There’s an episode of “Mad Men” with an especially morbid subplot.
The agency is in chaos, a client is in town, and in the middle of an important presentation, Miss Blankenship (Randee Heller), Bertram Cooper’s elderly secretary and the entire firm’s crotchety grandma, dies.
It’s played for laughs, but not really.
While everyone is concerned, their main worry is getting her out of the building without alerting the clients, except Bert, who both solemnly and grandly sums up her life: “She was born in 1898 in a barn.
She died on the thirty-seventh floor of a skyscraper.
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