YouTuber “Zenophobius” has posted the first Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld commercial, “Shoe Circus.”
Direct link via YouTube here.
[Attribution: Gizmodo. Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “ChrissyOne” and “RadDoc” for the heads up.]
Get a Mac. And hurry!
O M G!!!!! WTF WAS THAT?????? They CAN’T be serious! Great take MDN!! Spot on.
MDN MW=court as in MS isn’t even on thee same one as Apple, never mind in the game.
If the shoe fits,…
Huh?!?
that was a complete waste of 1:30
They expect to sell Windows with THAT?!?!
I am happy to announce that 8 years ago today I became a Mac user. It was on this day – Sept. 5th 2000 – that I bought my Cube (my first computer and still my only desktop). Before that point in time, I hated “computers” because all I knew was Windoze. It was my friend, Art, who showed me the light.
Thanks Art!
And who knows how long my Cube will run faithfully and flawlessly….
Brilliant! When the aliens see this video taken from the time capsule, they will be disoriented and leave our galaxy.
Note the Apple storefront at the very beginning….
The commercial had almost no point. Very Seinfeld. I guess the followup commercials will try to get to the point where Vista is, in Bill’s view, very usable.
Weak.
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Jerry Seinfeld is happy. He’s making money. The other guy? Well, he’s retired.
Um…Am I supposed to want to buy shoes?
And man, Gates looks old now!
I’d expected the new adverts to be lame, but I had no idea!
Funny?
Not.
Informative?
Not.
Well acted?
Not.
Pointless?
Decide for yourself.
Is there a commercial in there for Windows? I thought it was a Saturday Night Live skit. How could it be more pointless? I mean it was cute and all, but damn, that was a long way to go with no sell till the end.
Maybe the next commercial leverages that? Who let’s this stuff leave the table?
The only part of it I enjoyed was that they used bill’s mug shot for the credit card. As the start of an ad campaign, I can’t figure out how this will possibly help win over consumers.
That ad is so windows. Boring, unsexy, gray, slow….
That ad hits the all time low. How many millions did they spend to this shit?
If this were an apple commercial with Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Jobs everyone would be raving about how funny and clever it is….
What the hell was that????
It made total sense to me:
When you’re satisfied with buying cheap lower quality shoes, you’re satisfied with making cheap lower quality software.
that was the message, right?
This ad held my interest slightly longer than Bee Movie, but that’s not saying a lot. The Mexican family was the only thing approaching comedy I saw, even if it was a stale stab at Jerry’s salad days.
Jerry, just stop. I don’t know when it happened, but you have to face it – you’re just not funny any more. It’s true. But don’t let it get you down. It happens to the best of us. Ask Eddie Murphy.
Bill. You were perfect.
>.<
I’m telling you. Barad Dûr.
-c
Worst
Ad
Ever
My $0.02
OM(F’n)G!
Umm.. I read a review on this at another site and I thought, naw. It can’t be that bad.
It was worse.
C1 lives!!!
Guess you’ve been hard at work on CS4, huh?
Easy. It’s a reference to taking the conquistador (windows) up the ass.
Anyone else notice the picture on Bill Gates ID is the mugshot from when he got arrested for speeding (and I think not having a license or an expired one) in New Mexico many years ago?
Google it.
The ad had no, er, sole?