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linnyt is a walking cliché
07:23 PM

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I want to stay up and watch, but gang, I don't know if I can make it another three hours. #reminders
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curiousgeorgiana
07:02 PM

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I have a seriously insane amount of studying and research to do, but so help me god, I will be sitting in front of the TV absolutely still for an entire hour during this finale. Totally worth losing an hour of sleep. #reminders
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deitybox
06:25 PM

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Things that better be dealt with tonight--

- the Peggy-Pete relationship. "I had your baby and gave it away" closed season 2, and then we got a whole season 3 of glaring and sexual tension between the two of them. Stop with the teasing!

- Sal. First we get some amazing scenes and character development early-on, then he's suddenly fired and no mention since. Not. ok.

- Suzanne. Does this come back to bite Don in the ass? Otherwise, what the hell was the point of that whole plotline?

- And, just a general question: why the hell wasn't Lois fired after amputating the British exec?? What else would it take? #reminders
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funzette
05:54 PM

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I am an incorrigible spoiler huntress and am grudgingly grateful to Matt Weiner for not releasing the episode to anybody in advance! This being in the dark thing is novel and frightening.

That said, since no spoilers exist anywhere, I say we start a predictions thread for Most Shocking Moment tonight. I'll go first:

Likely:
Don leaves town, assumes new name in last scene.

Less Likely:
Baby Gene shoots Conrad Hilton over stolen lollipop; New Bobby hides body in pantry and comments on missing melba toast. #reminders
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Cam/ron
06:28 PM

@funzette: More likely:

Draper and the boys get wasted on Martinis and stumble into an "acid test" held by the Merry Pranksters at a dancehall. They bite a few special Granny Smith apples and...(to be continued next year in the new show, "Far-Out, Men!") #reminders
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Lymed
07:30 PM

@funzette: Everybody gathers around the national news story of a baby boy that fell into a well. When the boy is rescued, it is Old Bobby and everybody learns the Draper's big secret: they switched Bobby for a better behaved boy. #reminders
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superconnected (is it time to leave?)
05:51 PM

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Can't see it til tomorrow, must avoid internet after ten tonight.

#blamecanada

Pete Campbell's gonna snap though, amirite? #reminders
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CherriSpryte
05:36 PM

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Does anyone else find participating in live threads too distracting from the show itself? I need my entire brain focused to catch all of Mad Men ..... #reminders
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EhhKinda
06:34 PM

@CherriSpryte: Personally, I love these live threads because I cannot watch Mad Men on Sunday nights (no cable, boooo). So, it's like I'm watching it as it airs, except slower and without visuals. So, it's nothing like watching it for real -- nevermind.
Monday mornings are also fun because I read Jezebel, Gawker, and the AV Club - all of which write Mad Men re-caps. I like my episodes spoiled, clearly. #reminders
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curiousgeorgiana
06:59 PM

@CherriSpryte: commercials only :o) #reminders
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linnyt is a walking cliché
07:31 PM

@EhhKinda: Add [sepinwall.blogspot.com] to that list. it's very good and very spoilery, especially if you read the comments #reminders
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veronykah
04:52 PM

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Did series TV used to run longer, say in the 80s, than they do now?
Seasons seem awfully short now...
Especially with something like Mad Men where you have to wait almost a YEAR for the next one. #reminders
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TakeADeepBreath
04:59 PM

@veronykah: Well with Mad Men and a lot of other cable shows, they play the season straight through, with no repeats in between. Thats why they seem shorter and we have to wait so long until the next season. #reminders
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tankearae
05:20 PM

@veronykah: Yes. The average episode order for TV shows was around 24-26 episodes. Around the mid 90s, it started to drop to 20-22 Some broadcast shows STILL hit the 22-24 range, but standard cable orders tend to be 10-13 episodes. #reminders
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veronykah
05:25 PM

@tankearae: That's what I thought.
Hmmm imagine 26 episodes of Mad Men, I'd be elated. #reminders
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tankearae
05:29 PM

@veronykah: I know, right? Ugh. #reminders
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NewsBunny
04:37 PM

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I'm all set!

I sound like I've spent the night drinking and chain smoking with Don. I've just been thrown off the air and I'm being sent home! So I can actually WATCH tonight!

Perhaps the spirit of Don is guiding me.

Don, your spirit..is welcome inside me. Verrrrrrrrrrrrry welcome. #reminders
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SomeAuthorGirl
04:44 PM

@NewsBunny: "Thrown off the air" as in this is a good thing or a bad thing?

Hugs to you, either way!

Goddamn, I love this show. #reminders
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NewsBunny
04:49 PM

@SomeAuthorGirl: I'm a radio news anchor. I sound like shit so a replacement has been called in. It's good, because I get paid for a full shift.

Three other people are sick -- so I gave it a whirl. I get props for that.

And Don and I can be together! #reminders
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SomeAuthorGirl
05:00 PM

@NewsBunny: I remembered that from some other time; so I wasn't sure if you meant "I got thrown off the air for [doing something crazy]." ;)

Props to you and yay on being home! #reminders
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SomeAuthorGirl
04:31 PM

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Now I feel guilty that I'll be watching while drinking something Mad Men-apropos in east coast time. I'm going to go hang my head in shame. #reminders
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deeemer
03:54 PM

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Great. Pacific time strikes again. Curses. #reminders
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Dodgergirl
04:06 PM

@deeemer: We could do a #westcoastmadmen thread? #reminders
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Never_Nude
04:34 PM

@deeemer: Oregon checking in. I am down with avoiding spoilers! #reminders
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hellosunshine
11/05/09

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Aw. When I first moved to NYC, I was at the Brooklyn YWCA and a good friend was at Sacred Heart. The Y was barebones, but it was a safe place to live until I found a job and an apartment. #womensresidences
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R_Claw
11/05/09

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Didn't Little Edie live at the Barbizon? #womensresidences
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Eric Northman is mine
11/05/09

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Ohhh, I vote for a Jezzie residence and we can come up with our own damn rules or at least scrap the archaic ones. #womensresidences
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RaspberryDivine
11/05/09

@Eric Northman is mine: I was just thinking the same thing! I'd love to live in a Jezebel Residence. #womensresidences
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boxspelunker
11/05/09

@RaspberryDivine: I think that would be super-fantabulous. I'd do it. #womensresidences
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la.donna.pietra
11/05/09

@Eric Northman is mine: We can have dueling Cake and Pie nights. #womensresidences
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Lymed
11/05/09

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I had a friend who lived in the Young Women's Christian Home in Washington, DC a number of years ago. She partied with us pretty late, so I don't think there was curfew. #womensresidences
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brdensmore001
11/05/09

@Lymed: I lived at that same place for a summer during college when I was interning at the DNC, and I can tell you that it was NOT all peaches and cream, particularly not for a vegetarian democrat from the west coast who was a student at an extremely liberal college (read: coed bathrooms in the dorms, no greek life) in the northeast. In other words, not hugely jezebel-friendly.

Yes, there were (meat-heavy, southern-style) meals and a nice garden, it was cheap and you couldn't beat the location (across the streat from the Hart Senate office building!). However, the dining hall was like middle school all over again, except divided on political lines, not popularity distinctions. I was in the minority in that I: a) was not working for a republican, b) was not in a sorority, c) was not a church-goer, d) did not have a multiple-hour-long hair and makeup routine, e) had a second job to support myself, as my parents didn't pay for my summer in D.C., and f) wasn't in DC to "MEET A HUSBAND", which was the answer of a surprising number of girls living there.

It is true that there was no official curfew, but men were not allowed in the building outside of the lobby (i witnessed one distraught princess cry when she was told that her DAD couldn't help her up the stairs with her giant TV- no exceptions to the men rule!), and when I'd return late from my second job as a waitress (those internships don't pay very well...) I'd get a lot of inquisitive eyes from the housemothers sitting by the door. All of this is to say that these dormitories may seem attractive, but BUYER BEWARE; it may turn out to be really, really unpleasant.
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morninggloria
11/05/09

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Single-sex residences where gentlemen callers are not allowed? Sounds like my college dorm! #womensresidences
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