14th Aug 2002
More Apple Switch Parodies
I wonder if Apple takes all the parody’s of its Switch ad campaign as a complement. I’ve seen so many of these parodies, I would expect someone else has already gone ot the trouble of putting together a list of them, but not finding one, I did so myself:
- Ellen Feiss - this is actually one of the real commercials from Apple, but her performance is so funny, mainly because she’s obviously completely stoned, that it’s inspired all sorts of fan sites.
- Will Ferrell - was this actually on SNL? Slick, but given that it was shown at MacWorld (as you can see from the last couple of seconds) it’s a bit too PR-friendly for real parody. Also, makes Mozilla 1.0 crash.
- DrunkerGamers.com - this is my favorite, after Ellen Feiss.
- LBStone.com’s Big Macs - raw and amateurish, but funny.
- Move to Iceland - I blogged this once already, but this is a round-up, and it’s the best of the animated ones I saw.
- Bill Gates - this one has gotten lots of exposure. Eh. Typical pro-maccie, anti-MS humor.
- Big Brother - another from MacBoy (author of the Bill Gates one). I’m not sure I get this. It’s obviously a spoof on the famous Apple 1984 commercial, but I don’t understand whether the point is that the Mac OS X is somehow supposed to be the new IBM (wishful thinking) or whether it’s still saying Macs are the best, or what.
- Dude - yet another from MacBoy, and just not really funny to my mind, but then this is supposed to be a round-up, not a review. I gather he’s also spoofing a Dell commercial I haven’t seen, but I can’t see that making it funnier.
And a bonus animation. After all my trashing of MacBoy, he redeems himself with this really funny parody of his father, titled “Dad vs. AOL.”
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