A sizzling, previously unseen three-minute clip from the fourth season of period ad agency drama Mad Men has been leaked on the internet.
The silent footage shows a glass of whisky almost being poured while cigarette smoke wisps across the screen.
The clip is believed to be the dramatic climax of episode three, season four of the Emmy Award-winning series, which debuts in the US on Sunday.
“It’s the most action-packed scene since the series began,” said Mad Men fanclub secretary Dwayne Dyson.
But after 52 episodes of a show which is like watching paint dry while surrounded by stunning wallpaper, creator Matthew Weiner is ready to ring the changes.
And there’s great news for Mad Men fans who watch with one hand down their pants.
A Mad Men insider told The News Grind: “Everyone in the crew was, like, ‘thank crap for this’. We’ve got laser beams, titty bars, a monkey riding a horse and so much hot, horny sex in season four.”
Asked about rumours of a too-hot-for-TV clinch between alpha females Joany (Christina Hendricks) and Betty (January Jones) she said a romantic scene between the pair had been filmed.
“We got the girls to lez it up, yeah,” she confirmed, before revealing: “The scene was cut and the footage disappeared without a trace.
“The truth is the set looked like an Indian Reservation while we were shooting, with more tents per square yard than Saturday night at Glastonbury.”
Mad Men has won plaudits from critics, and in February the show received an honour from an unusual source.
The British Medical Association gave the series special therapeutic status for its wide-ranging medical benefits. A study in the British Medical Journal concluded:
“Mad Men has astonishing properties. It’s the only product on the market which can cure insomnia and erectile dysfunction at the same time.
“The show offers male viewers a procession of stunning women to ogle, and a bloke they quite fancy too. But there’s no risks of adrenaline overload which would arise if something actually happened in an episode.”
In three series the only incident of note to have ever occurred was a bizarre indoor tractor accident, and some unnecessary wartime flashbacks. But other than that, zip.
