Mad Men Comedy Links
I'm midway through season 3 of Mad Men. I'm sucked in. Everyone was right!
I know you've all seen John Hamm's Mad Men SNL parodies--Don Draper's Guide to Picking Up Women and the A-Holes in a Ad Agency sketch which admittedly spends too much time with the boring A-Holes; watch the first minute and then from 4:00 on--and I'm also a huge fan of his monologues, like the one where he believes he has learned to be a Don Draper style advertising genius and one where he showcases his wide-ranging acting career.
The parody on a recent The Simpsons episode was so-so. Weird to watch The Simpsons post-1990s, right??
Mad Women is pretty dumb and pointless--a straight-up recreation of scenes from or like the show, only with the genders reversed, like, that's not a point that really needs to be made since the show is certainly not unaware of or unbothered by the unfair power imbalance and gender stereotypes that exist in its universe--but I sort of love the performance of the guy cast as Joan.
Am I the only one who thinks the Sesame Street Mad Men could have been a lot better? I actually like the way they handled it for the kids' show--having Don review various underlings' pitches with, "That makes me mad!" "That makes me sad!" until OKing an ad that makes him happy--and the puppet looked like Don Draper, but the voice was all wrong. I mean, come on, what is that, the Grover guy? I feel like it's not that hard to parody Don's crisp, Rod Serling-like enunciation. I also would have liked it if the underling puppets had been specific characters.
I've also recently discovered the Man Men Power Rankings, which starts with the beginning of season 3 and continues weekly, inconsistently tagged. (For you, and for me, I will link them here! week 2, week 3, week 4, week 5, week 6, week 7, week 8, week 9, week 10, week 11, week 12, week 13, week 14). I haven't read ahead of where I am, but the website is annoyingly hard to navigate so I figured I'd find 'em all. Season 4 is on the author's tumblr.
I know you've all seen John Hamm's Mad Men SNL parodies--Don Draper's Guide to Picking Up Women and the A-Holes in a Ad Agency sketch which admittedly spends too much time with the boring A-Holes; watch the first minute and then from 4:00 on--and I'm also a huge fan of his monologues, like the one where he believes he has learned to be a Don Draper style advertising genius and one where he showcases his wide-ranging acting career.
The parody on a recent The Simpsons episode was so-so. Weird to watch The Simpsons post-1990s, right??
Mad Women is pretty dumb and pointless--a straight-up recreation of scenes from or like the show, only with the genders reversed, like, that's not a point that really needs to be made since the show is certainly not unaware of or unbothered by the unfair power imbalance and gender stereotypes that exist in its universe--but I sort of love the performance of the guy cast as Joan.
Am I the only one who thinks the Sesame Street Mad Men could have been a lot better? I actually like the way they handled it for the kids' show--having Don review various underlings' pitches with, "That makes me mad!" "That makes me sad!" until OKing an ad that makes him happy--and the puppet looked like Don Draper, but the voice was all wrong. I mean, come on, what is that, the Grover guy? I feel like it's not that hard to parody Don's crisp, Rod Serling-like enunciation. I also would have liked it if the underling puppets had been specific characters.
I've also recently discovered the Man Men Power Rankings, which starts with the beginning of season 3 and continues weekly, inconsistently tagged. (For you, and for me, I will link them here! week 2, week 3, week 4, week 5, week 6, week 7, week 8, week 9, week 10, week 11, week 12, week 13, week 14). I haven't read ahead of where I am, but the website is annoyingly hard to navigate so I figured I'd find 'em all. Season 4 is on the author's tumblr.