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** Kinsey mentions ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' and imitates Rod Serling's opening catchphrase "Submitted for your approval". That line wasn't used in the series until the intro to the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E101CavenderIsComing Cavender is Coming]]", which aired two years later in 1962.
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** Kinsey mentions ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' and imitates Rod Serling's opening catchphrase "Submitted for your approval". That line wasn't used in the series until the intro to the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E101CavenderIsComing "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E36CavenderIsComing Cavender is Coming]]", which aired two years later in 1962.
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* Episode 2.8 "A Night to Remember" involved Sterling-Cooper wooing Heineken, and when Don and Betty are having The Sterlings over for dinner, Don points out Betty's choice of beers: a box filled with Heineken bottles... with a logo that was not introduced until 1968, on a type of bottle designed in the 1980s. In 1962, the bottles would have been brown, and the Heineken logo was a red star on a yellow background. Of course, it's nearly certain that the Heineken was ProductPlacement, so you can see why accuracy may have been sacrificed.
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* Episode 2.8 "A Night to Remember" involved Sterling-Cooper wooing Heineken, and when Don and Betty are having The the Sterlings over for dinner, Don points out everyone notes that Betty's choice of beers: drinks to have with the meal is a box filled with Heineken bottles... with a logo that was not introduced until 1968, on a type of bottle designed in the 1980s. In 1962, the bottles would have been brown, and the Heineken logo was a red star on a yellow background. Of course, it's nearly certain that the Heineken was ProductPlacement, so you can see why accuracy may have been sacrificed.
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** Don also proposes the idea of placing Heineken end cap displays in the A & P's in affluent suburbs in Connecticut. But Connecticut did not allow the sale of beer in grocery stores in the 1960s. Beer could only be sold in package stores. (Don was, however, talking about a plan that included both Connecticut and New York, and New York ''did''--and does--allow grocery store beer sales. As he lives in New York, he may simply have been confused about Connecticut's laws--many in the Northeast are unclear about buying booze in the next state, even when the next state is next door.[[note]]See UsefulNotes/SeparatedByACommonLanguage for a few examples.[[/note]])
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** Don also proposes the idea of placing Heineken end cap displays in the A & P's in affluent suburbs in Connecticut. But Connecticut did not allow the sale of beer in grocery stores in the 1960s. Beer could only be sold in package stores. (Don Don was, however, talking about a plan that included both Connecticut and New York, and New York ''did''--and does--allow ''did'' -- and does -- allow grocery store beer sales. As he lives in New York, he may simply have been confused about Connecticut's laws--many laws; many in the Northeast are unclear about buying booze in the next state, even when the next state is next door.[[note]]See door [[note]] see UsefulNotes/SeparatedByACommonLanguage for a few examples.[[/note]])examples [[/note]].
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* In "The Color Blue", a hard-bound copy of "The Corps" by W.E.B. Griffin can be seen in Don's office. The book wasn't published until 1986.
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* In "Babylon", Joan quoting Marshall [=McLuhan=]'s famous phrase "The medium is the message", which was popularised in his 1964 treatise ''Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man'', so, unless she was in his class in Canada, it's unlikely she would have known that term.
* In "Love Among the Ruins", set in 1963, Don mentions taking the New York Central and Broadway Limited from Ossining to Penn Station. At the time, Broadway Limited was run by Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR did not merge with New York Central until 1968). A commuter would not make such a mistake. Additionally, the Broadway Limited was an private all-room reserved train to Chicago, and did not allow coach passengers for intermediate stops.
* In "5G", an envelope on Charley Fiddich's desk has the USPS "full eagle" seal, designed to help usher in the independent United States Postal Service. The USPS did not come into existence until July 1, 1971. (It was previously called the United States Post Office Department.)
* In "Love Among the Ruins", set in 1963, Don mentions taking the New York Central and Broadway Limited from Ossining to Penn Station. At the time, Broadway Limited was run by Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR did not merge with New York Central until 1968). A commuter would not make such a mistake. Additionally, the Broadway Limited was an private all-room reserved train to Chicago, and did not allow coach passengers for intermediate stops.
* In "5G", an envelope on Charley Fiddich's desk has the USPS "full eagle" seal, designed to help usher in the independent United States Postal Service. The USPS did not come into existence until July 1, 1971. (It was previously called the United States Post Office Department.)
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* In "Babylon", Joan quoting Marshall [=McLuhan=]'s famous phrase "The "the medium is the message", which was popularised in his 1964 treatise ''Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man'', so, unless she was in his class in Canada, it's unlikely she would have known that term.
* In "Love Among the Ruins", set in 1963, Don mentions taking the New York Central and Broadway Limited from Ossining to Penn Station. At the time, Broadway Limited was run by Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR did not merge with New York Central until 1968). A commuter would not make such a mistake. Additionally, the Broadway Limited wasan a private all-room reserved train to Chicago, and did not allow coach passengers for intermediate stops.
* In "5G", an envelope on Charley Fiddich's desk has the USPS "full eagle" seal, designed to help usher in the independent United States Postal Service. The USPS did not come into existence until July 1, 1971.(It was previously called Previously, post had been handled by the United States Post Office Department.)
* In "Love Among the Ruins", set in 1963, Don mentions taking the New York Central and Broadway Limited from Ossining to Penn Station. At the time, Broadway Limited was run by Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR did not merge with New York Central until 1968). A commuter would not make such a mistake. Additionally, the Broadway Limited was
* In "5G", an envelope on Charley Fiddich's desk has the USPS "full eagle" seal, designed to help usher in the independent United States Postal Service. The USPS did not come into existence until July 1, 1971.
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* Roger has a bottle of Stolichnaya vodka in his office at all times. Stolichnaya was not available in North America until 1972, when [=PepsiCo=] obtained western distribution rights.
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** By the 1960 the brand's heyday was over as it struggled to compete against new brands like Marlboro and Winston, Lucky Strike's lack of a filter made it seem old fashioned (and less safe).
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* [[https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/03/the-foreign-language-of-mad-men/254668/ This article]] analyses the show's spoken dialogue and finds that characters frequently use words and expressions which, while not strictly anachronistic (in that the individual words could be found in contemporary dictionaries), would not have been in common parlance at the time, such as "feel good about", "keep a low profile" or "fantasize about".
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* [[https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/03/the-foreign-language-of-mad-men/254668/ This article]] analyses the show's spoken dialogue and finds that characters frequently use words and expressions which, while not strictly anachronistic (in that the individual words could be found in contemporary dictionaries), would not have been in common parlance at the time, such as "feel good about", "keep a low profile" or "fantasize about". Even a seemingly universal expression like "I need to [do X]" is much more modern than one might think: people living in the 1960s were far more likely to say "I have to" or "I ought to".
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* [[https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/03/the-foreign-language-of-mad-men/254668/ This article]] analyses the language used in the show and finds that the dialogue frequently uses words and expressions which, while not strictly anachronistic (in that the individual words could be found in contemporary dictionaries) would not have been in common parlance at the time, such as "feel good about", "keep a low profile" or "fantasize about".
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* [[https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/03/the-foreign-language-of-mad-men/254668/ This article]] analyses the language used in the show show's spoken dialogue and finds that the dialogue characters frequently uses use words and expressions which, while not strictly anachronistic (in that the individual words could be found in contemporary dictionaries) dictionaries), would not have been in common parlance at the time, such as "feel good about", "keep a low profile" or "fantasize about".
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* [[https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/03/the-foreign-language-of-mad-men/254668/ This article]] analyses the language used in the show and finds that the dialogue frequently uses words and expressions which, while not strictly anachronistic (in that the individual words could be found in contemporary dictionaries) would not have been in common parlance at the time.time, such as "feel good about", "keep a low profile" or "fantasize about".
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* [[This article https://www.[[https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/03/the-foreign-language-of-mad-men/254668/]] com/entertainment/archive/2012/03/the-foreign-language-of-mad-men/254668/ This article]] analyses the language used in the show and finds that the dialogue frequently uses words and expressions which, while not strictly anachronistic (in that the individual words could be found in contemporary dictionaries) would not have been in common parlance at the time.
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* In "The Gold Violin" Jimmy Barret greets Betty with an exaggerated Noo Yawk accent when he says "Hello gorgeous". This is the famous opening line of ''Theatre/FunnyGirl'', which didn't open on broadway until '64 and wasn't a movie until '68.
* Episode 2.8 "A Night to Remember" involved Sterling-Cooper wooing Heineken, and when Don and Betty are having The Sterlings over for dinner, Don points out Betty's choice of beers: a box filled with Heineken bottles... with a logo that was not introduced until 1968, on a type of bottle designed in the 1980s. In 1962, the bottles would have been brown, and the Heineken logo was a red star on a yellow background. Of course, it's nearly certain that the Heineken was ProductPlacement, so you can see why accuracy may have been sacrificed.[[note]]This gets a bit meta, since the point of Betty and Don serving the Heineken at dinner was that it was supposed to test out an idea for an ad campaign--Heineken, SC's client, was skeptical of SC's plan to go the UpMarketing route (as was Duck Phillips), and Don's idea was to advertise it to affluent housewives by telling them it was imported from Europe and therefore fancy enough to serve in lieu of wine at parties. The test area--the "rich belt" in the Hudson Valley--included the store in Ossining where Betty shopped, and she bought it, to the delight of everyone (including Duck), except for Betty herself (who resented being played for a guinea pig by Don). The whole scene is driven by advertising on two levels. You can almost see the moment at which Heineken insisted that its modern bottle be depicted, and Matthew Weiner fighting back--or alternately, immediately agreeing and going home to count his money, relishing the stroke of genius it was to make a show that always had an excuse for product placement.[[/note]]
* Episode 2.8 "A Night to Remember" involved Sterling-Cooper wooing Heineken, and when Don and Betty are having The Sterlings over for dinner, Don points out Betty's choice of beers: a box filled with Heineken bottles... with a logo that was not introduced until 1968, on a type of bottle designed in the 1980s. In 1962, the bottles would have been brown, and the Heineken logo was a red star on a yellow background. Of course, it's nearly certain that the Heineken was ProductPlacement, so you can see why accuracy may have been sacrificed.[[note]]This gets a bit meta, since the point of Betty and Don serving the Heineken at dinner was that it was supposed to test out an idea for an ad campaign--Heineken, SC's client, was skeptical of SC's plan to go the UpMarketing route (as was Duck Phillips), and Don's idea was to advertise it to affluent housewives by telling them it was imported from Europe and therefore fancy enough to serve in lieu of wine at parties. The test area--the "rich belt" in the Hudson Valley--included the store in Ossining where Betty shopped, and she bought it, to the delight of everyone (including Duck), except for Betty herself (who resented being played for a guinea pig by Don). The whole scene is driven by advertising on two levels. You can almost see the moment at which Heineken insisted that its modern bottle be depicted, and Matthew Weiner fighting back--or alternately, immediately agreeing and going home to count his money, relishing the stroke of genius it was to make a show that always had an excuse for product placement.[[/note]]
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* In "The Gold Violin" Jimmy Barret Barrett greets Betty with an exaggerated Noo Yawk accent when he says "Hello gorgeous". This is the famous opening line of ''Theatre/FunnyGirl'', which didn't open on broadway Broadway until '64 1964 and wasn't a movie until '68.
* Episode 2.8 "A Night to Remember" involved Sterling-Cooper wooing Heineken, and when Don and Betty are having The Sterlings over for dinner, Don points out Betty's choice of beers: a box filled with Heineken bottles... with a logo that was not introduced until 1968, on a type of bottle designed in the 1980s. In 1962, the bottles would have been brown, and the Heineken logo was a red star on a yellow background. Of course, it's nearly certain that the Heineken was ProductPlacement, so you can see why accuracy may have beensacrificed.[[note]]This gets a bit sacrificed.
**This gets hilariously meta, since the point of Betty and Don serving the Heineken at dinner was that it was supposed to test out an idea for an adcampaign--Heineken, SC's campaign. Heineken, as Sterling Cooper's client, was is skeptical of SC's plan their idea to go the UpMarketing route (as was Duck Phillips), and Don's idea was is to advertise it to affluent housewives by telling them it was imported from Europe and therefore fancy enough to serve in lieu of wine at parties. The test area--the "rich belt" in the Hudson Valley--included the store in Ossining where Betty shopped, and she bought it, to the delight of everyone (including Duck), except for Betty herself (who resented being played for a guinea pig by Don). The whole scene is driven by advertising on two levels. You can almost see the moment at which Heineken insisted that its modern bottle be depicted, and Matthew Weiner fighting back--or alternately, immediately agreeing and going home to count his money, relishing the stroke of genius it was to make a show that always had an excuse for product placement.[[/note]]
* Episode 2.8 "A Night to Remember" involved Sterling-Cooper wooing Heineken, and when Don and Betty are having The Sterlings over for dinner, Don points out Betty's choice of beers: a box filled with Heineken bottles... with a logo that was not introduced until 1968, on a type of bottle designed in the 1980s. In 1962, the bottles would have been brown, and the Heineken logo was a red star on a yellow background. Of course, it's nearly certain that the Heineken was ProductPlacement, so you can see why accuracy may have been
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* In "Three Sundays", when Bobby Barrett proposes a hidden camera TV starring her husband, Don suggests ABC might be interested because the network is "sick" about losing ''Candid Camera'' (to a rival network). In reality, ''Candid Camera'' had been on CBS since 1960 and hadn't aired on ABC since 1948, 14 years before scene took place.
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* In "Three Sundays", when Bobby Bobbie Barrett proposes a hidden camera TV starring her husband, Don suggests ABC might be interested because the network is "sick" about losing ''Candid Camera'' (to a rival network). In reality, ''Candid Camera'' had been on CBS since 1960 and hadn't aired on ABC since 1948, 14 years before scene took place.
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** On the episode's commentary track Jared Harris mentions that they couldn't refer directly to the movie in their dialog while filming because licensing was up in the air. This suggests that the movie was originally intended to be Godzilla - released in the US in 1956 - and Gamera was substituted in post-production.
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** On the episode's commentary track track, Jared Harris mentions that they couldn't refer directly to the movie in their dialog while filming because licensing was up in the air. This suggests that the movie was originally intended to be Godzilla - released in the US in 1956 - and Gamera was substituted in post-production.
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* In "The Benefactor", an episode set in 1962, they talk about how ''Series/{{The Defenders|1961}}'' is airing its fourth season and how the abortion episode was a holdover from season 3. Problem: The show debuted in the fall of the 1961 season.
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* In "The Benefactor", an episode set in 1962, they talk about how ''Series/{{The Defenders|1961}}'' is airing its fourth season and how the abortion episode was a holdover from season 3. Problem: The show debuted in the fall of the 1961 season.
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* After Duck and Peggy have sex in the hotel room in "The Grown Ups", Duck plugs in the TV and turns it on, whereupon the picture shows up instantly. Television sets in 1963 used vacuum tubes and took some time to warm up before the picture would appear. The TV used in the show was likely a modern set made to look like a vintage set. Typically, by "some time", we mean one to two minutes. The sound would probably warm up before the picture, though.
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* After Duck and Peggy have sex in the hotel room in "The Grown Ups", Duck plugs in the TV and turns it on, whereupon the picture shows up instantly. Television sets in 1963 used vacuum tubes and took some time (about one to two minutes) to warm up before the picture would appear.appear (the sound took a little less time to warm-up, though). The TV used in the show was likely a modern set made to look like a vintage set. Typically, by "some time", we mean one (In fairness, there were so-called "instant-on" tube sets which were constantly powered to two minutes. The sound accelerate the switch-on process, though they weren't introduced until the late 1960s, and even a 2000s CRT would probably require a few seconds to warm up before the picture, though.up.)
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** Kinsey mentions ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' and imitates Rod Serling's catchphrase "Submitted for your approval" in a scene set in 1960. That line wasn't used in the series until the intro to the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E101CavenderIsComing Cavender is Coming]]", which aired two years later in 1962.
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** Kinsey mentions ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' and imitates Rod Serling's catchphrase, "Submitted for your approval" in a scene set in 1960. That line was first used in ''The Twilight Zone'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E101CavenderIsComing Cavender is Coming]]" two years later on May 25, 1962.
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** Kinsey mentions ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' and imitates Rod Serling's catchphrase, catchphrase "Submitted for your approval" in a scene set in 1960. That line was first wasn't used in ''The Twilight Zone'' the series until the intro to the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E101CavenderIsComing Cavender is Coming]]" Coming]]", which aired two years later on May 25, in 1962.
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** A copy writer mentions ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' and imitates Rod Serling's catchphrase, "Submitted for your approval." That line was first used in ''The Twilight Zone'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E101CavenderIsComing Cavender is Coming]]" two years later on May 25, 1962.
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** A copy writer Kinsey mentions ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' and imitates Rod Serling's catchphrase, "Submitted for your approval." approval" in a scene set in 1960. That line was first used in ''The Twilight Zone'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E101CavenderIsComing Cavender is Coming]]" two years later on May 25, 1962.
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* In "The Flood", Arnold and Sylvia are just leaving for "a weekend in Washington" when Don and Megan are on their way to the New York Advertising Club's awards banquet. The banquet is interrupted by the news that Martin Luther King has just been assassinated. This means it's April 4, 1968 - a Monday, so it makes no sense to say you're just leaving for the weekend.
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