Macboy Spoofs the New Apple Commercials

Spock the Baptist writes "A big plate of, fresh from the oven, homemade chocolate chip cookies to the person or persons who dreamed up this send-up of Cousin Bill via a spoof of the current crop of Apple commercials. Gotta love it!" Sure, why not? It's Friday! Also included are commercials with the You're Gettin' a Dell dork and Big Brother from the 1984 commercial.

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Very Funny

[erasmus_]

After watching all three, I can definitely confirm that these are amusing. I also like how he can make fun of Mac as well, since by parodying the Pixar logo animation with the new iMac as the jumping lamp, he confirms one of the common appearance jokes I've heard about them.

I wonder if Apple will try to use these at all, perhaps as something included on some CDROM - I'm sure they'd be in trouble if they made the Dell parody themselves, but if someone else did it, I'd think it's fair game.

Uhhhh...

[usr122122121]

and Big Brother from the 1984 commercial.

Uh... you do know that 1984 was a book before apple used it as an idea for a commercial, right? ;-)

Re:Uhhhh...

[Louis_Wu]

1984 was a book before apple used it as an idea for a commercial

True, but the commercial aired during the year 1984, during the Superbowl, in fact.

Re:Switching to PCs

[adashiel]

If we're going with reality then here's how a Mac to PC ad switch would go:

I used to have a Mac, but then my IT manager took it away from me and gave me a Dell. Now I use Windows. It's okay. I guess.

My name is Bob, and I work in a cubicle.

Seems a little familiar...

[wka]

Using Bill Gates to parody one of the new Apple ads has been done before, as he's a very obvious target.

Re:...or nothing at all.

[PythonOrRuby]

You see, people who are actually into model rockets, they go outside and actually build them.

Similarly, people who are really into bass fishing... they use a boat, not a computer.

Now, people who are into downloading things because an epilapsy-inducing banner ad promised that it'd be the greatest program ever made, these are the people who use their computer to catch bass.

Re:Mac means no choice

[PythonOrRuby]

I wonder how much the performance of cross-stitching is hindered by running under VirtualPC...

Oh god, I'm just like the dell dude :(

[red5]

"Is there a way I could meet that DJ chick ..." -- Dell dude

Me and the dell dude think alike. I hang my head in shame :(

Re:More amusing parodies

[rworne]

While the parody is funny, the creator lifted one of the "switch" commercials in its entirety. I'd be more up in arms if he reshot the commercial in the same style and Apple sent the C letter.

Who thinks the switch ads are good?

[extrasolar]

I'm not sure if its me or typical Apple-loving by their fans but I've heard some people call this marketing campaign as brilliant. I don't see it.

Now I'm not any kind of professional ad critic but what I've seen from the commercials is "Hello, I'm a looser but I bought a Mac so things are looking up."

First, who's going to believe an Apple ad that Apple computers are easier/better to use? I mean, personally, I'd much rather believe that cow.

Second, why do these ad characters seem so stressed to me? The guy in glasses has that strange look in his face that says something like "dude, I have to vomit."

I've heard people describe marketing campaigns as brilliant before -- but maybe some people just love being advertised to?

Re:Who thinks the switch ads are good?

[Rand Race]

Think about this: The most succesfull computer ad campaign in the past few years has been Stephan the Dell Boy. Fucking stupid right? Right, but it works and it is NOT aimed at people like us. Its aimed at the common man, the (and forgive me Mr. Brooks) common clay of the new internet.... you know, MORONS.

I work as an admin for an ad agency and date a copy writer and all the ad wizards I know say the new Apple campaign is TOO cerebral and elitist. Funny enough, I think you hit it at the end; yes, some people like being advertised to and those people are not us. We - the jaded, cynical, intellegent, educated, tech-savvy types - are not the target of these campaigns. Virtualy no campaigns are aimed at us because we are an ad targeter's nightmare. So instead they - wisely - just let guys like Avie Tevanian and Jordan Hubbard geek out in public: seems to work OK.

Re:Who thinks the switch ads are good?

[gripdamage]

All I could think was who are these losers?!

What's really funny is how well a Bill Gates ad would fit in! :)

Re:Any application

[Suppafly]

And, PEOPLE WILL NEVER TAKE ANYONE SERIOUSLY, who types CERTAIN THINGS in ALL CAPS for NO APPARENT REASON, while making BASELESS CLAIMS and forward looking statements BASED ON EMOTION AND NOT common SENSE.

Switch Ads Suck

[hotsauce]

Yeah, I agree, they don't look real, they look like they've been bought and paid for. And they sound like the more stupid specimen of our species. Most of them have to think about what their names and titles are for gods sake!

I'd like to see an ad with the programmer dude showing us on his screen why he likes programming on OS X better; I'd like to see the DJ chick show us how she uses her Mac for DJing. Not just a bunch of paid people saying "Hey they're great, trust me, and they're pretty, get them!".

Re:Switch Ads Suck

[great throwdini]

Yeah, I agree, they don't look real, they look like they've been bought and paid for.

Well, you're half correct: they *are* paid for, but they're real and not "bought". A close friend of mine was one of those called out by Apple to meet with the ad people and shoot a spot for the series. He later did some voiceover work for them (radio spots, I assume).

Perfectly normal guy; a "real" person. Yes, he was paid for rights to broadcast what they had recorded of him for the promo spots. No, that doesn't mean they bought him to use as a puppet. He just told them why he liked his TiBook and iPod.

Then again, he didn't make the final cut for the present collection of spokespeople, and he's not certain they were planning on airing more people at a later date... :p

aha

[seraphim via]

I used to use a PC. It was fine, except that it crashed all too often. I will give a real world example as to how I hated Windows, so all you faithful /. folks won't go into the 'troll' and 'give evidence you fag man' train of thought. Towards the end of my PC days, I used to play UO. Now, when you are hunting Drakes, it is important not to crash. Drakes take some strategy to kill, and when my machine freezes while I am flanking right, things go bad. You log back in after a restart dead, and in the middle of nowhere, with all of your items looted. There is my example. I love my Mac because it works. Sorry, I do not use baseball card collector software, or bass fishing, or cross-stitching, I think the people that do those things do not use computers for them at all. I live in Southeast Texas, I know rednecks and fishing, people that are real fishermen do not use computers to aid them. They drink beer and talk about fishing with their buddies on the front porch in lawn chairs. I use my Mac to do all of my unix things from my linux days, I use it to do all of my imaging things like Photoshop, all of my web things like reading /. and checking up on news, and all of my movie editing. It works better than my PC, I have found all of the applications I need for it, and they work better than the PC versions, in my opinion. iTunes is the best music software I have ever used, I love it dearly. So, IMHO, my Mac is the greatest computer I have ever used. Now, faithful Windows sheep, flame away.