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Mad Men on Sesame Street
There are two popular Mad Men parodies on the Internet: The Simpsons and Sesame Street. This is the Sesame Street one and it’s pretty funny. I like how they bang their hands on the table after each time they suggest an idea. Not sure where they got that from because they don’t [...]
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Props of Mad Men
I had come across this before a while ago but forgot where I’d found it. Boing Boing had a wonderful excerpt about the props on Mad Men and how things have changed over the years. There is also another site where they talk about more of the inconsistencies with the props. I’ll [...]
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Sterling Cooper
The Sterling Cooper Ad Agency is pretty freaking sweet. It was founded by Bertram Cooper and Roger Sterling’s dad a long time ago. It’s not the biggest agency but it’s successful and boasts some high profile clients like: Hilton, Lucky Strike, and Pan Am.
Here is a photo of the office. I sit in the back [...]
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Midge Daniels
Played by Rosmarie DeWitt
A smart, ambitious art illustrator, Midge Daniels is a thoroughly independent career woman – much like the multitudes of women venturing into the workforce for the first time. Midge sets her own rules, rejecting the traditional idea of marriage and domesticity. Such “live in the moment” vitality makes her the perfect bedroom [...]
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Trudy Campbell
Played by Alison Brie
Trudy Campbell is married to Pete Campbell, an Account Executive at the Sterling Cooper advertising agency. The two live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in a Park Avenue apartment. Her father, a salesman for Vicks Chemical, helped her husband get the Clearasil account for Sterling Cooper. Trudy herself tried to [...]
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Herman “Duck” Phillips
Played by Mark Moses
Herman “Duck” Phillips is the former head of account services at the Sterling Cooper advertising agency. Previously, he was with Young & Rubicam in London. He’s now at Grey. In order to raise Sterling Cooper’s profile he instructed employees to land accounts with the airline, automobile, and pharmaceutical industries, with mixed results. [...]
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Harry Crane
Played by Rich Sommer
Harry Crane heads the newly created Television Department at the Sterling Cooper advertising agency. He spends much of his time at work with Pete Campbell, Paul Kinsey and Ken Cosgrove. Harry’s promotion to department head came after he proposed that the cosmetics client Belle Jolie sponsor a controversial episode of The Defenders. [...]
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Peggy Olson
Played by Elisabeth Moss
Peggy Olson is a Copywriter at the Sterling Cooper advertising agency. A bridge-and-tunnel girl from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, she began at the firm as Don Draper’s secretary then earned a promotion by impressing her boss with copy for two accounts: Belle Jolie and the Rejuvenator. When her first champion, co-worker Freddy Rumsen, [...]
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Betty Draper in Rome