Mad Men Season Premiere Viewing Parties?

I love Breaking Bad, but I only saw one season on DVD.

Been watching MM since day one as well. As for DD, remember, I can beat you with my cane in our fight. I have NO shame.

Yeah, he'd be about my mom's age. But he'd still be hot! As a child of the 60's (I guess I'd be Sally Draper's age), I remember all the drinking and smoking. I used to buy my mom ashtrays for Mother's Day or her b-day. I remember that vodka was considered very cutting-edge - I think people were just beginning to drink it in the early 60's. But we were in the Midwest (Chicago) and my parents were academics, not (M)Ad Men. So perhaps we were a bit behind the curve.

One problem I always had with the timeline on MM is that according to his age, Don really should have fought in WWII, not the Korean War. He would have been a bit young for WWII, but plenty of guys lied about their age and enlisted. There's a big time-gap with Don fighting in Korea. I don't know the exact years of the Korean War (yeah, I know I could google it but am too lazy) but it seems to me that he would've been at least in his mid-20's which doesn't make sense to me.

does the video store on 7th betw 8/9 have the first two seasons on DVD?

Flexichick wrote: I think he lied about his age to run away from home, no?

I'm a child of the (late) 60s too. My parents were foreign-born, so my world was not as Americana as some of my friends. I definitely made/bought my dad ashtrays.

I don't know about Don's history but it still seems to me that he would have been mid-20's during the Korean War which is a bit old to run away from home. But I won't quibble. I love my show.

I remember making ashtrays as well! It was an approved activity at school or summer camp. And now we're worried about 3rd hand smoke. My, how things have changed. I don't mind the smoking and drinking or even the stuff that would now be construed as sexual harassment, but it really bothered me when when that guy Duck just let his dog go. Poor puppy!

Channel 54 on TWC. They're playing Goodfellas right now - one of my favorite movies ever.Mad Men starts at 10:00.

2 minutes ....yay.......

I'm really loving this episode so far.

Poor Pete! I guess I love him because nothing ever works out for him as planned.

And Sal finally had a hookup - sort of.

Stoli?! I didn't know they had that back in the '60's.

There's a good show on right now: High Seas Heroes: Fighting Back Pirates about the Maersk. It's pretty interesting what they did - appearing to cooperate when in actuality they weren't. Interviews with the actual crew, including the captain (with recreations which I tend to hate but aren't so bad on this show).

TLC (channel 52 - fyi, Flexi, so you don't have to search for the channel!)

^not sure about Stoli, but Utz has been around for almost 100 years, and has had a big presence in PA, Baltimore and other East Coast areas for a long, long time.

Flexichick wrote: ^not sure about Stoli, but Utz has been around for almost 100 years, and has had a big presence in PA, Baltimore and other East Coast areas for a long, long time.

I had heard that Utz has been around awhile. I'm surprised that MM would use product placement WRT Stoli, since they're usually so finicky about details. I seem to recall my parents drinking Smirnoff and I assumed that perhaps that was the premium vodka back then. I have the impression that before the 60's, gin was more popular than vodka but from then on vodka began to take over.

According to Wikipedia, Stoli began to be imported from Russia by PepsiCo in the early 1970's. But maybe one of the Brits smuggled a bottle out of Russia.

Oh, did anybody else think Betty calling Sally "a little lesbian" working with Don's tools was an anachronistic detail? It sort of jarred me. Didn't seem like something somebody in the early 60's would say.

<ahem>Bittorrent seasons one, two, and S03E01 if you don't have cable<ahem>

Excuse me, I meant get a season pass from the iTunes store. Of course I did.

Flexichick wrote: They made a big deal over the Stoli (Campbell was not allowed to drink it), so maybe it was something you could get on occasion.

Utz's packaging is still from the 60s (or earlier), so I'm surprised Danny didn't realize it was old

I'm aware that both Utz and Heineken are ancient brands. However, Utz was a regional potato chip company until the last decade or so, and Heineken didn't start showing up on US shelves until the 70s. Except for maybe a handful of Utz billboards scattered between Philly and Baltimore, I strongly doubt that either brand was being advertised in the US in 1960/1961.

I'm not slagging Mad Men. I love the show, and their product placement is deftly executed, (sure beats seeing a car crash through a Pepsi billboard ala the Bond films). But don't kid yourself, it's product placement. A show as good as Mad Men undoubtedly costs a fortune to produce, and I don't begrudge them doing whatever it takes to keep up the level of quality.

About Utz. Do add agencies really have that range of size of clients? They do airlines, cigarettes, and cars and Utz?