Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner was nothing if not detail-oriented—each scene had to have the right wardrobe, furniture, tchotchkes, and so forth, for the time period—so it makes sense that at the end of the show's seven-season run there would be quite a few props leftover.
Roughly 1,400 items are currently up for auction on Screenbid until Aug. 6, and they range from iconic and practical to altogether odd. (Sadly Ginsberg's nipple isn't for sale.)
Here are the weirdest (and yes, there will be spoilers for those who haven't watched all the way through):
Even Don Draper meditates. And when he does, the fictional ad titan comes up with a seminal feel-good commercial for Coca-Cola that teaches the world to sing in perfect harmony.
Should everybody be saying oooooommmmm?
They may not by M*A*S*H numbers (106 million viewers for the series finale) or even Seinfeld (76 million), but the Mad Men series finale drew a respectable 3.29 million viewers, making it the most-watched episode of the series among viewers who watched it live or on the same day it was broadcast.
Sunday's Mad Men finale featured a few delightful surprises, included a captivating blend of real-world creative and fictional backstory involving Coca-Cola and agency McCann Erickson.
Mad Men, AMC's ode to the golden age of Madison Avenue, says farewell this Sunday. While the award-winning acting and writing make the show great, for those in advertising, the pitches and fictional campaigns make up the most memorable scenes.
Josh Weltman, a co-producer of Mad Men, created most of the ad campaigns seen on the show. Beginning as an art director in the '80s, Weltman went on to be a creative director at West Coast agencies on brands including Taco Bell, Doritos and Microsoft.
"On Stage 9, the wardrobes of the male cast members include white shirts, cuff links, tie clips and hats," Stuart Elliott wrote in his New York Times advertising column in 2006, about a then-unknown cast shooting a pilot.
There are many memories of the so-called "golden era" of advertising that are conjured up expertly by Matthew Weiner's Mad Men on
Quiznos' Toasty.tv, a branded content hub that got an early boost from a popular Game of Thrones-House of Cards mashup, is once again pounding together two pop culture icons.
AMC may have been hoping that the so-called “Netflix Effect” would boost the ratings for the Season 7 premiere of Mad Men, but in a highly competitive Sunday 10 p.m. slot, Matt Weiner’s period piece put up its worst opening numbers since 2008.
