“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.
This seems like just the kind of ad DvORK would love.
“I just threw-up a little in my mouth!”
(after seeing Bill Gates shake his butt)
I think the real danger as of late is that John Dvorak is starting to become cool.
Dvorak actually got something right? Oh yeah… it all makes sense now. He’s actually proving the old adage…
A thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters for a thousand years….
Guess it was his turn to accidentally turn up a jewel amidst the brown muck.
Hey, maybe in another thousand years he’ll write something Shakespearean. <g>
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John C. your on to something. Your right. But, kinky sex pickup lines? Your letting your imagination run away from you. Please Microsoft no more commercials.
I vote #4. Dead on accurate.
“Steve Ballmer watching new Microsoft commercial”
Actually, Ballmer was in the commercial. Why do you think Gates had to adjust his shorts? Very subtle.
Jerry S – a Mac user – is laughing all the way to the bank. no matter how bad or totally off the mark the commercial is.
I have to admit: I think Dvorak hit the nail on the head.
Unfortunately, it also implies something about Dvorak: his TRUE area of expertise MAY be in kinky, sadomasochistic sex.
Uh-oh, John. Don’t look now, but your thong and whip just might be showing.
KY anyone?
This ad really sucks no matter how you look at it.
Just like Microsoft.
Your “entry” killed me.
I’m still laughing!
BTW was that Senator Larry Craig peering in the window behind all the Mexicans?
@MDN,
I believe the word was ‘pleather’, as in a cheap, crappy knock off of the real thing. You know, like Windows!
Dvorak sure knows alot about gay kinky sex and code words
Hmm, interesting. Gates does get his churro in the end.
But I didn’t notice him sitting there in the traditional Larry Craig “wide stance”.
Uh-oh, John. Don’t look now, but your thong and whip just might be showing.
Nah, this just proves Ballmer monkey humps Dvorak too.
Something we’ve long suspected anyway.
The next commercial features Bill and Jerry tapping out code to each other in an airport men’s room.
Followed by Bill & Jerry squirting each-other with their, um, Zunes.
Hasn’t anyone noticed “Bill and Jerry” being suspiciously close to “Ben and Jerry”?
MS can’t even knock-off homosexuality right.
“Gates does get his churro in the end.”
I hope he washes it off after.
Dvorak is projecting, big time.
-jcr
Dvorak is a hit whore. end of story. he just now figured out the tide is turning and he can get more hits over bashing this ad than attacking Apple. it isn’t that difficult to figure out…..
pfft…reminds me of waylon smithers toadying to mr. burns?
Hello, Mr. Gates. Please put on these light blue swim trunks and leather jacket. Now see, the idea is to water ski over that jump in the water over there. But the kicker is – get this! – you’re going to be making the jump over a shark! Its brilliant! People are going to love it. Trust me.
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I told ya it had homosexual overtones. Even Dvorak picked up on that.
I thought he said “pleather.”