Dr Pepper makes rounds in “Mad Men” hospital scene
Saturday, September 26th, 2009From The New York Times
By Stuart Elliott
Published: September 24, 2009
Via AAF SmartBrief
The AMC TV series “Mad Men” is becoming known for the care its makers take to insure that everything viewers see reflects the period in which the show is set. This season, it’s 1963, and in the episode that was shown on Sunday, it was early July when two mainstay characters, the adman Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and the now-former office manager Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks) found themselves in a waiting room in a hospital sharing Dr Peppers from a vending machine.
The brand’s presence in the scene took one viewer who grew up in New York City by surprise. Sure, the verisimilitude was perfect: the machine vended bottles of Dr Pepper, not cans (for 10 cents each!). (more…)