Microsoft To Announce Jerry Seinfeld Ads Cancelled

An anonymous reader writes "Valleywag says the Jerry Seinfeld ads are over — In a phone call, Frank Shaw confirms that Microsoft is not going on with Seinfeld, and echoes his underlings' spin that the move was planned. There is the 'potential to do other things' with Seinfeld, which Shaw says is still 'possible.' He adds: 'People would have been happier if everyone loved the ads, but this was not unexpected.'"

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Re:Penny Arcade called it

[OK PC]

I actually really liked the first three seasons and I also spell it "humour".
It was all about real situations turned surreal by the characters involved.
However, when I bought the forth season, apparently when the show hit it's stride, I was massively disappointed with the direction they took. The episodes became sillier and sillier and they really lost what they were trying to do in the first place, a sitcom without sitcom cliches. With the exception of certain episodes, such as "Master of their domain", it wasn't worth watching anymore because it didn't ring true.
For God's sake, there is even an episode where George is pretending to be a Whale Biologist to get a woman and when they are wandering the beach they happen to come across a beached whale!

Re:Penny Arcade called it

[metlin]

Seinfeld poked fun of everyday life of White, Upper Middleclass, Living in New York City, people who have questionable morals. I watched siendfeld and I know no one who's life is even remotly like that, even in a non exadurated form. The latest add shows what they think of the real average family, a bunch of mizerable people who are boring and a bunch of bumpkins.
Durring the 90's people not necessarly stupid, but found it more funny, as it was more optimistic times, and everyone felt that they could be just one lucky investment in a IPO away from living the trendy NYC life style. However today we are a more consertive people (in the terms of consertive that is not political). We don't expect or plan for that life style we want prefer a more settled lifestyle, as we relize that the Siendfield life style in real life would often do more harm then good. I am supprised that half of the characters didn't get untreatible STDs, or the fact when they didn't have a job they can still aford rent for a New York City appartment. How quickly they can be some Lowly assistant, to fired for their own misconduct, to rehired as some higher paying prestegious job. I think the realism of everyday life reality has changed in american culture. The 1990's Gen X started to get a foot in by the 2000's gen X owns the world. Gen X realized that this type of life isn't as glamerious as siendfield made it.

My, you must be rewriting the English language.

Re:Penny Arcade called it

[Facegarden]

"Glad the ads are dead. There's "cool" surreal. (See: Rutger Hauer Guinness commercials [youtube.com] in the late 80's and early 90's) Then there is utterly retarded. That was these."

And the thing is....someone, probably multiple people in a committee...actually thought these commercials were a GOOD idea!! I mean, even a company with the assets MS has doesn't just throw millions of dollars around on ads without a lot of people approving this.

Was there not a single, normal person that saw these say said...WTF?

Someone in charge of marketing at MS really needs to be encouraged to find greener pastures at another company over this one....

I thought the ads were fucking hilarious! I like strange humor, and they were certainly strange but in a funny way! I thought they were great - The first one mostly. I mean, two insanely rich men buying shoes at a discount shoe store? It was great, especially the discourse they had with each other!

*sigh*
-Taylor