A few scenes later, during a weekend cook out at the Drapers’, a neighborhood dad looks at the VW ad and cracks: “last time I saw something like that, I was throwing a grenade at it!” It seems like a throwaway line but it struck me as a poignant reminder of how many middle aged men of that era were combat veterans of WWII and that a lot of the excessive smoking, drinking and philandering may have also been self-medicating for untreated combat stress and PTSD.
Yep back then it was sex booze and rock and roll as a cure for everything. None of this over diagnosed sissy stuff. Gone are the days of a choice of cocaine, arsenic or carbolic smoke ball as a cure for all ailments
Peggy and Pete both got rejected by Don in the episode that they slept together. They both felt insecure and having sex made them feel validated. They never really had a relationship, just a hookup.
@@Birrrrra They had sex again later and Pete basically said he loved her. In season 2 he says she's perfect and clearly wants her until she confesses to giving away his child
3:16 Sal opens the magazine flap to look more closely at the pages. Then Don mentions it’s playboy, and he rolls it right back up. Beautiful subtle moment for Sal
Why did they ever get rid of the Sal Romano character? Bryan Batt was absolutely brilliant in that role: no one realizes he's gay, except for the 21st-century audience that's watching the show.
yeah the first creative team at the original sterling cooper had more character and they looked more like professionals than the other creative teams in later seasons.
"i tell you what brilliance is in advertising, 99 cents, somebody thought of the campbell" what a great line. this show is just too much. i can't begin to talk how i miss this even though i watched it like 6-7 times...
The best Volkswagen ad ever was the one National Lampoon printed in 1971. It had a photo of a Volkswagen floating on water (because they were theoretically airtight) and the caption said, "If Ted Kennedy had been driving a Volkswagen, he would be president today".
And as soon as that issue hit the stands, Volkswagen threatened a multi-million doar lawsuit. NatLamp hired a team of Jewish lawyers and it was agreed that NatLamp would recall and remove every copy of that issue. Of course, by that time, most of them had been sold. And my source is P.J. O'Rourke.
Elizabeth Moss' acting is so spot on. She is electric with her presence and you can feel what she feels with just a look. Maybe the most complex character on this fine, exceptional show.
They didn't know because they didn't want to. We never spot the thing we aren't looking for. They might as well have tried to see if he was Martian--he came in, he did his job, and that's all they needed to see.
All About The Benjamins Don knew, he saw him in his hotel room with another man but as it didn’t affect his work he didn’t care that much. But when he turned down Lee Garner Jr, he was sacked because it hindered the company
proserfina21096 yes. Smoking was everywhere, trains, planes. But, apparently the advertising business was extra bad compared to other office jobs. They drank to entertain the people they tried to get a contract with. It’s kinda similar to how the Japanese do business. You entertain the people that want to hire you, they have no choice not to sign, or it’s rude.
Don is a liar and a one-trick pony. This ad rattles him because it doesn't have to dress products up with some fantasy bullshit, lies or irrelevant crap, which is all Don knows. Draper would've been out on his ass by the 1980s.
@@Kronos099999 cents suggests that a buyer is getting a deal when in reality it’s a lousy penny. Roger sees customers as just a profit stream, a way to sustain his indulgent lifestyle. So to him the idea of a single penny making all the difference is something he would be impressed by.
@@Kronos0999 Pete Campbell is saying that the stupid VW ad is a brilliant ad campaign (maybe it was, I'm not sure of the sale numbers of VW in 1960), and Roger replies that the "99 cent" gimmick is an idea that someone came up with to give the illusion of buying items at a discounted price, and to Roger that's a brilliant ad campaign.
There is something about this show, I understand ever word and sentence but sometimes I have no clue what these people are talking about, the sarcasm level is too high for me!
Don ironically dismissing ads that would later be seen as masterworks hammers home that he's absolutely a man of his time, and his time will soon be up.
.99 was done by Woolworths. This was before sales taxes The owner discovered that his cashiers were ringing up no sale when customers were paying with a dollar and pocketing the buck. So he changed it to .99 so that they would have to make change.
Draper is good at this because he is disingenuous. The person before you is a manufactured persona, and Dick Whitman is a blank canvas. Thus, he is able to enter points of view, perceptions, and beliefs of different kinds of people easily.
There're just special bonds between men and women like this that are far more than hooking up within a short period yet (probably clear to both sides) not enough for getting married , having kids and living happily together.
@gramme parsons Advertising is almost never honest because honesty is everyday normality. A list of features and a picture of the car on it's own, it's honest because that's all they are really selling you, it's not exciting or inspiring compared to what the competition's ads are offering. Most advertisements are selling an experience, an adventure, a pretty girl, a lifestyle or even the impossible, all to get you excited in the product, even thought it has little to nothing to do with the actual product itself. Rather slow to realise to the mad men, that honesty or even mediocrity can sell just fine, especially if it gets people talking, because what Volkswagen were doing was so against the norms of advertising of the day it stands out from the rest and becomes a talking piece, whether it's as a reliable functional car or the butt of jokes to ad men or car enthusiasts. Any conversation is better than no conversation, since most ads are forgotten instantly and never talked about.
IIRC, as a welcome back for Pete, the boys had arranged for a Chinese family, complete with chickens, to be in Pete's office when he returned. Roger wasn't amused. As usual, Roger delivered the line impeccably.
Right before that, Don says, "Part of this job is doing the things you hate." "Most of it." is Sal correcting Don. Most of the job is doing things you hate.
Yeah, it uses humour and self-awareness. Basically, it's "cool", which is why the younger characters like it and the older characters dislike it here. Apart from Don, who is wary of it but thinks it has a future. It isn't special amongst modern ads, but it would have been then.
Comes up again a few episodes later with JFK vs Nixon. Pete even mentions Elvis again and is laughed at. If only Pete wasn't such an asshole, his instincts could have made him the next Don.
@@KlooKloo I have the impression that people in Pete's position then would not even mention something that teenagers like at work. "Worlds" were more separate back then. I had a similar problem at work in the '80's when I revealed that I read Rolling Stone! I didn't look like someone who did and no one thought that my revealing that gave me credibility. But, I was a believer in transferable skills and knowledge.
@Gregory Smith Nike is also taught in advertising school. I don't know about their support of Kaepernick (though businesses getting behind social causes is hardly unique to Nike and Kaepernick), but the Nike swoosh is legendary in advertising, and it's just as minimalist (if not moreso) than these VW ads.
The Volkswagen ad was by Bernbach. He revolutionised advertising and the old fashioned guard, like pictured in MadMan could not keep up and did not understand what was going on. We see that perfectly illustrated in this series. Only the very last episode is highly unlikely, otherwise it seems realistic. The smoking is real, the drinking is not. Perhaps some liquor brands got together to sponsor the series? There would be one or two drunks in any agency but otherwise not. One cannot perform or get ideas when drunk. Only the drunk himself thinks he does well. Get drunk and you will find you think you are a genius , funny, attractive, a formula one driver.
Are you a time traveler? This is not the future, it is the early 1960s. People were still smoking more than modern Europeans, and drinking (hard liquor) enough that drunks were funny.
Everybody smokes all the time WTF. My father got hooked on smoking because there was a lack of food in China and smoking suppressed his hunger. I don't know what these guys' problem is.
Remember, at this time, certain brands were considered to actually be more healthy. This was probably years before the Surgeon General’s Report came out. These people probably made their biggest money selling cigarette ads.
@@Kendell062 In boot camp during the Vietnam War era, we were given "free" cigarettes. All the breaks were called smoke breaks and that's how a lot of the guys got hooked on smoking. I'm not sure when the practice of free cigarettes to the military in boot camp stopped.
1:50 I've never seen this show before, but this Pete fella seems liek a stand-up guy. Real decent sort of chap. He knows he's married and upholds his vows. Good guy. Real swell.
I think the fact that he obviously cheated on his wife either before or after the marriage is a small clue as to what kind of character he is. Not to be rude, but how can you see that as being a good guy?
Pete's transformation is the most dramatic of all characters on the show. He gets A LOT of redemption in season 7 and by the end of the series, he ends up with the best job.
bIt late to reply lol but the Volkswagen ad was successful because it's not about what's on the page but what it makes you imagine should be there. "Think small" for instance would make you imagine a scenery in which the car was travelling in.
In this era, (1960s), America's car adverts were all about image and selling a lifestyle. So they were colourful and full of landscapes, pretty girls, loving families and surburban bliss. Essentially it comes from the idea that there is nothing about your product which can't be found in a dozen other products, so you have to dress it up with some fantasy bullshit, lies or irrelevant crap and sell that. Since that is Don Drapper's go to move, the VW ad really rattles him because it is the opposite of that approach. By showing nothing but the product against a blank background, it forces the eye to concentrate on the product and tries to sell a simple, reliable product. At the time, it would've been startling because it would have been the first car ad in America to cut through the bullshit. It would have the same kind of impact then as an ad for women's cosmetic products where the woman in the ad isn't a supermodel who has spent 5 hours being made up by professional make-up artists and the narrator said something like "It's a lipstick, not a magic wand you ugly bitch".
The part about the shirts is a reference to the fact that a disproportionate number of dry cleaners and laundromats of the time were run by Chinese immigrants. The part about 'taking them out again in an hour' is a reference to a common remark that, after eating Chinese food, you're only full for about a half-hour or an hour before you want more.
@@alabasterscarf612 Actually, I believe it was in reference to how Chinese food gives you the shit due the relaxed health inspection standards back then
if you pay close attention you'll hear that the dialogues arent very natural in the first minute of this clip. a shame otherwise this show wouldve gotten more ratings
A few scenes later, during a weekend cook out at the Drapers’, a neighborhood dad looks at the VW ad and cracks: “last time I saw something like that, I was throwing a grenade at it!” It seems like a throwaway line but it struck me as a poignant reminder of how many middle aged men of that era were combat veterans of WWII and that a lot of the excessive smoking, drinking and philandering may have also been self-medicating for untreated combat stress and PTSD.
yeah thats a good point
Yep back then it was sex booze and rock and roll as a cure for everything. None of this over diagnosed sissy stuff. Gone are the days of a choice of cocaine, arsenic or carbolic smoke ball as a cure for all ailments
@@Bokgaatjie "Carbolic smoke ball!!!" That brought back bitter memories that made me laugh. You must have gone to law school.
DossieAUS hopefully there was a note of irony or sarcasm that eluded me.
The war had only been over for about 15 years
Even to this day, I consider the attraction between Peggy and Pete as one of the great mysteries of television.
Whatever they saw in each other just be glad they did not see in anyone else
This is a gem of a comment. Thank you.
They'd have been one of those couples that looks like bro & sis
Peggy and Pete both got rejected by Don in the episode that they slept together. They both felt insecure and having sex made them feel validated. They never really had a relationship, just a hookup.
@@Birrrrra
They had sex again later and Pete basically said he loved her. In season 2 he says she's perfect and clearly wants her until she confesses to giving away his child
3:16 Sal opens the magazine flap to look more closely at the pages. Then Don mentions it’s playboy, and he rolls it right back up. Beautiful subtle moment for Sal
Love the way Roger never laughs at the undelings jokes🤣
I've only seen clips...but this seems like NOT the show to watch if you are trying to quit smoking.
Suicide_King dude, I was thinking the same thing.
Yeah it's all about advertising
Its an Amazing show about Advertising in the '60s. The cultural revolution of the whole decade. It my favourite show till date.
You would be right. I don’t drink and the first time I stocked whisky at home was halfway through season 3.
Well their biggest client *is* a cigarette company lol
Why did they ever get rid of the Sal Romano character? Bryan Batt was absolutely brilliant in that role: no one realizes he's gay, except for the 21st-century audience that's watching the show.
J. Clark: We have refined gadar now.
Joan knew when they kissed as part of Kinsey’s play and Don found out
J. Clark they knew he was gay back then, as well.
Because he could have cost them Lucky Strikeb
yeah the first creative team at the original sterling cooper had more character and they looked more like professionals than the other creative teams in later seasons.
"pete, it never happened"
A season later: "it will shock you how it never happened"
Oh shit!
What episode is it?
Oh nice one.
"i tell you what brilliance is in advertising, 99 cents, somebody thought of the campbell"
what a great line. this show is just too much. i can't begin to talk how i miss this even though i watched it like 6-7 times...
even though it wasn't advertising people who came up with it. It was to make sure the staff would have to open the till each time to get the penny.
@@ulture And the guy who thought that up was named Penny.
The best Volkswagen ad ever was the one National Lampoon printed in 1971. It had a photo of a Volkswagen floating on water (because they were theoretically airtight) and the caption said, "If Ted Kennedy had been driving a Volkswagen, he would be president today".
Yea, old Teddy was a disgrace. No wonder there's been so much tragedy in that family.
And as soon as that issue hit the stands, Volkswagen threatened a multi-million doar lawsuit. NatLamp hired a team of Jewish lawyers and it was agreed that NatLamp would recall and remove every copy of that issue. Of course, by that time, most of them had been sold.
And my source is P.J. O'Rourke.
I forgot about that one.
@@andrewvelonis5940RIP, PJ.
Whether they liked it or not, it was literally an unforgettable ad.
And it was a wonderful car. If they still made them, I'd buy one tomorrow.
The tv ads were great too.
Every line said by Roger in this is pure gold.
Elizabeth Moss' acting is so spot on. She is electric with her presence and you can feel what she feels with just a look. Maybe the most complex character on this fine, exceptional show.
What? Not at all
In this one scene I agree with you. But generally, I didn't enjoy watching Peggy.
birdy1numnum lol
I don't care what anyone says I love Elizabeth Moss as Peggy and I love her in everything else she is in.
@@orun0810 eh
Just the look of everything on this show is bang on, and the themes, issues of the time, and place are so right. The plot was a bonus.
Don't forget the racism too.
3:15 Sal isn’t impressed with the centerfold
Lol I didn't catch that the first time.
Why is it tht no one at Sterling Cooper ever noticed Sal's sexual preference when it was all too obvious?
They didn't know because they didn't want to. We never spot the thing we aren't looking for. They might as well have tried to see if he was Martian--he came in, he did his job, and that's all they needed to see.
All About The Benjamins Don knew, he saw him in his hotel room with another man but as it didn’t affect his work he didn’t care that much. But when he turned down Lee Garner Jr, he was sacked because it hindered the company
Thing is, in the 1960s they did a study and the VW ads got about 10Xs the bang for the dollar spent as GM got for their ads
Your Jokes are all Reich.
AZDuffman
...what's all the fuhrer about?
... these puns are just too funny. I kampff take any more!
80teg These puns won't be Goering anywhere.
I didn't expect that, what the heil was GM doing?
IT WILL SHOCK YOU HOW MUCH IT NEVER HAPPENED
I love that Don leaves his magazine on the train with that ad open and a man gives him it at the end of the episode because the ad was so memorable.
I remember thinking to myself how much Peggy and Pete looked more like siblings than possible lovers......
Paul’s mediocrity paving the way for Peggy to eventually eclipse his spot, you love to see it
I wish i worked in an office that smoke and drank all day lol.
@74 - I worked at BBDO-West in Los Angeles when it was there. We didn't smoke in the office, but the parties were great.
Work in a bar legit everyone is drunk all the time lol
really? this kind of office totally happened back in the day?Lol
proserfina21096 yes. Smoking was everywhere, trains, planes. But, apparently the advertising business was extra bad compared to other office jobs. They drank to entertain the people they tried to get a contract with.
It’s kinda similar to how the Japanese do business. You entertain the people that want to hire you, they have no choice not to sign, or it’s rude.
Welcome to China then lol
Volkswagens ads are still one of the two best campaigns in History.
They can open up an art museum just from the ads from the 60s
No car company created better ads than VW tbh.
I love this scene. Shows that even though Don is a genious, there are still some great ideas out there that he hasn't thought about.
Don is a liar and a one-trick pony. This ad rattles him because it doesn't have to dress products up with some fantasy bullshit, lies or irrelevant crap, which is all Don knows. Draper would've been out on his ass by the 1980s.
genius*
Don: "And this is playboy..."
Sal: "Oh yeah, I gotta act straight again"
Laxative ad: "Time to Go".
“Brilliance in advertising is ‘99 cents’ “
Great line.
What does it even mean?
@@Kronos099999 cents suggests that a buyer is getting a deal when in reality it’s a lousy penny. Roger sees customers as just a profit stream, a way to sustain his indulgent lifestyle. So to him the idea of a single penny making all the difference is something he would be impressed by.
@@christianzafiroglu6705 I still don't get it entirely.
@@Kronos0999 Pete Campbell is saying that the stupid VW ad is a brilliant ad campaign (maybe it was, I'm not sure of the sale numbers of VW in 1960), and Roger replies that the "99 cent" gimmick is an idea that someone came up with to give the illusion of buying items at a discounted price, and to Roger that's a brilliant ad campaign.
@@MaynorPinto Ah, 99 cents are cheaper than $1 thing.
There is something about this show, I understand ever word and sentence but sometimes I have no clue what these people are talking about,
the sarcasm level is too high for me!
When re-watching the show, I noticed there were more scenes dealing with their work than I remembered. Great examination of the times and people.
Don ironically dismissing ads that would later be seen as masterworks hammers home that he's absolutely a man of his time, and his time will soon be up.
Or at least once again, dropping his persona and adopting a new one that better suits his current financial need.
.99 was done by Woolworths.
This was before sales taxes
The owner discovered that his cashiers were ringing up no sale when customers were paying with a dollar and pocketing the buck.
So he changed it to .99 so that they would have to make change.
Part of this job is doing things you don’t want to do. Hey, maybe that could be the laxative ad somehow.
wow... look at how peggy has evolved!
"Honesty. Great angle."
“99 cents. Somebody thought of that.” I swipe this line all the time.
esp. since Pete would later tell Don that Pete had thought up something once all by himself, just to find someone else had thought it first
It was J.C. Penny who thought of that.
Peggy's hair used to be so stupid.
I like it. Looks cute except the messy bangs.
Joseph Aminzada Look at your high school yearbook photo 50 years from now... I dare you...
Every girls hair is stupid as fuck in the 60's
@@abramsullivan7764 That hairstyle is more '50's.
had to hide the forehead
Elisabeth Moss has the most beautiful smile
Don was very no-nonsense in the first season. He wouldn’t even feign so much as a smile but he’d always crack wise with Roger.
I love hearing the hum of the IBM Selectric when Peggy is not typing.
Draper's such a genius because he has the opinions of every stodgy, narrow-minded, middle-aged guy in the late 60's.
Draper is good at this because he is disingenuous. The person before you is a manufactured persona, and Dick Whitman is a blank canvas. Thus, he is able to enter points of view, perceptions, and beliefs of different kinds of people easily.
What a nice piece of art that frame
Sal’s expression closing the centerfold says it all.
Haha, solid entrance Roger!
Peggy really liked Pete but he never took her seriously. It was just a fling for him
It’s amazing how Peggy changed during the show
Still the Greatest Ad Campaign in History.
"most of it" lol love Sal.
My favorite line.
There're just special bonds between men and women like this that are far more than hooking up within a short period yet (probably clear to both sides) not enough for getting married , having kids and living happily together.
Peggy and Pete would have looked like a couple that had the same grandparents to be honest
Which season and episode did this happen? love to see the full episode. Thanks
+Boa Mulder 'Marriage of Figaro' -- S1E3
2:45 "Honesty, great angle" xD
@gramme parsons Advertising is almost never honest because honesty is everyday normality. A list of features and a picture of the car on it's own, it's honest because that's all they are really selling you, it's not exciting or inspiring compared to what the competition's ads are offering. Most advertisements are selling an experience, an adventure, a pretty girl, a lifestyle or even the impossible, all to get you excited in the product, even thought it has little to nothing to do with the actual product itself. Rather slow to realise to the mad men, that honesty or even mediocrity can sell just fine, especially if it gets people talking, because what Volkswagen were doing was so against the norms of advertising of the day it stands out from the rest and becomes a talking piece, whether it's as a reliable functional car or the butt of jokes to ad men or car enthusiasts. Any conversation is better than no conversation, since most ads are forgotten instantly and never talked about.
@gramme parsons Also, Pete says this line after telling Peggy that their affair "never happened" and should not be spoken of again.
Can someone explain the “I want the Chinamen out of the building” reference? This show is too smart for me sometimes
IIRC, as a welcome back for Pete, the boys had arranged for a Chinese family, complete with chickens, to be in Pete's office when he returned. Roger wasn't amused.
As usual, Roger delivered the line impeccably.
Alright that meeting couldve DEFINITELY been an email.
The add is not just about calling VW a lemon. It is also Beatle Lennon connection
Smoking, smoking, smoking, and...SMOKING cancer sticks.
It looks a littlw bit open. That sly dog.
3:31 Most of it..
it's odd that Don didn't catch on right away with what they were doing as he is the one on the show usually ahead of the curve.
What does Sal mean at the end, "Most of it."?
Right before that, Don says, "Part of this job is doing the things you hate."
"Most of it." is Sal correcting Don.
Most of the job is doing things you hate.
i have to write an ad about honda fit
"The Fit. It'll get you there" lol
Don on Secor Laxative: Part of this job is doing things you don't wanna do
Me: and things you don't wanna doodoo
Pete is hilarious
goddamn Peggy and Pete look alike
"All cars will have holes in their sides."
Yeah, it uses humour and self-awareness. Basically, it's "cool", which is why the younger characters like it and the older characters dislike it here. Apart from Don, who is wary of it but thinks it has a future.
It isn't special amongst modern ads, but it would have been then.
Pre-modern post-modernism.
Comes up again a few episodes later with JFK vs Nixon. Pete even mentions Elvis again and is laughed at. If only Pete wasn't such an asshole, his instincts could have made him the next Don.
@@KlooKloo I have the impression that people in Pete's position then would not even mention something that teenagers like at work. "Worlds" were more separate back then. I had a similar problem at work in the '80's when I revealed that I read Rolling Stone! I didn't look like someone who did and no one thought that my revealing that gave me credibility. But, I was a believer in transferable skills and knowledge.
@Gregory Smith the fact you are talking about gilette shows it was effective, dummy
@Gregory Smith Nike is also taught in advertising school. I don't know about their support of Kaepernick (though businesses getting behind social causes is hardly unique to Nike and Kaepernick), but the Nike swoosh is legendary in advertising, and it's just as minimalist (if not moreso) than these VW ads.
Elizabeth Moss was pretty cute in season 1
Just, no.
watching video clips from Mad Men
and in the related videos i see videos for game Madden XD
Pete's "in about an hour" comment is a Chinese food isn't filling- joke, right?
its a diarrhea joke i think..
The “take them out” bit has a bit of a violent connotation as well.
@@jasonlefler3456 I took it as, getting chinese take out
You know why they didn't want to talk about the laxative.
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.
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Nobody could give a shit.
Volkswagen! Don’t think too hard about the word “Volk”
I don't understand why was everyone so impressed with the ad?
"I'm still waiting on my shirts."
Paul Kinsey used to not have a beard?
Right? I didn't remember that. Only by his voice did I figure out that's him!
He started out clean shaven. Poor man's Orson Welles.
Hey!
it was before he came "hip"
That 99 cent line was brilliant.
The Volkswagen ad was by Bernbach. He revolutionised advertising and the old fashioned guard, like pictured in MadMan could not keep up and did not understand what was going on. We see that perfectly illustrated in this series. Only the very last episode is highly unlikely, otherwise it seems realistic. The smoking is real, the drinking is not. Perhaps some liquor brands got together to sponsor the series? There would be one or two drunks in any agency but otherwise not. One cannot perform or get ideas when drunk. Only the drunk himself thinks he does well. Get drunk and you will find you think you are a genius , funny, attractive, a formula one driver.
Funny, it's the same with musicians.
Madison Avenue being a bunch of drunks was so well-known they did a Mad Magazine spoof on the subject. Check your anecdotes!
According to this show, everyone in this future both smokes, way too much, and drinks all the time.
Are you a time traveler? This is not the future, it is the early 1960s. People were still smoking more than modern Europeans, and drinking (hard liquor) enough that drunks were funny.
Maybe "moronen" is the German plural of "moron"! LOL
Do YOU need a minute?
The famous "fusca", as it's called in Brazil
oh but it did happen
Can someone explain campbells joke?
Chinese food supposedly makes you hungry again an hour after you finish it.
Everybody smokes all the time WTF. My father got hooked on smoking because there was a lack of food in China and smoking suppressed his hunger. I don't know what these guys' problem is.
In what period is this? And what did they all do those days?
A lot of those guys were veterans of World War Two and Korea and the soldiers were given all the free cigarettes they wanted.
What do you mean problem? It’s apart of the culture of the time.
Remember, at this time, certain brands were considered to actually be more healthy. This was probably years before the Surgeon General’s Report came out. These people probably made their biggest money selling cigarette ads.
@@Kendell062 In boot camp during the Vietnam War era, we were given "free" cigarettes. All the breaks were called smoke breaks and that's how a lot of the guys got hooked on smoking. I'm not sure when the practice of free cigarettes to the military in boot camp stopped.
You definitely should watch some more, unless you want to keep that belief.
I do have a crush on Sal.
1:50 I've never seen this show before, but this Pete fella seems liek a stand-up guy. Real decent sort of chap. He knows he's married and upholds his vows. Good guy. Real swell.
haha, than you truly havent watched the show indeed ;-) !
Pete Campbell wrote this comment
Oh god, looks are truly deceiving my friend
Did the SMASH??
Yes
I'm at a loss over the appeal Peggy has on viewers.
Reminds viewers of their little sister.
I think the fact that he obviously cheated on his wife either before or after the marriage is a small clue as to what kind of character he is. Not to be rude, but how can you see that as being a good guy?
Pete always looked and behaved like a slimy prick!
Pete was one of the best characters on the show. His development over the years was absolutely amazing.
He was a bastard in season 1 but he gets a lot better as the series goes on. In the final episode he's great.
Pete's transformation is the most dramatic of all characters on the show. He gets A LOT of redemption in season 7 and by the end of the series, he ends up with the best job.
NOT GREAT BOB
What's so special about the ad? I don't get it can someone please explain it to me?
bIt late to reply lol but the Volkswagen ad was successful because it's not about what's on the page but what it makes you imagine should be there. "Think small" for instance would make you imagine a scenery in which the car was travelling in.
In this era, (1960s), America's car adverts were all about image and selling a lifestyle. So they were colourful and full of landscapes, pretty girls, loving families and surburban bliss. Essentially it comes from the idea that there is nothing about your product which can't be found in a dozen other products, so you have to dress it up with some fantasy bullshit, lies or irrelevant crap and sell that. Since that is Don Drapper's go to move, the VW ad really rattles him because it is the opposite of that approach. By showing nothing but the product against a blank background, it forces the eye to concentrate on the product and tries to sell a simple, reliable product. At the time, it would've been startling because it would have been the first car ad in America to cut through the bullshit. It would have the same kind of impact then as an ad for women's cosmetic products where the woman in the ad isn't a supermodel who has spent 5 hours being made up by professional make-up artists and the narrator said something like "It's a lipstick, not a magic wand you ugly bitch".
Broke the mould of fallacious advertising
@@BritishCommentWriter
Ironic then, that the Beetle wasn't all that reliable.
Historical cornerstone of ddb?
you have been talking about it for 15 minutes because you are in ad business analyzing the ad. It does not mean consumers will be talkng about it
I dont understand the Chinaman remarks. Can someone explain them to me?
The part about the shirts is a reference to the fact that a disproportionate number of dry cleaners and laundromats of the time were run by Chinese immigrants. The part about 'taking them out again in an hour' is a reference to a common remark that, after eating Chinese food, you're only full for about a half-hour or an hour before you want more.
Thank you for the clarification.
I'm half Chinese and not offended by this. It's a show and I enjoy it.
No worries. It's just that I am not American, so those remarks were out of context for me.
@@alabasterscarf612 Actually, I believe it was in reference to how Chinese food gives you the shit due the relaxed health inspection standards back then
Roger, the .99 cents things was invented to keep workers from stealing money instead of putting it in the cash register, not advertisement D:
I had never heard about that! How come?
That is why a house would list at $249,900 instead of $250,000. Look at both #'s, only 100 bucks, but visually, very different.
moronen? Did you mean, 'Moron'? lol
(3:31) wisdom I wish more people THESE days would understand...
if you pay close attention you'll hear that the dialogues arent very natural in the first minute of this clip. a shame otherwise this show wouldve gotten more ratings
She’s desperate.
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