Mad Men, Season 4 Episode 1: Joey’s Haircut Okay, first off, fantastic episode. I shake my fist at the gods that I can’t watch the whole season tonight, and all the rest of the seasons tomorrow night. That said, three things stood out to me as anachronistic for 1964: The new character Joey, Peggy’s copy boy (played by Matt Long who you may not remember as Jack on “Jack and Bobby”) dons a haircut I don’t believe you’d see in ‘64. All I know of 1964 is from stuff I’ve seen on movies about the sixties, but I never saw a haircut like that in ‘64 is all I’m saying. So I call bullshit. When Roger Sterling tells Don “You turned all the sizzle from Glo-Coat into a wet fart!” I just don’t believe that people farted in 1964, and certainly not in downtown ad agencies, and if they did, you’d better believe they were dry or they’d have Don Draper to answer to. As Peggy justifies/apologizes to Don for the Sugarberry hamfight debacle, she says this: “It was going great, until it wasn’t.” What a very 20xx way of putting it. Very self-conscious, very Internet. I’m not buying it, Olson. Get back to work. But then again, I’m just a butthead who puts far too much trust in the show’s creators to transport him psychically into a world where nothing is out of place. So never mind me. God, what a fucking great show.

Mad Men, Season 4 Episode 1: Joey’s Haircut

Okay, first off, fantastic episode. I shake my fist at the gods that I can’t watch the whole season tonight, and all the rest of the seasons tomorrow night.

That said, three things stood out to me as anachronistic for 1964:

  • The new character Joey, Peggy’s copy boy (played by Matt Long who you may not remember as Jack on “Jack and Bobby”) dons a haircut I don’t believe you’d see in ‘64. All I know of 1964 is from stuff I’ve seen on movies about the sixties, but I never saw a haircut like that in ‘64 is all I’m saying. So I call bullshit.
  • When Roger Sterling tells Don “You turned all the sizzle from Glo-Coat into a wet fart!” I just don’t believe that people farted in 1964, and certainly not in downtown ad agencies, and if they did, you’d better believe they were dry or they’d have Don Draper to answer to.
  • As Peggy justifies/apologizes to Don for the Sugarberry hamfight debacle, she says this: “It was going great, until it wasn’t.” What a very 20xx way of putting it. Very self-conscious, very Internet. I’m not buying it, Olson. Get back to work.

But then again, I’m just a butthead who puts far too much trust in the show’s creators to transport him psychically into a world where nothing is out of place. So never mind me. God, what a fucking great show.

Jul 25 2010 11:51pm
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