This story is a part of our Mad Men Takeover. Season four of the series premieres on AMC this Sunday, July 25.
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The overwrought drama of AMC’s Mad Men has enthralled many a viewer for three seasons; the highly-anticipated fourth season premiere has generated a lot of hype for the ’60s-set tale of advertising executives and all the drama that being one brings. But the successful show—which has garnered an impressive amount of Emmy nominations this year—is not impervious to parody, whether it be intentionally funny or ironically so. Indeed, the show sets itself up for jabs at boldly-drawn gender lines and inspirational, ad-driven speeches. Collected below are some of our favorite Mad Men parodies, from muppets to milkmen.
Sesame Street Takes On Mad Men.
Although we wrote about this one already, it’s worth mentioning again just for the sheer weirdness of it. While the segment doesn’t feature Grover as a smooth-talking ’60s man or Elmo as Jon Hamm as Don Draper, it does feature muppet-like characters in a pitch meeting using ad pitches to teach about expressing emotions.
Mad Libs Men
College Humor puts a nonsensical spin on the Mad Men drama by having Don Draper deliver his lines as madlibs—with blanks filled in by random nouns and adjectives (example: “You think I like Albert Einstein baking me nipple pies?!”)
Mad Men in 60 Seconds
Instead of watching three seasons to catch up for the big premiere, you could just watch the Landline’s Mad Men in 60 seconds, where the charms of 1960s Manhattan are lauded with lines like “I don’t care much for black people,” and “We all have secrets, Don. Let’s smoke indoors.”
Meshugene Men
The Shushan Channel put a Jewish twist on the period drama, featuring our favorite execs trying to cook up an ad campaign for mayonnaise. Several recognizable faces pop up in this one, including Amy Sedaris and Michael Walton.
Milk Men
Sidecar Comedy takes a look at another aspect of history in their own period drama, which goes for the Milk Man instead of the Ad Exec. “You think your teats are so special? I can have four more in here in one swish of your precious tail!”
Mad Women
All the gender issues explored in Mad Men are turned on their heads in this parody by Casual Mafia.
Two A-Holes Go to an Ad Agency in the 1960s
Jon Hamm hosted Saturday Night Live back when the show was first getting popular. In one of the Mad Men-inspired skits, Hamm and fellow cast members Elizabeth Moss and John Slattery join SNL cast in a scene involving, well, two a-holes who came to an ad agency in the 1960s.
The Simpsons Mad Men Opening
The Mad Men intro done Simpsons style. The video is unembeddable, but you can check it out here.

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