Tuesday, December 2, 2008 |
04:23 - And what generation of writers are you guys on again?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/01/the-simpsons-mocks-m-apple/
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Really. This is what The Simpsons is reduced to? Playing to a perceived popular anti-Apple backlash?
Few have been spared the satire of Matt Groening's long running animated sitcom. Last night, The Simpsons took on Apple, or uh, Mapple for a full 6 minutes of lampoonery -- a pretty harsh ride at a two-joke per minute pace. It all starts when the Springfield mall gets its very own Mapple store, "it's so sterile," gasps Lisa upon entering. Perhaps the best exchange comes from Bart's dubbing of a Steve Mobs' product announcement in front of a crowd of gaping nerds, "You think you're cool because you buy a $500 phone with a picture of a fruit on it. Well guess what? They cost 8 bucks to make and I pee on every one!" A Mapple store employee then angrily responds, "Who dares question the boss we fired 10 years ago and then brought back!" Yuk yuk. Videos after the break for as long as it takes for the copyrighters to wake up.
"Eat Up Martha" this ain't. I mean, sure, they're a much bigger target now... but so's Google and a bunch of other companies whose products have become ubiquitous for much better reasons than mooing mob mentality.
Lisa's their mouthpiece for social commentary as per usual these days; and her complaint is that the stores are sterile? Right, those barnyard-themed Gateway stores were a lot better.
Who really thinks the writing staff isn't completely populated with Mac/iPod/iPhone users anyway? Then again, maybe it isn't; maybe they're all bitter Luddites who fume about DRM, or self-satisfied techno-weenies who pay $600 for a contractless Blackberry and then laugh at iPhones that start at $200.
No wonder I stopped watching it years ago.
(Then again, maybe they're doing a "TruthMedia" thing, trolling for thin-skinned Apple dorks to write hasty, ill-thought-out snarky reaction blog posts about it out of context. Or something.)
Via JMH.
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