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“Long Weekend
Mad Men episode

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Episode no.Season 1
Episode 10
Written byBridget Bedard
Matthew Weiner
Andre Jacquemetton
Maria Jacquemetton
Directed byTim Hunter
Original airdateSeptember 27, 2007
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“Long Weekend” was the tenth episode of the AMC television series Mad Men, which first aired on September 27, 2007.

Long weekend is a term used in Western countries to denote a weekend that is at least three days long (a three-day weekend), due to a holiday falling on either the Friday or Monday. In the United Kingdom these would be termed a bank holiday weekend.

In some cases there may also be a four-day weekend in which two days adjoining the weekend are holidays—either Thursday and Friday, Friday and Monday, or Monday and Tuesday. This occurs once a year where the Easter weekend is celebrated, with Easter Monday and Good Friday. Countries that celebrate both Christmas Day and Boxing Day can also have a four-day weekend when these adjacent holidays fall on Thursday/Friday or Monday/Tuesday. Additionally, in places where a lone holiday occurs on a Tuesday or a Thursday, the gap between that day and the weekend may also be designated as a holiday, or set to be a movable or floating holiday.

On Thanksgiving in the United States, Thursday is the traditional day of feasting, but the following Friday is also usually a non-working day, in addition to the weekend.

Other cultures

The term for a four-day weekend in some Spanish-speaking countries is puente ("bridge") or simply "fin de semana largo".

In Spain, the "bridge" becomes an "aqueduct" in some years when the anniversary of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 (6 December) and the Blessed Virgin Mary's Immaculate Conception (8 December) and a weekend plus a movable holiday form a block of five days.

French-speaking cultures use the same "bridge" idiom: faire le pont meaning "to take a long weekend". The Italians and Portuguese do the same with their cognates ponte (pronounced differently).

In German, a bridge-related term is also used: a holiday taken to fill the gap between a holiday Thursday and the weekend is called a Brückentag ("bridge day") in Germany and Switzerland, and a Fenstertag ("window day") in Austria. "bridge day" is also used in Israel ("yom gishur"/"יום גישור") and The Netherlands ("brugdag").

The term długi weekend (Polish for long weekend) is also commonly used in the Polish language. In Poland, such a phenomenon usually occurs several times a year. As well as the Easter weekend and the Christmas weekand, there is Corpus Christi weekend (Corpus Christi is always on Thursday and poeople usually take Friday off as well) and it may occur also around other holidays. However, the best known long weekend is at the beginning of May, when there are holidays of Labour Day on 1st May and 3rd May Constitution Day. The weekend can in fact be up to 9 days long (28th of April - 6th of May) and, taking one to three days off work, Poles often go for small holidays then.

In Norwegian, the term "oval weekend" is used. An ordinary weekend is conceived of as "round" (although this is not stated explicitly), and adding extra days off makes it "oval".

In Argentina, some national holidays occurring on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday (sometimes even on a Saturday) are officially moved to the closest Monday or Friday in order to create a long weekend.
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Matthew Weiner is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is the creator and executive producer of Mad Men, a drama series on AMC.

Weiner was previously a writer and executive producer on the HBO series The Sopranos during the last two seasons.
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Tim Hunter may refer to:
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September 27 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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Episode no. Season 1
Episode 9
Written by Matthew Weiner
Chris Provenzano
Directed by Paul Feig
Original airdate September 13, 2007

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Episode no. Season 1
Episode 11
Written by Matthew Weiner
Tom Palmer
Directed by Tim Hunter
Original airdate October 4, 2007

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This is an episode list for the television drama series Mad Men. The series began airing on AMC on July 19 2007 in the United States.

Season 1: 2007


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Mad Men is an American television drama series set in New York City and its commuter suburban towns. Created by The Sopranos writer and executive producer Matthew Weiner, the series is broadcast on cable network AMC.
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September 27 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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Western world, the West or the Occident (Latin occidens -sunset, -west, as distinct from the Orient) [1] can have multiple meanings dependent on its context (e.g., the time period, or the social situation).
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The weekend is a part of the week lasting one or two days in which most paid workers do not work. This is a time for leisure and recreation, and/or for religious activities.
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The word holiday has related but different meanings in English-speaking countries. A contraction of holy and day, holidays originally represented special religious days. This word has evolved in general usage to mean any special day of rest (as opposed to regular days of rest such
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"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
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"God Save the Queen" [3]
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bank holiday is a public holiday in the United Kingdom and also in the Republic of Ireland. Although there is no legal right to time off on these days, the majority of the population not employed in essential services (e.g.
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Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday and is celebrated as a holiday in some largely Christian cultures.

Formerly, the post-Easter festivities involved a week of secular celebration, but this was reduced to one day in the 19th century.
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Good Friday is the Friday before Easter (Easter always falls on a Sunday). It commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus at Calvary.
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Boxing Day is a public holiday celebrated in the United Kingdom and most other Commonwealth countries on December 26, the day after Christmas Day;[1][2] or alternatively on the next weekday after Christmas.
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Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a traditional North American holiday to give thanks to the Judeo-Christian God at the conclusion of the harvest season. Canada celebrates Thanksgiving
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The Blessed Virgin Mary, sometimes shortened to The Blessed Virgin or The Virgin Mary, is a traditional title specifically used by Roman Catholics, Anglicans, some Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholics, and others to describe Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ.
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Immaculate Conception is, according to Roman Catholic dogma, the conception of Mary, the mother of Jesus without any stain of original sin, in her mother's womb: the dogma thus says that, from the first moment of her existence, she was preserved by God from the lack of sanctifying
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