{"id":2358,"date":"2008-10-30T16:29:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T16:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/10\/the-simpsons-spoof-mad-men-for.html"},"modified":"2008-10-30T16:29:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T16:29:01","slug":"the-simpsons-spoof-mad-men-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/10\/the-simpsons-spoof-mad-men-for.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Simpsons&#8217; Spoof &#8216;Mad Men&#8217; for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t regularly watch the Simpsons anymore, but I wish I did.  Especially during Halloween, a time when the rest of the airwaves are polluted with Halloween movie series, and there&#8217;s not a thing on TV that doesn&#8217;t involve ghosts, goblins, airborne flesh-eating disease, flesh-eating zombies, a guy in a Scream costume or a hockey mask or hands with razors for fingernails. Here&#8217;s a preview from the Simpsons&#8217; latest Halloween special, a spoof of the &#8220;Mad Men&#8221; opening.<center><object width=\"448\" height=\"356\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/videogum.com\/v\/YfTNFhdejPlq6\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/videogum.com\/v\/YfTNFhdejPlq6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"448\" height=\"356\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>I usually don&#8217;t like Halloween because of the costumes (bloody accident victims, zombies; you get the picture). But if people start dressing like Don Draper (nice suit, cigarette, glass of scotch), then maybe that&#8217;s a Halloween party I wouldn&#8217;t mind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t regularly watch the Simpsons anymore, but I wish I did. 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