had just put Megan on.

Anybody got it DVRed? The way I remember it, he heard the elevator and had to walk over towards SCDP to look in the doors.

99% sure it was the elevator just next to the one Megan was in. Nothing weird or nefarious going on there.

 

[Apple Jack]

Yeah, they didn't show him waking up or anything. But the elevator shaft wasn't where the rest of the elevators were. And Don's reaction was far more muted than it would have been if that was real life. I don't think it really happened.

It was right next to the elevator he had just put Megan on.

Anybody got it DVRed? The way I remember it, he heard the elevator and had to walk over towards SCDP to look in the doors.

I don't have it DVR'd but he had pushed the button to go down and catch her before she left the building. The button was to the right of the elevator she took, which is consistent with where it would have been if there was a shaft to his right. He heard the ding, walked over and realize there was no car there, so approached the shaft cautiously. I doubt it was a dream or his imagination.

 

[Marvin]

Yeah, they didn't show him waking up or anything. But the elevator shaft wasn't where the rest of the elevators were. And Don's reaction was far more muted than it would have been if that was real life. I don't think it really happened.

It was right next to the elevator he had just put Megan on.

Anybody got it DVRed? The way I remember it, he heard the elevator and had to walk over towards SCDP to look in the doors.

I don't have it DVR'd but he had pushed the button to go down and catch her before she left the building. The button was to the right of the elevator she took, which is consistent with where it would have been if there was a shaft to his right. He heard the ding, walked over and realize there was no car there, so approached the shaft cautiously. I doubt it was a dream or his imagination.

Peggy sure didn't.

 

[jwb]

Yeah, they didn't show him waking up or anything. But the elevator shaft wasn't where the rest of the elevators were. And Don's reaction was far more muted than it would have been if that was real life. I don't think it really happened.

It was right next to the elevator he had just put Megan on.

Anybody got it DVRed? The way I remember it, he heard the elevator and had to walk over towards SCDP to look in the doors.

I don't have it DVR'd but he had pushed the button to go down and catch her before she left the building. The button was to the right of the elevator she took, which is consistent with where it would have been if there was a shaft to his right. He heard the ding, walked over and realize there was no car there, so approached the shaft cautiously. I doubt it was a dream or his imagination.

Peggy sure didn't.

 

[gump]

Falling down the elevator would bring up an LA Law comparison or two.

As far as death, possibly suicide, the season 5 poster got it started.

Wow....never connected the dots with the Falling Man photo from 9/11.Pete committing suicide is too obvious....it seems we've had several characters go thru issues...only to rebound, so it it happens I bet its someone we don't expect.

 

[identikit]

Falling down the elevator would bring up an LA Law comparison or two.

As far as death, possibly suicide, the season 5 poster got it started.

Wow....never connected the dots with the Falling Man photo from 9/11.Pete committing suicide is too obvious....it seems we've had several characters go thru issues...only to rebound, so it it happens I bet its someone we don't expect.

Megan.

 

[Rove!]

And the theme is rolling along, according to some.

I think they take it a little too far. The references to "bombing" may be part of the language due to the presence of Vietnam in the public conscience.

 

[Marvin]

For RaiderNation.

A couple of days late

 

[Good Posting Judge]

For RaiderNation.

A couple of days late

Kenny looks like he's doing his Peggy impression with his hands there.

 

[Apple Jack]

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[Marvin]

For RaiderNation.

A couple of days late

Kenny looks like he's doing his Peggy impression with his hands there.

Ken's jerky and chaotic. Peggy was rhythmic and gentle.

 

[Marvin]

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[Good Posting Judge]

For RaiderNation.

A couple of days late

Kenny looks like he's doing his Peggy impression with his hands there.

Ken's jerky and chaotic. Peggy was rhythmic and gentle.

It did look very pleasant.

 

[Marvin]

For RaiderNation.

A couple of days late

Kenny looks like he's doing his Peggy impression with his hands there.

Ken's jerky and chaotic. Peggy was rhythmic and gentle.

It did look very pleasant.

wow

 

[Raider Nation]

For RaiderNation.

A couple of days late

You've known me for ten years. Call me RN.

 

[badmojo1006]

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