While there, Lisa gets her very own “myPod.”
The Simpsons visit the Mapple Store:
Direct link via YouTube here.
MacDailyNews Take: Instead of a handout, Lisa gets a job. How un-American.
Anyhow, cheap prices = cheap products.
Mapple. You get what you pay for.
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And thanks, MDN, for turning it political.
Instead of a handout, Lisa gets a job. How un-American.
Someone missed the entire premise of this episode, which was Satire.
If you’re not blinded by right-wing ideology, it’s pretty clear.
And to make it absolutely clear to Madein:
MDN take (How un-American) was an attempt at sarcasm, slightly coloured by right-wing conservativism.
I thought it contained some pretty funny stuff. It made for a good Monday morning laugh.
Now, back to my un-American job that uses programmers outsourced from India to do work at 1/3 the price of Indian programmers here in this country.
Someone needs to unclench their arse cheeks and relax!!!
This episode was essentially a 30-minute Apple infomercial. Right in the middle were even a couple of real Apple commercials. Regardless of whether it was funny or not, or satire or parody, it was free publicity for Apple. And that is always a good thing for any company.
I kept wondering though why the gave Steve a lisp. And why they didn’t get the real Steve for the part. I wonder if they even asked him.
I recently re-watched the first seven seasons of the Simpsons and they were indeed much funnier (in my opinion), with more character/relationship humor and less satire and outlandish plots. Could be different taste but it’s certainly not as hugely popular as it once was.
Still, nice to have Apple reach this level of public consciousness.
Right Wing, Left Wing- both bad! Both are extremes- but most people live a conserative life- never spending more than they can pay. When a person spends too much in a “liberial” spending spree they go bankrupt. A person too “conservative” banks a lot of money but does nothing but save. So most say within their budget with a conservative/liberal balance.
Balance is obtained with competeing forces as does the market.
@ Cartoon Philosopher
Well said!
If this episode is an example, The Simpsons has yet to “jump the shark”. I loved how, after “Mobs” was set to announce news that will “completely change the way you look at everything” the faithful took out their cash! All in good fun.
OK, maybe it’s not the “insanely great” humor of earlier seasons, but it’s still pretty good. Still The SImpsons take on “The Raven” in an early Halloween Special, or the one where Marge plays in “Streetcar” with the sub-plot parody of “The Great Escape” with Maggie as “prisoner” are hard acts to follow.
This show works on so many levels, I don’t have time to comment on all.
A big parallel I see is Lisa and our present economic problems.
Someone is given something they didn’t earn. They abuse it. They get in trouble. They ask for a bailout, and resent the solution.
The Simpson’s may have a stinker episode from time to time, but it’s the best thing going on Sunday night.
If this had been tried on Family Guy, it would have been nothing more than Peter playing with the new Fart app on his phone while a couple of iShag computers copulated in the background.
MacFarlane must have had something on FOX to get them to keep pushing his crap until they found enough teenage boys to watch it. No multilevel messages here. Just sophomoric or smutty one liners.
I love my iPhone, iPod, MacBook Pro, and Apple, but this was hilarious. It’s an honor to be spoofed by The Simpsons. This was tame compared to what South Park would do to them.
Definite elements of truth in this cut, I was in effect
laughing at myself watching this.
Just imagine if South Park ripped on Apple.
I liked the clip, and it was apparent the writers know their Apple. The thing that I didn’t get was the song that came on when Bart asked the Cube for help against the earbud flaying mobs. What about the Jobs under the ocean though? I know, Gates took a bunch a of journalists on a submarine trip in Poland to experience “A world without Windows” for the launch of Windows 95. Big gala event that was, worth billions of dollars in sales since and a decade of false hype. Who says Apple is the lord of the hype machine? It’s only hype when you don’t deliver in my book.
But I agree with one of the previous comments regarding the Simpsons. I agree that the show has stopped being funny a long, long time ago. I think he mentioned 10 years, but I’d go back to season 3 (1990 was it?) and end the series right there. After that, they became the joke they were making fun of. My favourite animated (or otherwise as well) show remains The King of the Hill. Very, very subtle. Mike Judge is so underrated and under appreciated still. King of the hill indeed.
This episode was hilariously dead on – and remember it was probably scripted 16 months ago. Most people on this blog stopped being funny 10 seasons ago. “That light confirms that it’s off.” Classic.
@MDN: “Instead of a handout, Lisa gets a job. How un-American.”
Sometimes there’s a clash between MDN’s love of all that’s Apple and its love of all that’s conservative.
I have found that in the past I dont agree with the simpson’s underlying message.. this just reenforces the fact that my stance on most things are not that with the simpsons..
Burn windows burn
Einstein, Time Machine. But Studio 54??
And yes, dropping references does not make a show universally funny. Just like familiarity doesn’t make great music, as many suspect is the case with quite a few Beatles’ tunes. A few of the voice actors in Simpson never clicked with me from day one, most notably Bart Simpson’s. Having a middle aged female do a teen aged boy and his ‘angst’ somehow does not ring authentic to me. Same way I feel about Conan O’Brien and his blend of over-used self decimating humour which he used in the Simpsons as well. Letterman brought acerbity in his self loathing if not contempt, Conan’s is just trying and therefore less than authentic, in my view. Anyway, it was a spin-off that have made a lot of people wealthy, including Mr. Murdoch whom it has made fun of on numerous occasions. I suspect, it’s the economics mostly that keeps the series floating the air-waves rather than any thirst for real creativity. Something I associate with many things Apple from day one.
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” ~ Jobs.
Since when does getting a job instead of a handout make one “conservative?”
Strong identification with “conservative” or “liberal” (whatever those terms happen to mean) is a trap.
This was hysterical, you folks really need to stop taking yourselves so seriously! I’m a huge Apple fanatic, but c’mon, this stuff was right on. So funny. Light confirms that it’s off. Great line.
Good stuff, shame they couldn’t get the real Steve to do the voiceover.
@ those who think the Simpsons is still funny …
– Apple headquarters is under the ocean? Why? (and why is this “funny”?)
– Calling modern design “sterile”? (welcome to the 1960’s everyone!)
– “That light confirms that it’s off.” (the opposite of an Apple design) This is funny because it’s the *reverse* of what Apple does?
The main point of the segment (humour-wise), seems to be Barts “rant” which is full of so many re-cycled “truisms” about Apple (Apple users are gay, Apple is ripping you off, etc.).
There is a running joke in the Simpsons that goes through many many episodes. It’s about Mad Magazine and how they lost their way in terms of satire. This is exactly where the Simpsons finds themselves today. Tired gain-saying of new trends, and stolen jokes from the mainstream re-cycled as their own.
One last sad point… complete continuity error when Bart plugs in his handheld microphone. Shabby and shameless, that’s what the Simpsons are today.
Steve Mobs about to make an announcement, then the lemmings pull their cash out before hearing what he has to say…..priceless and right on the money…hahahahaha!!!
Absolutely brilliant.
Apple should pay attention to the sarcasm in this episode. The “holier-than-thou, we are God’s gift to you all” attitude is more than just a bit stale.
No longer is it cool to purchase Apple products. It has become cool to be an Apple critic.
The level of pretentiousness coming from Apple and Apple fans hit a crescendo with the introduction of the iPhone.
Apple needs to come back down to Earth. The press conferences just to introduce a product need to stop. Hold a press conference if you cure heart disease, or cancer, or AIDS. We don’t need a press conference to let us know that iPods come in different colors. We don’t need press conferences for new products at all quite frankly. Such behavior is at best unwarranted. In the end, the Macintosh is just a computer. The iPhone is just a phone.
Jobs and his cadre of followers such as Jonathan Ives have become caricatures of themselves. Their own perception of themselves as being “uber cool” comes out in their wholly affected public appearances and statements.
Apple once screwed up by resting on their laurels and allowing the Macintosh OS to languish for years before doing anything about what became a bloated morass of undecipherable code.
Now they are in danger of turning people off with their arrogance and pompousness. Apple has become the brand for the “Chads” and “Brittneys” of the world.
Time to rethink differently.
Good Job Simpsons.