If the Armin Tamzarian episode had postdated Mad Men people would've called it genius https://twitter.com/nickwiger/status/776851825370681344 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Indeed the fact that years before Mad Men, fans of a cartoon called the Tamzarian twist unrealistic and pointless is a subtle own of Mad Men
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Replying to @otherotheryan
yeah but that movie and other similar stories weren't a Big Deal enough culturally to inform the satire
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Probable. It's a long-running trope. But Mad Men's import does make it most notable occurrence, as you say.
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Replying to @otherotheryan
It's an example of what TVTropes calls an Unbuilt Trope - it wasn't a well known enough trope for the satire to stick
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Replying to @arthur_affect @otherotheryan
bc everything that's stupid abt the Armin Tamzarian revelation is exactly as stupid abt Dick Whitman
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but Mad Men was the one that imbued the trope with Importance
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