"Todd only references himself twelve times in this week's first paragraph."

shut up, already.

absolutely agree. like Todd, I too see a parallel between the events on the show and the events in the Mad Men writers' room, but I think it's unintentional. the characters are given drugs because they can't come up with any good ideas. and Matt Weiner has given us this episode because he can't either.

yeah, good point. I hope all those who were convinced Don somehow Machiavellianed the entire roleplay scenario to get Sylvia to dump him are eating their shorts right about now.

your incessant cheerleading about this episode is making me exhausted. tone it the fuck down.

I like your style.

I found the interview with the stripper to be so bizarre. her voice sounded weird, almost like it was dubbed. her face and lips hardly moved; she looked like a ventriloquist. and she spoke with a weird, quasi-lisp. and then there was that tangent she went off on that had nothing to do with the question she was asked.…

don't listen to Joey. you could probably look it up on youtube as I did and experience no ill effects whatsoever.

I just did. it's tragic, to be sure, but I wouldn't consider it "haunting."

I don't even own a New York.

…and that Mick Jagger would sing him a song!

for the love of god, it's espresso. doesn't everyone know that by now? the x and the s are right next to each other on the keyboard, so I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that was a typo.

give her a break, @avclub-6cc027d1eec4ea0bb34b0d12647974d9:disqus!  she was playing someone for whom English is a second language.

a sphincter says what?

no.

Who?

you know, what all the cool kids are talking about!

oh, @avclub-79557cb93066f4470b8cee6e9110f757:disqus, you have me all figured out, don't you.

the operative word in that sentence is advertising.

I'm a Mad Men fan. I also read the article and can completely understand the claims that its authors (who have experience in advertising, incidentally) make. I'm quite sure what's hilarious is that a horde of Mad Men fans whose opinions were entirely shaped by the writing of the show, rather than by actual industry…