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"I've always thought Jewish women are the most beautiful women in the world." - Roger

"Why do they get to decide what happens?" - Pete

"There's nothing you can do. No matter what, one day your little girl will spread her legs and fly away." - Emile

"Well Dr. Leary, I find your product boring." - Roger

"Reschedule the meeting." - Cooper

"Hey Trotsky, you're in advertising." - Roger

Betty Francis and Tony Soprano might have more in common than just a weight problem.

28 things that especially delighted and/or tripped me out about Mad Men's glorious return to form.

"I don't recognize this man. He's kind and patient." - Peggy

We've unearthed an oddball voice mail message from none other than Don Draper to distract us if for ever so brief a moment.

In this final stretch run to Mad Men's Season Five premiere (Sunday, March 25th, on AMC) every scrap of promotion and teaser info we can dig up is both tantalizing and maddening.

As a result of negotiations to use songs owned by Sir Paul McCartney for the show, the 69-year-old Sir Paul will have a walk-on role during Mad Men's fifth season.

Is it time for Mad Men Season Five yet or what?

After a long wait, we're heading into the home stretch.

To help celebrate the holidays, we’re giving one lucky winner a copy of A Mad Men Mixer, a crisp and refreshing guide to Mad Men’s intoxicating debut season. It’s a TV Geek Army e-book original, and it’s only $2.99. And oh yes: we’re also giving that winner all four seasons of Mad Men on DVD.

Matthew Weiner, the famously tight-lipped Mad Men creator and executive producer when it comes to teasing details about upcoming seasons, drops an enormous and tantalizing hint about what the very end of the series might hold.

Christina Hendricks has picked up a major acting gig on Need for Speed: The Run during the long break between Mad Men Seasons Four and Five.

What will happen to the characters that we've come to be obsessed with over the first four seasons, and what year and setting will it be at the time of the series finale?

Produced by TV Geek Army's editorial team, A Mad Men Mixer is an insanely and obscenely great value for Mad Men fans and TV geeks alike.

The Kodak pitch meeting, with the aim to rebrand its famous slide projector, is a Don Draper tour de force.

“Nixon vs. Kennedy” breaks out into two main stories: the first involves the presidential election of 1960 and more specifically the wild and crème de menthe-soaked office party at Sterling Cooper that takes place to celebrate the event, and the second showcases Pete’s dramatic confrontation with Don over the discovery of the latter’s true identity.

“Indian Summer” features Don and Peggy making strides in their respective careers – Don is made partner in the wake of Roger’s second heart attack, while Peggy gets a raise and more responsibilities thanks to her adeptness with copy for a “weight loss” product for women – while their personal lives begin to unravel.

“After all,” we might imagine Bert Cooper saying. “Who is really leading Don Draper’s life anyway?”

“Shoot” is a Betty Draper-centric episode, and one that humanizes her and allows us to sympathize with her perhaps more than at many other points in the series.

Don Draper, the boy who would later learn to shape shift his personality and identity and sales pitch to fit the want of others, so that he might survive and even thrive. But at a price.

Game, set, and match, Mr. Draper.

“Babylon” delves into their desires for what they wish the world to be and how they rearrange their lives and suffer the consequences in trying to make it so.

"5G” jolts us with a deep dive into Don’s back story while examining issues of identity and what people do to maintain a version of themselves that they want themselves and others to see.

The building tension between Don and Pete throughout the early going of the first season comes to a head in a major way.

A key moment comes when we see Don sitting in his car under a bridge near the end of the episode.

While Don and his creative team at Sterling Cooper try to figure out “what women want” in order to better sell products to them, we see Betty and Peggy struggle to figure out how they are supposed to act and what they are supposed to say while consistently being forced away from articulating what they want at home and at work and in relationships.

In this new series, we head back and look at key moments from Mad Men. As we wait for the arrival of Season Five, currently scheduled to premiere in early 2012, stay tuned to TV Geek Army all summer long to get your Mad Men fix.

One of L.A. Noire's biggest delights: discovering an array of other Mad Men alums throughout the course of the game

Ham is not the first Mad Men actor to try his hand at directing.

It seemed impossible that what is arguably the best show on television would be cancelled (or, perhaps even more disturbing, return without its creator/mastermind Matthew Weiner) over money and contract negotiations.

During the agonizingly long wait between Mad Men seasons (and while Season Five has blessedly been gree nlit, its premiere date is still very much a mystery) it’s exciting to get the characters, spoilers, and offseason info in form we can get it.

If you had to pick only two dramas to watch on television, you could do much worse than to choose AMC’s Mad Men and Breaking Bad.

Anything can happen. We know this because it already has.

Looks like our man Kenny Cosgrove is getting some work.

During the long and lonely off-season, it helps just a little to head back and remember some of the things that made the recent season special.

“I feel like myself when I’m with you, but the way I always wanted to feel.” - Don to Megan

"We're gonna sit at our desks and keep typing while the walls fall down around us because we're creative, the least important, most important thing there is." - Don Draper

"I need a drink." - Bertram Cooper

Jared Harris and Vincent Kartheiser to appear in major feature films.

"Do you have any reason to believe Mr. Draper isn't who he says he is?" - Special Agent Landingham

"I'm not sorry. But I'm married, and so are you." - Joan to Roger

Don Draper and Mad Men reach a strange and wonderful new plateau in the summer of 1965.

Where's the bottom, you ask? There's further to go down this lowball glass, I fear.

"Do you know the river of shit I'm going to get from her mother?" - Don Draper, upon learning of Sally's hair cutting incident

"Right now my life is very..." - Don's abandoned copy, writing to Allison

"I could tell the minute she saw who I really was… she never wanted to look at me again." – Don Draper

"What do all the good boys and girls want for Christmas? Lucky Strike!" - Roger Sterling

"Believe me, Henry, everybody thinks this is temporary." – Don Draper to Henry Francis

The webs are a gushing ahead of Mad Men Season Four's big premiere night (tonight, July 25th, 10PM, AMC).

Because series creator and executive producer Matthew Wiener is famously tight lipped about spoilers for upcoming seasons, I had no expectation that I would learn much that's new about the new season...

Here's some cool videos from AMC (spoiler free of course, but you knew that) to help curb your ravenous appetite ever so much.

Amazing montage of pickup lines from Mad Men.

Mad Men Season Three is a pivotal and game changing work of art that sets the stage for a completely new direction for the show, the Drapers, and the brave clan who have broken free from the "hull" of the old Sterling Cooper.

We are all about digging through every single morsel of Mad Men Season Four information we can get our hands on, and the official promo poster is always a sign that the new season draws close (Sunday, July 25th at 10/9c on AMC).

It's well known that Mad Men creator and executive producer Mathew Weiner keeps an extremely tight rein on spoilers getting leaked ahead of episode and season premieres. So it's noteworthy when he reveals anything, even if it's a few wee details about the much anticipated Season Four, which premieres Sunday, July 25th at 10PM on AMC.

I'm making a slight exaggeration of reality in asking if AMC and Starz are the hottest networks on television, but there's a point to be made and I think if you take a closer look you'll see that the question is indeed a legitimate one.

Mad Men fanatics are already installed in front of their DVRs (rocking slightly, perhaps talking themselves a bit, akin to the unshaven lunatic waiting for the phone to ring throughout One Crazy Summer, really) awaiting the coming of Season Four, Sunday, July 25th at 10pm on AMC.