That's not the chicken hawk that comes to my mind when I think about cartoon representation. Remember Gonzo before the muppet movie that rebranded him as an alien?

Watch yourself there, I will defend my 940 Turbo to the death.

Agreed. Symphony bars are in every grocery store here in metro NYC. Sometimes you have to find the actual candy aisle, since it's pretty common for the boxes in the checkout to be sold out.

That's good, because I'd just cry through the whole list and miss Vermonty Python.

Probably not the best line of the article to use as the first mention of the name.

That really bugs me too. Like, does she think the boys are to blame somehow, or that the girls don't need help? *shudders*

I'm sure it did happen, along with a bunch of people figuring out their super obvious point long before they got to it. That's probably the first stuff the editor(s) was(were) told not to use.

I haven't put my finger on why yet, but it's my favorite commercial in a long long time.

I see your Magic Body Control, and raise you the Galluscam:

The scene in episode one where one of the women goes to get the pill and the doctor is all "don't use it irresponsibly" made my blood boil.

Valid point. As I said in reply to another comment, when criticizing through depiction, there's a fine line to walk and you run the risk of depicting too well and having people idealize the thing you were trying to criticize in the first place.

I'll take that into account. I think maybe I just need IRL people to quiet down about it for a while. The show just pushes so many buttons for me at the outset, so waiting til its over seems like a good option. When I can watch the whole thing as a completed finished piece, it will also be easier to have different…

Thank you for your thoughtful breakdown! The Nerdy Mr. and I are planning on having another go at it right about then.

I think you (and others) will probably turn out to be right in the long term, and I appreciate that you took the time to actually explain something that happened in the show instead of just saying, "No, you're wrong, and you should just watch this thing that keeps giving you a very strong negative emotional reaction…

I was being hyperbolic. That tends to happen on the internet. My inability to stomach the show has ended one relationship ever— with a bro-friend of a friend, who kept saying things like, "Women in the workforce has destroyed America and that's why Mad Men is so great. Because people can watch that and then they'll…

I watched half the first season, admittedly late, and I just didn't like it. Their depiction and everyone's unending love for Jon Hamm (and then, quite literally, Jon Hamm's penis in the tabloids) just rubbed me the wrong way. I might be able to sit down and enjoy it five or 10 years from now. I had to watch 2 other…

In that show, sure. Otherwise, that summation of me is self-predictive.

That right there is why I get into huge, friend-losing fights over Mad Men. I just hate it, and I can't watch ten seconds of it without thinking, "This show is nostalgically looking back to a time when it was okay to beat the shit out of your wife or your gay brother, or for the hell of it, that annoying kid down the…

It wasn't fun at the time, but with a lot of therapy and education, I've been able to use my horrible experience to gain perspective and empathy. Like I said before, I can't blame any of the reporters who came to see us. There's so little you can learn in a single pre-scheduled visit, especially in our case where the…

Yes! Every time I see this portrait I wonder if the artist tried to tell her a dirty joke or something.