One of the greatest moments of my entire life was when Lane Pryce punched Pete Campbell in his stupid weasel face during the most recent season of Mad Men. Good Lord, did I enjoy that. (So much so, if you recall, that I set the GIF to “Hide and Seek” by Imogen Heap so it would resemble the scene from The O.C. where Marissa shot Trey.) I had been waiting for someone to deck that smug prick for YEARS, so seeing him get bloodied and thrown about the conference room by an uptight Brit was about as perfect a television moment as you could draw up. The fact that he got beat up again later in the season? Just icing on an already delicious cake.
In an interview with Vulture today, the actor who plays Pete Campbell, Vincent Kartheiser, explains that getting beat the hell up is actually nothing new to him. In fact, it kinda happens a lot.
Yeah, I’ve been punched in the face before. You know, that’s life. [...]
I got punched tons in my teen years. You know, just beaten up at school and stuff. When I was an adult, I flipped this guy off in my car and he ran me off the road and jumped out of his car and ran over and punched me through my open window. It was a good lesson to me. You never know who you’re f-cking with on the road and you shouldn’t really mess with anyone. [...]
Maybe no one’s ever clocked me just right. In movies, people are always getting really knocked out from head punches, but I don’t think it happens that way in real life. I think the human body can take a lot more than we think. I got beat up in Vancouver once by two dudes, and they were, like, kicking me. I was laying on the ground getting my ass whooped and I never really had much happen. I guess a little soreness the next day. [Vulture]
I don’t know about you guys, but I am DYING to know what happened in Vancouver that resulted in two dudes stomping him into the ground. Maybe they saw this past season and were pissed about the whole thing with Pete, Joan, and the Jaguar account. If that was the case, no jury in the land would convict them. Totally justified.
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Method acting since birth.
It’s that face.
He has got to have done some drugs. You just don’t get beat up very often if you hang with normal people.
I would say “lots” of drugs. I’ve done “some” drugs and nobody’s ever dragged me into a back alley and kicked the crap out of me.
As a functioning cokehead myself, I have to agree with Zack. It takes a special breed of drugged up asshole to just drag someone out and stomp them down. That seems like more of a methed our or heroin thing to do – considering he used to roll with Larry Clarke back in the day, my vote would be heroin. Us cokies just like to ramble on about shit. like this message.
Someone please name someone this side of Jon Mayer who has a more punchable face than Pete Campbell. I can’t think of one person.
Karl Rove. Though I suppose I could just buy a canned ham and punch that instead.
Donald Trump. Though I suppose I could just buy a dead opossum and punch that instead.
Michael Bloomberg. Though I could just buy a Big Gulp, pour it on a hobo, and then kick him while he’s down.
Paul Ryan. Would love to launch one of my rockets right into his mug.
I should have added “in the entertainment world”. Politicians and their lackeys are forever punchable.
“In the entertainment world”? That little prick that plays Joffrey on Game of Thrones. There’s no comparison. I would let Pete Campbell piss on me before I’d miss an opportunity to punch the face of Joffrey.
Simon Cowell. He tries to be Bourdain – who should actually be the one who punches him. The internet would die.
Ferguson from Clarissa Explains it All. Does that count as entertainment?
Also, this oldie but goodie: [www.uproxx.com]
Aaaaaand Rhelgy nails it.
Well Trump still counts as he has a TV Show. But I also submit Chris Brown.
Maybe this belongs under WithLeather’s purview, but every personality on ESPN not named Hannah Storm and not held over from the 90′s, I would like to at least slap around a little.
He’s basically saying “I’m so tough the asskicking I received didn’t really hurt.”
So does that make him technically a fake humblebraggart? Because that would drive him off the punchability scale.
He got his ass kicked in Vancouver because he too had no answer for where Bumblebee was.
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I was just talking to my boyfriend about how I needed to see Pete Campbell get punched in the face again, for no reason other then I just love it. Its probably that smug Pete Campbell look he gets sometime. I’m sure there are moments where he just naturally does it in his every day life and it makes people want to hit him.
He was pretty punchable on Angel as well.