Dave and Thomas Daily Timekillers » windows 7 http://www.daveandthomas.net Knoxville's Most Unusual Blogging Duo Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:40:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Microsoft Ditches Family Guy Endorsement http://www.daveandthomas.net/2009/10/28/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-endorsement/ http://www.daveandthomas.net/2009/10/28/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-endorsement/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:00:28 +0000 dangerdave http://www.daveandthomas.net/?p=7234 Seth MacFarlaneMicrosoft is trying to push out it’s Windows 7 without the Vista-stigma attached so they got hip with the kids and hired Seth MacFarlane of “Family Guy” fame to pitch the product.

Turns out that Microsoft didn’t really think it through [what a shocker, we know] and after finding out that MacFarlane has a twisted sense of humor the geeks from Microsoft pulled out.

Microsoft was scheduled to sponsor the show “Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show” on Nov. 8 set to air on Fox. The show was to be commercial free with built in ads like this to offset the cost:


Painful, yeah we know.

Then Microsoft pulled the plug after seeing the material in the show. We could point out that they could have just watched an episode of “Family Guy” instead of acting like an offended schoolgirl. Instead, and this is one of our favorite quotes of the year, Microsoft came out with this:

“For most of the special, however, MacFarlane and Borstein made typical “Family Guy”-style jokes, including riffs on deaf people, the Holocaust, feminine hygiene and incest.

Such material was apparently a bit much for Microsoft.“

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