Talk:Pete Campbell

Dyckman ancestry
I wonder if it is worth pointing out that while the Dyckmans were are real early Dutch family in NYC and did own a farm in northern Manhattan, they weren't as wealthy as suggested in Mad Men and the immigrant was Jan Dyckman, not Silas. Basically, that the Dyckmans of Peter Campbell's family tree are a significantly fictionalized version of a real family. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.95.126.178 (talk) 18:20, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

FWIW, Jan Dyckman was actually from Westphalia and hence ethnically German. There is a Wikipedia entry on the still extant house in Manhattan his descendants built: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyckman_House. There was also a Dutch Dyckman family in the New Netherland's colony, but upstate. The two families are not related as far as I know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Dyckman (7 April 2015) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.69.219.230 (talk) 20:45, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Contradiction
"In the early years of their marriage, Pete had trouble reconciling his own ambitions with his wife's more forceful personality. Trudy usually seemed to get her way in their marriage and showed considerably more talent for understanding the power dynamics of the office than Pete did." In the entry on Trudy, it states she is "dutiful to" Pete. She can't be both "dutiful" and "forceful".--24.62.109.225 (talk) 22:54, 21 December 2012 (UTC)