Worlds Collide: Mad Men on Oprah

Robert QuigleySep 17th, 2009, 5:51 pm

Ok, Oprah just got slightly cooler. Mad Men stars Jon Hamm and January Jones will be guests on her show on Monday. And, the entire episode will have a retro-chic 1960s theme to it, including a segment that sounds like Oprah’s Favorite Things: 60s edition.

According to the AMC website, “the Queen of Talk is a fan of the series and is spotlighting it as part of a special edition of her show entitled ‘Oprah Goes Back in Time: The 60s.'” ETOnline says that Oprah, Hamm, Jones, and the entire studio audience will be “garbed in their best ’60s costumes.” At the risk of pulling the lazy ‘hipster’ card: a lot of ‘hipsters’ just got jealous.

Don Draper might not be a Whitney Houston-caliber household name, but this seems like a good way for the show to engage a younger, hepper audience. Or maybe Oprah’s responding to fears that her presidential endorsement of Barack Obama alienated America by trying to reach the elusive Mad Men-loving, Obama-hating demographic?

Though it is not from the 1960s, here is the oddly compelling “Oprah’s Favorite Things” SNL skit, just cause.

(h/t Buzzfeed)

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