{"id":212232,"date":"2025-12-02T23:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/212232\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:56:19","slug":"mad-men-on-hbo-introduced-a-new-vomit-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/212232\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mad Men\u2019 on HBO Introduced a New Vomit Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n The 4K restoration of Mad Men on HBO Max includes a look at the guys operating a puke machine.
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Mad Men<\/a> went up on HBO Max<\/a> on Monday, which is great news for people who love television and really good suits. It hasn\u2019t been on one of the major streaming platforms for years, meaning that if you wanted to enjoy the greatest show of the 21st century, you either had to buy each season or join the Interview With a Vampire<\/a> fandom paying for AMC+. Thankfully, we can now rejoice, as the show has made its way to a major streamer \u2014 and in dazzling 4K to boot! Every episode is now so clear that when Roger Sterling vomits after walking up dozens of flights of stairs on a stomach full of oysters and martinis, you can actually see the guy operating the puke machine.<\/p>\n

It seems that part of the show\u2019s 4K restoration included a change of aspect ratio, meaning either we\u2019re seeing more of the original shot than what initially aired on AMC or HBO Max forgot to redo some postproduction edits. In the case of Roger spewing his lunch in the season-one episode \u201cRed in the Face,\u201d that means we see the crew members whose job it was to make him throw up and the tube apparatus funneling vomit toward John Slattery\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

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the new 4K transfer of mad men on HBO somehow does not have any of the post-production edits added in, which means you get stuff like this where you can see the crew member manning the puke machine after Roger has too many oysters lmao pic.twitter.com\/HNgPRNOsla<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 johnny (@bigrackspart7) December 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If this were the only mistake from HBO\u2019s big Mad Men rollout, that would probably be fine. We\u2019d all have a laugh and say, \u201cRemember when they left that coffee cup in Game of Thrones? Things happen!\u201d However, the issues don\u2019t stop there. Remember how I said Roger\u2019s lunch comes back up in \u201cRed in the Face\u201d? Well, on HBO Max, it happens in an episode named \u201cBabylon.\u201d The fifth, sixth, and seventh episodes of season one are all out of order (it currently goes six, seven, five). So if you\u2019re like me and were scanning through \u201cRed in the Face\u201d to find the puke, you were actually just reminded about all the sad stuff that happens with Don Draper\u2019s brother.<\/p>\n

How does this sort of thing happen? Well, I don\u2019t know; it seems like it should be pretty easy to make sure that you can\u2019t see the guy with the big puke machine. HBO did not respond to a request for comment, presumably because it is currently scrambling to figure out a ChatGPT prompt that can remove a whole person from a shot without messing up a mid-century-modern vibe.<\/p>\n

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