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6 unusual facts about Mad Men


A Buddy Story

It stars Gavin Bellour, Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss and Matisyahu, a popular American reggae and alternative rock musician who makes his screen debut in the movie.

Christopher Allport

His list of television credits includes appearances on such programs as The X Files, Commander In Chief, ER, Felicity, Mad Men, and Brothers & Sisters.

Dyckman Street

The character Pete Campbell on the series Mad Men is a descendant of the Dyckman family, and references to the area of Manhattan his family controlled are made in the show's fourth episode.

James Wolk

In 2013, Wolk joined the Season 6 cast of Mad Men, playing mysterious junior account man Bob Benson.

Kenneth W. Griffin

Griffin's version of Ebb Tide (song) was played in the fifth season premiere of the popular TV drama series Mad Men.

Phil Abraham

He won the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a One Hour Series for his work on the pilot of Mad Men and has been nominated for three other Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series for his work on The Sopranos.


Alison Brie

She went on to star in the web series My Alibi, and was chosen for the role of Trudy Campbell in Mad Men.

American Association of Advertising Agencies

In Mad Men S5.e12, "Commissions and Fees", Lane Pryce is offered an unelected chairmanship of the organization's fiscal control committee after SCDP wins the Jaguar Cars account.

Barbara Crawford Johnson

In Mad Men season 1, episode 12 ("Nixon vs. Kennedy"), Peggy Olson reports to work, the morning after leaving a bacchanalian election night office party in progress, and finds the Sterling Cooper office space in shambles and her locker broken into and emptied of her spare blouse and $3 "mad money".

Braniff Flight 250

US television drama Mad Men referenced this accident briefly in the season 5 episode "Signal 30".

Cape May

In Mad Men season 1, Betty Draper reveals her father owns a vacation home on Cape May.

Christopher Stanley

He currently plays Henry Francis, the second husband of January Jones' Betty Draper, on Mad Men.

Clio Awards

The awards today are very different from what it was like in the 1960s and 1970s, especially as portrayed in Mad Men episode 45, "Waldorf Stories".

Craig Anton

During the 2000s, Anton appeared in guest roles on Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000); The King of Queens (2001, 2005); Ally McBeal (2001); Lizzie McGuire (2001); Everybody Loves Raymond (2002), Weekends at the D.L. (2005), Two Broke Girls (2013), and Mad Men (2013).

Egg cream

In the television sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live, an episode in which Jon Hamm hosts features a skit called "Two A-Holes At An Ad Agency in the 1960s" (parodying Mad Men), and the Pete Campbell character offers the clients an egg cream to assuage them.

Golden Oak Ranch

According to Phil Abraham, parts of "The Hobo Code" (a first season episode of Mad Men) were filmed here (specifically, the scenes of

Ian Bohen

Bohen also appeared in a recurring role as "Roy Hazelitt", who vied for the same woman as Don Draper, in AMC's Mad Men.

Isidore Newman School

Bryan Batt, Broadway stage, film and television actor; co-star of AMC series Mad Men.

Jay R. Ferguson

His notable television roles include Taylor Newton in four seasons of the CBS sitcom Evening Shade, Dr. Todd Hooper on Judging Amy, Rich Connelly in the 2005 NBC television series Surface, Agent Warren Russell on the Showtime series Sleeper Cell and most recently Stan Rizzo on the AMC series Mad Men.

La Notte

In the Mad Men (season 2) episode, "The New Girl", Don Draper mentions La notte (to Bobbie Barrett) in a rare conversation about things he actually likes.

Laura Regan

Laura Regan (born 1977) is a Canadian actress, best known for her roles as Jessica Lynch in the 2003 TV movie Saving Jessica Lynch, Julia Lund in the 2002 horror film They, Emma in the 2002 British horror film My Little Eye, Lisa Ashen in the 2007 horror film Dead Silence, and as the recurring role of Jennifer Crane in the TV series Mad Men.

Major Grey's Chutney

In Mad Men season 6, episode 7 ("Man With a Plan"), Pete Campbell's brother, Bug, tells Pete their mother hit Bug's wife in the face with a dish towel when arguing about Earl Grey and Major Grey.

Middlebrow

Slate Magazine suggests that the late 2000s and early 2010s could potentially be considered the "golden age of middlebrow art"—pointing to television shows Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Sopranos and The Wire and novels Freedom, The Marriage Plot and A Visit from the Goon Squad.

Sex and the Single Girl

AMC's Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner frequently attributes Sex and the Single Girl and The Feminine Mystique as heavily influencing the creation of his characters and scenarios, especially involving the single female office worker.

Solar eclipse of July 20, 1963

It also served an important function in the plots of two Stephen King novels, Gerald's Game (1992) and Dolores Claiborne (1992) and was featured in a season 3 episode of Mad Men titled "Seven Twenty Three" (2009).

Trevor Einhorn

Einhorn has also most recently appeared in a television commercial for Acer laptops alongside Kiefer Sutherland, named "Dynamite Cupcakes", and in the sixth season of Mad Men, as copywriter John Mathis.

Wendy Benson

She guest starred in many television series, including Murder, She Wrote, The X-Files, Charmed, JAG (TV series), Ugly Betty, According to Jim, Ghost Whisperer, CSI: Miami, Desperate Housewives and Mad Men.

You Know I'm No Good

In summer 2007, "You Know I'm No Good" was used in advertisements for AMC's TV drama Mad Men, as well as the opening to ITV's Secret Diary of a Call Girl.


see also

Château Cheval Blanc

Château Cheval Blanc is featured in the Mad Men Season 5 episode, "The Other Woman", when Peggy Olson transforms Michael Ginsberg's ad concept about a leather-jacketed bar patron in London (which the client dislikes) into a Paris-based "Lady Godiva"-like pitch (which the client likes) on the spot.

Doorway

"The Doorway", the season six, 2-hour premiere episode of the television series Mad Men

Kevin Rahm

He also guest-starred on Friends as Tim, Monica's inexperienced sous-chef, in "The One with Rachel's Date" in Season 8; has a recurring role on AMC's Mad Men as Ted Chaough, from rival firm CGC; played car salesman Brad Elias on the CBS', The Mentalist; and played Jack, Annie's ex-brother-in-law and crush, on Fox's I Hate My Teenage Daughter.

Peter Campbell

Pete Campbell, a fictional character in the U.S. TV series Mad Men played by actor Vincent Kartheiser

The Suitcase

Toril Moi, contributing to The Wall Street Journal's "Mad Men Conversation", called the episode "deeply compelling".

Vocus

The Vocus "Demand Success" is scheduled for June 20 and 21, 2013 and will feature keynote speakers Arianna Huffington and Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men).