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Every single character in the show has tried and failed to run from themselves. And Don is the living embodiment of that idea, literally spending more than half the series outrunning his real identity, then the rest of the time outrunning his real soul. Peggy is a woman who does not put men at ease but instead is their boss. Pete is not a ladykiller Batman-esque figure but instead a kind of slimy kid. Ken is a writer. Salvatore is a gay man. Roger is a fool. Dick Whitman is a tortured creative genius.

Damn, it's already 10 years... time flies too fast, brothers

The call from Peggy asking Don to come home and talking to him about Coke helped set the ending up. I love the 70's. ☮️❤️🎶🇺🇲

Best series ever

How come Game of Thrones or Dexter couldn't create a fulfilling finale like Mad Men? Breaking Bad was also another fulfilling finale that come to mind.

By most measures, the Hilltop Coca-Cola ad of 1971 is considered the greatest commercial of all time. To understand why, you have to understand the year it was created. In 1971, the Vietnam War was being escalated daily and American combat casualties had just reached a new milestone of 50,000. Media reports were steadily streaming in showing that America was slowly but surely getting dragged into a stalemate with no hope of long term success. It was in this environment that Bill Backer at McCann Erickson first conceived the idea of the song while sitting in an airport in Ireland on weather delay, watching visitors from around the world grab Cokes from the nearby cafe. When it was released in 1971, Coca-Cola had recently extended it's markets into Somalia and Ghana, becoming the first soda company to have bottling operations on 6 continents. The singers holding the Coke bottles are not just random samples from various countries, they were highlighted SPECIFICALLY from countries that no other Western soda company had brought operations to. Also McCann Erickson specifically requested an actor from Vietnam to participate

Nothing quite like hippies selling out. How ironic.

Capitalism finds a way to ruin every expression of sincerity.

Sadly, Don Draper died from advanced syphilis shortly after creating his final advertising masterpiece 😅

September 2023

It's kind of sad how cynical veryone is about this. He is using the "harmonious enlightenment" experience to sell Coke, but he's also using Coke to sell "harmonious enlightenment." Everyone who drinks a Coke and thinks of this ad will feel that much more connected to everyone else across the planet who has done the same. Using the rules of capitalism, he's managed to manipulate the most recognizable brand in history to sell peace. It's Draper as a character finding inner peace and balance that had recently tipped too far from virtue into an obligation for material want. He found a way to fulfill both desires by matching his weighty abilities to his recently bubbling over moral obligations. It's an amazing ending to perhaps the best show ever written.

"Coca-Cola, 1971 - "hilltop" "i'd like to buy the world a coke" if anybody wants to see the full clip... This is one of the first things I remember having been born in 1975.. the same year George Bush formed a company called Arbusto Energy that was used to scam Osama Bin Laden out of Millions through an oil deal.... Released in 2005 under the Canadian Freedom of Information Act because Daddy Bush stashed the loot in a Bank of Nova Scotia Vault in WTC and would be revealed within 4 years of 9/11

did sally Draper grow up to have 9 kids , welfare , food stamps , 8 husbands ?

1971: Don Draper 2023: Alissa Heinersheid Oh My! How far we have fallen…

One of the greatest TV series ever created hands down. Just thank god they got this series in before the generation of woke lunatics came of age.

The blonde girl with braids at 1:18 in this 1970 commercial was represented in the Mad Men series by the beautiful hippie girl Draper meets near the end of the series finale. Well it turns out in real life the hippie actress is Jon Hamm’s present wife, Ms Anna Osceola. They met while filming the series.

BRAVO c'est superbe !

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Best commercial ever made and Mad Men best tv drama ever made

He finds nirvana... AND SELLS IT.

Cucka.cola

I love how Don smiles. Has he finally found inner peace? Nah - he just realized this New Age spirituality is how he’s going to sell carbonated sugar water to hippies.

I’d like to buy the world diabetes

I like to think the bell was a little nod to The Sopranos

Excellent writing, this was epic … choice

If I get a lot of likes I’ll watch mad man just cuz I love coke so much

Thought of something no one else has, just now. Watch the ending to Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous (aired on MTV written, starring, and directed by Bo Burnham). As a 13 year old, it hit me hard. As a 23 year old, this hit me just as hard. But the point I'm getting at is, if the ending scene isn't on youtube, or if context is needed.... The protagonist of Zach Stone finally gets the girl and promises that he'll give up his dream of becoming famous, but right afterwards, they're confronted by a crowd of new fans as he has finally just gone viral. As he's signing autographs, he looks into the camera with a cynical smile and starts quietly singing his theme song to himself, indicating no real change after all, and it shows his new girlfriend's face in the same shot realizing it, and then the series ends. Basically, THAT SHOW'S FINALE AIRED 2 YEARS BEFORE THIS!!!!

Goes off the grid. Almost gets fired for it. Somehow not only comes back, but he comes back with THE idea for their Coke campaign that the whole room of creative directors were trying their hardest to come up with. It was all just Don realizing mid-meeting, "I'm not like these other directors" and going to California for inspiration like he's always done, masked as "Don having a crisis". I'd like to think that he had a crisis, while searching for inspiration, instead of the other way around. Just makes sense to me with his character. And not only just coke, but him (in the universe of Mad Men) being the one to come up with one of the most iconic tv ads in history, is him accomplishing what he always wanted. A perfect ending to his story arc. Not his relationships, but his talent/work. Love only ever seemed to be around in his life to use as inspiration for how he could market products. Just finished the series for the first time, glad I finally watched it. I don't know why I was ignoring it for so long.

Fun fact: This ad campaign for Coke was thought up by an executive at McCann Erickson, which is a real ad agency. It's credited to Bill Backer who was working on a rebrand for Coke at McCann.

It's been so long since I had the chance to actually go out and spin a sign, I really miss it. And this jam takes me back to those times where it was just my sign, my headphones and the vibe. #Aarrow4Life

The ending that shifted my mindset forever. One of the greatest series of all time. The journey to inner peace through the many trials of pain and false happiness, leads to the understanding that life is simply going to live on.

The best TV series ever, with the best ad ever. Sublime.

I like to think that the man speaking to this gathering once opened a “theater of the people” offering “conscious drama” in Greenwich Village back in 1961 or so before moving to California to drop out. Then he went to work at a retreat where he sometimes runs encounter groups. I’m just thinking of that beatnik that was seeing Midge back in Season One. It would’ve been funny if those two, who look fairly similar to one another, were the same person.

Embodies the hippie ethos in the best possible way

This is the first dick whitman ad

All of the ANTIFA Generation snowflakes condemning capitalism while doing it from their state-of-the-art smartphones imported from China.

There is nothing capitalism cannot absorb into its orbit via advertising. Even something allegedly pure and unmaterialistic like hippies, religion, and meditation will be gobbled up. The “change” of the late 60s was a face lift. Nothing more. Love this ending.

In a world of crap endings (I’m looking at you Ozarks, GOT etc) this one was absolutely perfect. I remember the Coke advert a s a kid. Looking back, it was revolutionary in that it built a brand image without directly selling the attributes of the product itself. A technique used extensively today.

As you look back, it seemed inevitable that Don would have come up with this ad. His mind and McKann's resources.

fking hippies

This is the official video to me.

Incredibly bleak. Don’t see how others see this as a happy ending.

*_And it was there, on that high promontory in that sometimes strange, always magical colony of Malibu, California, on the coast of the endless Pacific Ocean that -- -- the living legend; the advertising juggernaut; 'Don Draper,' was to begin to slip away and thus, the sum total of his bruised and battered heart slowly, majestically soared higher and higher through the soul-saving gift of Transcendental Meditation -- -- to reveal and accept himself as -- -- Dick Whitman, the bastard child of a fragile, Illinois prostitute who died giving him life ... and -- -- Don Draper, a man who makes advertising look cool. Indeed, for the record ... it was there, on that overlook into his forevers -- -- the maelstroms of his former lives as Dick Whitman and Don Draper simply sloughed away, bit by bit, becoming a trail of dust barely marked on the map of his human heart that -- -- Dick and Don ultimately found the threshold to redemption and self-acceptance, as-is._* (I can relate) D.A. Forever in the karmic debt of C.K. for the gift of TM 40 years ago. You saved my life.

I hated this ending when it first aired because I felt there was no redemption for Don Draper and Peggy’s story felt rushed. Upon rewatching S7 I found it beautiful, poignant and a perfect ending. Dick finally reconciled and came to terms with his past and now Don/Dick can move forward. There is foreshadowing in earlier episodes where Don is telling the copy writers to stop ‘selling LOVE’ and cheapening it but even then he was still leaning into sex & men wanting mistresses. This for me also goes back to S1 Kodak ad about Love and Family and returning to those warm memories. Here is is selling genuine love and friendship and having found his humanity. The irony or tragedy for the guy that helped Lucky Strikes get around get around those pesky health risks: smoking does cause cancer. Loved Joan’s arc. Pete realised and appreciated he was never a Don Draper, but his happy ending does bug me a bit but some people are that lucky.

always hated that stupid commercial

I was five or six when this truly amazing commercial was first broadcast here in the States in 1971. I remember it just like it was yesterday. Everybody in my family and my neighborhood were floored by it.

When Pink Floyd made “Dogs”….they were talking about guys like this one. Have fun getting stabbed in the back later.

I loved all the insightful comments about Betty being the model for Coke etc but I also thought it was very funny when you think Don/Dick may be coming to terms with his soul and then creates the Coke commercial..."It's the REAL thing" ...when most of his life his identity has been false.

You can take the jackass capitalist marketer out of the corporation, but you can't take the corporation out of the marketer. lol