One for my son

Heard about the Apple commercial that was supposed to feature the Mac guy talking to Vista? It didn't air because Vista never showed up.

Took the opportunity to talk to Robert while I was on the road using EVDO as well. Nice chat, thanks Robert. Victor

I'ma going to have to agree with the "not funny" comments. I could have written a better script, and the random swearing did not improve things.

I'm still waiting for a parody that features a roundish, professor type person wearing glasses, a pony-tail and sandals as Linux.

@ Fred Graves: That sucks. Try doing what the networks do and insert a watermark in the bottom corner of your content?

My first (bad) instinct is to send them a nastygram. Allowing cooler heads to prevail, though, I'd pick up the phone and call them and ask what their intentions were with replacing the slate. Then express kindly but firmly that you don't want them to steal (that's what they're doing...) your content in the future and if they want to re-distribute it, they should distribute it intact.

Also, parse the Creative Commons site and build/use a license that requires others to attribute redistributions/derivatives to you as the source, and choose whether or not to allow commercial uses of your stuff.

This is really funny, especially the way the Mac guy uses the language. But both characters come off as unlikable jerks. This is clearly not pandering to PC lovers either (assuming there is such a thing as a PC lover, bar Microsoft employees).

Apple works hard at projecting this hyper-meta-cool brand, and they do it well. But an image like that is fragile, and I'm starting to smell a backlash.

Version 1.3 is definitely my favorite of the batch.

the original pre-ganked version:
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2006/07/07/bwe-mac-ads/

Superlative man...superlative? By the way should I send some illustrations to Dell for an external design?

What's a producer to do???? We created those spots at Best Week Ever, put them up on our site and iFilm and You Tube... but the version you link to was "co-opted" by Gizmodo. They put THEIR slate on the front, and chopped off our "watch best week ever every friday night at 11" at the end.

We distribute a TON of our content free -- including our entire episode! But how do we deal with people claiming it's theirs?

Or does it not matter...

Thoughts?

I wonder where is that Dell dude these days, Steve(forgot his family-maybe not jobs)? Last time heard about him, he was arrested for drug problem.

Doh, since then, Dell no longer have anything to do with being cool-what a coincidence!

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/31/d...

Happy old time for Michael Dell.

I prefer running a computer with lots of available software. I game.

Mac? hardly.

Patrick, if you haven’t figured it out yet, is a total Steve Jobs love child. He always is pointing out those new Apple ads. So, you can be sure I’ll show him this spoof of those ads this morning.

The younger generation is always smarter than the last. Don't arrest you son's development just because you prefer that crap Microsoft shoves down your throat.

I'll shove this iPod up your a**

You gotta love that :)

Mac OS X runs on UNIX. Windows runs on...emulated DOS.

UNIX > DOS

Love version 1.3.

Yeah the spoofs are great. I blogged them as soon as I saw BWE this week :)

http://slashstar.com/blogs/tim/archive/2006/07/...

It's funny to this old guy who still remembers when Steve Jobs was the other Steve at Apple.

? You wrote that your son is Steve Jobs' lovechild...!?

Yeah that's funny. My suspicion of your son's reaction - Dad, that's lame.

Robert: No I'm not, I'm writing this on an Asus Aspire with Ubuntu Linux (yeah, one of those...). I just didn't think the spoof was funny. Basically, the PC guy came off like a jerk. And no, it has nothing to do with money, it's the script. :)

Stephan: are you a Steve Jobs lovechild like Patrick is? That might explain why you didn't find them funny.

The Apple ones cost hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of dollars to do. I'm sure these were done for a lot less than that.

Netwrkr: Really? I also didn't think they were funny. Especially Version 1.3: What is funny about "Shut the f*ck up"? Dude, you should rewatch those Apple ads. Those things have humor and punchlines and stuff.

Version 1.3 is OUTSTANDING!!

Love the spoof!