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The Top 6 Reasons You Should Sign This Petition To Bring Back "Mad Men"

By Joanna Robinson | Posted Under Miscellaneous | Comments (37)

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Deadline and other sources are reporting that AMC, Mad Men creator Matt Weiner and Lionsgate are locked in negotiations over (what else?) money. Specifically an increased salary for Weiner and higher licensing fee for Lionsgate. The problem is, the negotiations are causing such a delay in production that we may not see a new episode of Mad Men until 2012. I don’t know about you, but I can’t go a year without seeing Pete Campbell’s Bitchface again.

So I urge you to sign this petition to end negotiations and begin production posthaste. You can find the petition here. What impact will an online petition have? I have no idea. But it can’t hurt. If you still need some convincing, here’s a visual aid.

1. Paul Kinsey Ain’t Dead
(He said so in this interview!)

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2. But Joan’s Horrible Rapist Husband Might Be
(We can only hope…)

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3. Alison Brie Could Wear Something This Amazing Again
(…and dream…)

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4. That Wench Betty Draper Will Surely Get Her Comeuppance At Some Point
(…and pray.)

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5. These Things
(You knew it was coming.)

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6. That Guy
(Aren’t you impressed I held out this long?)

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Joanna Robinson likes her scotch neat, her secretaries buxom and her misogyny dressed in a nice, sharp suit.









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Comments

I started to watch the first episode of this show OnDemand to see what all the fuss was about. I got through about 15 minutes before I was so insanely bored.

Posted by: Sarah at February 10, 2011 4:06 PM

It told me the petition was non-existent.

Posted by: Todd at February 10, 2011 4:09 PM

Typo in the link above (extraneous line-break tag).
Here it is.

Posted by: Rykker at February 10, 2011 4:15 PM

You may have to wait a year for new episodes of Mad Men? Who do they think they are, Battlestar Galactica?

Posted by: Armando at February 10, 2011 4:27 PM

If you're "bored" by Mad Men, we can add in a laugh track and Charlie Sheen to keep you amused on a small TV that we can then shove into your brain.

Posted by: Byrd at February 10, 2011 4:28 PM

Kballs isn't here, so I will take one for the team.

::reaches tentatively for the Hamm::

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at February 10, 2011 4:31 PM

@Byrd Throw in some hookers, cocaine, random shooting, binging and you got yourself a deal.

Posted by: Jack Sparrow at February 10, 2011 4:31 PM

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMM

*passes out*

Posted by: Figgy at February 10, 2011 4:32 PM

Sarah - You have to learn to relax into the beautiful ennui. Lean back, light one up and let the desultory beauty steal over you.

Posted by: Mrs. Skipper at February 10, 2011 4:34 PM

Maybe Sarah got bored because can only take a limited dose of white people.

Posted by: Darna at February 10, 2011 4:34 PM

I guess I have the Hamm to myself.

Give me a 5 minute start and then try to wake up Figgy. I need time to make off/out with him.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at February 10, 2011 4:35 PM

I was in a college play with Mike Gladis. He was the Angriest of the 12 Angry People. (yes, title was changed.)

Then he decided he actually wanted a *career* in acting and switched colleges.

Posted by: Sara Tonin at February 10, 2011 4:40 PM

I feel bad for Christina Hendricks boobs. Look at the ridiculous shapes she contorts them into. You're lovely sweater pillows are neither a turtleneck, nor a set of baloon animals. Treat them kindly.

Posted by: Blank at February 10, 2011 4:48 PM

AHEM.

Posted by: Figgy at February 10, 2011 4:53 PM

Truth be told, I got bored with Mad Men after watching the first episode. I remember giving up on them, because I hated every character from the get go, especially Joan (oh, how wrong I was...)

I got into it again about a year later, because everyone on this site was still putting the show up on a glorious pedestal made of scotch and breast, so I tried getting into it again, made past the first two episodes, and I was hooked.

Granted, I had the same experience with Firefly and Doctor Who, so maybe I have very low tolerance for awesomeness and have to be eased into it.

So in conclusion: stick it out. There's scotch and boobs to look forward to.

Posted by: FDBluth at February 10, 2011 5:07 PM

Watched the entire first season and the first couple eps of season 2. It's not that the show is boring, it isn't. But, remember how The Sopranos occasionally had a really slow episode? Just about every single episode of Mad Men is as slow as the slowest Sopranos eps. The show is quality, but I had to drop it. Started to feel like homework, like Caprica.

Posted by: Riles at February 10, 2011 5:19 PM

I'd gladly sacrifice Mad Men to the television gods if I knew it would secure Zooey Deschanel on weekly primetime.

Posted by: Darth Darko at February 10, 2011 5:25 PM

Hamm is a hammsome fellow (see what I did there), but dude looks like he's got a stuck fart in that pic.

Also, L.O.V.E. likes his scotch on the rocks, his secretaries disheveled and his misogyny directed towards a petulant, lithe dancer.

Posted by: L.O.V.E. at February 10, 2011 5:29 PM

The bottom picture of Hamm makes him look like he's very pleased about having just farted.

Go look again.

...

Riiiiiight?

Posted by: superasente at February 10, 2011 5:36 PM

I'm one of the people who hadn't seen it all until I bought the first season on DVD last month. I've seen a couple episodes so far. Maybe it takes awhile to grow on you. It's very well done, pretty-looking, etc. It's just kind of a bummer. Seeing how men (and other women) used to treat women just isn't my favorite thing in the world. But I'll continue to watch all the DVDs until the end and then decide if I wanna shell out more $ for the rest.

I liked Caprica much better. Not that it matters.

Posted by: Slash at February 10, 2011 6:11 PM

How about when Alison Brie wore a similiar ridiculous lime green number? There were a lot of snorts and laughter going on in my house. A local movie theater in my city (Austin, TX) plays the episodes right after they air. I want that happening as soon as possible.

Posted by: Allison at February 10, 2011 6:13 PM

I meant "seen it at all" in the first sentence above.

Posted by: Slash at February 10, 2011 6:15 PM

Her comeuppance being my penis.

Posted by: Will at February 10, 2011 6:47 PM

The ending of the last season was great, why would anyone want to see a half-assed continuity of that?

Posted by: Jakob Montrasio at February 10, 2011 9:18 PM

CH wants to be paid in fried cheese and AMC simply can't meet her weighty demands.

Posted by: the EPA at February 10, 2011 9:52 PM

Riles, you must have a really short attention span. Have you considered Adderol?

Posted by: John. G. at February 10, 2011 10:20 PM

Darth Darko, go watch The Happening and say that again. I dare you.

Posted by: John. G. at February 10, 2011 10:23 PM

A year!!!??? *cue incessant whining, crying and bitching*
Gah, not The Sopranos again!!!

Posted by: Tina at February 11, 2011 12:23 AM

I got bored with "Mad Men" within the first episode as well, but kept hoping something will start to happen eventually, given all those heartfarts and praises. I think I made through 3...or maybe 2 and something seasons because ennui has this ability to drag you in, but as soon as I peeled myself off it, I feel no desire to finish watching it at all.

Also, John Hamm totally looks like Rammsteins's singer Till Lindemann and I just can't take him seriously (or find him hot) because of that.

Also, John. G., you must have a really bad case of fanboy's defensively itchin' arsecrack. Have you considered removing the pole?

Posted by: lurkey at February 11, 2011 4:43 AM

ARE THOSE BOOBIES

Posted by: wonderbreadhead at February 11, 2011 8:25 AM

zeke still has not seen any Mad Men.

Posted by: zeke the pig at February 11, 2011 8:46 AM

The problem with waiting a year is who knows how receptive anyone will be to the show after that long. I know there are hardcore fans but anytime a show takes that long of a break, they run the risk of coming back to a lukewarm audience who is tired of waiting for them to finish their greedy ass squabbling over money - all the while Mad Men could fall off the edge, never to regain its position in the spotlight and AMC would lose one of its most popular shows forever. Even Rome fell.

Posted by: TVConnoisseur at February 11, 2011 10:50 AM

And for the sake of all of us, those boobs are worth fighting for by God.

Posted by: TVConnoisseur at February 11, 2011 10:51 AM

I'm afraid to watch The Happening, J.G. It might make me lose the will to live.

Posted by: Darth Darko at February 11, 2011 11:58 AM

I could not get into Mad Men either, unfortunately. I really wanted to...but alas! no. It seems that Mad Men is supposed to be a subtle derision of the misogyny and racism that went on in those times, but I still have trouble watching it. I keep wanting to scream SEXUAL HARASSMENT! whenever one of the guys is cheeky to a female co-worker, and I keep wondering WHERE are all the minorities? and then I remember what show I'm watching.

Posted by: Marvelous Mousey at February 11, 2011 1:53 PM

Marvelous, I felt like you when I first started watching it. In fact, I stopped, but ended up watching them later and it really is derision. It really is a show about the females.

ANd yeah, how anyone can take Zooey D. after the happening (or that wizard movie on Sci Fi) is beyond me. She is the worst thing.

Posted by: stump at February 11, 2011 8:35 PM

WHAT?!?!?!

I am not a fan but the wife is so I have seen every episode at least once.

I just find the show depressing...

Posted by: TrickyHD at February 12, 2011 7:16 PM