Mad Men on AMC (4 Viewers)

[Hang 10]

I'm taping and going to watch every episode before Sunday. the first few season one episodes have revealed a few things going on now and all of it makes more sense. All the Roger lines will make this well worth the effort.

How many blank VHS tapes do you have?

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Go for it dude.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

I read something from some TV critic/blogger who literally watched every episode of 2.5 Men and hated the show. She said she never laughed once.

12 ####### seasons. I mean at that point, who's the dummy in this situation.

 

[Jack White]

I'm taping and going to watch every episode before Sunday. the first few season one episodes have revealed a few things going on now and all of it makes more sense. All the Roger lines will make this well worth the effort.

Wait . . . you're going to watch almost 70 hours of Mad Men between now and Sunday night?

how many hours is it minus the commercials?

About 70.

 

[Rove!]

throwing this out there

Don check into a hotel...burns every last vestige of his identity and jumps.....

closing song....Heartbreak Hotel...

 

[Rove!]

I'm taping and going to watch every episode before Sunday. the first few season one episodes have revealed a few things going on now and all of it makes more sense. All the Roger lines will make this well worth the effort.

Wait . . . you're going to watch almost 70 hours of Mad Men between now and Sunday night?

how many hours is it minus the commercials?

If you figure each episode is 45 minutes and there's 91 episodes, that's 4095 minutes or 68.25 hours.

I'd guess 45 minutes is on the low side....

 

[Jack White]

throwing this out there

Don check into a hotel...burns every last vestige of his identity and jumps.....

closing song....Heartbreak Hotel...

Karl, what about his kids?

 

[Rove!]

throwing this out there

Don check into a hotel...burns every last vestige of his identity and jumps.....

closing song....Heartbreak Hotel...

Karl, what about his kids?

Henry will adopt them and it will help heal the hole in his heart...

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

throwing this out there

Don check into a hotel...burns every last vestige of his identity and jumps.....

closing song....Heartbreak Hotel...

Yeah, let's go "no throwing" for a while.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

A retrospective clip from AMC. No spoilers, just memories

"The Times of Your Life" wasn't released until 1975.

That means they're skipping ahead 5 years!

 

[Jack White]

I'm taping and going to watch every episode before Sunday. the first few season one episodes have revealed a few things going on now and all of it makes more sense. All the Roger lines will make this well worth the effort.

Wait . . . you're going to watch almost 70 hours of Mad Men between now and Sunday night?

how many hours is it minus the commercials?

If you figure each episode is 45 minutes and there's 91 episodes, that's 4095 minutes or 68.25 hours.

I'd guess 45 minutes is on the low side....

I think a typical TV show is 7-8 minutes of commercials per half-hour.

Around Season 3 or 4, Weiner lobbied for a longer show. AMC didn't want to sacrifice commercial time. The compromise was adding 2-4 minutes to each episode's running time.

So maybe these are 47-minute episodes.

 

[Rove!]

throwing this out there

Don check into a hotel...burns every last vestige of his identity and jumps.....

closing song....Heartbreak Hotel...

Yeah, let's go "no throwing" for a while.

I dunno, I think it's fun to throw some crazy #### against the wall and I enjoy reading the same.......It adds to the appreciation for the decisions that Weiner and crew actually make....

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Prediction: One of the final scenes will be Peggy as an old cougar ad exec seducing a new intern

Spoiler

IT ENDS UP BEING HER SON SHE GAVE UP

 

[Righetti]

throwing this out there

Don check into a hotel...burns every last vestige of his identity and jumps.....

closing song....Heartbreak Hotel...

Karl, what about his kids?

Henry will adopt them and it will help heal the hole in his heart...

he knows that Henry will provide a better life for them and offer them more stability.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

throwing this out there

Don check into a hotel...burns every last vestige of his identity and jumps.....

closing song....Heartbreak Hotel...

Yeah, let's go "no throwing" for a while.

I dunno, I think it's fun to throw some crazy #### against the wall and I enjoy reading the same.......It adds to the appreciation for the decisions that Weiner and crew actually make....

Bert Cooper isn't really dead. But your face is.

 

[urbanhack]

A retrospective clip from AMC. No spoilers, just memories

"The Times of Your Life" wasn't released until 1975.

That means they're skipping ahead 5 years!

DID SEPINWALL TEXT YOU THIS??????????

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

A retrospective clip from AMC. No spoilers, just memories

"The Times of Your Life" wasn't released until 1975.

That means they're skipping ahead 5 years!

DID SEPINWALL TEXT YOU THIS??????????

He wishes he had my number.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

All of these dumb theories (Lambskin's excluded) make you really appreciate how good Mad Men is.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

But kudos to all of those people that correctly predicted Betty's cancer and Don giving his car away.

 

[RUSF18]

But kudos to all of those people that correctly predicted Betty's cancer and Don giving his car away.

No one predicted it. They were both hinted at in prior episodes. See S4E3 and S2E7, respectively.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

But kudos to all of those people that correctly predicted Betty's cancer and Don giving his car away.

No one predicted it. They were both hinted at in prior episodes. See S4E3 and S2E7, respectively.

Kudos to those who hinted at it?

 

[5-ish Finkle]

Don finds the waitress chick, remarries and she adopts the kids. He retires from the ad business to Queens, NY, where he gets a job driving a cab and slowly turns into an even more self-righteous, bigoted caricature of himself. Ultimately, Don loses another wife to cancer and has to start to "figure it all out" again as he approaches 50. Shirley guest stars as the independent African-American woman who meets an owner of a dry cleaning business while working at Traveler's who happens to be Don's new next door neighbor. After Shirley and he marry, hijinks ensue as her ambitious husband attempts to move them on up to the East Side all the while dealing with Don's curmudgeonly racist schemes to keep them in Queens(as he secretly enjoys their company).

 

[urbanhack]

But kudos to all of those people that correctly predicted Betty's cancer and Don giving his car away.

Don will still be sitting on the bench waiting for the bus at the end of final show.

 

[MattFancy]

But kudos to all of those people that correctly predicted Betty's cancer and Don giving his car away.

Don will still be sitting on the bench waiting for the bus at the end of final show.

Forrest Gump?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

But kudos to all of those people that correctly predicted Betty's cancer and Don giving his car away.

Don will still be sitting on the bench waiting for the bus at the end of final show.

Oh, and I want to believe that that scene was filmed somewhere not too far from where I sit.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

throwing this out there

Don check into a hotel...burns every last vestige of his identity and jumps.....

closing song....Heartbreak Hotel...

neat

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

All of these dumb theories (Lambskin's excluded) make you really appreciate how good Mad Men is.

it's also the reason why there are so many horrible shows I guess.

 

[Capella]

Don do I have to remind you of the finite nature of life? Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Don do I have to remind you of the finite nature of life? Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think.

You're getting too deep before the cocktail hour.

 

[kupcho1]

Don do I have to remind you of the finite nature of life? Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think.

You're getting too deep before the cocktail hour.

https://youtu.be/cPd_awQuH4o

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Prediction: One of the final scenes will be Peggy as an old cougar ad exec seducing a new intern

Spoiler

IT ENDS UP BEING HER SON SHE GAVE UP

How can a guy with reasoning skills so stunted that he would have taken Vernon Davis in the 3rd rd in last year's GMTAN draft AND then defending it ...come up with this kind of foresight? I'm guessing savant.

 

[Raider Nation]

@sepinwall

Non-Don/Peggy “Mad Men” copywriters arbitrarily ranked: Ginsberg, Freddie, Smitty, Megan, Tanner, Kinsey, Ted, Mathis, Danny, Ed, Joey... Lou

 

[kupcho1]

@sepinwall

Non-Don/Peggy “Mad Men” copywriters arbitrarily ranked: Ginsberg, Freddie, Smitty, Megan, Tanner, Kinsey, Ted, Mathis, Danny, Ed, Joey... Lou

Finally!

I was hoping he'd co-opt Grantland shtick on twitter.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

@sepinwall

Non-Don/Peggy “Mad Men” copywriters arbitrarily ranked: Ginsberg, Freddie, Smitty, Megan, Tanner, Kinsey, Ted, Mathis, Danny, Ed, Joey... Lou

Joey was an artist, no? And no Dale?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Don do I have to remind you of the finite nature of life? Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think.

You're getting too deep before the cocktail hour.

https://youtu.be/cPd_awQuH4o

Do you know how invigorating it is to go in and write a check for $6500 and not care?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Another great quote (although the picture doesn't match)

 

[Sammy3469]

I predict the last show is 75 minutes of octopus porn

 

[5-ish Finkle]

I predict the last show is 75 minutes of octopus porn

We can dream.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

I predict the last show is 75 minutes of octopus porn

Great, so my Saturday night and my Sunday night will essentially be the same thing.

 

[Sammy3469]

I predict the last show is 75 minutes of octopus porn

Great, so my Saturday night and my Sunday night will essentially be the same thing.

Essentially? Is Saturday night squid porn?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I can see Peggy, now all bad-###, sitting in her office with a couple of the McCann goons. They start to give her grief. She just jerks her thumb in the direction of her copy of "Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" and saying "if you don't like it you can make like Mr. Octopus there and eat me."

 

[Good Posting Judge]

I predict the last show is 75 minutes of octopus porn

Great, so my Saturday night and my Sunday night will essentially be the same thing.

Essentially? Is Saturday night squid porn?

Isn't it for everyone?

 

[Zegras11]

I'm taping and going to watch every episode before Sunday. the first few season one episodes have revealed a few things going on now and all of it makes more sense. All the Roger lines will make this well worth the effort.

Wait . . . you're going to watch almost 70 hours of Mad Men between now and Sunday night?

how many hours is it minus the commercials?

If you figure each episode is 45 minutes and there's 91 episodes, that's 4095 minutes or 68.25 hours.

I'd guess 45 minutes is on the low side....

I think a typical TV show is 7-8 minutes of commercials per half-hour.

Around Season 3 or 4, Weiner lobbied for a longer show. AMC didn't want to sacrifice commercial time. The compromise was adding 2-4 minutes to each episode's running time.

So maybe these are 47-minute episodes.

This sounds about right... I'm FF through about 18 minutes of commercials per show. There's always one segment of about 5 minutes of commercials.

MY DVR is 84% fulln with 14 shows since 1am this morning. I'm going 10 straight hours right now. That's about 12 shows. Friday I might go all day starting at 9am.

 

[Capella]

Must. Stop. Watching. These.

 

[Zegras11]

Must. Stop. Watching. These.

 

[Capella]

Thinking of calling out tomorrow just to sit around and watch these.

(I also own all the blu rays but that isn't as much fun)

 

[Michael Brown]

The beginning of the end for Sal

 

[Zegras11]

Episode where Pete finds the #### Whitman package is awesome

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Episode where Pete finds the #### Whitman package is awesome

Easy with the potty talk, Lenny Bruce.