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Yes, another “Mad Men” post.  I’m sorry if you’re getting fatigued by “Mad Men” news.  However, if you’re getting tired of Christina Hendricks pictures, you can hop on the next train to Rapetown (with stops in Getbentington and Eatadickburg).

Anyway, the combination of more Season 3 promo pictures (more pics below) with AMC’s press party for “Mad Men” (and “Breaking Bad”) — where the cast smoked as much as their characters — necessitates this update.  And it seems as though Jon Hamm may have had a few drinks before chatting with the press.  From Showtracker:

“If I can be so bold … AMC doesn’t have a track record,” [Hamm] said, replying to a question about whether AMC is a basic-cable pioneer. “They’re coming as blind as anybody else. And they came in at it as, ‘We would like to make a television show that tells a really great story.’ And that’s actually the way to determine how to make a television show as opposed to, ‘We would like to make a television show that makes a lot of money.’ I think we’re seeing not the greatest way to do television unless you like Fat Dance Camp or whatever is on NBC at 8 p.m.”

A reporter followed up with an observation about “Mad Men” reflecting the classy ’60s. Hamm had plenty to say about that.

“Buddy, I don’t know if they had class back then. I can send you a couple of links of stuff where guys are berating their wives for making their coffee badly. What I think happened in the ’60s is I think irony happened. And the idea of selling non-earnestly became cool. And obviously that’s not a mistake that that’s when the baby boomers started getting 18. We’re seeing a lot of it now, we’re seeing these cool hipsters, man …

“You can’t tell 18-year-olds anything. …  That’s what happens. The irony happens. And it’s cool to be in a not-cool place. Get it man? And so that’s what the big shift was that our guys are trying to figure out.”

I think I speak for everyone when I say, “Uhhhhh… What?”

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