Why do you suppose does Dell insist on using ineffectual asshole-types to pimp their computers.
Currently we have a bunch of young people, doing the ad work. The key guy in this ensemble is an effeminate ponce, who flounces his bumbling, stumbling way through crises and catastrophes, pursing his lips, accomplishing nothing while stiking his limp wrist poses. His friend is a black young man who is also technologically inept, but not nearly as swishy.
The humor(?) is so moronic it makes you wince.
Before this group came along, Dell used that dorky kid who couldn’t act, couldn’t deliver his lines believeably, had no timing, no comedic sense. Yet he lasted for some time.
One computer duo, however, was very good. Remember Chris and Leon? I think they spoke for IBM - and they did it so well.
But why does Dell subject us to its horseshit ads?
Okay, I can hear their reply. Yes the ads aren’t high level comedy, but they work. They SELL.
Which means, of course, that good stuff doesn’t.
The Diet Coke ad with the young folks in the theater watching a Humphery Bogart-Ingrid Bergman B&W film that knocks everyone out, is great but doesn’t SELL Coke? Is that why they run it and run it and run it?
Oh, I just hate the Dell intern ads! Like the one where the two guys are working late and as they leave, they turn off the lights and hear a bevy of protests from the (remarkably small) nighttime tech support crew. They are stunned to realize that they’re not alone!! But if their turning off the lights bothered tech support, then the lights must have been on the whole time–and unless they give tech support using hand signals only, they’re going to generate some sound. So how oblivious would one have to be not to know the night shift was working? And what’s with the turning the light off and on and saying there must be a problem with the fuse?
And you just gotta love their latest puke-inspiring commercials–On the Road with The Three Stooges. Like I really believe that this national computer corporation needs three classless, clueless DWEEBS to tell them, “Hey, if you sold a lot of things together in one package–we’ll call it ‘bundling’–people would be more prone to purchase our computers!” If they did, that’s all the more reason to avoid buying a Dell!
And yes, I must say that, although I really like a lot of the products he hawks, Billy Mays is about as appealing as Orson Welles in a thong.