Mad Men

I recoded Mad Men for a couple weeks. I had gotten behind at work…couldn’t keep up.

Or maybe, I couldn’t face the truth - Don Draper is that man falling in the opening credits.

Perhaps, somehow, he rises from the ashes.

Oh, and Betty out in Reno? Have you been to Reno???

This is probably one of the most unexpected scenes I’ve witnessed in tv. It was so great, even laugh out loud-a-ble. This link is from a YouTube post. I could not get the feed from the original AMC Madmen post. 5 stars and so glad that now days we have all those safety guidelines at work!

Duck. I mean really…gross. But on the other hand, Pete, please get out from under him. He’s such a control freak idiot. Peggy, I want you to experience love and appreciation, but standards, cmon girl get it together. You are such a great girl. Don’t let those madmen mind games play you like that.

Homer Simpson is the original “Mad Man”

Mad Men - Simpsons Style

I just got some disappointing news. Not only did Mad Men not win every category they were nominated for, they just got beat by TravelZoo for best Twitter community.

What REALLY got me was when I realized I (a self-proclaimed Madmeniac) wasn’t even following Mad Men on Twitter.

Run through this with me…

Here is TravelZoo’s Twitter - with about 11k followers - and  easy to understand value. Nothing fancy, but I quickly understand that if I follow them, every day I can get a good deal on travel.

@TravelZoo

Now, Madmeniacs, try searching, try typing in random URLS…try whatever you can to even find MadMen on Twitter…. NOTHING comes up with the exception of a few half-way personal Twitter groups created by obvious Don Draper stalkers.

After wasting about 30 minutes at work (yes, my Mad Men addiction is in full swing and negatively affecting my life), trying to find the dang Mad Men Twitter page (I eventually found it linked from AMC’s website), I joined up with the other 6,500 or so Mad Men fans who also managed to find it.

Come on people, let’s rally - Mad Men is clearly the best show on TV, and by far has the best fans. So in the spirit of the Sterling Cooper “do whatever it takes to win” attitude, we should have 10x the Twitter activity than TravelZoo (or any other Twitter Group for that matter). If we are TRUE fans we certainly never would have let this happen in the first place.

Our only chance is to create such a Twitter Storm that this type of embarassing defeat can never happen again!

HERE IS THE OFFICIAL MADMEN TWITTER GROUP!

In case you missed last night’s episode of Mad Men Roger gets the heat about his daughters wedding (he’s not allowed to go), Betty’s dad moves in and well…I won’t spoil it but Peggy gets a little crazy.

Lane tells Don that Betty was charming at dinner. She lifted his wife’s spirits “inestimably.” Lane asks Don and Roger to have lunch with Edgar Raffit of Madison Square Garden to undo the damage from his encounter with Pete and Paul.

Betty’s father, Gene, arrives at the Draper home with her brother, William, and his family. Gene has brought lunch, including a sandwich for Gloria, though according to William he knows she’s gone and is just being dramatic.

Roger, waiting with Don at the restaurant for Raffit, blames Mona for turning Margaret against him. “All of a sudden I could give two craps about that wedding,” he says. “All I want to do is win.”

A moment later, Raffit arrives and Don suggests that he stop fretting over public opinion: It shows a guilty conscience. Sterling Cooper could help Raffit change the conversation about Penn Station’s destruction to one in which Madison Square Garden is the cornerstone of New York’s renaissance. Raffit likes the approach but doesn’t want “the communist” (Paul) handling the account.

At the Draper home, William proposes putting Gene into a nursing home, and Betty accuses William of going after their dad’s house. Nursing homes are “for people who don’t have families,” she contends.

That night, William tells his wife, Judy, that Betty and her father fought constantly — something his sister forgets. Family is important to Betty, Judy replies.

At her apartment in a nightgown, Peggy brushes her hair into a flip and mimics Ann-Margret’s rendition of “Bye Bye Birdie” in front of a mirror.

In case you missed episode 1 of Mad Men - here is a little preview of what it was about. Don goes out of town and cheats on Betty (again) with a flight attendent. A fire alarm cuts it short, but it shows he still can’t resist…

Mad Men, Season 3

Somehow Mad Men’s ‘Queen Bee’ Christina Hendricks still knows how to turn a normal afternoon of picking up dry cleaning into a starlit show with her great curves.

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A little sneak peak at what is coming up. The British guy annoys me. I hope Don goes to a new firm!

The countdown has begun-grab your Gimlet and and program your dvr’s.

Check out these fantastic sneek peeks of Season 3 from the Mad Men section of the amc.com website: