“Is Microsoft’s new series of advertisements really about kinky sex? Yes, you have to consider that after you’ve seen the new Microsoft/Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld ads, which in any event seem just plain bad to me,” John C. Dvorak writes for PC Magazine.
The way I see it, the ad falls into one of the following categories:
1. Meaningless ads that suck and that we should forget
2. Great metaphorical masterpieces
3. Ads about nothing (hence Jerry Seinfeld)
4. Unsubtle promotions of kinky sex
Going straight to his 4th item, Dvorak writes, “Two guys meet in a shoe store. The one guys offers a churro to the other—an obvious phallic symbol, possibly a code word. The guy refuses. So the guy with the churro starts to massage the other guy’s foot, and asks about what he’s feeling. The guy who relented at first says a definite code word: ‘leather.’ The two look furtively at each other for an uncomfortably long time. They scene is just short of a wink taking place. One mentions ‘showering’ with clothes on. The next thing you know the twosome, now each holding rigid churros, walk off together. One asks the other to adjust his underwear as a ‘sign.'”
MacDailyNews Take: What about the “moist and chewy like cake so we can eat ’em” stuff? “Rigid churros.” Okay, John, we admit it, we chuckled.
Microsoft’s Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld commercial, “Shoe Circus.”
Direct link via YouTube here.
Dvorak asks, “Now if this isn’t some sadomasochistic, kinky pickup scene then what’s the point?”
Full article – gulp, recommended*, gulp – here.
MacDailyNews Take: Regardless of the theme, the ad did get a lot of people talking. Too bad they’re just talking about how bad the ads are and not why they should be installing Windows Vista instead of switching in droves to Macs.
*Even a bloated, hit-whoring gasbag can be somewhat interesting once in a blue moon.
wow. Dvorak may be on to something. A first!
Ew.
Please, curb your derogatory remark to a more polite and proper etiquette. Per chance, I might be willing to listen.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that? Wait, no. It’s just wrong.
I am agreeing with Dork-face? Cripes the lion is lying down with the lamb….the end of the world is nigh.
Switch tunes awful quick on Dvorak there, just because it’s bashing your least-favorite company? Sick.
So’s the writeup, and after I saw it was by Dvorak it all made sense that it was so twisted. The only one reading kinky sex out of that ad is someone with their own sexual problems.
Yeah, I’ve got to say that nothing that comes out of Dvorak’s brain should be taken very seriously. He has no credibility, he just HAPPENS to be close to the truth on this one.
Bill gates wiggling his middle aged man butt?? eeewwwwwoooo.
Apparently Dvohack knows something about this topic.
I still think Dvorak is a hit troll
It’s very fitting that a hit whore sees a sexual theme there.
Notice that no one’s mentioning Windows, Office, or really even Microsoft (except to note that it’s Microsoft which is footing the bill for these wasted clips).
All they’re talking about is how Seinfeld and Gates are in this really bad ad together.
Yeah, that will sell a bunch of copies of Vista!
I guess Dvorak proves that even a broken watch still has the right time twice a day.
After viewing this ad, I’m starting to believe they might actually have something with the Mojave Experiment.
Once again, he’s off his meds.
Gates is a tasteless fool and Seinfeld is an ego looking for praise and applause.
The ad is crap and Dvorak is correct – the ad could be about anything, so he has chosen his interpretation.
Lets move on……
If this is Microsoft’s attempt to counter the successful Apple ads then we have nothing to worry about!
After seeing the frightening a$$ wiggle the first time – I can’t ever bear to see it again, I always look away or change the channel. Gross.
The next commercial features Bill and Jerry tapping out code to each other in an airport men’s room.
Is one of them supposed to be moist and the other chewy?
Bill Gates. Jerry Seinfeld. Both past their prime, just like the company they’re promoting.
“rigid churros” ?!!
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Hmm, maybe I should put down my Beaver Tail and try one (or two) of those!
Steve Ballmer watching new Microsoft commercial:
Fap, Fap, Fap
MDN, please only refer to this commercial as “Rigid Churros” from here forward.
They look more turgid than rigid.