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"Don't Talk," said Don
Since we have had such fun with the Mad Men Quotes and Word Associations games, I would like to suggest another. This involves no words, only actions. Give us a character and something he or she did rather than said that really struck you. For instance, I remember my jar dropping at the end of the picnic scene when Don Draper stood up and threw his beer can as hard as he could - and he wasn't aiming at the litter can! That scene really struck me, and it happened all over again when I saw it the second time during the marathon. So what scenes have stayed with you, Mad Men fans, as showing us the characters without the benefit of words?
Look on Joan's face when Sterling told her he was the best piece of ass he ever had.
Bobby and Sally watching Betty demolish the chair.
Joan finding the empty booze glass next to Sally
When Don/Dick looked at 'his' Purple Heart.
The painful expression on Adam's face when Don gave him the kiss off. Poor Adam just didn't get it.
Also, Glenn's sympathy to Betty (holding her hand, expressive eyes) in the parking lot at the Merchantile.
Betty on her "date" with her Kenmore!
I just posted this on another thread. I loved the scene in "Babylon" where all the office ladies are trying on lipsticks and the guys are observing them behind the glass window. My favorite part was when Joan bends over with her lovely bum in the air and the guys have to "salute" her. Joan was totally in control of the situation, and she deserves to be saluted!
Oh, and there's one more favorite scene. All I have to say is "yes, please." ;-)
Well, someone already mentioned this scene in lots of other forums, but....it's pretty hard to beat Don in that pink towel, shaving...to quote redhead64, "Rrraarhh!"
Oh, and the changing a shirt from that special drawer in his office in the morning ... classic dirty Don Juan.
Roger and Joan departing separately from the hotel...
Joan's friend's expression... "Whatever you want..."
Betty with cigarette butt in mouth shooting away at the doves...
Midge and her beatnik lover in the photo...
Ken chasing down the secretary and gallantly offering hand up in the election party scene...
Don's exhalted expression during the Wheel pitch...And his crushed, defeated expression on returning to find an empty, dark house...
Don's steely look at Pete during the great confrontation...Pete backing away as he approached...
Pete's beaten expression when looking out over Manhatten in the new condo apartment while Trudy and co prattle happily...
Roger and Mona at the hospital...
Pete's numb expression after running to father figure Don to tell of his father's death...
Don's look as Roger claims to Peter that Don has saved his job for him...
Peggy's look at Peter as she struts about in the party dress...Peter's look back...
And so many more...
Envision Jon Hamm. Now all together:
RAAAARRRHHHHHHH! MEOW!
Yes redhead64, and don't forget the "drool buckets"!!
Sally's dry cleaning bag scene.
Joan's bra strap mark scene.
The look on the office cleaning crew man's face when he saw Peggy and Pete's (skeeve) silhouettes during the famous couch scene.
Of course, my all time fav...Don slapping Roger's face (even though the line Don used was the best part)
The look on Don's face when he ran into Rachel and her hubby at the restaurant.
The way Don looked at Roger when they both took their shoes off before going into Cooper's office--and Roger became much shorter than Don, when before they were similar in height. Still makes me laugh whenever I see it!
Oh, and the wonderful segway from Pete in the bathroom at the Dr's about to give a "sample", and Roger playing paddle ball in his office!
Oh, these are so good! These scenes are running through my head, and I am enjoying them all over again. Thanks, fellow fanatics, this is helping me hang on until tonight!
Definitely Betty with the BB gun shooting at the birds with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. The original desperate housewife. I was not happy with the picnic scene where Don threw the can and Betty left all the trash on the lawn. I grew up in the 50's and I remember my parents always telling me to pick up my trash. We always had to clean up after ourselves. The only thing I remember being thrown on the ground were cigarette butts, but they are biodegradable (and I believe they were back then, too).
Season Two: The scene where Betty is defrosting her refrigerator freezer by painstakingly heating up pans of water and placing them inside the emptied-out freezer. (She's got towels to mop up, cause that was a messy chore). And, while she's doing that task, she's also cutting out "shelf paper" to line her kitchen drawers with.
The work involved was trememdous -- you either had to take your frozed stuff to a neighbors, or plan to defrost when your freezer didn't have much stuff.
On changing shelf/drawer paper -- imagine removing all the items from the drawers, and then replacing them...
And some think "multi-tasking" just started in the last decade!
...any scene where a character (usually our more sophisticated ones --be they male or female)--simply takes a long drag on their ciggarette and stares at the other person, rather than responding verbally to them.
...an "un-intended consequence" (and maybe a useful one) of being a smoker..