# NBC cancels Playboy Club after three episodes. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-cancels-playboy-club-after-three-episodes/598626 "2011-10-04T22:38:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-cancels-playboy-club-after-three-episodes/598626/61 "2011-10-06T21:42:07Z")
Final (?) thoughts. The show just didn’t have the look and feel of _Mad Men_. And if the _Mad Men_ fans didn’t warm to it, what was the target audience? The musical crap, I blame _Glee_, just killed long stretches of the show. If you want to play “It’s My Party” in the background, okay. But to basically stop the show for someone to lip-sync it, that’s not going to work. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-cancels-playboy-club-after-three-episodes/598626/62 "2011-10-06T23:24:47Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > The musical crap, I blame _Glee_, just killed long stretches of the show. If you want to play “It’s My Party” in the background, okay. But to basically stop the show for someone to lip-sync it, that’s not going to work. They brought in Colbie Caillat to sing it. She may not mean anything to you or me, and she’s ten years too old to play the 17-year-old Leslie Gore, but she’s a huge signing star who did her own version of the song. The music, none of which was lip-synced to originals, was one of the best parts of the show. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-cancels-playboy-club-after-three-episodes/598626/63 "2011-10-06T23:52:50Z")
It sounds like “Playboy Club” actors will have company at the NBC unemployment office, as Hank Azaria’s new sitcom “Free Agents” just got the axe after only 2 episodes. I have always liked Hank Azaria, especially from his role on “The Birdcage” and of course his many voices from “The Simpsons” although I always kind of wanted to know what happened in his VERY short-lived marriage to Helen Hunt. (who for some reason I have pegged as a very conceited, full-of-herself kind of person) ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-cancels-playboy-club-after-three-episodes/598626/64 "2011-10-07T00:20:54Z")
The thing about Mad Men is that not only does it look amazing thanks to the top-notch production design, it’s astoundingly well-written. (Not to mention well-directed and well-acted.) The writing is superb, on all levels – dialogue, construction of an episode, episodes across the arc of a season, and across the arc of the series. That’s why I watch. Anything that tries to emulate it only by copying its surface details (time period, kitschy costuming, etc.) is totally missing the point. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-cancels-playboy-club-after-three-episodes/598626/65 "2011-10-07T00:29:37Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > Is Mad Men that good? I’ve never seen it, but I hear a lot of people seem to like it. It’s just so hard to fit new TV shows into my schedule nowadays – I have so little free time. Seasons 1-4 are available on Netflix instant view. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-cancels-playboy-club-after-three-episodes/598626/66 "2011-10-07T04:36:54Z")
_Mad Men_ also features a few episodes at a Playboy Club, in one of the later seasons. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-cancels-playboy-club-after-three-episodes/598626/67 "2011-10-07T14:28:11Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I was making a joke, pardner. In fact, I’m more likely to suspect here of being a “Hollywood bisexual” who dates women solely to be “edgy” and titillate men. If so, Heard’s really committing to the part. She’s been in a relationship with the same woman (photographer Tasya van Ree) for three years now. But you are correct that Heard has said she’s dated men and women in the past. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-cancels-playboy-club-after-three-episodes/598626.md?page=3)