History Series / MadMen

* MrFanservice: Go to the nearest woman you can find and ask her what she thinks of Jon Hamm. Just do it.

* PrimalScene: In season 5's "At the Codfish Ball", at the hotel where the award banquet is being held, Sally walks into a room and sees Marie giving Roger a blowjob. They don't see her and she is still stunned when she returns to their table. When she calls Glen up later and he asks how was the city, she answers: "Dirty."

* PrimalScene: At the hotel where a banquet is held where her father is receiving an award, Sally walks into a room and sees Megan's mother giving a blowjob to Roger. They don't see her and she is still stunned when she returns to their table. When she calls Glen up later and he asks how was the city, she answers: "Dirty."

* NaughtyTentacles: Bert Cooper, lover of all things Japanese, has a print of the TropeMaker, Hokusai's ''Dream of the Fisherman's Wife'' hanging in his office. It {{Squick}}s out a fair number of visitors.

* HollywoodPudgy: Averted big-time with the gloriously voluptuous Christina Hendricks.
** Also averted in the series premiere when Pete's bachelor party takes place in a burlesque club. The stripper is a bit more upholstered that what we usually see on TV and even has a modest roll of fat around her midsection, but she's the club's star attraction. In both Joan and the stripper's cases, this was the late 50s/early 60s before the super skinny ideal really took hold, so lushness on a woman was actually valued.

* TrophyWife: Jane Siegel Sterling is a perfect example. Roger throws away a decades-long marriage to Mona in order to take up with his sexy young secretary. He soon tires of her, and by Season 5 they both seem thoroughly sick of each other.

** Pete only cheats on Trudy three times, which is such a low tally by the standards of this show that if not for one of them being all-important to the plot we might never have noticed.

** In "Lady Lazarus" a client wants SCDP to come up with a jingle with a sound like the Beatles. At the end of the episode Megan gives Don their latest album "Revolver" and tells him to play a certain track. It's the psychedelic song "Tomorrow Never Knows" and it plays over a montage of Megan taking doing exercises in her acting class, Peggy and Stan sharing a joint at work. After listening a while Don abruptly takes the needle off before the song ends and goes to bed. The song continues in the closing credits. In the episode they mention how difficult and expensive it is to acquire a Beatles song. Matt Weiner reportedly got Lionsgate to pay $250,000 to use "Tomorrow Never Knows".

** In "Lady Lazarus" a client wants SCDP to come up with a jingle with a sound like the Beatles. At the end of the episode Megan gives Don their latest album "Revolver" and tells him to play a certain track. It's the psychedelic song "Tomorrow Never Knows" and it plays over a montage of Megan taking doing exercises in her acting class, Peggy and Stan sharing a joint at work. After listening a while Don abruptly takes the needle off before the song ends and goes to bed. The song continues in the closing credits. In the episode they mention how difficult and expensive it is to acquire a Beatles song. Matt Weiner reportedly got Lionsgate to pay 250,000 to use "Tomorrow Never Knows".

** In "Lady Lazarus" a client wants SCDP to come up with a jingle with a "Beatle-esque" sound. At the end of the episode Megan gives Don their latest album "Revolver" and tells him to play a certain track. It's the psychedelic song "Tomorrow Never Knows" and it plays over a montage of Megan taking doing exercises in her acting class, Peggy and Stan sharing a joint at work. After listening a while Don abruptly takes the needle off before the song ends and goes to bed. The song continues in the closing credits. In the episode they mention how difficult and expensive it is to acquire a Beatles song. Matt Weiner reportedly got Lionsgate to pay 250,000 to use "Tomorrow Never Knows".

** Apparently Michael Ginsburg was born in a concentration camp and lived the first five years of his life in a Swedish orphanage before his father adopted him. Ginsburg doesn't believe this, however, instead thinking he's actually a Martian. Peggy lampshades the unlikelihood of someone being born in a concentration camp and surviving, but according to Abe it did happen occasionally.

** Roger and Jane drop acid with Timothy Leary in "Far Away Places".

** The LSD trip that Jane and Roger go through in "Far Away Places".

* PrimalScene: At the hotel where a banquet is held where her father is receiving an award, Sally walks into a room and sees Megan's mother giving a blowjob to Roger. They don't see her and she is still stunned when she returns to their table. When she calls Glen up later and he asks how was the city, she responds. "Dirty."

* PrimalScene: At the hotel where her father is receiving an award, Sally walks into a room and sees Megan's mother giving a blowjob to Roger. They don't see her and even though it's not her parents, it is her step-grandmother giving head to a man who had been like an uncle and up until then liked very much.

** ''All'' of the other partners at SCDP at Don after he wrote a letter in the New York Times announcing that SCDP will no longer be working with any tobacco accounts, to the point where Bert ''quits the company.''

** Abe Drexler is never stated directly to be Jewish, but his casting sheet describes him as "A handsome, Jewish creative type".

** Michael Ginsberg in season 5.

* StiffUpperLip: Layne Price. He is so imperturbable that he practically deserves a medal for his sheer equanimity.

** In "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" Don takes a nap on a couch, time passes by, and he's woken later by secretary Peggy. In "Far Away Places" Peggy takes a nap on a couch, time passes by, and she's woken later by secretary Dawn.

** Season 5's "Far Away Places", when Don is unable to find Megan at the Howard Johnson, he expects the worst.