This is a recap for the sixth episode of Season 4 of Mad Men starring Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, January Jones, and a slew of other talented actors, on an episode called “Waldorf Stories.” And here is your For Your Consideration Recap:
This dude that Roger sends into Don’s office for an interview is basically Jon Lovitz in J. Crew critter pants. Could a human being make a worse impression in a job interview? No. Forgetting the fact that he is only an inch taller than SCDP’s brand new (spoiler) CLIO Award, he just doesn’t seem to be a good fit in the world of the dapper advertising scene. Hell, even Miss Blankenship hates the guy.
You’ll notice a running theme in this episode… Don being a supreme Dick to Peggy. First, she’s not invited to the CLIO Awards to celebrate a campaign she helped brainstorm. Then, he orders her to spend the weekend with her new art director, Stan, instructing them to get a room together at the Waldorf-Astoria in order for them to come up with idea for Vick Chemical Corp. This is all well and good, until you realize that Stan…
Speaking of 80s movies, remember when this secretary bumped into Sue Ellen Crandell by the fax machine and then saved her ass by fixing up the Q.E.D. report? We love this lady! Let us hope she never told Mom that the babysitter was dead.
This episode hopped around the timeline a bit, which would have been slightly less confusing if they would have actually tried to make Don and Roger look, let’s say, 10 years younger. Because while we don’t hate the eyeliner Roger has on, we also don’t buy that it’s a look he’d really go for. But what they can’t accomplish with makeup they can make up with in ACTING! And so Don became the most pathetic son of a bitch alive, while Roger perfected his Joan impression…
This is a legitimate question. It sure looks like her, and it would make sense that they’d use her for budget reasons… but it could also be any other wooden 4×4 in a blond wig, so we’re torn.
Put this woman face right up there next to Cooper on our new website SceneStealers.org.
Never accuse Jon Hamm of not ~acting.~ Look at that face right there. ACTING.
Yessss! It’s our favorite Mad Men cast-off (after Sal) and favorite man who has ever slept with Peggy, Duck!! And he is shwassstiezzzz. He’s the Michael Scott in the 1960s ad world, this guy.
Now Don is making out with Joan? Have I missed something? Also, while we’re on the subject of Joan.. POOR PEGGY. While she’s back at the office, Don, Pete, Roger and Joan get to go celebrate the award that she basically won them. Why was Joan there, anyway?
This is seriously my dream: Being whiskey’d and dined by Lane Pryce. I adore his British awkwardness and would make do with his pock marks.
“Uh, Don, pretty sure that insanely sh*tty slogan was given to you by fake Jon Lovitz earlier in the episode.” — What I Heard
I dare any hardcore rapper out there to look more street than Miss Blankenship in the above GIF. Take my advice and don’t take the dare, because it’s impossible. The woman’s a pimp.
I’m not sure if I’m looking at a bra or two banana nut muffins hung off the ends of shoelaces.
Sorry, Cisco Adler, but your title has been revoked. (NSFW Clearly)
I love a man with a long ass crack, but this is ridiculous. Is his underwear the missing link between a one-piece bathing suit and modern day men’s briefs? I’ve never seen anything as disturbing. Oh, wait, JK. (NSFW & Fool me once.)
Stan’s Boner, after getting served and then not getting served by Peggy.
Hanging from the window of Von Trapp family only moments before they were turned into “playclothes” and “Don’s tie.”
Right before performing America’s favorite past time: Blow jobs. Uncle Sam just pulled up a seat next to Sally Draper and started weeping.
Not incorporating the “Coming to America” music at any point in the episode. You say Waldorf-Astoria, I say “My son works?!?” — King Jaffe Joffer
What did you guys think of the episode? Disagree with any of my above assessments? There’s a comments section, friends, get in there.
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