Trippy
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rattran
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I saw this on Adult Swim tonight. It couldn't even figure out what brand of shoes it was for.  |
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taolurker
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Just saw this on TV myself, and really this ad was a waste of money. Didn't say anything about the product (which hardly needs advertising already) and wasn't nearly as clever or funny as the Apple ones. I thought it was for shoes myself.
They could've had a snarky Jerry Seinfeld doing a much better sales pitch about Win vs Apple, instead of him pretending to hang with Bill Gates. Gates is there as a very wooden looking partner seeming scared along with not belonging anywhere near a shoe store. The logo at the end was the only semblance of product placement, and I my reaction was meh.
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Fabricated
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I don't get it.
Why not just go the obvious route and do a parody of the Apple commercials?
PC Guy: (in armor with a laser gun in one hand and a sword in the other, with a dozen other people doing some sort of choreographed fighting)
Mac Guy: Hey PC, what're you doing?
PC Guy: Oh! Just playing a game.
Mac Guy: Really? Which one?
PC Guy: Um, all of them.
Mac Guy: (dejected, looks down) ...oh. (shuffles away)
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Ingmar
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I did enjoy that his shoe club ID picture was his mugshot.
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Oban
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I just watched this with the sound off, awful commercial.
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Haha, the guy in the 2nd part of Tebonas' video is the 3 PS3s guy |
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Venkman
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What could it have been though really. There's been nothing but bad press on Vista itself so they have no choice but be in the business of marketing "Microsoft". This won't do anything for the OS itself as the only people who will end up getting it are the curious or the masses who buy their PCs at Best Buy. The rest are lost, but still need their MS Office and maybesomeday Surface.
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HaemishM
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Awful, terrible, terrible ad. A little funny, though I really never needed to see Bill Gates wiggle his bony nerd buttocks. I think it totally failed on the "Make Microsoft look cool" front.
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Baldrake
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I loved it. I'm still smiling. Clearly it's about humanizing Microsoft - hacking at the evil empire image. It has nothing to do with making the company "cool" like Apple.
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Engels
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Its just an odd commercial. I don't even get what they are trying to portray. That Gates is actually schrewdly economical, entirely unlike his company's code?
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schild
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I like it.
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naum
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I don't get it.
Two mega-billionaires in a discount shoe store?
What exactly is so effective about this alternate reality frame?
Maybe the next ones will be better.
Choice of Seinfeld is odd too, considering his apartment had a Mac (back in the days when Mac OS sucked (pre OS X *nix-y goodness)), and that he participated in Apple "Think Different" campaign, you'd think they'd hawk how Jerry is a different, hipster kind of switcher in 2008 (Vista!)…
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"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Trippy
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Its just an odd commercial. I don't even get what they are trying to portray. That Gates is actually schrewdly economical, entirely unlike his company's code?
Gates is actually known as a penny-pincher. There are stories about him doing things like holding up checkout lines searching for coupons. Not sure that's what they wanted to portrary in the ad, though. |
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Krakrok
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Their ad is working. This thread was created.
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Trippy
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People talking about how stupid their ad is is probably not the "buzz" they were hoping for.
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schild
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People talking about how stupid their ad is is probably not the "buzz" they were hoping for.
I'm pretty sure you weren't the target. Let's ask Jewish people that aren't Ookii. |
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lamaros
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I liked it too.
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Ozzu
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Strangely enough, I liked it.
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Engels
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I liked it too. Well, lets say I didn't have an averse reaction. Liking it may be pushing things. However, I still don't get the point at all.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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I like it.
I seem to recall you liking the PS3 "This is Living" ad also (another ad that had nothing to do with the product it was advertising). |
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schild
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I like ads when they're visually appealing or entertaining. I don't watch much tv on tv (any), as such, I see about 10-15 ads a year, all normally during the superbowl. As such, I don't care if they're selling anything or even if they're remotely effective.
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slog
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none of this will change the fact that Vista is a flop.
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Oban
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The more I think about it the more this reminds me of Me&Bob. Maybe Microsoft should try to put money in to the fucking OS and less in to the pockets of Seinfeld and the ad agencies.
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lamaros
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Because they don't have enough money to do both, right? Because money solves everything, right? Because...  |
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Oban
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They could buy more engineers.
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Murgos
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They could buy more engineers.
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I'm pretty sure you weren't the target. Let's ask Jewish people that aren't Ookii.
So you're saying they are targeting the New York Jew? This ad did not make me want to do anything except hit Jerry Seinfeld with a shovel. "Jupiter brain"? Really? Should have commented on airline food. |
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Lantyssa
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I don't get Seinfeld's humor, so I don't get the ad. Seems like a monumental waste of money to trumpet how frugal Gates is, while ending with talk of an edible computer.
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Oban
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I don't get Seinfeld's humor, so I don't get the ad. Seems like a monumental waste of money to trumpet how frugal Gates is, while ending with talk of an edible computer.
A four hundred million dollar ad campaign to talk about how frugal Gates is... |
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Lantyssa
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When your personal fortune is over 50 billion, I suppose 400 million is frugal.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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NiX
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It was definitely better than the first one. I see what they're going for and it's not directed at anyone here. It's for all those idiots who believe every second of a Mac commercial.
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