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Closing Time

Because I teach business courses part-time, I often watch Mad Men and imagine how I’d apply marketing concepts discussed in class to a particular episode. It’s been difficult to do this in Season 4. At...

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Latex Free

Peggy’s relationship with Abe Drexler marks a point of personal growth on her part which is conveyed through her work on the Playtex account.  Whether it be Pete Campbell, Duck Phillips, or Mark...

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Nobody Wanted Me There

In The Beautiful Girls, Peggy and Abe get into a heated discussion about civil rights. Peggy acknowledges that it is unfair that black Americans are discriminated against, but says she also feels that...

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Menken-Siegel-Drexler-Ginsberg

Peggy says, “Clients are right all of a sudden?” and the first thing that popped into my head was, “Wow, she’s dating a Jew.” Seriously, that sentence structure is pure Yinglish (Yiddish/English) and...

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It’s a Jungle Out There

Two 1966 movie reference are allegories for the domestic tribulations experienced by Don/Megan and Roger/Jane in in Far Away Places.  One film, The Naked Prey, is a study in savagery that takes place...

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Mrs. Abe Drexler

Peggy has, in the immortal words of Laura Nyro, the Wedding Bell Blues. At least that’s what we’re led to believe in At the Codfish Ball, in which Peggy gets a decidedly nontraditional proposal from...

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Ain’t Been Swingin’ Since I Don’t Know When

Swinging. Wife swapping. Open marriage experimentation among the formerly (at least officially) monogamous. Yes, as we’re going into Mad Men Season 6, it’s starting to be that time in history when the...

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Basket of News, Feb. 9-15, 2013

First, some very sad news: Bob Levinson, considered by his peers as one of the best ever advertising copywriters, and one of Mad Men‘s advertising consultants, has died of chronic obstructive pulmonary...

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I Always Pick the Wrong Boys

[Retro Girl wrote this post after Season 5. I thought it was interesting to revive, given the events of Season 6, in which we saw how things with Abe and Peggy turned out, and also another instance of...

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Mad Men Haiku!

Mugger by subway Peggy with a bayonet Abe becomes a prick

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