Mad men meaning11/2/2023 “I’m glad everybody can make it sound like they’re working so hard.” (S1, E5) Bet there are people in the Bible walking around, complaining about kids today.” (S1, E4) “Maybe every generation thinks the next one is the end of it all. “I bet daily friendship with that bottle attracts more people to advertising than any salary you could dream of.” (S1, E4) “I’ll tell you what brilliance in advertising is: 99 cents. “I think it behooves any man to toss all female troubles into the hands of a stranger.” (S1, E2) “Psychiatry is just this year’s candy-pink stove.” (S1, E2) “An ad man who doesn’t like to talk about himself? I think I may cry.” (season one, episode two) So, in the interest of posterity, Vulture has compiled the authoritative canon. Named after Roger’s ill-fated memoir, Sterling’s Gold was full of Roger’s pithy, nihilist bile, but it left plenty of cutting quips on the cutting-room floor. Every time an old man starts talking about Napoleon, you know they’re going to die.”īetween seasons four and five, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner anthologized many of Roger Sterling’s best lines in a book, Sterling’s Gold. ![]() Even then he had a piece of off-the-cuff gold - “I should’ve known it was near the end. The first half of season seven ended with the death of his partner and mentor Bert Cooper. The normally blithe executive showed some surprising introspection (and even broke down crying), but even in a state of ennui he still was able to do what we’ve counted on him doing for the previous five seasons: dole out some stellar quips. The sixth season of Mad Men, when this piece originally ran, began with Roger Sterling facing the deaths of two of his loved ones: his mother and his shoe-shine man.
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