Mad Men meets Bewitched
The "tying up loose ends" column genre is by definition hit-and-miss, but I laughed at these two Mad Men queries from Stuart Elliot's advertising column in the NY Times today:
(This reminds me of my favorite episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, when it's revealed that Indy's high school girlfriend is none other than Nancy Drew. Sort of--the redhead is Nancy Stratemeyer, daughter of Edward of Stratemeyer Syndicate fame. At the beginning of the episode, Indy helps Edward with a plot twist for the latest Tom Swift novel and then he and Nancy use their knowledge of how plot twists and character deceptions work in those books to solve a mystery that's generically very similar to a Syndicate story!)
¶With the third season of “Mad Men” concluding as the characters advanced to December 1963, how long will it be before they meet other familiar Madison Avenue figures of the period like Darrin Stephens and Larry Tate of the McMann & Tate agency on “Bewitched”?
And if the fourth season of “Mad Men” proceeds as far as the New York City blackout of 1965, will Robert Morse, who plays the executive Bertram Cooper, run into the younger version of himself filming the movie “Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?” about the blackout?
(This reminds me of my favorite episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, when it's revealed that Indy's high school girlfriend is none other than Nancy Drew. Sort of--the redhead is Nancy Stratemeyer, daughter of Edward of Stratemeyer Syndicate fame. At the beginning of the episode, Indy helps Edward with a plot twist for the latest Tom Swift novel and then he and Nancy use their knowledge of how plot twists and character deceptions work in those books to solve a mystery that's generically very similar to a Syndicate story!)
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