There is NOTHING irrational about hating those damnable Mac ads.
It’s completely rational. Mac’s a douche, and the campaign is built on stupidity and lies.
The Mac ads basically make the PC guy endearing, in a nerdily cute kind of way. I’d be interested in seein the sales figures - the ads may not drive people to PCs, but I’m not sure they sell Macs.
I used to think this, until I figured that the actor who plays PC guy is probably paid handsomely by Apple, and from what I hear is a Mac user himself.
That said, on one of the latest commercials, there’s a part where PC guy says “go to commercial,” Mac guy replies “we are a commercial,” and then PC guy says “go to ANOTHER commercial.” Whenever he says the last line, I always reply “I agree, PC guy.”
He is out of sync with the words being said. Looks like he is chewing his lower lip. And guess what, it isn’t even his voice. Apparently the ‘actor’ has too thick of a French-Canadian accent so they had to find someone else to voice-over for him.
Must not have been able to find another scraggly dweeb who could actually do the ad and say the words, at the same time.
This may just have been on the radio - I heard it between every damn half-inning while commuting home during the MLB playoffs, but can’t recall seeing it on TV.
It was a commercial for the US Association of Realtors. Nothing too odd about it…except they said the word “realtor” about fifty times in the 30 second ads, and pronounced it “real-tor”, like “Gigantor” or “Gamblor”, where I pronounce it more like “theater.” In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone pronounce it “real-tor.”
Since it’s the US Association of Realtors, I guess they should know how to pronounce it, but I feel like they’re correcting me. Like if Subaru started an ad blitz where they kept saying “[sub]Suba[/sub]ROO!!!”
I don’t know if it’s a Canadian ad or an American one, but I hate the commercial where one girl is on crutches and her friend goes out grocery shopping for her to help her out. Except she has the gall to buy the wrong brand of yogurt!
The snarky tone she uses when she says “This isn’t my USUAL brand” makes me want to kick her. If I were the friend I certainly wouldn’t be offering to run any more errands for that bitch.
Yeah, John Hodgman is a Mac user. I have nothing against Macs (and I’m a devoted iPod user and iPhone-drooler-over) but their commercials always push my opinion needle over towards the negative. And, feeling bad for poor PC dude.
Me too. I like Apple, but the commercials actually seem to be designed to woo ignorant people who will just buy mostly false rumors about versions of Windows.
They should just say: Apple: for computer idiots
Actually, that’s a disgrace to Apple computers, which are actually quite good.
No, I’ve seen this woman on TV. And she’s wearing some tan outfit that reminds me of a paramilitary uniform.
Reminds me of when I first started hearing radio commercials for “JAH-gwr” automobiles.
Why would makeup compare itself to software?
(Seriously, it’s been “Mac” for 25 years now.)
I’ve never noticed the music, and I’ve never really been creeped out by the doll…what bothers me about that commercial is the vacant expression on the lady’s face when the doll starts walking upright.
Soccer mom embarrassing her vanful of kids, singing/seat dancing very, very badly indeed, “I wanna go to Frieenndddlyyyy’s” (beep). STFU already. It’s a bucket of meat-and-eggs pancake house, not a ladies-spa-with-free-happy-ending-massages!
Hmm - that’s way different from the radio ad. She barely says “real-tor” at all in that link, and the pronounciation has been softened. Maybe someone got to her. ::looks around shiftily::
The Mac vs PC commercials made me root for PC too. The Mac guy doesn’t seem all that hip to me. Just smug and annoying.
I hate the commercial where the woman lies about her air freshener. “Gla-day”. I want to punch her in the throat. Who cares where you buy your air freshener?
I hate the paper towel commercial where the father and son debate the need for 3 or 4 paper towels while the spill is spreading. The smarmy mother swoops in with one and does a “I’ll show them”. First, stop the spill you idiots, then have your stupido conversation.
I do like the soup commercial when the husband almost says “a full serving of veggies” but the wife starts banging pans. Funny as hell.
Those stupid Old Navy mannequins.
Bifidus regularis. There’s no such organism, you smarmy motherfuckers. Well, there is, but it doesn’t have that name. It’s a strain of a subspecies of Bifidobacterium animalis. It infuriates me when advertisers make up taxonomy out of whole cloth.
I hate the Hoveround commercials where they go to the Grand Canyon and the Statue of Liberty. I also hate the commercials, usually targeted to seniors and disabled people, that use lots of red white and blue, use words like “announcement” and “entitled” to try to look like an official (government) offer.
I hate the Symbicort™ commercials with the silhouetted woman with the glowing lungs (that look like breasts).
According to some advertising stories in the Times, the ads have been very successful. If they were bombs, Microsoft would never respond to them, would they? They forced MS to do that Gates/Seinfeld disaster also.
Me, I’ll watch anything with Hodgman, who is very funny. And the latest ones actually mention Macs quality awards. Not that I’m a Mac fan - I’m a command line kind of guy myself.
What I hate are the new Windows 7 ads, where the losers say that only they could tell Microsoft to create an operating system that doesn’t suck. Microsoft is basically admitting that what they put out was such a piece of crap that obvious “improvements” mentioned in the ads are amazing enhancements.
I’m not a PC! I’m a free man!
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