Cultural References: Season 2
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Ep 2:01 For Those Who Think Young
“For Those Who Think Young” was a Pepsi ad; Pepsi is also mentioned
Frosted Flakes
Pinocchio (Lois jokes about Don seeing the movie)
Gone With the Wind, and the little girl dying in a riding accident
Two unidentified TV shows (Pete was watching either a cartoon or maybe sci-fi; Don was watching a sitcom)
Ep 2:02 Flight 1
Ticker tape parade in New York for John Glenn
The crash of American Airlines Flight 1
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (possibly; Francine refers to “the book”, saying that it says that this is the age children start fibbing)
Ep 2:03 the Benefactor
Leopold and Loeb
“A Diamond as Big as the Ritz” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe (implied as a couple, Marilyn isn’t named)
Ep 2:05: The New Girl
DeBeer’s
Sardi’s
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Cape Fear
Marilyn Monroe at President Kennedy’s birthday party
Jackie Gleason
Buddy Hackett
Theme from a Summer Place
Legal limit for drinking in New York State: .15%
Ep 2:06: Maidenform
The “I dreamed” Maidenform ad campaign
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
The Execution of the Rosenbergs
The Bay of Pigs
bomb shelters
Versailles
Rough Riders
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Irene Dunne
Gertrude Stein
Sarah Lawrence
The Tom-Tom Club
Ep 2:07: The Gold Violin
Students for a Democratic Society
The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Pampers
Museum of Early American Folk Art
Joseph B. Martinson and Cup of Joe
Ep 2:09: Six Month Leave
The death of Marilyn Monroe on August 5, 1962
Mitch Miller
Gypsy
The Roosevelt
Jimmy Barrett refers to Don as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Ep 2:10: The Inheritance
A few more references can be found at the Urbanite’s Mad Men and the City feature.
Ep 2:11: The Jet Set
James Meredith was admitted to the University of Mississippi (“Ole Miss”)
Ep 2:12: The Mountain King
The University Club of New York
Roger Sterling recites a couplet from “Buckingham Palace” by A. A. Milne to Alice Cooper:
“They’re changing the guard at Buckingham Palace “
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.”
Ep 2:13: Meditations in an Emergency
The Cuban Missile Crisis
I Love Lucy
The Danny Thomas Show
The Andy Griffiths Show
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