18th September 2008, 10:07 PM
There have been these insane commercials from Microsoft for... product? Anyway, they have Seinfeld running around talking trivial meandering nonsense with Bill Gates. Then they show the Microsoft logo, and then (I assume) we are intended to buy something from MS. Could anything lack more content?
Yeah, so that's what the comic is about, and they nailed it beyond perfectly. The meandering nonsense that's supposed to sound like "what real people talk about", the sudden "This was an advertisement for you to buy from us", the complete irrelevence to ANYTHING MS actually does and the total failure to even bother incorporating an actual product into the advert? Yeah, it's all there, and they didn't even need to exxagerate anything to make it funny. As such, it's a perfect parody. Thus, comic genius.
Yeah, so that's what the comic is about, and they nailed it beyond perfectly. The meandering nonsense that's supposed to sound like "what real people talk about", the sudden "This was an advertisement for you to buy from us", the complete irrelevence to ANYTHING MS actually does and the total failure to even bother incorporating an actual product into the advert? Yeah, it's all there, and they didn't even need to exxagerate anything to make it funny. As such, it's a perfect parody. Thus, comic genius.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)