Traditionally there has been a disconnect between television and learning. However, for all the negative aspects of television, especially as it pertains to education, I have found it on more than one occasion to be an excellent source of inspiration for the classroom. Recently I found myself watching seasons of the AMC program, Mad Men because of my wife’s crush on the Don Draper character. I quickly began to enjoy the program for its plot, written content and acting, but found myself wondering why so many women (my wife, her friends and others I assume) were enamored with Don Draper (for those unfamiliar with the show, Mad Men is set in 1960s New York, and follows the lives of the ruthless and competitive men and women in the Madison Avenue advertising industry). At the end of the first season, I arrived at the conclusion that it was confidence, more than anything that made this fictional character such a magnet. Admittedly, there are other factors, but the confidence resonates in the well-crafted script when Draper says, “You are the product. You—feeling something. That’s what sells. Not them. Not sex. They can’t do what we do and they hate us for it.” Those lines that were delivered with an “I know what I am talking about flair” inspired me. I wanted my students to speak with that same confidence about their writing.