‘Mad Men,’ S4E7: “The Suitcase” | Best TV Episodes of the 21st Century

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🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In honor of The Ringer’s list of 100 best TV episodes of the 21st century, Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, and Andy Greenwald discuss why “The Suitcase” was picked over other episodes of ‘Mad Men’ (2:27), the themes that make it so great (15:33), and the episode’s iconic quote (23:16). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to The Recapables. I'm Juliet Litman. I'm the head of production here at The Ringer and also the host of Bachelor Party and also a massive TV fan. In fact, we all are at The Ringer, which is why this week we have released the Ringer's list of the 100 Best TV episodes of the Century. That's right. Every show since the year 2000 was eligible. One entry per, and we made a list. You can check it out
0:22.2	at besttv.thringer.com. The recapables is going over a few of our favorites. Yesterday, we recaped lost.
0:29.5	Today, this episode, you're listening to Recaps Mad Men, the episode of The Suitcase, and we've
0:35.0	got one more coming. It's the episode from the office that we selected. If you want to know which episodes these are, go to besttv.com and check out
0:42.2	theringer.com for all of our TV content. We have Alison Herman on Recap Culture. We got
0:46.6	Shea Serrano coming on Dwight Shrew. We have Victor Luckerson on, were people happy on the office?
0:51.1	And so much more. There's Kate Nibs on Tom Cruise's Oprah moment. And we've got
0:54.9	Alyssa Bresnak on one to kill off a TV character. Please don't miss it. And I hope you enjoy
0:59.0	the recapables. Here we have Sean Fantasy, Amanda Dobbins, Andy Greenwald talking about the suitcase.
1:04.9	Again, that's besttv.the ringer.com.
1:19.0	Hello and welcome to the recapables, a podcast about TV shows, typically recent TV shows, but not today.
1:23.7	Today is a podcast about an older TV show because we are celebrating the very best episodes of the 21st century.
1:25.6	Joining me today to talk about really one of the best episodes ever
1:28.8	in an episode that ranks very high on our list is Ringer Culture Editor Amanda Dobbins.
1:32.8	Hello. And Andy Greenwald, co-host of the Watch, creator of Breyer Patch. That's nice.
1:38.7	And other things that are nice. I thought you were going to say Ringer Barnacle.
1:43.0	No, our pal and podcaster. I'm basically were going to say ringer barnacle. No, our pal and
1:44.3	podcaster. I'm basically here like Danny is in Sterling Cooper Draper-Draper-Price. Like I had an
1:50.1	idea once and one of you guys drunkenly stole it and now I just have to hang around the
1:53.3	office. Here for life. Okay. So guys, we're here to talk about Mad Men. All three of us
1:57.5	really like Mad Men. And the episode we're discussing is The Suitcase. The Suitcase was Season 4, Episode 7.
2:03.9	It was written by Matthew Weiner, creator of the show directed by Jennifer Getsinger.
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