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I See What They Did There

Remember When Mad Men Came Up With The Idea For Buffy And Twilight? [VIDEO]

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:59 pm, March 2nd, 2013


Bill Stiteler and Jeremy Stomberg pondered what it would be like if Mad Men’s Sterling Cooper were in charge of coming up with ideas for films and television shows instead of advertisements. The results are all too close to home.

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  • http://twitter.com/ryorin Shoshana B

    Video: “She just wants what every high school girl wants” Me: “An X-wing? I wanted an X-wing when I was in high school! Ooo! Or a TIE Interceptor! I would watch that show!” Video: “A boyfriend.” Me: “…a TIE Interceptor boyfriend?”

  • http://twitter.com/Bennjoon Charlie

    Why do I get the feeling this is how every video game meeting goes on female characters and then they wheel the poor woman out and are like ‘It’s not sexist she came up with it.’

  • Tabitha

    Women were powerless in 60′s media? Samantha Stephens, Jeannie Nelson, Angelique Bouchard, Sabrina Spellman, Sister Bertrille, and Phoebe Figalilly would like a word with you!

  • Robert Mayland

    Somebody needs to add a joke about a woman creating Twilight and a guy creating Buffy.

  • Anonymous

    I was thinking the same thing.

  • Anonymous

    yeah, it’s not even a parody. it’s just the way it is.

  • Anonymous

    The woman was a complete amateur, who had no ingress to the professional skill-building environment that Whedon was privileged to enter. And she wrote a romance, not an action adventure.

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