Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Mad Men barbie dolls -- collect the whole set!

Great news, Mad Men fans.  For the low, low price of only $74.95 you can purchase a full set of Mad Men barbie dolls!  This 4-doll collection includes a very curvy lifelike Joan Holloway, an accurate replication of real-life barbie doll Betty Draper, and of course two dapper iterations of Roger Sterling and the notoriously handsome Don Draper.  The Sterling Cooper office background is sold separately (j/k).

You can find out how to purchase the set here.  Allow me to fire a preemptive shot across the bow to anyone who wants to reproduce (no pun intended) the bathroom scene from the eternally-underrated comedy Grandma's Boy.  Resist the temptation, fellas.

One more link before I depart for the day.  Time published an article predicting that this season will be the last for Jack Bauer and 24.  Thanks for the novel prediction, Time -- you have once again shown why you are an antiquated source of news that nobody reads.

In any case, they are probably right -- the show's ratings have gone down in recent seasons, while the economy refuses to recover and production expenses have remained high.  Yet here is the Cliff's Notes version of the two uplifting takeaways from the article.  First, it's nice to see 24 get credit as one of the signature TV series from the 2000's.  It definitely belongs right up there with The Sopranos, Lost, and the Wire (albeit for different reasons than those shows).  Second, we now have further confirmation that talks are ongoing about a 24 movie.  As long as the movie doesn't put a black eye on the franchise (a la the most recent X-Files movie) I will be very excited to see Jack Bauer on the silver screen.

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