One of the most exciting things about "Mad Men" is seeing the creative process Don Draper and his team go through to come up with the ad campaigns that determine the very fate of Sterling Cooper & Partners.
Throughout the show's six seasons, these campaigns have featured major brands like Playtex and American Airlines.
Despite the best efforts of Don Draper, Peggy Olson, and the rest of the team, however, their ads are often not much better than the ads their fictional clients were running in real life during the '60s. Sometimes, in fact, Sterling Cooper's ads were much worse.
Take a look and judge for yourself ...
Don Draper's Season 1 pitch for the Kodak Carousel remains one of the show's most poignant moments.
The real first ad for the Carousel, which debuted in 1962, wasn't as high-minded as Draper's, but it did explain what the product does.
Sterling Cooper's ad for Samsonite plays on the fact that nobody likes an empty suitcase.
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