The two-hour season five premiere of Mad Men is this Sunday at 8:00 EST on AMC, so of course we’re counting down the hours. It’s been 17 months since our favorite show was last on the air, and the end of season four left us with more questions than answers. Was Don really going to marry his new secretary? Will Bert Cooper cool down and return to the agency? Change was in the air, and then they just left us hanging.
My episode-by-episode recap of the entire series so far is still in the works (I’m averaging about 5,000 words per episode guide, so it’s going to be very thorough), but in the meantime I thought I’d celebrate the return of Mad Men by re-posting various MM art, videos, and other related material from around the web.
Newsweek dedicated this week’s issue to Mad Men. They even did all their ads in a 1960’s style. I suspect this will be the first time many people have opened the pages of Newsweek in decades.
AMC has tried to go viral with “Draping“, which they compare to the Tebowing meme from a few months ago but I think is actually more like the planking fad from last year. Basically, it involves taking a picture of yourself from behind while sitting with your arm extended outward, just as Don Draper’s silhouette is depicted as he sits on a couch. The weirder the location, the better.
Speaking of Draping, here’s that famous pose in some fan art I came across:
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Comedy Central UK and the creators of South Park have joined in on the fun by making promos that mimic the Mad Men intro except with Kenny and Cartman replacing Don (note that both are wearing a suit and tie)
Kenny version:
Cartman version:
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I’ll probably have more to comment on this later, but a user on a popular Mad Men forum recently posted this picture of an actual 1960’s Manhattan ad agency: 
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That’s all for now, but expect a lot more as we get closer to Sunday night.
