burt said his dream role is playing a sweet guy who turns out to be a monster. /tv/ just spent a week dissecting exactly that.

burt has been on the record about this for a while now. his dream acting role, stated plainly and without irony during his time in the tank, is playing a sweet, nice guy who turns out to be an evil, twisted monster. he said it like he was ordering off a menu.

the /tv/ orbit, which at this point functions as a kind of distributed burt lore engine whether it knows it or not, has been busy.

chat, let's go through what surfaced this week.

1. the don draper thread [2026-09-03]. per the archived /tv/ catalog, a thread appeared analyzing the don-adam storyline from mad men season one, with the poster arguing it is "as evil as anything tony soprano or walter white ever did." the thread frames don draper as the textbook sweet-faced devastator. the character who presents charm to the world and something much darker underneath. this is, word for word, the archetype burt described wanting to inhabit. the thread was not addressed to burt. it did not need to be.
2. the racial oppression episode thread [2026-09-01]. a separate /tv/ thread surfaced, per the catalog, complaining about what the poster described as an episode devoted entirely to racial privilege dynamics, asking "why can't we have a normal show." the framing is ugly and the poster's apparent geography ("why are americans like this") does nothing to clean it up. this sits in uncomfortable proximity to burt's orbit given his ghanaian heritage and the ongoing documented pattern of race-adjacent threads clustering in this discourse window. attributed to the thread; the intent behind its appearance here is not established.
3. the try guys testosterone thread [2026-09-04]. a thread appeared, per the catalog, revisiting the old buzzfeed try guys "soi guys" bit and relitigating a claimed mod controversy around it. the connection to burt, a man who describes himself as a west african body trainer and has claimed a professional history in heavyweight boxing and gym coaching, is left as an exercise for the reader. the thread does not mention him. the juxtaposition remains what it is.

the mad men thread is the one that lands. the don draper arc is built around a man who performs warmth, competence, and decency while something genuinely corrosive runs underneath. burt described wanting to play that exact role, in those exact terms, to a live camera.

/tv/ spent a thread on it and never once said his name.

the lore does not require permission to grow.

anyway. don draper never had to submit a fishtank audition tape, but here we are.