Mad Men Season 5 running thread

Those three plaid jackets in the room at the same time blinded me.

Lot of references to real-life crimes this season. And Charles Whitman? Dick Whitman?

Also looks like Pete is smitten with the jailbait. Maybe the chick is of age, but not by much.

 

Pete: Do you want to take your teeth out, or should I knock them out.

Roger: I know cooler heads should prevail, but am I the only one who wants to see this?

 

No, Roger. You're not.

 

Drip, drip, drip.

Followed by the most joyless version of "Ode to Joy" ever.

The End

 

I'm a bit shaken.

Also, Pete Campbell seduction needs were terrific.

 

This is probably a little knee-jerky, but I thought last night's episode was one of the best in the entire series. It had everything.

PETE CAMPBELL KTFO: http://gif.mocksession.com/2012/04/pete-campbell-ktfo/

 

"He was caught with chewing gum on his pubis" is one of the greatest lines in the history of television.

 

Gross overstatement. She is not underrated at all and the history of television goes way farther back than MM.

Off the top of my head, I'd say Father Mulchay was far more underrated than her (though not the extreme, either), and that just tips the iceberg.

No way is Peggy underrated -- unless you're referring to characters on the show, not the audience.

 

Just for the record, that was the actual opening of the last movement of the Ninth Symphony. I don't find it joyless - it's the first statement of the theme and the rest of the movement is variations on that theme. <musicnerd>

 

OK let's take the sci-fi writing of Kurt Vonnegut along with the adman turned author back-story of Don DiLillo make the guy from Vermont and call him Ken Cosgrove.

As an aside - now any time someone mentions Don DiLillo in my mind I'll be adding "and his haircut."

 

Damn music nerds.

I still think the ending struck the perfect, um, note.

 

I really thought for a second when Peggy asked him what his pen name was, he was going to say "Gene Roddenberry."

By the way, Star Trek debuted in the fall of 1966. Any chance one of Kenny's short stories is called "The Trouble With Tribbles?"