I myself fell asleep.... darn it....could you do a short review for us.... Thanks

Well, it all started during the war - Don was on leave and he met this gorgeous redhead in a bar in Manhattan - they hit it off over gimlets and wound up eloping on the last day of his leave. He went off to Korea and got kicked in the head by a mule - he completely forgot he was married, came back and joined an advertising agency. He married a girl who turned out to be a model with a fondness for red wine and a secret ambition to be a jockey. Unbenownst to Don, his real wife tracked him down and has been working at the same agency as a secretary - she is planning on hitting him over the head with a bottle of booze one of these days to jar his memory, but is holding off because she is in the middle of a torrid affair with one of the agency partners, Bert Cooper.

The other partner, Roger, is gay but is using her as his "beard" while he carries on a secret love affair with Sal, of the Art Department. Sal is married to Kitty who, while she does not know he is gay, thinks he is seriously lacking in the "arts" department and has set her sights on Ken. While she woos him with her pinenuts and pineapple pie, Ken is pining for Peggy and wondering what color panties she is wearing. Peggy isn't wearing panties anymore since she gave them up for Lent and is opting to wear her Relaxicizor 24-7.

Pete has been tipped off to Peggy's happy state of mind by her perpetually perky ponytail, and is not pleased as he does not believe it is natural for women to be happy having been brought up by his mother, a Dyckman, which is why he flings chickens out the window and eats his wife's chocolates. Trudy is planning his murder but has not yet decided between arsenic in the chip and dip or shooting him with his own rifle and claiming she mistook him for a burglar.

Paul has decided he wants the office copier for his apartment (his typewriter is lonely) so Freddie creates a diversion by peeing on the pristine carpet in Bert's office. In the ensuing uproar, Paul absconds with the copier, Ken steals the Rothko, and Don slips on the wet carpet and is knocked unconscious. Coming to in the redhead's arms, he realizes she is his one true love, and they go off to California and start their own Popcicle stand.

I dozed off in a few places myself, but that brings us up to date, I think.....

Brava! I must have dozed off in a few places myself, I was wondering how Paul got the copier. More, more.

Absolutely hysterical, zerelda!

And a P.S. You are really, truly, observant to have noticed the difference in postings. Could it have been an "off night" in story quality? Could something else have been going in in the world or our country (read: sports!) that would have kept posters from participating in the forum? An interesting mystery, indeed.

.....Very creative and funny, z.....I can remember rattling around here practically all by myself in the very beginning. Just me and Clayton - heh!

What concerns me at the moment is the time slot and what it's doing to the show now, and how it will affect viewership for the coming Season 3.

Isn't the point of running Season 2 again to re-recruit old viewers, and pick up new ones? To GROW the viewership??

Few people stay up channel-surfing at midnight on a Sunday (or early Monday morning, depending on how you look at it), so only those diligent enough to set the DVR are going to be seeing the show.

Further, I realize re-hashing old episodes is boring to many, but I thought there would be a LITTLE more activity here once the re-runs began to air. Some new people, maybe.....

This can't be good.

IMHO, it doesn't HAVE to be Sunday night - any night would do, but it should be somewhere NEAR prime time.

.....This is OT, but if you get a chance, click on the ad (popped up in the middle of the page) for Whatisthenewblack.tv.....

It's an interactive paper doll fashion site, and you get rated on your acumen in dressing the live model.

Yeah, Dry...I remember you and Clayton when I came on here...you were both so grateful to have a third blogger. hee

And as for you, z...clever and funny do not begin to describe it!

I wish I could recall what was going on around that time...we must have had a good reason to not post on that thread....wonder what it was?

I would love to play with paper dolls, but the only ads I am seeing right now are for saying no to wrinkles, how to get rid of stomach fat, and preparing to be shocked at just how old I really am. Depressing and not just a little insulting.

Yes, DryM, I share your concerns about how AMC is handling re-running Season 2. I don't understand their reasoning at all. In a perfect world, they would have started with a repeat of Season 1, followed by a repeat of Season 2, and both at reasonable hours and multiple nights. This show is so good that it would not matter how many times an episode is seen, there is always something new to enjoy.

Mad Men runs at 11:00 p.m. on Sunday nights in my little corner of the world, but I am just not always able to stay up that late. I am not as young as I used to be, as these blankety-blank popup ads keep reminding me - throw in having to be up at the butt crack of dawn (my darling daughter's so elegant expression) every Monday, and there goes my Mad Men viewing. Once in the long ago and far away I could stay up all night watching TV or reading and not feel a thing the next day. If I did it now, I still wouldn't feel a thing the next day, but in a completely different manner.

Please don't anyone suggest DVRs or Tivo as I don't do those things. I just want to watch Mad Men, and I don't want to have to go all high tech to do it. Is that too much to ask?

Is my memory going, or did AMC run Mad Men at 9 o'clock on Thursday nights once upon a time?

Now, that would be ideal...or 8 PM...even better.

COME ON AMC...HAVE SOME PITY ON US MADDICTS...WE DESERVE A LITTLE PAMPERING...FOR LOYALTY DURING THE OFF-SEASON, IF NOTHING ELSE.

Please????

Why am I suddenly having to sign in every time I come to this Forum? Is somebody mad at me?

I don't know what's going on, z...same thing here...have we been sent to sit in the corner for a while????

lol -- ??

Funny funny girl Zerelda I love your synopsis. I know what everyone means. IMHO they would do better switching that god awful show, Breaking Bad, and putting that on later. In fact get rid of BB. Does anyone watch that show. yelck!

I also chuckled over your Tivo DVR comment. It reminded me of a nice elderly couple I dog sat for recently. The gentlemen was explaining where everything was and all and he started giving me detailed info on how to work his console T.V. that was probably from 1979. But I just patiently let him explain ... huh huh okay and you pull the top knob or the bottom knob to turn it on... I'll be sure and write that down so I don't forget.....he was cute.

Hey SCfan I'll tell you what I was following a week or so ago...The tragic premature death of one of my all time favorite actor's wife. (Natasha Richardson) She was too beautifal and young to die, right. I feel so bad for Liam Neesom. I have commented a few times here before about how much I like him as an actor and how I wish he was in more movies. I adore his accent and not to mention his big tall Irish looks. And wasn't he and his Mother-In-Law so gracious to the press and all. I heart goes out to them in there time of sorrow!

.....Chelsea.....I've been a big fan of both for many years also, and I find it beyond belief. Her death was so needless!! It's just one of many horror stories about Canadian medicine....I would NEVER go skiing in Canada!

(Your 70s TV story was pretty cute.)

By the way, I have to sign in all the time now too.

(However, if that's my biggest problem, I guess I'm doing pretty good!!)

Yes, Chelsea, I thought of you when I heard/read about Natasha...as you say, so beautiful and going so relatively young & such a wonderful wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend, by all accounts. They certainly have two beautiful sons as well. It was so heartbreaking, the whole thing... seeing her family so grief stricken and Liam looking so lost and pitiful and in shock.

The only "good" thing is that their boys are old enough that they do have a large store of memories and will be able to easily remember their mother. I do feel so for Liam...they seemed so genuinely in love.

I saw a pic of her, Liam and one of the boys as a newborn once and haven't been able to locate it on the web...it was so beautiful...she was looking up at a beaming Liam as he held their newborn baby son ...it was a gorgeous portrait and I thought at the time what a beautiful family...

God rest her soul and comfort her family...

I did find this sweet pic...it shows very well the love in their family...

http://www.celebritybabyscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/04746ex_neeson_l_b_gr_ol.jpg

oops

this is the direct link:

http://www.celebritybabyscoop.com/index.php?s=liam+neeson

Just for fun I went back in time and read the Attention Deficit Theater production of this particular episode (The Benefactor):

"Don’s dinner napkin: Bonjour! May I asseest in wiping your hands, Monsieur? Un moment! Sacre Bleu! J’accuse! J’ACCUSE!"

I just love Mad Men, and I just love Attention Deficit Theater - they go together like Heineken's and Utz Potato Chips.

Z,...Circling back to your orginal question....
Ya think people were a little amazed at the hand up her dress Don does to Bobbie?
Pretty steamy for TV.
I think there was a lot of imaginations runing wild with that one.... mine included!!!

Yep, holotta...there were some chins hitting the floor watching that scene for sure.

I remember all the "Did we really see...THAT??!!" type of posts going on on the forum the next few days after that epi first aired!

Hot for movies even...but reeaaaallly hot for
TV!

I'm with you, z...I miss Attention Deficit Theater a LOT. Think I'll go back and read a few...no surer way to a good laugh, right?

.....z.....Thanks for bringing that up. I hadn't tuned into ADT until around the middle of the season, and missed that one.

What a cute and sunny treatment of a scene which almost made me have an actual cow.

Dry M: I've been a big fan of both for many years also, and I find it beyond belief. Her death was so needless!! It's just one of many horror stories about Canadian medicine....I would NEVER go skiing in Canada!

It wasn't the skiing in Canada or the state of the Canadian health system that killed her. It had a lot more to do with her insisting on not getting checked out at the hospital, that she was okay, after her tumble. After all, it was a spill on the bunny slope. Even the smartest of people can make tragic mistakes.

.....That's the story, anyway.

I heard otherwise, very briefly, on the news the day after, and that it was either the ski patrol or the instructor trying to cover something up, versus the hotel manager who WANTED her checked out.

The ski instructor LIED about the severity of the fall, and even a witness said she was just laying there, and that something definitely wasn't right.

The paramedics were called three times in three hours, and I got the impression it was not Natasha who was turning them away.

A witness said she was NOT laughing and walking around - that she was on a stretcher in great distress, and was NOT in control of her faculties.

My point about mentioning Canada AT ALL is the fact that, once they DID decide to get her to a hospital, they had to DRIVE two ADDITIONAL hours to get there!

Canadian medicine didn't PROVIDE for life-flight helicopters, which are the life-savers in terms of time-sensitive injuries like a subdural hematoma.

If you get to a subdural hematoma soon enough(providing it's that simple), there are many life-preserving measures that can be taken to rehabilitate the patient, often times completely. Time is critical, however.

Even if they had "rushed" her straight there, it STILL would have been at least two hours - possibly two more hours than Natasha had to live, in any case.

By the time that Natasha finally reached a facility that could perform these measures, like seven hours later, her brain had been completely cut off from its blood supply, and was irreparably damaged.

I still maintain it shouldn't have happened - at least not that way.

If that is the story, Dry...I do hope Liam sues the crap out of the responsible parties....

I don't think he was there at the time of the accident, since the news mentioned him coming in from a movie set somewhere, I understand. Whether his being present during the critical times would have mattered or not (insisting on her getting checked out, possibly), I guess will never be known....

.....I think it would have made a difference..... was really wondering where her teenaged boys were during all this, and if they had had any input.

It's tragic - apparently they were the loveliest of families. How many honestly happily married and devoted couples/families are there in Hollywood?

One? Two?

It's just wrong.....

Yes...tragic is not the word...did you click that link up there to that pic of them swimming? (the pic is further down the linked page now)
just breaks your heart.....

Great picture SCfan thank you! Come on in the waters fine!