Currently watching Season 5, episode 4, as I stumbled up this joke of a tweet.
Thoroughly loving this show. They don't make 'em like this anymore.
RIP, Donald "Dick Whitman" Draper, you womanizing, alcoholic, chain-smoking scumbag that we all loved.
It may have been successful, but I really despise that jingle.
I am confused.
Don Draper is a fictional TV character.
In some part, that fictional character is based on an advertising man named Draper Daniels who died some decades ago.
I was sure the Lucky Strikes would have done him in a long time ago, as they did Betty.
“Don Draper, the advertising genius”
I’m surprised he made it to 97, considering that he always seemed to have a hard drink in his hand, at least when I watched.
The series overall is a bit too raw for my taste, but I love the time period and have watched numerous YouTube clips.
My favorite clip is Don’s vision of the recently departed company founder Bert Cooper. It is just so uplifting, and Bert was brilliantly cast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKgPTkIulEI
Genuis behind Quiznos Spongmonkeys? Using a mutated rats to sell food was not far behind using a trans to sell beer.
I don’t know who was more 1960s macho, Don Draper or 007. Both were great characters.
I miss the days of the minibar and cigarettes in executive suites
“Quiznos Spongmonkeys”
The things you don’t miss after unplugging (no idea what that is and totally don’t care).
He was responsible for that Quiznos crap?
Hubby and I used to enjoy having Quiznos once in awhile. Hubby saw those sponge monkies and nearly puked. I’d mention going to Quiznos and he’d blanch and say, “I don’t want any rat sandwiches.”
Now they seem to be closing nationwide. Was it because of the “rat sandwich” disaster of a campaign ad?
BTW - LOVED Mad Men!
great show with great characters.
R.I.P. Good series and one that Rush liked to talk about.
I had read that they scanned contemporary weather reports for the show to get the rain to fall on a particular date, as well as looked up old real estate listings when one of the characters was looking for office space to start a new company. In a nod to a fiction of that era, one of their competitors was MacMahon, Tate, and Stevens.