Mike Orren » fox http://orrenmedia.com Don't need no steenking tagline Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:00:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Was Simpsons’ genius skewering of Apple an advertising D’oh? http://orrenmedia.com/2008/12/01/was-simpsons-genius-skewering-of-apple-an-advertising-doh/ http://orrenmedia.com/2008/12/01/was-simpsons-genius-skewering-of-apple-an-advertising-doh/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:24:34 +0000 Mike Orren http://orrenmedia.com/?p=160 "Look! It's so sterile!"

"Look! It's so sterile!"

Whether you’re an Apple fanboy (like me) or a hater, you had to enjoy the skewering delivered by The Simpsons last night. It was some of the sharper satire we’ve seen out of the show in a while. (See video clips after the jump).

But for all the merriment rampant in Apple’s Mac/PC ad campaigns, Steve Jobs isn’t known for his sense of humor on such matters. Especially when the first ad of the first commercial break was for the Macbook…

As much as we marvel at bad contextual advertising online, it isn’t really new.

Clips:

Full episode:

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