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Erik Charles Nielsen
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MAD MEN LOCATION WATCH: Don and Megan go out to dinner with Mel and Arlene at Taix French Restaurant in Echo Park.

I assumed that Pete (and Don) thought for a second that Harry was talking about Project K.

At this point, I wouldn't mind if Mad Men cut out the soap opera business and the romantic entanglements and became an hour-long workplace comedy about Roger, Pete, Stan, Ginsberg, Cosgrove et al. Don Draper can stay on as a hardass-boss type, Joan can stay, maybe they could write Peggy back in. (Which would be harder

And Harry and Ken Cosgrove Accounts's Dow pitch played into the same idea, even if neither of them stated it directly.

Don Draper in 2013 is old, though.

I'm not going to endorse that dig at Joan, but his main points seem pretty sound: as the head of the TV department, he should be at least a junior partner, and Joan acted really rashly in firing his secretary without consulting him (or really anyone).

Wait, is Bob not just a meta-commentary on very minor TV characters? Because I kind of assumed he was, and I was loving it.

All right. You're allowed to have your opinion, but I'm telling you Bill Burr is not nearly as big a name as you seem to think he is. Full stop. Not even taking opinions into account. Not in the industry, not among other comics, not (as far as I know) among fans. Maybe regionally? Maybe in New York specifically, where

Is this… a joke? Tompkins is one of the five or ten funniest comics I've seen in person, and has been for years. Burr is a interchangeable Opie and Anthony meathead, or maybe slightly better than that, but only slightly.

If there was such a thing — which I doubt — wouldn't the third member be Tompkins? Bill Burr is a weird left-field kind of choice, at any rate.

Nobody's going to watch minor-league football.

That's not true. For years, we'll be bringing up Dexter. Whenever anyone talks about a show that's inexplicably still on the air, even though they thought it had been cancelled YEARS ago, someone will say, "oh, kind of like Dexter."

To me, "cheaply made" is a good thing. The less money you're investing, the less disincentive you have to let people throw things at the wall.

Do you spend most shows watching the bottom left 1% of the screen? This is, like, an autism-type concern here.

Why would Greenblatt care about how much the show cost to produce? He wasn't paying it.

I think it was originally planned as a limited series.

Nah. Elwood P. Dowd would never have anything to do with AA.

Well, then, you'll hate my new show "Burger Archer!"

…in which case it'll air sometime in 2015.

As the oracle foretold at his birth, Cleveland will move to Cleveland.