I just now got the Mad Men pun (Ad Men, Madison Ave.). :smack:
Also they are men who are quite mad.
Don’t feel bad; I know a kindergarten teacher who only just recently got that Kanga + Roo = kangaroo.
I had to google that. I didn’t know to what you were referring. Not a Pooh fan.
She was actually familiar with the characters, but never put their names together that way? That’s pathetic.
To figure out that London Tipton of “Suite Life…” is Paris Hilton, minus the skank factor!
While we’re at it, it was pointed out to me (here I think), that Chubby Checker is a pun on Fats Domino.
BTW, I don’t believe that this is something Matthew Weiner made up for the show; I think advertising agency employees have been using the phrase “Mad Men” for a while.
At the start of the opening episode they explain the term, I just didn’t get the Madison connotation until today. :smack:

While we’re at it, it was pointed out to me (here I think), that Chubby Checker is a pun on Fats Domino.
:smack:

While we’re at it, it was pointed out to me (here I think), that Chubby Checker is a pun on Fats Domino.
Holy crap! How did I get to be 53 and never notice that?
Though I got the Mad Men thing before it was explained, and I don’t even watch the show…