How to Prepare Oneself for Sundays Without “Mad Men”

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Sunday night marks the third season finale of AMC’s critically beloved, award-winning and all-around awesome show, Mad Men. The 1960s-set drama is almost startlingly slow-paced compared to most of today’s shows, but it doesn’t make it any less addictive. So the idea of spending another long winter, spring and probably summer without the show is upsetting. Thus, it’s time to come up with ways to spend Sunday nights so we don’t go Mad ourselves.

• Watch the DVDs. If you watch one episode a week, you will get through half a year! It will be like Mad Men never left at all! You can relive all of your favorite moments, like Don going to Los Angeles or Peggy getting fat. And then by that point, maybe the third season DVD will be out, so you can watch that one too (three words: lawn mower dismemberment)!
• Have 1960s themed movie nights. Check out Bye Bye Birdie, which was featured prominently in the third season as an inspiration for an ad campaign. It’s ridiculously campy. Devotees of the Broadway musical say it’s near blasphemous, but if you’re not a purist it’s harmless fun.
• Have a historically accurate Mad Men themed party. You have to invite everyone by mail or by calling a land line. Make a dress code of 60s attire, including gray suits and funny hats. Make cocktails. Be sure to make awkward comments about racism and sexism and how many of your guests probably would a) not be at the party or b) go home crying afterward if it was really the 1960s. Also, everyone has to smoke. Everyone.
• Have an affair. There’s probably some lonely schoolteacher, flight attendant, or urban artiste who needs attention. Get to it!