For Mad Men fans, you must check out Mark Lisanti’s weekly power rankings on how the show’s characters up or lower their status in the Mad Men tribe. They are all so funny — but I thought this one worthy of a requote:
Sally Draper PatricideWatch: As Betty offered some motherly advice about how her daughter mishandled the Ernie-in-the-tub situation (“You’re going to have a lot of first kisses. You’re going to want it to be special, so you’ll remember. It’s where you go from being a stranger to knowing someone. And every kiss with them after that is a shadow of that kiss”), Sally’s eyes seemed to glaze over, disappointed that Mommy didn’t end her speech with, “And then after you get to know that person in that special way, and they’re under your spell, they’ll help you kill Daddy. You can’t depend on the idiot brother of yours to get the job done, honey.”
Mad Men Power Rankings are not to be missed. I kind of knew Pete Campbell was going to go up, but I’m also kind of glad to see Joan now making a major play by helping Pete Campbell cheat on his wife.
7 Responses for "Mad Men Power Rankings"
LOVE this show! Poor lil Sally Draper. She is going to grow up to be a wild child of the 70s. But I would change Patricidewatch to Matricidewatch. Last night, Sally gave Betty a look of “fuck off bitch” when Betty tried to scold her for losing her temper.
Sally is going to have some major issues. Her mother is such a bitch. I just love how this show is turning out.
That’s not how I’d describe Betty Draper, JR. But luckily for Sally, in 10 Mad Men years she’ll be just the right age to discover Fear of Flying.
I don’t see how Pete Campbell’s Oktoberfest debacle with the St Pauli Girl raises his power status. Plus, he’s managed to fumble some major leverage into Joan’s lap that you know is coming back to bite him in the ass. Also, Pete’s status should plummet every time he takes his shirt off.
Well Pete took a step up because he was so low to begin with, lol. Every time Betty is mean to Sally I just want to die – but I agree that it’s so pitch perfect. What other show dares to go into that zone. I also loved the whole Don Draper finger-banging thing, lol.
ah, good point, Sasha. Pete’s been everybody’s bitch so far this season.
Betty Draper is June Cleaver holding an actual cleaver behind her back.
Waiting for the day Pete Campbell pulls his pants down in front of one of his fragile conquests, and to hear her regretfully size him up: “A thing like that.”
Pete Campbell always entertains me. Him coming home to an empty apartment and taking off his shirt was definitely a telling moment; without Trudy there, he could revert to a more primitive self, well more primitive than what he is usually at. I laughed out loud when he was eating cereal and watching kiddie tv (was it Gumby?) in the early hours of the morning, then napping all day.
I loved it when he was reading Ebony magazine in the office; still looking to be race conscious, if only for the good business sense.
Peggy is the only one who’s tangled with Pete and could muster up a put-down like co-opting his catchphrase.
It was “Davey and Goliath”, a Christian stop-motion cartoon series with a talking dog whose catch phrase was, “I don’t know, Davey,” anytime Davey wanted to do something “bad.” Sometimes the subtle irony of Mad Men is so perfectly on-the-nose.
SPOLIER PREDICTION: I’ll be shocked if Baby Gene lives through the end of the season.
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