AMC also said that 49% of the adults 25-54 viewers that tuned in during Season 2 have household incomes above $100,000, giving the show the strongest concentration of upscale viewers in that demo than any other original scripted series on basic cable.
Even if I've never met you, I know you all. You guys are that dude at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette, standing against the wall and makes snide comments about all the CSI-viewrs who who pass by. And you're also a Muslim. Can't forget Muslim
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
AND you have an expense account! /Paul
Mr. Coates, and Mad Men fans everywhere, may I offer you a terrorist-fist-jab? Our nefarious plan has worked! Mwaaaa-ha-ha!
Funny post... and apropos of nothing, your column way-back-when about "The Dap Heard 'Round The World" remains the best thing I read, of all the wonderful pieces written during this historic and unforgettable election.
Ha! I had a feeling that being a Mad Men fan would finally be a strike against me. And I take tremendous pleasure in sneering at CSI fans - particularly CSI Miami fans.
I'd also like to inform Nielsen, et al, that this particular "Mad Men" fan is now an unemployed bar manager, thanks to the Bush Economy.
Am I still allowed to watch? No?
JenJen,
Leave now. If you were employed you could make a martini. Failing that, you are useless. Leave please. I have "Two and a Half Men" fans to sneer at.
Hearing Rove's words (it WAS Rove, right) coming out of your mouth is some kind of surreal, TNC.
Yep, Karen, it was. Is there any data on the voting habits of Mad Men fans vs. say, Sopranos fans?
It's funny you mention CSI, TNC. I remember I got a DVD of Season 1 out of the library, and it took me two episodes to realize that there wasn't any drama in the show.
I for one welcome our new elitist overlords.
Is it true that series is about a hard drinking, womanizing, sharp dressing, white collar guy in the 60's?
Not to politically correct?
Is he a tad bit conflicted about life?
Unsure of suburbia?
Possibly hiding a secret?
Maybe an anti-hero?
Anyone working in a cubicle for 50+ hours every week, in front of a LCD, *and* making 6 figures would be attracted to that.
Hmm, sounds like it'd suit me to a Tee.
it took me two episodes to realize that there wasn't any drama in the show.
That was what I enjoyed about the first few seasons. They were puzzles with sort of interesting protagonists. Once it got all into the personal lives of people I didn't care much about in the first place, I stopped watching.
What does it say about me if I consider the Road Rules/Real World Challenge to be America's fourth major sport? Along with The Shield, Mad Men, and Bill Maher, its the only show I watch every week. Don't knock it.
"The Wire" and "AFV" are the two best shows that have ever been on television.
I'm a year and a half shy of 25, but the rest of that is pretty accurate, including the Muslim stuff.
Also, I want to see Tom Bergeron and Mike Rowe cast in one of them jocko-homo serial killer buddy movies!
I'd say that the Wire and BSG are the best shows on TV. But I'm a big geek.
Tony,
What does AFV stand for?
"What does AFV stand for?"
One hint,--DANNY TANNER
It's funny that interests cross over so much. My favorite TV shows are the Wire, BSG, and Mad Men.
I must be getting a raise no one told me about.
I forgot about that totally bizarre old attack on Barack. I
I'm broke and I love the show.
What doesthat make me?
Shit, I like COPS.
I hope I get the top bunk at the re-education camp...
Speaking of COPS; I was watching it this past Saturday and I kept thinking to myself that portions of the show reminded me of a Sarah Palin rally.
I just want to stick up for CSI:Miami here. If you watch the show properly, which is to say, if you drink every time Caruso takes off his sunglasses, says someone's name, or is suddenly revealed to be leaning on a nearby car, you will better appreciate its appeal. There's a really thick rulebook to be compiled for this drinking game.
i've never watched a csi, but i watch mad men on dvr so i can avoid the commercials. i don't know what that says about me...
Damn it, you got me!
You're totally wrong - I'm atheist and it's a scotch, please.
I'm holding a Laphroaig neat and smoking a Joya de Nicaragua...as we speak.
Would it be snide to note that as much as I love Mad Men, I loved Deadwood even more.
We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine and we sail beneath the waves...
The esteemed Mr. Coates wrote: JenJen,
Leave now. If you were employed you could make a martini. Failing that, you are useless. Leave please. I have "Two and a Half Men" fans to sneer at.
Ummm... ok, I'll leave. I've never seen "Dancing With The Stars", so, I should probably go now. Except... I don't wanna leave!! Will you hire me for an Atlantic Party? An AMC Party? A Nielsen Party? I make the best Gimlet the world has ever tasted (check my blog!). Even in the Sixties! And I wasn't born yet!
Please, can I stay? ;-)
You know what I find freaky about Mad Men? It's that that chorus of hard-drinking, womanizing young men with the social attitudes that seem to date from the stone age--Pete Campbell, et al.--they're the same age as John McCain. If I were smarter, I'd explain why this shines a window into McCain's soul, but I'm not.
Well, we know John McCain went all Roger Sterling up in Brazil.
http://guanabee.com/2008/04/john-mccain-has-spent-a-few-ni-1.php
I think "Mad Men" is overrated. So sue me. It's no "Wire" or "Sopranos," for sure.
2 1/2 men is like full house: one of those sitcoms you can't imagine anyone watching, but is a big hit and is on the box for years.
I like CSI because Willaim Peterson makes the character complicated. Miami and New York have definite rightwing slants and leading men who you know are Republicans. And what city gives its cops hummers to drive? And such shiny & clean public buildings?
Can someone get me an old fashioned?
You mean all I have to do to get a beautiful date is watch Mad Men?? That's what I've been doing wrong all this time!
Oh noes! I watch both Two and a Half Men and CSI-Miami. I also like to watch Full House as well. Where do I turn in my elitist Obama card?
In my defense CSI-Miami is a source of continual unintentional humor.
You're totally wrong - I'm atheist and it's a scotch, please.
I'm hope to earn back my elitist Obama card with my next statement. It's called whiskey, only an uneducated American would call it scotch.
So being a state employee with a decidely smaller salary mean I shouldn't be watching Mad Men? But, but, but...I love Don Draper!
seriously, a hilarious post
I've tried "Mad Men" and found it kind of hard to get into.
Although I agree CSI:Miami, except maybe as a drinking game or as something to MSTie, is crud. The other two CSIs are okay, if too gorey, but they're not exactly something I'd watch purely on my own initiative.
can someone tell me if this link is true. This would be horrible for Mad Men's future.
Mad Men is a great show. Can't wait to see how they deal with the JFK assassination and the start of Beatlemania.
With all the attention Mad Men has been getting, let's not forget the other great dramas on cable tv.
Let's give a big shout out to The Shield (in it's final season), Rescue Me, The Riches, and Breaking Bad.
Go watch the two John Hamm sketches from SNL -- Don Draper's advice on how to get women made me cry (from laughing).
How is Mad Men going to deal with the JFK assassination? It's set in 1969. At that point, JFK is old news.
As for being an elitist show, you got another thing coming. People from all walks of life, though mostly over the age of 30, are fans of a show that takes a peek back in time at what self-centered, egotistical bastards the executives were and the genesis of the me generation that has lead to the current situation we are in now.
It's a great study of the vices and dark side of mankind as we know it.
And it makes great television! It's the Dynasty of the 60s. With pinpoint bras instead of shoulder pads.
Season One of Mad Men was set in 1960, and included Kennedy's election. Season Two ended with the Cuban Missile Crisis. It's not set in 1969. And Don Draper is not a boomer - his kids are. He's 35 in '62. He'll be 65 in '92. That puts him older than the me generation, doesn't it?
But amen on its being great television, with the easiest drinking game going - every time someone on the show drinks, you drink.