
Today has been impossibly slow, so I’m instituting a new feature for the next week: The Official Warming Glow “Mad Men” Season 4 Countdown. Every day until the season premiere on Sunday, I’ll be featuring a memorable image (or images) from the show’s first three seasons to honor the show’s distinct visual style and memorable moments (such as the Don Draper fingerbang and the lawnmower incident). And also because it’s an easy way to fill the gaps in slow days. Warning: if you have not watched all the seasons yet, THERE MAY BE SPOILERS.
Today’s honoree: Betty Draper (January Jones). Last we saw her, the divorce had gone through and she was running off with her new sugar daddy. She’s always an entitled priss and a lousy mom, but we like her because she shoots pigeons and looks fantastic in Bardot eye makeup.

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Her guns are photoshopped.
SPOILER: Sally Draper ate Grandpa Gene.
Is today “impossibly slow” or “painfully slow?” I need to know, bourbon or tequila?
Slow news day? But I just read that the cast of The Jersey Shore went on strike.
Freddy Rumsen pants piss or GTFO
The vase to the head would be pretty sweet too.
Jon Bois disapproves of this.
Jon Bois > Matt Ufford
Pete Campbell reading Ebony. Because it was Pete Campbell, possibly the whitest man this side of Pat Boone at a Klan rally, was reading Ebony.
I don’t remember Don Draper getting finger banged.
My top Mad Men moment, though, has to be the lawnmower/foot injury from last season.
Roger Sterling after the lawnmower incident. Sweet jesus…
Must-have screen shots:
Roger Sterling vomiting
Roger Sterling in blackface
Matt Weiner’s creepy kid in any scene
Pete and his wife doing the Charleston
Betty nonchalantly dumping their picnic trash all over the park
Gene letting Sally drive
Any shot of Joan’s rack
Inoframiotn is power and now I’m a !@#$ing dictator.