History Funny / MadMen

* Three guys try to shake a vending machine in the right way to make the change (and a watch) it ate fall out, while Peggy comments "I feel like Margaret Mead."

* After the merger with CGC in "Man with a Plan", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXiaSovLtEY Roger firing his former head of accounts Bert Petersen]]. Again.

* The MoodWhiplash that is the show's final scene: [[spoiler:Don meditates with others at a spiritual retreat, having left his old life in New York and at long last finding inner peace... And just when it seems the show will end on that poignant note, with no real indication of what's next for him, it's suddenly revealed (or at least implied) that Don returned to New York and used the experience to come up with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q commercial]]. [[StatusQuoIsGod Who saw THAT coming?]]]]
* There's some cynical humor in the ending where [[spoiler:Don was apparently inspired by finally connecting deeply with other people and only using it for yet another ad.]] Given that the show aired on a major cable network supported by ads, it probably counts as BitingTheHandHumor as well.

** Pete cries out "You want some more, Mr. Toad?!" after landing a hard hit. Doubly funny as Lane, the older of the two, [[BoisterousWeakling is still handily beating Pete at that point]] (Campbell's already got a nosebleed), and almost immediately after gives him a one-two combo that knocks him against the tea tray and down to the floor.

** Megan (in a BareYourMidriff bell-bottom pantsuit) is standing inside a box on the left side of the screen and Don is in a closeup on the right and he looks at her and to the camera with an expression that says he's as [[TheScrappy fed up with her as a large segment of the show's fans.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Truly, one of the greatest composers of our time!]]

** Don thinking that this [[CriticalResearchFailure outfit actually makes Pete look like "hippie"]].

--->'''Roger Sterling:''' Well Dr. Leary, I find your product boring.

-->'''Kinsey:''' This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper!\\

* When Peggy puts up a very stuffy and formal ad looking for a roommate, the JerkAss SC guys decide to prank call her about it. You try to sympathize with Peggy but the whole thing is ActuallyPrettyFunny and you can't help but laugh.

-->[[PassThePopcorn "I know cooler heads should prevail, but am I the only one who wants to see this?"]]
* * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpWlKCfSPcU Roger Sterling takes]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxyoYu32ecM LSD]]. He hears an orchestra from a beer bottle, inhales a cigarette with a harmonica sound effect, has an out-of-body experience, and sees Bert Cooper's face on a dollar bill.

-->'''Honda executive''': [in Japanese, subtitled] How does she not fall over?\\
'''Honda executives''': [all laugh]\\
'''Joan''': They're not very subtle, are they?\\
'''Translator''': [in English] No. They are not.

* Don and Roger getting a long-winded Lee Garner off the phone: ''"Oh my god, there's some sort of fire!"''

** "Who the hell is that? . . . I'm kidding."

** "Chicago. Small-time.... Sorry, maybe you're from there."

*** Actually, all of his interactions with Sally are flat out hilarious for both of them. They play off each other brilliantly.

* Any time John Slattery (Roger Sterling) does a DVDCommentary. He, Creator/JonHamm and Robert Morse (Bert Cooper) riffing on the season three finale has to be seen to be believed. The same goes for the team of Creator/VincentKartheiser and Alison Brie (Pete and Trudy Campbell).

--> '''Faye''': I don't get to go leave until Bert and Jeff figure out a way to take food from children."

*  Peggy delivering a spectacularly backhanded compliment to her roommate (about her taste in men). "I think it's good that you're being picky finally."

-->'''Roger''': Mummy, she's not Margaret, she's Jane. [[MayDecemberRomance She's my wife.]]

** To explain: they're doing the voices from comedian Stan Freberg's hit novelty song "John and Marsha" (the moaning sounds in the voices simulate orgasm, even though the two names are the only words on the entire record - something that was quite scandalous in its day); Freberg, by the way, was also a famous pioneer of comedic advertising, including bits that are still regarded as classics - as an interesting parallel to Don Draper, in real life Freberg won over 20 Clio awards and steadfastly refused to do tobacco commercials.

** Then Pete comes out into to the hallway because the commotion disturbed his phone call: "When did we get a vending machine?"

* In the Season premiere, Bert, Stan and Abe having a debate about the Vietnam War at Don's birthday party. Particularly the sailor who has to listen about his options; getting killed or coming home like Joe from ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun''.

-->'''Roger Sterling:''' Well Dr. Leary, I find your product boring.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpCcXRi6lVo Joan losing her temper at the receptionist Meredith]] for letting a courier in to serve her her divorce papers:

* Peggy is getting called repeatedly by Don, who is looking for Megan. Peggy is at work late at night. After the second time, Peggy waits and then answers, hearing Don on the other line. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iw0euc4qDk Then she blurts out]]....

** Afterward her and Don get into an argument which results in Peggy finally telling him to shut up for being so condescending. Don is so stunned that he [[INeedAFreakingDrink tries to smoke]] only for one of the Cool Whip reps to tell him he's not allowed to smoke in the building.
* Roger Sterling's method of celebrating Pearl Harbor Day: He starts drinking at 7:55 AM and then traipses around the office in a formal [[http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4fb9d64b69beddc75c00000c/image.jpg Christmas-themed Hawaiian shirt over a button down and tie]].

* Most of the male characters' new post "Summer of Love" hairstyles and facial hair debuting in the season 6 premiere episode, from Pete, Roger and Harry's sideburns to the mustaches on Ginsberg and Peggy's boyfriend Abe to the mountain man beard on Stan Rizzo.

* The day after Martin Luther King's assassination Roger Sterling brings an acid-tripping buddy and insurance guy Randall Walsh to meet Don, Ginsberg and Stan. Randall tells them that the spirit of Dr. King delivered a coded message to him in his sleep. He wants an ad for his company to feature a Molotov cocktail and a coupon. From their expressions Don's reaction is "WTF?", Ginsberg is intrigued and Stan is suppressing a laugh. When Don politely refuses Walsh leaves and Ginsberg asks out "Hey did you really see Dr. King?"
* The way Pete describes stumbling upon his father-in-law "with the biggest, blackest prostitute you've ever seen". Ken tells him not to worry, nothing will happen because the inappropriate situation is just like MutuallyAssuredDestruction..

** Even funnier when your remember that [[spoiler:Bert no longer has balls to be held]].
* Ted, Harry and Cutler's faces when they see Peggy [[BeAWhoreToGetYourMan all dressed up]].

* Some sheer absurdity in the burglary of "Grandma Ida"

'''Betty:''' Some elderly-Negro-woman held your children hostage and robbed you blind\\

* Peggy, Stan and Ginsberg in an elevator. Peggy asks if Stan can work that night. Stan says he can't because he's going to a party.

* Dawn and Shirley's greeting each other in the break room by their own names as an inside joke how they're often mistaken for each other because they're the only two female African-American employees in the office.

-->'''Bobby''': She likes you!
-->'''Betty''': That blouse says she likes ''everybody''.
* SC&P have bought a new computer and installing it into the room that was used as the creative bullpen. They're moving everything out and Ginsberg wants to take the couch and put it into the office he uses with Rizzo even though he tells him it won't fit. Ginsberg loses it and yells, "Damn it Stan, the other couch is full of farts!"

* The visual of Roger in his suit and Mona wearing a fur coat and jewels at the farm commune surrounded by unshaven hippies and seeing their upper class daughter now in hippie clothes and calling herself "Marigold".

* Stan discover's Lou's cartoon, "Scout's Honor" on the Xerox machine and shows it to the rest of Creative, who have a field day making fun of it.

* Ginsberg's ever growing paranoia over SC&P's new computer starts off as this.

* Julio, the 10 year old boy who lives upstairs from Peggy and whom she formed a bond with sadly tells her he and his mother are moving out:

** Megan (in a BareYourMidriff bell bottom pantsuit) is standing inside a box on the left side of the screen and Don is in a closeup on the right and he looks at her and to the camera with an expression that says he's as [[TheScrappy fed up with her as a large segment of the show's fans.]]
* Ted and Roger truly heralding the seventies by sporting {{Porn Stache}}s, complementing their sideburns and increasingly luscious professional haircuts. It's worth noting that this comes as a complete surprise to first time viewers who saw the season teaser as it didn't hint of this fashion change.

* After Mathis, one of the creatives, has a disastrous first presentation with Peter Pan Peanut Butter where he says the F-bomb, Don tells him the story of how he smoothed things over in a similar situation with the client by joking how they embarrassed themselves in a previous meeting. Owing to a lack of situational awareness and charisma, Mathis simply parrots the exact line that Don used, which sounds more like an insult and backfires spectacularly. The looks on Pete's and the client's faces are priceless.

-->"And then Mathis said a four-letter word that starts with 'F'! Have you ever heard such a thing?"

** Trudy just looks from one to the other as they argue over a 300-year old event with an expression screaming "is this really happening?"

* When Betty is brought at the hospital before TheReveal [[spoiler: of her terminal lung cancer]], the nurse erroneously calls her with name the university students who brought her gave to the hospital: [[MrsRobinson Mrs Robinson]].

* Any time John Slattery (Roger Sterling) does a DVDCommentary. He, Creator/JonHamm and Robert Morse (Bert Cooper) riffing on the season three finale has to be seen to be believed. The same goes for the team of Vincent Kartheiser and Alison Brie (Pete and Trudy Campbell).

--->[[spoiler:"She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She's an astronaut."]]

** And they're drunk. And they intended to go see ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg''. The movie they're actually seeing? ''Franchise/{{Gamera}}''!

* Pete and Trudy meet with the headmaster of a day school to understand why their daughter isn't being allowed admission despite their longstanding affiliation with it. The central reason? It turns out that the Headmaster descends from a family line that had a history of being wronged by Pete's ancestors. Pete's bewildered reaction really sells it. He finds the headmaster's pettiness to be deplorable, yet is so well-versed on his family's history that he's able to stoop down to his level and shout back a committed defense for his family's actions. And then, after the headmaster insults Trudy, Pete [[TookALevelInBadass punches him]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome in the face]].

* [[Trophy wife Jane]] being sandwiched between Roger and his senile mother, who can't get straight where are they going and who the hell Jane is.

* Peggy attempting to seduce Stan into killing a rat for her is hilarious enough on it's own, but when she realizes he actually has another woman next to him...