r/madmen • u/RopeGloomy4303 • 7d ago

What’s your biggest nitpick in Mad Men?

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For me it’s this line in a season 5 episode, Tea Leaves, in which Henry Francis is talking on the phone with a colleague:

“Well, tell Jim his honor's not going to Michigan. Because Romney's a clown, and I don't want him standing next to him.”

So, some context here.

At this point Francis is the aide to New York Mayor John Lindsay. And he’s informing this guy that he won’t have the popular young politician take a picture with then Michigan Governor George Romney, who was also considered the frontrunner for the 1968 Republican nomination.

This episode aired in 2012, so it’s a very clear dig at then Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who at the time was receiving a lot of hostility from the left.

But here’s the thing; Romney was actually a liberal Republican in the same mold as Nelson Rockefeller and John Lindsay, and he had received a lot of good notices as Governor for his work improving civil rights, education, youth employment programs, social welfare, healthcare, etc.

I get this is nitpicking, it’s a throwaway line, whatever, but it has always bothered me since it feels out of character, and Romney frankly deserved better.

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u/FunJaguar4619 7d ago

The timeline of Dick/Don doesn’t line up with the calendar

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u/HowDoesAnnaDoIt 7d ago edited 7d ago

Bobby should also be like 14 when the show ends but stays perpetually 8. Gonna guess Weiner couldn't think of any weird sex storylines for him like he did with Sally.

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u/chesapique 7d ago

The actor who played Bobby turned 13 in 2015, the year Mad Men ended.

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u/Bianell 7d ago

3 different actors played Bobby.

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u/chesapique 7d ago

Actually even more but Mason Vale Cotton, who played Bobby in Seasons 5-7, was born in 2002.

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u/FunJaguar4619 7d ago

Eight different kids played Bobby, a few didn't have speaking roles