Comments on: The Footnotes of Mad Men: Suburban Rococo

By: the teeth

the teeth — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:18:41 +0000

It's pronounced pretty much like a drunkenly spoonerized 'Schenectady.' The worst thing about that film is the title — it's one serious groaner of a dreadful, overly clever pun.

By: LondonLee

LondonLee — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:13:37 +0000

It's ENNUI, pronounced On-Wee

I still have no idea how to pronounce "Synecdoche" which is why I will never see that movie in case I have to talk to someone about it.

By: tralafel

tralafel — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:55:24 +0000

OR! Roger on the sunrise: "Average."

By: tralafel

tralafel — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:55:01 +0000

Mine was "You stare at the sun every day?"

By: Natasha Vargas-Cooper

Natasha Vargas-Cooper — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:54:06 +0000

You have good taste? (TRIPLE ENTENDRE. An-tawn-dree)

By: mathnet

mathnet — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:40:18 +0000

OMG you guys totally just reminded me of how happy I was? In the Valentine's Day episode when Betty runs into her now-"party girl" ex-roommate? When Don called for room service and pronounced vichyssoise correctly. IT HAS A ZZZZZZ SOUND AT THE END, PEOPLE. I would never laugh at you two for your mispronunciations because as far as I know, you're not designery or writery poser assholes. And neither am I! But when the idiots on Top Chef (or two particular ex-boyfriends of mine!) do it. . . I START KILLING DEER.

By: Natasha Vargas-Cooper

Natasha Vargas-Cooper — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:09:26 +0000

AH! I do the same thing. Also, ENUI?! It always comes out sounding similar to EMU-EE. I had to use the closed captions to know how to spell this bitch. It sounds nothing like how it is spelled:

SHEN-WAZ-RE

By: sigerson

sigerson — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:33:17 +0000

"Chinoiserie" is one of those words whose meaning I know but whose pronunciation is a mystery to me. Like when I referred to a "synecdoche" as a "sin-ick-dosh" and everybody at the dinner party laughed at me.

By: bettyblack

bettyblack — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:56:45 +0000

Jai Alai boy.

By: bettyblack

bettyblack — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:55:59 +0000

Ho-Ho bragged that he had read the galleys of O'Gilvey's manuscript.

So he managed to leverage family connections to get his hands on the unpublished proofs. That's why he thought he knew everything about advertising.

By: LondonLee

LondonLee — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:30:37 +0000

No, but I am wearing Union Jack underpants.

By: Natasha Vargas-Cooper

Natasha Vargas-Cooper — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:30:04 +0000

According the a lengthy (SURPRISE) Slate piece on the home makeover:

"The black-and-white cane print on the high-backed side chairs is especially fashionable and goes a long way toward reviving the room without being too advanced."

By: mathnet

mathnet — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:55:45 +0000

Sorry, Francine! What you said was, "Real Estate. That's scary."

(Still my favorite line of the episode.)

By: mathnet

mathnet — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:54:28 +0000

Oooooh, yes. And Betty even made a remark in this episode about how "it's still a small town."

By: Natasha Vargas-Cooper

Natasha Vargas-Cooper — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:15:28 +0000

EMBRACE IT! Team duck!

By: Natasha Vargas-Cooper

Natasha Vargas-Cooper — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:41:58 +0000

@ Lee! I just spent 20 mins going through your cheeky blog. You write about biscuits!!

I picture you saluting the Union Jack as we speak!

By: Natasha Vargas-Cooper

Natasha Vargas-Cooper — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:39:35 +0000

It looks as though Don is willing to get indiscreet in his home town (a la maypole lady)

By: LondonLee

LondonLee — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:00:59 +0000

…and I've just seen Jared's post below saying the exact same thing. Forget I even spoke in the first place.

By: LondonLee

LondonLee — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:58:23 +0000

Bugger, I meant 'as if it was Irish' of course

By: LondonLee

LondonLee — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:57:04 +0000

And he pronounced it O'Gilvy as it was Irish.

By: mathnet

mathnet — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:36:34 +0000

I am, so thanks!

Do you think he would have committed fewer infidelities if they'd lived closer? I mean, if it weren't so believable for him to spend the night in Manhattan? And if it didn't feel quite so much like changing worlds to go home?

Were there any closer towns where they could have lived instead (status, race, etc., taken into consideration)?

By: sunnyciegos

sunnyciegos — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:35:42 +0000

But Pete is in the business of bringing in clients and presumably he gets a commission on top of salary (?) whereas Peggy is creative and is at the mercy of her overlord Don Draper.

Loved the last moment between Peggy and Don, the morning after. HIM: Fender bender. HER: Awkwardly flutters hand over yesterday's dress.

By: sunnyciegos

sunnyciegos — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:33:25 +0000

I totally recognized the back of Duck's head in the opening scene. Honestly, I always thought he was kind of foxy? Is this wrong?

By: Nrbelex

Nrbelex — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:26:18 +0000

Now if you're really interested…

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Ossining,+NY&daddr=Madison+Ave,+NY+NY&hl=en&geocode=FcAUdAIdyvaY-w%3B&sll=40.972605,-73.878835&sspn=0.41682,1.223602&mra=cc&dirflg=r&ie=UTF8&start=0&z=10

By: mathnet

mathnet — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:05:59 +0000

Huh. OK, so. . . what. Like an hour on the train? Just trying to know* everything about Don and his life.

*become intimately aware of