Mad Men returns. Thumbs up or down?

Gotcha. Seems understandable, but still a little strange. For instance, newspapers accept advertising from different businesses in the same industry. Such as two different law firms. Nobody sees that as a conflict of interest.

 

Newspapers aren't designing/branding the creative for those advertisements.

 

The work done for car companies is similar. There basically are four kinds of car at this point, from an advertising point of view: sports car, family car, luxury car and truck. Moreover, an advertising firm controls the message and could theoretically tank a car if a bigger company asked.

And I bet plenty of companies get upset that newspapers run ads for their competitors, like if you run the Safeway and take out an A1 ad, then find out Giant has a coupon booklet inserted into the same newspaper. It's just standard, and people don't complain as much about what they're used to.

 

http://www.roadandtrack.com/go/pop-culture/car-culture-mad-men-chevy-xp887

Interesting read about Mad Men and the real Chevy Vega.

 

Cool.

 

If I remember correctly, by the late 70's if you owned a Vega you needed to keep a few quarts of oil in the trunk because those cars burned oil like crazy. You had to top off the oil, often.

 

In the 70's that was true for my Chevy as well:

 

When Peggy said she "bought an apartment" I figured she was talking about the high-rise unit - not the West Side tenement she's trying to fix up. And she bought the building. Yeah good investment - but it isn't like New York was on a roll in the 70s. Hell, it was seriously decaying well into the 80s.

 

She had lost the high-rise last week when the real estate agent convinced her to offer $5K less than the asking price to take advantage of the distraction of MLK's death. Another person outbid her.

 

The show does the sorts of capers very well. I liked the scene in the conference room with Joan, Pete and Don. The fact that Roger's announcement meant that they had to dump Jaguar anyway continues the idea of Teflon Don.

There must be some significance to the scene in the bar with Don and Ted callin back to the scene in Hawaii with Don and the solider. Just can't figure out why.

 

Well, both of them did prompt Don's involvement in the uniting of two parties. Wouldn't surprise me if he finds out that kid died in Vietnam just before the whole merger thing blows up.

 

S6, Ep8
May 19, 2013
The Crash