# Mad-Men: 5.06 "Far Away Places" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647 "2012-04-23T01:00:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/121 "2012-04-25T06:19:29Z")
> [@jellyblue](#): > > God, I hope you’re right because that’s hilarious. It was my first thought as well, but I don’t think it’s the Soviet Anthem. The tempo and melody are all wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Scholar\_Beardpig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Scholar\_Beardpig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scholar_Beardpig)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/122 "2012-04-25T06:52:20Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > can anyone identify the music playing from the vodka bottle? That would be the Song of the Volga Boatmen, a spectacular rendition of which can be heard here: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8WD0WVL-HjE/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-BIACsAOKAgwIABABGE4gZShXMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAGQx4_tP4ZAb8QMswHdBXdprcqWw "Russian Red Army Choir - Song of the Volga Boatmen (1965)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WD0WVL-HjE) ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/123 "2012-04-25T07:02:35Z")
> [@Scholar\_Beardpig](#): > > That would be the Song of the Volga Boatmen, a spectacular rendition of which can be heard here: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WD0WVL-HjE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WD0WVL-HjE) Gah! Good one. I’m jealous. I tried to figure it out myself, and I even ran it through a song ID app. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/124 "2012-04-25T08:13:33Z")
> [@Scholar\_Beardpig](#): > > That would be the Song of the Volga Boatmen, a spectacular rendition of which can be heard here: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WD0WVL-HjE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WD0WVL-HjE) Still pretty damn good. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/125 "2012-04-25T08:52:54Z")
Since we’re on music, can anyone identify the music played over the closing credits? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/126 "2012-04-25T10:05:34Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I don’t think he did. I thought he said Lake Placid. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/127 "2012-04-25T13:46:59Z")
Now I’m curious - about clam strips. What happens to the ‘clam bellies’? Pet food? Fertilizer? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/128 "2012-04-25T14:07:14Z")
> [@shy\_guy](#): > > It’s interesting; Don is treating Megan like a child, which is basically how he used to treat Betty. That worked in his old marriage, but Megan is chafing, and Don is clearly totally unable to deal with it. He’s _scary_; I honestly thought he was going to hit Megan, or that she was going to wind up injured by falling over something in the apartment. > [@Jophiel](#): > > Don’t underestimate the emotional impact of the crotch hug. I think the “crotch hug” is what really gave us a glimpse as to what Don’s thinking. We’ve seen over the previous few episodes that Don’s happy. He genuinely loves his new wife and he loves his new life. He turns away offers (both real and imaginary) to pull him away from Megan and would kill to protect what he has. When he hugged her at the end, he was genuinely scared because he thinks he’s going to lose her and doesn’t want to go back to his old life. The problem is that Don’s selfish and clueless as to what Megan wants. He thinks he can treat her like Betty and everything will be great. Hell, he’s treating her better than Betty. All his attention is on her and she’s being treated like a goddamned princess but that’s not what Megan wants at all and Don’s completely confused. The problem is that Megan’s never going to be happy until Don comes to realize that she wants to be valued, not patronized. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/129 "2012-04-25T14:37:52Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > What happens to the ‘clam bellies’? Pet food? Fertilizer? Orange sherbet. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/130 "2012-04-25T15:21:25Z")
> [@kevja](#): > > Also, unrelated to anything else, did anyone think this episode was might be paying homage to Pulp Fiction. At one point I thought Amanda Plummer was going to walk into Hojo’s and jump up on to the counter with a gun in her hand. They were going after something the way they went back to the scene in the hallway and showed Don’s and Roger’s days out of order. I’m no film guy but the way they did it seemed a little off to both me and my wife. ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/131 "2012-04-25T16:21:10Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > They were going after something the way they went back to the scene in the hallway and showed Don’s and Roger’s days out of order. > > I’m no film guy but the way they did it seemed a little off to both me and my wife. I’m usually a fan of the device, but doesn’t work in a world that you’ve been exploring without it for years. Just felt out of place and showy. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/132 "2012-04-25T16:57:23Z")
> [@grude](#): > > A er friend of a friend who was a big druggie says while LSD and shrooms might cause visual and auditory distortions and synesthesia the only drug they have ever taken that could cause full blown suddenly in the middle of a lucid dream delusions would be the dissociatives like ketamine and DXM, and even then it is while your eyes are closed. Well, I said maybe. 😉 I’ve never had anything like that happen on mushrooms, but what _did_ happen led me to believe such a thing could be possible if you ate enough mushrooms. LSD would never do it. It just isn’t all that visual. A dissociative could absolutely make you “experience” something like that (with sight, sound, etc.) but it probably wouldn’t be anything as normal as a baseball game. It would be some weird tunnel journey or something. Anyway, to answer Sampiro, LSD wouldn’t do that, or anything like that. It messes with your sense of time enough that things like cigarettes you “just lit!” will be burned to the filter (of course, you didn’t just light it, it just feels like you did), and certainly the emotional effects they showed are accurate. But the music and the baseball game? No. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/133 "2012-04-25T17:13:33Z")
I did a lot of LSD back in the day, and I remember colors and emotions were more intense, and the two things they got right were Roger laughing (I laughed a lot on it) and you really don’t want to look in a mirror - there lies madness. You could get stuck in mirror, and it would get very weird. I remember getting fixated on someone’s freckles for what seemed like hours. Skin felt delicious. ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/134 "2012-04-25T21:13:07Z")
I’m sure I never took “pure” LSD, and probably not a large enough dose of whatever it was I was taking to produce “melting” or the kind of stuff you see in a Steadman drawing. I never saw or heard anything that wasn’t actually there. More like a hyper or heightened reality. Like if you were looking at friends, they pretty much looked normal. But if you happened to be out in public and looked at strangers’ faces, they didn’t look melty, but they just looked weird. And if there was something you were anxious about, that mood could sometimes end up dominating the tail end of the trip. Yeah, cigs would burn down in the ashtray because you weren’t paying attention. And a few times, I would go to take a cig out of my mouth and my fingers would slide down it and pull off the burning tip, but that was mostly because my lips were dry, so it stuck to them. But music coming out of a bottle when you opened it? Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/135 "2012-04-26T18:57:31Z")
Don on LSD would be very interesting. I could see him either running screaming down the street, or becoming addicted to it. (I know LSD isn’t physically addicted, but many people in the '60s did become psychologically hooked on it for a time.) ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/136 "2012-04-26T19:21:31Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Don on LSD would be very interesting. I could see him either running screaming down the street, or becoming addicted to it. (I know LSD isn’t physically addicted, but many people in the '60s did become psychologically hooked on it for a time.) I think he would absolutely hate the insight it gives you. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/137 "2012-04-26T19:32:44Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > (I know LSD isn’t physically addicted, but many people in the '60s did become psychologically hooked on it for a time.) Probably none. It doesn’t work that way. BTW, there was probably a lot more acid being dropped in the 80’s than in the 60’s ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/138 "2012-04-26T20:09:23Z")
> [@phreesh](#): > > I’m usually a fan of the device, but doesn’t work in a world that you’ve been exploring without it for years. > > Just felt out of place and showy. I agreed with you but then I was back watching season 3 last night and watched the episode where Peggy first hooks up with Duck. It also plays with the structure of the show. It opens with scenes from the ending of the episode (2 of the 3 scenes being mysteries) and then goes back to show you how they got there. The show DOES use unusual devices just so sparingly that I think we often forget about them. Its like when people complained just recently about the dream sequences with Don and them being out of place…but the show has done them before, and it used to be quite often. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/139 "2012-04-27T00:14:42Z")
I was taken aback at the “We are on LSD, please take us to [address]” notes at first. I forget that LSD was legal at this time. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647/140 "2012-04-28T05:36:39Z")
> [@kevja](#): > > …Also, unrelated to anything else, did anyone think this episode was might be paying homage to Pulp Fiction. At one point I thought Amanda Plummer was going to walk into Hojo’s and jump up on to the counter with a gun in her hand. Yes, yes, yes. That’s exactly what ran through my mind when they doubled back to the scene in the hallway with Roger and Don. “It’s a Pulp Fiction moment!!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-5-06-far-away-places-open-spoilers/619647.md?page=6)