Microsoft Pulls Plans for Windows 7 Family Guy
Microsoft has scrubbed its plans to sponsor a show written by Family Guy creator, Seth MacFarlane.
Over the last few weeks you've aired your thoughts on the available three clips of Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show. Most of you didn't like it. Some of the clips were better than others but even that wasn't saying much. However, it turns out Microsoft didn't like the way things were shaping up, either. The company canceled plans for the show because it was not a fit with the Windows brand. And Jerry Seinfeld was? What exactly do they mean when they say it's not in line with the Windows brand?
Well apparently, the boring snippets of the show we saw were nothing compared to what Microsoft saw. We got the run of the mill stuff while the execs at Microsoft saw something that cracked jokes at the expense of deaf people, the Holocaust, feminine hygiene and incest.
"We initially chose to participate in the Seth and Alex variety show based on the audience composition and creative humor of 'Family Guy,' but after reviewing an early version of the variety show, it became clear that the content was not a fit with the Windows brand," a Microsoft spokesperson told Variety. The company spokesperson went on to say that Microsoft continues to have a good partnership with Fox, Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein and is working with them in other areas.
Variety goes on to say that Fox still plans to air the show but the network is now looking for a new sponsor. Any takers?
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I bet there were some funny skits in there, but Microsoft probably made the right choice. Not everyone has a rich sense of humor, and this could have been an unfortunate source of grief for MS.
I really cannot believe all those marketing scheme to sell crap to consumer...
If you make good product: people will buy it. Just look a t windows xp, yeah got problems at beginning but when fix, more and more people bought it damn!!!!
If they stop spending big buck on advertisement, you could sell win 7 cheaper an then make more money (stupid marketer, you make things cost more for nothing)
Nothing wrong with off humor, but don't blast a company for taking the safe road. Special interest groups are a PIA and the last thing a company wants is to be boycotted based on a show sponsorship. That's not a good way to keep your job if your names on the project. My company sponsors a sporting team that made a controversial call during an event, and we had people threatening to never buy our products again because of it.
Stupid? Yes, but that is the American public at large.
Normal Family Guy is quite funny but these adverts for MS is just.. not funny at all.
Microsoft if you are reading this, you should have chosen Futurama. It is more in tune with the high tech audience and has less racial jokes afaik I could be wrong. Fox puts on the air what they feel people want to see, not necessarily what smarter people want.
Microsoft if you are reading this, you should have chosen Futurama. It is more in tune with the high tech audience and has less racial jokes afaik I could be wrong. Fox puts on the air what they feel people want to see, not necessarily what smarter people want.
As far as I remember, Futurama did good with Beck on that episode.
Aw, that description of stuff in the episode makes me almost not really sad about missing a joke about Windows 7 making it easier to insert tampons for deaf people during the Holocaust. Shucks.
Exactly-- also a show thats off the air with a large fanbase would be more willing to accept funding. Futurama was good at playful jabs, unlike the hard ones Seth takes. (i can see it now--civilization collapsed because everyone stayed on their computers playing with windows 7... )
I find that line the most funny thing to ever have the words family guy in it.i mean seriously they have one modular joke they use over and over again for years. it wasnt funny when it started its mind numbingly stupid now.
its so far from funny it would take till the end of the universe to see funny.. good move MS find something with even a hint of creativity if you want to work with a tv show. family guy sure as hell isnt it.