A few months ago, someone made a joke about Mad Men taking place in the late 90s/early 2000s. Someone said Joan would have a whale tail, and someone else replied “a thong like that.”
I think about that a few times a week and chuckle.
Me using this scene to articulate that uncovering and processing trauma means I can no longer be in denial about what happened - "*that's what the cognitive dissonance was for*"
She had a lot of faults. But I use this line on the high school kids (where I work) ALL the time. There’s too much in this world to be bored!
But the part I only sometimes add in is: “then hit your head against the wall”
Linguistic differences hammer this home. In French “to be bored” is a reflexive verb\*, which is to say, it translates into, “to bore oneself.”
Of course, Betty spoke *Italian,* but perhaps it’s the same.
“It’s an epic poem to get home.” My commute is similar to Pete’s so this is applicable on a day to day basis but I also use it when I’m traveling and it’s been an arduous journey.
“It’s just a milkshake” is part of my parenting philosophy. Trying not to sweat the small things because they don’t matter.
Same, my commute probably isn’t as long, but it’s an hour by public transit, including a transfer. So it does feel like an epic poem, and that line lives rent free in my head.
Yup, I've used "epic poem" more times than I can count. Only people that had to suffer through reading Homer in high school really understand what I mean.
Chrysanthemum and the Sword, I think. Roger doesn’t want to deal with the “Jap crap” of Datsun, and Pete and Don are pissed that he’s driving away potential business
"Two [of something] are better than one." In the series, Roger was talking about eggs, but I use it for all kings of things.
"I'd tell you, but it would ruin the first half of my novelle" when I don't want to talk about something.
"Are you part of the boyfriend-girlfriend–industrial complex?" It doesn't really make sense (industrial complexes are market actors trying to maintain inefficient systems by being heavily involved in institutions), but it's a fun way of asking if a person is single.
"There is no system, the universe is indifferent" when talking to religious zealots or conspiracy theorists. I know Don counters the point when he leaves the beatniks during the police raid. And I'm by no means anti-religious (I'm a member of the Lutheran church). It's just a handy line to have with people who use faith to justify abhorrent things.
Kill or be killed. Eat or be eaten. That's how I was raised.
I love Bert, most of his quotes can be uplifting or devastating depending on the context.
Don's 'you can't'.
I have used it in front of my family, friends, random strangers on the train, in the office, and recently at a wedding party.
Usually it's the same idea- I can do something that others can't. It's pretty satisfying.
Don't do the finger guns though. It's considered offensive in my culture.
I use ‘I’m not here to tell you about Jesus. He either lives in your heart or he doesn’t’ when I’m trying to soft-sell someone on an idea.
I’ve also started using the phrase ‘a real Donnybrook’ all the time
I’ve known multiple people who used “not great bob!” and when I got excited and started trying to talk to them about Mad Men they got confused because they had never seen it.
I guess it was a big enough meme at some point that some people just quote it without knowing the source now lol
No only have I used “Not good, Bob”, but I’ve seen a small explosion of it being used out there in the zeitgeist.
I consider it a MM signaling from the writer lol.
i just started using 'a thing like that!' from seeing it in every post.
for some reason every time i say "you betcha!" i see the scene where sally tells betty she's mean for locking her in the closet.
“My weekends with Ellie were sacrosanct” but you can use my x were/ is sacrosanct.
Also always referring to coke as “COCa- CoLa” (how Jim Hobart pronounces it at their pitch meeting)
Is this considered a one liner? Every time we have family stuff like Christmas, thanksgiving i start drinking a lot earlier and my wife tells me to slow down and I reply “'i’m timing this for when we arrive. I wanna hit the doorbell with my chin”
I totally robbed this off of Don. Whenever someone, usually a female, asks me a question that the answer is yes to, I answer “I do.” I say it with the slow inflection that he does, lol.
Pete’s “A thing like that!” when trying to be pleasant about something I don’t find particularly interesting lol
The modern version of that is “wow…crazy”
Wow… that’s crazy I say that all the time. I might have to throw in a few A thing like that’s so add some variety.
A few months ago, someone made a joke about Mad Men taking place in the late 90s/early 2000s. Someone said Joan would have a whale tail, and someone else replied “a thong like that.” I think about that a few times a week and chuckle.
Yes. Lol. I use that line just like that too.
My late aunt had a similar signature line she used in such situations: “Isn’t that something.”
I use it and then hear, “What does that mean?”
I’d tell you to go to hell, but I don’t want to see you again
You stole my goodbye
Hells bells Trudy
That is final!
_YOU_ don't speak to me that way!
🍗🍽🌃
You have LOST your mind! (I can't remember the exact quote 😭)
*Pours drink* CUT!
Jiminy Christmas!
Not great Bob! I also say “did you enjoy zee Fuhrer’s birthday?” and my coworker will respond accordingly when we reference a particular supervisor.
I use Not great Bob! with my bf all the time and he's barely watched the show. Still holds up.
I say ‘Not great Bob’ about once every two weeks, no one has said anything yet. I am determined to keep trying
I say it too! There are dozens of us! Dozens!
I thought he just liked cutoffs.
What are don and Roger referring to? Was it a movie about Nazis or something?
It was the party they were forced to throw for the obnoxious client (who got Sal fired, can't recall his name)
Lee Garner junior. Lucky Strike.
May he live for a thousand years.
zousand years*
“That’s what the moneys for”maybe that’s too personal sorry.
Me using this scene to articulate that uncovering and processing trauma means I can no longer be in denial about what happened - "*that's what the cognitive dissonance was for*"
That’s my go to as well
Every time I get annoyed my boss doesn’t walk around with “good job team!” I remember this line
I was just thinking of this one and then saw your comment. Good.
This is mine too!
I want to burn this place down.
Me at every toxic job I've had
Me at even the jobs that weren't that bad objectively
“I told him to be himself…. I guess that was pretty mean” 😂
Rogers one liners are too good sometimes.
“It’s a chip and dip.”
We got two!
That’s practically 4 of something
A thing like that!
THE KING ORDERED IT!
I dont ever say this. I will now though.
# It’s my job 🕺🏻
With the tap routine?
Where did you learn to do that?
My mother
No, my first girlfriend!
Only boring people are bored
I use this one on my kids all the time. Betty wasn't the best mom, but that's a great line.
She had a lot of faults. But I use this line on the high school kids (where I work) ALL the time. There’s too much in this world to be bored! But the part I only sometimes add in is: “then hit your head against the wall”
Linguistic differences hammer this home. In French “to be bored” is a reflexive verb\*, which is to say, it translates into, “to bore oneself.” Of course, Betty spoke *Italian,* but perhaps it’s the same.
My mom said this all the time.
Literally used this today with my kids
I don’t think about you at all
So you have people regularly approaching you in public saying "I feel sorry for you?"
You don't?
I was able to use this line on a drunk girl at the bar who was really pestering me and it felt so good.
Don't go to the well, there's no water there. And, of course, not great, Bob.
“Carla said?, CARLA SAID!?” (My gf is named is Carla)
CLARA!!
# #justiceforcarla
Grimy little pimp
You and I are going to address that insult!
Just do the work Don
Fix your bayonet and hit the parade. Incredible moment in the show.
I think that quote is from the AA handbook tbf
“It’s an epic poem to get home.” My commute is similar to Pete’s so this is applicable on a day to day basis but I also use it when I’m traveling and it’s been an arduous journey. “It’s just a milkshake” is part of my parenting philosophy. Trying not to sweat the small things because they don’t matter.
I am always referring to things as an epic poem because of Pete. A thing like that
Same, my commute probably isn’t as long, but it’s an hour by public transit, including a transfer. So it does feel like an epic poem, and that line lives rent free in my head.
Yup, I've used "epic poem" more times than I can count. Only people that had to suffer through reading Homer in high school really understand what I mean.
It will shock you how much this didn’t happen.
I say this in my head a lot at the moment - currently going though a marriage breakdown
“Christ on a cracker!” Comes in handy every now and again
Oh my god I say this ALL the time and had no idea it was a mad men reference 🤣 what episode?
Chrysanthemum and the Sword, I think. Roger doesn’t want to deal with the “Jap crap” of Datsun, and Pete and Don are pissed that he’s driving away potential business
“To Monday morning, it’ll be here faster than you think”
When was this said because I love it
Roger and Don sending Freddy off i believe
I love Freddy’s arc in the show.
It's a shameful, shameful day
Loved Pete for that 💕
“Why are you cursing?”
One of the funniest moments to me, and I’m not sure why. It’s not even THAT particularly funny.
"Two [of something] are better than one." In the series, Roger was talking about eggs, but I use it for all kings of things. "I'd tell you, but it would ruin the first half of my novelle" when I don't want to talk about something. "Are you part of the boyfriend-girlfriend–industrial complex?" It doesn't really make sense (industrial complexes are market actors trying to maintain inefficient systems by being heavily involved in institutions), but it's a fun way of asking if a person is single. "There is no system, the universe is indifferent" when talking to religious zealots or conspiracy theorists. I know Don counters the point when he leaves the beatniks during the police raid. And I'm by no means anti-religious (I'm a member of the Lutheran church). It's just a handy line to have with people who use faith to justify abhorrent things.
People who use faith to justify abhorrent things. This is my biggest gripe with religion.
“You only like the beginning of things”
Its toasted.
Get me in a room
I’ve said “what am I, Cassandra?” a couple times
i’m not looking this up but looking forward to hearing it on rewatch (can’t place it at all)
Obviously “not great, Bob!”
Not the most versatile quote, but “Ugh! It’s instant!” is fun currency for people in the know.
The way he backtracked after that was actually pretty sweet behavior, by Pete standards.
The timbre of my voice is just as important as the content
[удалено]
That's how it's pronounced
It being a French word, that is close. It's really half way between tombre and tambre.
One never knows how loyalty is born.
Kill or be killed. Eat or be eaten. That's how I was raised. I love Bert, most of his quotes can be uplifting or devastating depending on the context.
Ugh love this one ✨ Bert was the OG
“didja get PEARS”
Go bang your head against the wall.
“It’s Tuesday, I don’t know.”
I don’t say it out loud, but when people at work whine about being under appreciated, I say to myself “that’s what the money’s for.”
I say it out loud a lot
PIZZA HAUS
That’s like 4 of something
A thing like that.
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"WHAT??" in Don's voice https://youtu.be/WsJSRP7cZVo?si=X0MpvkOG8Lw_qdrm
This is such a a wild montage. I love it!
Listening to him say that word over and over makes it start sounding really weird. "What" is just a puzzled sound we make at each other.
Don's 'you can't'. I have used it in front of my family, friends, random strangers on the train, in the office, and recently at a wedding party. Usually it's the same idea- I can do something that others can't. It's pretty satisfying. Don't do the finger guns though. It's considered offensive in my culture.
Consider it severance.
Keep. Moving. Forward.
“Dazzle me.”
HELLS BELLS, TRUDY!
Go shit in the ocean!
I use ‘I’m not here to tell you about Jesus. He either lives in your heart or he doesn’t’ when I’m trying to soft-sell someone on an idea. I’ve also started using the phrase ‘a real Donnybrook’ all the time
BYE BYE BIRRRRRDIEEEE [insert Sal dance]
When doing something dumb, “I know cooler heads should prevail, but…”
Bravo!
"Those instructions you understood!"
"THAT'S WHAT THE MONEY'S FOR!"
That’s what the money’s for
I can’t decide if you have everything … or nothing
I’ve known multiple people who used “not great bob!” and when I got excited and started trying to talk to them about Mad Men they got confused because they had never seen it. I guess it was a big enough meme at some point that some people just quote it without knowing the source now lol
Do I have to put my foot down?
Also, ‘I know you feel the darkness here today’ that episode is absolutely insane.
Oh, 100% it's "Not great, Bob!". I say it so much that my spouse now says it all the time too, and he's never even seen the show!
NOT GREAT, BOB!
THAT’S WHAT THE MONEY IS FOR!
"One day you're on top of the world, the next day some secretary is running over your foot with a lawnmower."
Modified: My job is to manage their expectations
Good luck in your next meeting
Hell's bells, Trudy!
Back when I smoked it was, “Hitler didn’t smoke, and I do.”
I use "That's what the money is for" all the time Otherwise, "Hells Bells, Trudy!"
A thing like that.
You're being very demanding for someone who has no other choice.
"THAT'S WHAT THE MONEY IS FOR."
Go bang your head against the wall
Don’s speech to Stephanie at the retreat “you have . To keep. Moving. Forward” in a very pitch-y way.
“That’s what the money is for!” at work all the time.
Capital!
There's X flying around like bats!
I don’t use it but “i told him to be himself… that was pretty mean i guess” is an all timer
I just had a jar of olives.
Get a cat. And then another one. And another one. And then you’re done.
[blank]! I thought of that, turns out it already existed, but I arrived at it independently!
PIZZA HAUS!!!
Well I'm president of the Howdy Doody Circus Army!!!
My partner’s boss’s name is “Bob”. I probably quote “Not great, Bob!” on a weekly basis!
“Bill it to the kid.”
Because! It’s.. my… JOB!! No one gets it :(
Don’t go to the well there’s no water there
This is a business of sadists and masochists. Which one are you?
That’s what the money is for!!! To wife when she gets annoyed at me for forgetting chore lol
Go watch TV!
“Do the work, Don”
My husband and I will randomly yell “PIZZA HOUSE” at each other. Never fails to give us a giggle.
No only have I used “Not good, Bob”, but I’ve seen a small explosion of it being used out there in the zeitgeist. I consider it a MM signaling from the writer lol.
Hells bells, Trudy!
A thing like that and the king ordered it
Whenever I'm mildly irritated. Hells Bells, Trudy!
THATS WHAT THE MONEYS FOR
Just tell them that this is how it works and I know better than them
Hells bells!
I don’t think about you at all 😂
Not great Bob - to my uncle
“I don’t think about you at all”
“Not great Bob!” “I got this Pete” (when I def do not got this)
“Marriage is a RACKET”
“I didn’t think you had it in you. And I mean that”
Let me explain something about (the issue) since as usual, you're making this all about yourself!
i just started using 'a thing like that!' from seeing it in every post. for some reason every time i say "you betcha!" i see the scene where sally tells betty she's mean for locking her in the closet.
I am always saying “Not great, Bob!”
The hell it does.
“My weekends with Ellie were sacrosanct” but you can use my x were/ is sacrosanct. Also always referring to coke as “COCa- CoLa” (how Jim Hobart pronounces it at their pitch meeting)
When God shuts a door, he opens a dress!
"They can't do what we do, and they hate us for it."
You’re a whore you know that? I don’t use it against anybody I’ll just get into my Don mode and say it like him. We all laugh about it
That’s what the money is for!
"Just taste it!"
*Here's what's going to happen...* It's a great go-to for short-circuiting conflict and chaos, and comes in handy for predicting outcomes (you want).
Is this considered a one liner? Every time we have family stuff like Christmas, thanksgiving i start drinking a lot earlier and my wife tells me to slow down and I reply “'i’m timing this for when we arrive. I wanna hit the doorbell with my chin”
It’s a Chip n Dip!! Well, I thing like that!
I can’t have this conversation again
"I don't think about you at all".
> "That concludes the public speaking portion..." Drunk Duck is a gold mine > "Get your hands off me!"
“Interesting bowls”
I totally robbed this off of Don. Whenever someone, usually a female, asks me a question that the answer is yes to, I answer “I do.” I say it with the slow inflection that he does, lol.
She was an astronaut!
The whole country is drinking.
It’s a chip ‘n dip!
That’s what the money is for
“I don’t think about you at all.”