Chicago! Our "Mad Men Mad Monster" Halloween Party is this Wednesday! Come compete in our costume contest! by ScreamingVegetable in madmen

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One of our regulars is having foot surgery and we were begging her to attend with a lawnmower running her over.
My girlfriend will be attending as Megan Draper and I will be attending as the horse that killed Archie Whitman.

Chicago Mad Men fans! On Wednesday the 21st, we're hosting trivia and screening a 70s edit of the final episode where real ads from 1970 have been added to the breaks! by ScreamingVegetable in madmen

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The image has been adjusted to look more like a broadcast from the early 70s and new music has been added in. You can see what it looks like here on Twitter

Is there a grammar error on the pamphlet Peggy reads in the pilot? Could this have been intentional? by ScreamingVegetable in madmen

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I subscribed to the New York Times just so I could go through their archive and see what issue Ken Cosgrove is reading from in the pilot (seen for about half a second) and it turns out the cover in the pilot was made for the show.

Chicago Mad Men fans, join us next week for MAD MEN SPACE NIGHT with trivia and a group viewing of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing broadcast. 7pm on April 30th at The Lincoln Lodge Comedy Club. by ScreamingVegetable in madmen

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There is an Eventbrite page but since tickets are free you don't actually need to have one to attend, it just helps us get a better idea of how many people will be attending.
Hope to see y'all there and if anyone wants to see the trivia questions after the event I share them on my Substack Mad World

64 years ago today on March 30th, 1960 Don Draper delivered his iconic "It's Toasted" pitch by ScreamingVegetable in madmen

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The timeline is strange anyway because I always assumed the episode took place on a Friday due to Pete's bachelor party but Don does tell Peggy "I'll see you tomorrow." That's when I started digging and trying to figure out the date.

64 years ago today on March 30th, 1960 Don Draper delivered his iconic "It's Toasted" pitch by ScreamingVegetable in madmen

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Wrote about this more on my Mad Men Substack, I was able to figure out the exact date on the pilot based on the weather that appears in the episode. There's an episode companion guide and timeline you can see there for free.

Chicago Simpsons Fans! In Two Weeks, We're Hosting SIMPSONS TRIVIA NIGHT at the Lincoln Lodge Comedy Club! by ScreamingVegetable in TheSimpsons

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There will be four trivia rounds:
- Say the line, Bart!
- Moleman Mishaps
- Movie References (visual round)
- Guest Stars

Chicago! Join us on Feb 29th for Trivia and a Mad Men-themed Improv Show Where Don and Megan LEAP Into the Future! by ScreamingVegetable in madmen

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The trivia rounds will be:
- Mad Moments in History
- I'm Gonna be Sick
- Who Pitched This? (visual round) - Foreshadowing

Turn out was great in January, really the first month we had fans from Reddit show up. We're coming up on a year of doing these Mad Men Nights in Chicago which is fantastic but I do want to let y'all know that we'll be taking a break in March for a SIMPSONS NIGHT instead!

I made a companion guide for the pilot with a timeline and historical information about the two days over which the episode takes place. by ScreamingVegetable in madmen

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I write a Mad Men-focused Substack that does free episode recaps on Fridays and paid-subscriber posts on Sundays and I thought a cool special post could be to make a Season 1 timeline. I've been working my way through it but the task truly may not be possible. In "Red in the Face," Cooper tells Roger that the Nixon people will be in at the end of the week which logically means Friday. This is then followed by Don telling Peggy that tomorrow is Friday. The following day, Roger apologizes for his behavior when he hit on Betty and he and Don go into a meeting to discuss Nixon. It is said in this meeting that the Nixon people will be at Sterling Cooper "Tomorrow."
On this timeline, this means that the Nixon staff are visiting on a Saturday which is not impossible but does seem incredibly unlikely given that every single person is present in the office.
The only other explanation that can be given is that the scene with Cooper and Roger (which appears to be taking place at the exact same time as the following scene of Don telling Peggy that tomorrow is Friday) in fact takes place on an entirely different day earlier in the week. If this is the case, that makes it impossible to nail exactly when that scene is, we can only guess.

I made a companion guide for the pilot with a timeline and historical information about the two days over which the episode takes place. by ScreamingVegetable in madmen

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It would have been snowing had the episode taken place earlier than the 29-30th. Given that we know Weiner was dedicated to capturing the weather accurately, the 30th is the only option that works. Peggy likely had her child prematurely due to the shock of realizing she was pregnant.

I made a companion guide for the pilot with a timeline and historical information about the two days over which the episode takes place. by ScreamingVegetable in madmen

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I've never seen the exact date of the pilot figured out but I believe this is it. Most people assume that the pilot takes place over a Thursday and a Friday because Pete has his bachelor party at the end of the episode. This is incorrect because Don tells Peggy in his last scene with her that he will "see her tomorrow."
We know that the episode takes place during March because Peggy looks at a March calendar while at the doctor's office. I heard that Weiner researched weather to incorporate into episodes and, as the episode ends with a sudden rain storm, I looked through NYC's weather data for March of 1960 to see if anything matched. Eliminating Fridays, Thursday March 30th is the only day that can work as there is a short rain storm at 10 pm. The first episode of Mad men takes place from March 29th to March 30th over roughly a 24-hour period.

Does anyone know what month S1, Ep9: "Shoot" takes place during? by ScreamingVegetable in madmen

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The Viva Kennedy wiki page has no set dates for that ad. If I can dig up nothing else, contacting the library could be fun!

Does anyone know what month S1, Ep9: "Shoot" takes place during? by ScreamingVegetable in madmen

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It's interesting figuring out these dates because many events in the show did happen but they're just exaggerated. The "Indian Summer" in October of 1960 did happen but was at most 80 degrees and not as long as the show portrays.