At first look, Mad Males’s Don Draper and Seinfeld’s Cosmo Kramer are just about nothing alike. One is a slick promoting genius who wears fancy fits, drinks high-quality whiskey and works within the Sixties. The opposite is a hipster doofus who mooches off of his neighbor, and barely labored a lot in any respect all through the Nineteen Nineties.
However upon nearer inspection, these two characters is probably not so dissimilar in spite of everything. As author and Mad Males fan Ben Crew just lately identified on social media, Don Draper principally landed his first workplace job the identical approach Kramer did — by simply randomly displaying up in the future.
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Yup, Don solely began working at Sterling-Cooper as a result of he pretended like he had been employed — though he did go the additional mile and ensure to get Roger Sterling good and drunk the night time earlier than.
Within the case of Kramer, he unintentionally stumbled into a company place whereas utilizing an workplace rest room, then determined to go together with the mistaken perception that he was an worker, though he had no thought what he was doing and wasn’t even getting paid.
Come to consider it, the similarities don’t finish there. Each Don and Kramer are each sexually lively New Yorkers with daring concepts. However whereas Don comes up with profitable advert campaigns, Kramer primarily goals up kooky enterprise ventures, just like the “Peterman actuality tour,” the make-your-own-pizza restaurant, and the coffee-table e-book about espresso tables.
Additionally they each habitually smoke (cigarettes and cigars, respectively) and labored with Large Tobacco: Don Draper’s company routinely did enterprise with Fortunate Strike, whereas Kramer tried to sue a Marlboro-like firm over his “hideous” look, however finally settled the case in change for a starring position in considered one of their advert campaigns.
To not point out how they each had dealings with the ladies’s undergarment business. Whereas Don pitched copy to Playtex…
…Kramer and Frank Costanza went into enterprise for themselves and tried to promote their Bro/Manssiere invention to bra govt Sid Farkus.
Wait, there’s extra: Don Draper, famously, has a hidden secret involving his previous. He’s not likely Don Draper, he’s some man named “Dick Whitman.” He took the fashionable title after the actual Don died in fight (not in contrast to Armin Tamzarian). Kramer, too, has a buried secret involving his id. Within the first a number of seasons of the present, he completely refused to let his associates know his actual first title. That’s, till his mom randomly blurted it out in entrance of George in Season Six.
And had Don, Roger, Pete Campbell and Peggy Olson ever determined to compete in a masturbation contest, presumably Don would have misplaced simply as shortly as Kramer.
However with Don, there would have been lot extra subsequent existential malaise.
