I have so many cars I get stuck in my own traffic.
I kinda like them. Gates is a little stiff; Jerry is dead on.
But, as happens with all commercials good or bad…my god, the other night, I swear the shoe commercial came on three times in a row. Can’t stand it anymore!
Well, it’s officially geek lore now:
Well I kinda like them.
But my newest favorite commercial is the McDonalds commercial for their cappucino coffee. Two guys in a “coffe house” thankful that they don’t have to be poseurs any more.
I loved the first commercial. It’s classic Seinfeld. Instead of a show about nothing, it’s a commercial about nothing. I wonder how many of the people who don’t like it didn’t like the Seinfeld show either.
Wow, I guess I’m one of the few that really likes these commercials. Seriously, I think they are freakin’ hilarious. I love how Jerry always has bill give him a “sign” at the end. Cracks me right up.
And while I can not speak on much authority about this, I personally have 10 friends and 10 more acquaintances who are going to Ivy League universities that they otherwise could have never dreamed of attending, because of the Gates Millennium Scholarship. Megacorps getting all the money? Maybe, but really people are being helped, too.
I like Jerry just fine, bill, OTOH, no matter what he does, no matter how he tries to make himself more “likeable”, the more I hate him, he’s the one person on this planet I truly cannot stand, even though I never met him (nor would I want to, I have nothing to say to him)
the commercials are amusing though
Never been a fan of the “what are they advertising?” commercials- more to the point: standing alone some of them are funny or interesting, but I don’t like them as commercials.
The shoe store one, just confusing.
The one with the family “connecting with regular people”, go the point across but it took awhile and needed to be expressly stated. And when I saw the ad on T.V. only the first half was aired- it ended with the family meeting about the missing stuffed giraffe, with Dad realizing it must have been “Gates and Seinfeld!” but before confronting them.
With the cut in that place, although I got that there was some “connecting with regular people” message (which BTW is why they couldn’t have used Sinbad- Seinfeld’s wealth is an integral part of the gag) I still didn’t know it was a Microsoft commercial. Microsoft doesn’t get a plug until the end of the full commercial. Yet, if they’re running the commercial in halves, the second half doesn’t make sense to anyone who hasn’t seen the first.
But one major shout-out: David Costabile, who played Mel’s husband Doug on the show Flight of the Conchords, plays the Dad in this commercial and he does a great job- very, very funny!
ETA: there was a part I forgot to say
Sitting at lunch today, two of us IT guys and an Engineer that prefers Macs all agreed the commercial are fun and really grab your attention.
Not to further dilute the commercial discussion, but our local library has a dozen or more computers from the Gates foundation, free.
See that just proves **Tuckerfan’s **point!
Wait, I am being told it doesn’t. Nevermind.
I like the commercials too. They’re weird.
I liked Bill doing the robot under Seinfelds direction. That was pretty funny.
Except I didn’t say that, nor did I claim it was a certainty.
“Oh, but you’re feeding ignorance, Tucker saying such things and not offering a cite!” you say. Suppose I do offer a cite? Then what happens? The same thing that always happens: Someone comes in with a countercite that they claim disproves my cite, then someone else comes in with a counter-countercite which they claims disproves that cite, then someone comes in with an anecdote, then someone points out that anecdotes aren’t cites or useful data, then someone comes in with a cite that they say proves my claim, then someone dispustes the validity of that source, and we all go round and round until we disappear up our own assholes. Meanwhile, we’re doing nothing productive with our lives, and even if we do manage to nail it down to everyone’s satisfaction where the bulk of the money from the Gates Foundation goes, it’ll change exactly zero things about the world, other than all of us know much more about some pointless piece of trivia. Thank you, no, I’ll pass.
What’s tuition to an Ivy League school these days? $40K/yr or so? How is sending 20 people to an Ivy League school better than helping out villiages in the developing world? Certainly there could be some benefits to the developing world from the educations that those students gain, but is the money better spent sending someone to Harvard or Yale, who otherwise would have “only” been able to go to a second tier school than on a villiage in Africa? I don’t know. Certainly a case could be made either way.
I thought the family spot was pretty funny, although forced at times. I was a bit confused with the premise at first. I also thought Bill did well enough – better than the spot where he was bothering Bono all the time.
This isn’t an add to win over IT people (Microsoft already has those ads and they are terrible). This is an ad to reposition Microsoft in the minds of normal consumers.
Next time you intend to make an assertion that you cannot support or are unwilling to support, please refrain. It shouldn’t matter what forum it is in or, indeed, whether it is in a forum at all.
So if I post a thread about a family member passing, I should be prepared to post a copy of the death certificate in case somebody asks? :dubious: To what extent should one be prepared to back up an “assertion”? Should I put in 1 hour? 10 hours? Should I refute every single attack with a cite? What will it solve? Have the (by now hundreds of) hours people have put in refuting those who claim that this or that OS is superior, or that global warming is a myth, or that evolution is a fraud managed to shut folks up? Judging by the regularity with which such threads crop up here, I’m gonna say “No.” Its not as if I stated that it was safe for someone with a peanut allergy to eat Cracker Jacks. Nobdoy’s going to suffer any kind of harm if I’m wrong and they believe what I post. I’m ignorant of what it feels like to have Eva Green sit on my face (Do you need a cite for this? I hope not, as I’m at a loss as to how I could prove such a thing, no matter how true it might be.), should I demand that in the name of “fighting ignorance” the masses of the SDMB rectify this situation? (And if they are, then we’ll talk.)
Stop shitting on my thread. Start a GD or Pit thread on why Gates sucks. I don’t care. We’re here to talk about commercials dammit!
Y’know, I don’t find Jerry Seinfeld funny. And Bill Gates is actually generally anti-funny.
But I really find these commercials hilarious. There’s something about them together that towers over either of them alone.