NBC’s “Chuck” TV program has made mention of Apple iPod while also belittling Microsoft’s “Zune” flop.
Episode 205 | Season 2 | 10/27/2008
In the Buy More employee break room, Jeff daydreams about his glorious past – and the day 25 years ago when he won the Missile Command Championship. His reminiscence is rudely interrupted by Big Mike calling everyone to the sales floor immediately, even Chuck, who is apparently late for work:
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lol – that’s funny.
That was just as funny as when I watched it! lol
lol — too funny.
just yesterday pcmag put out a review saying that the zune is the best all around disk-based media player in the 120gb category. lol
I lol’d when I saw that. Surprised it took MDN this long to find out.
“You have a Zune?!!” – “Are you kidding me?… NO, no. It’s on my iPod.”
Said SOooo derisively. A touchingly sad note in the Microshaft saga…which is what makes it so satisfyingly funny!
Very Funny!
Ok, I might have to start watching that show now.
The Dude abides.
Laughed like crazy when I first saw this on the show.
Also: Rush ROCKS!
Morgans delivery of the line is classic. I’ve never seen one consumer product so openly mocked in favor of another on TV before.
I’d love to know if Apple specifically paid for that line or if it was just a “happy” circumstance.
the best one l`ve seen when mad tv was screwing around with apple products… now thats funny… have a look see at youtube.. Apple products suckssssssss
Chuck is a Mac guy, so his response makes sense…
Zunes zuck.
Let Microsoft be Microsoft. Leave Apple alone. Please.
Microsoft+Ballmer= Sore Losers
If you aren’t watching Reaper and Chuck, you are really missing out on great stuff.
Okay, even tho the situation you describe happened in the episode, that was at the beginning and this is at the end.
Here, Jeff is passed out from nerves in the audio theater room. Chuck just tried to play Missile Command and blew it big time. He then turned around to the guy that heckled him and saw the “Rush” t-shirt. He then remembered that the game was coded to the tune of a specific song. He then turned to ask Morgan to get the song…
Here is where the video begins…
For those of us at work and can’t watch it, can someone post a brief description of what is said about the Zune and iPod? The description above the video link doesn’t say jack.
Rush is the greatest band alive!!
Yup, I’m a fan, hehe…
Macs on my desktop, Rush on my iPods….
apple sucks microsoft is way better. ipods suck too. zunes kick ass
Chuck is a fine show… fell off the couch when that line was uttered last Monday.
if you at least made an effort to show why you believe what you wrote, you might get a decent response.. but since you didn’t… STFU and troll somewhere else.
I watched this episode from my DVR. I rewound this scene and watched it three or four times because I bought it was so funny.
Whoops… thought!!!
I love all the Macs in that show. You see a lot of G5’s floating around and, I believe (low res), Mac Pros in boxes up on the store shelves.
What is this “Zune” everyone is talking about?
Those guys making Chuck must love Apple. If I remember one of their previous episodes correctly, the display terminal for the “Intersect” computer (the database from which is in Chuck’s head) looked like a Mac SE (aka the classic compact Mac with 9-inch screen).
You gotta link to a version in the correct aspect ratio?