pictured: the most in need of therapy guy to have ever lived

April 09, 2026 - 16:34 UTC

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Never show the after image of whiskey notepad leads to gun
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Oh yeah, I’d love to spend my life hating everyone so much that I am in a near constant panic plus booze inside. And that cough? Amazing. Sign. Me. Up.
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What bothers me about dude bros interpretation of Mad Men is that they take it only at face value. Don Draper was miserable and that's the whole point.
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what if he has a dessert, does that immediately undo all the help from the whiskey? like how that guy eating his truffle butter steak was like being emasculated by simply sitting near a man eating dessert
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Kind of the whole point of the show, it’s the same idolization of Walter White and Fight Club. Great pieces of art, but dum dums completely miss the point
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I’m screaming. Who said media literacy was dead?
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“man, i wish i was like don, he’s so cool.”

[Mad Men: this man is good at selling lies because his whole life is a lie; an attractive package for a yawning emptiness]

“hell yeah, don, cheat on your wife”
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people who think therapy doesn't work are lying to their therapist and themselves
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I used to be that guy (Well not THAT guy, but...)_, you are 100% correct.
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The notepad:
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Whiskey and a handgun,
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I would love to know what "actually works" about Don Draper's life
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Me, waking up from a whiskey hangover and reading my notepad: "Godda goto terapyy, marnthinkin the huderglwqqqqqww."
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Couldn’t have picked a worse picture really
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There isn't even a notepad in it
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Is that the new iPhone?
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i don't get what's wrong.
i turned off the final episode of Mad Men 10 minutes before it ended, and this seems accurate.
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"It works," which is why everyone's grandfather was highly emotionally intelligent, had no substance abuse issues, and lived in joyful harmony with their loved ones
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Lolol
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Therapist: I feel sorry for you.
Me: I don’t think about [my problems] at all.
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Oh how cute the little fascist almost made a joke and then he ruined it.
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An entire worldview based on the stubborn refusal to understand any piece of art ever
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I know part of the bit is leaning into this exact thing but like

Don Draper....isn't.... stable? like that's the whole point. he's a sociopath and miserable. just like Tony Soprano being a cool guy. I am agog at the shameless willful ignorance.
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He typed this with tears running down his face 😭
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Honestly anyone with the OPs opinion clearly didn't watch the show.
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I recently re-watched it for the first time since it was new and I was shocked at how early in the show they make it very clear that Don Draper sucks and is not cool at all. Like, it's immediately obvious what they're trying to say about this character lol
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Wow. Anyone who watched Mad Men and came away thinking Don Draper was ok should be on a list
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He turned down the mature, grounded psychologist in favor of a pretty young secretary that he quickly married & then cheated on and divorced.

But please, of manly OP, opine on how successful he was at life.
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The fucking show ended with him going to a therapeutic retreat and coming up with the greatest idea of his entire career.
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Conservatives understand a SINGLE piece of culture challenge...
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Difficulty level...impossible.
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Wasn’t his character a womanizing drunk who had PTSD from the war and a shitty childhood? 😂
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Guy who definitely has actually seen the show
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Never fails

“Unfettered capitalism and increasingly privatized control of security forces, it just works!”

*confidently posts Robocop*
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It famously didn’t work for him!
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And he was lying to himself in his journal. Even the journal itself seemed like a performance.
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This is a scene from a famous episode where he breaks down crying after the only person who knew him as he really is and loved him dies without saying good bye because he refused her final phone call in an attempt to refuse the truth of death itself.
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Why would he answer that phone call? Seems like a downer.
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skill issue tbh
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And to distract himself from her impending death he berates Peggy, gets in a fistfight with Duck, fixates on work and drinks so much he throws up!
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Sounds healthy.
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I could handle that without therapy easy.
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Lol I love that this still is from the episode where he berates Peggy all night, fixates on work, gets into a fistfight and drinks so much he throws up on himself all to distract himself from his only real friend dying
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Incredible context in the alt text, too. Thank you sincerely for that.
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Reminds me of @murderxbryan.bsky.social episode on Deep Guys. It's exactly content like this.
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I didn’t watch mad men but wasnt the show about him being kind of a mess?
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is that Canadian Club? ewww, gross
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Not pictured: conservative media literacy.
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Ah yes drinking and isolation the most healthy coping mechanisms of all.
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This saves you money on therapy but it’s going to cost your loved ones a lot more on therapy in the long term
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Saves you on therapy the way smoking saves you on long-term healthcare costs.
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He even goes to therapy at the finale!!!!
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