
But we can see how Mad Men‘s fifth season–which is very good–is a little inaccessible to first-time viewers. We’re surprised that no one has made a parody of the Mad Men promos this year, because they are essentially designed to contain no information about the upcoming episode, and make the show look very, very boring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlbHkH8HwAw&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AGEuN3Bn7g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7E3er8D3xk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4WP1r9_ZeE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7YHAISIE0M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_K8oHfn47E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ_KqdFPpYo
What have we learned from these cryptic, mundane previews? (Besides Mad Men winning the Emmy for Best Drama four years in a row?) We’ve compiled the most interesting bits from each commercial to create an overview of this season of people working at an advertising office where apparently not a lot happens to try to figure it out:
Don: I have to tell you something.
Shot of Roger getting up from his recliner.
Shot of Don putting down a phone.
Bert Cooper: Everyone has somewhere to go today!
Joan: Do you want to close the door?
Peggy: Gosh!
Roger: Are you kidding me?
Pete: I don’t know anything.
Neither do we, Pete. Neither do we.