Filed under: Humor, Cult of Mac
Stewie Griffin iPod ad
Last night while watching The Family Guy on Fox I was very surprised (and equally amused) to see character Stewie Griffin's "iPod commercial." For a few seconds he was dancing around in a sequence much like Apple's famous ads. Pretty funny, and got me thinking of the other prime time cartoons I can remember lately featuring Macs and Apple products. Homer Simpson has been portrayed as using a fruit-colored computer on more than one occasion, as have characters on the ill-fated "Futurama." Seems that a lot of animators (or writers) are staring at Macs all day.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Joshua Kagi said 10:03PM on 6-20-2005
Don't forget "The Cheat" on homestarrunner.com who uses an original Orange iMac.
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Ben K said 10:34PM on 6-20-2005
yeah and after family guy on all american dad the sign outside the church said 'the bible: the real powerbook'
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Robert Knight said 10:55PM on 6-20-2005
The family from the print comic "Foxtrot" has an actual Apple that is a computer.
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Dave Caolo said 11:27PM on 6-20-2005
Ah, wasn't aware of those. Good catch, all.
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Dave Chartier said 11:34PM on 6-20-2005
Not surprised. Animators and writers are people who actually need to get work done. On what other computer could they accomplish this?
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Brian said 12:47AM on 6-21-2005
Three words: Eat up Martha.
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Eric said 1:33AM on 6-21-2005
Don't forget the Futurama where the plot was somewhere along these lines - they went to a robot planet, and so there was going to be a foxhunt-type thing for the humans, and the one robot blew a horn to commence it. The sound was none other than a Mac startup chime...
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dml said 1:47AM on 6-21-2005
Kevin in the webcomic at herdthinners.com uses a "carrot computer" which bears a striking resemblance to the G4 LCD iMac series.
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Michael May said 2:30AM on 6-21-2005
Don't forget in Futurama the take-off of Apple's 1984 Commercial:
http://www.mickeymoose.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/planex.avi
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jeff said 7:28AM on 6-21-2005
lets's not forget peggys imac in king of the hill.
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Dave Caolo said 7:30AM on 6-21-2005
Wow, well done everyone. I had forgotten about all of these. How could I forget Peggy Hill?
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Mark said 9:37AM on 6-21-2005
I'm not too suprised by the appearance of Apple-esque products in animation and comics. After all, Apple products used to be, and often still are, widely used in the print and design fields, so I'd expect the same in other artistic areas. It is interesting to see how they slip in to shows in subtle ways, though.
Robert Knight:
Actually, its a knock-off; the iFruit, and came with a whole set of spoofs on the iMac. Originally Jason hated it, and it hated him, but over time that's changed.
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Eric said 10:07AM on 6-21-2005
Maybe I'm dating myself, but what about the Banana Jr. from Bloom County?
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jen said 11:20AM on 6-21-2005
On King Of The Hill Peggy wanted a new computer in the Y2k episode, and hank gets all meillenium terrified and gets her a grandfather clock instead so she's always knwo what time it would be when the world collapses, then smartens up and comes back and hands her a brochure with fruit shapes and bulbous round computers in bright colors and tells her "it'll be here on tuesday"
Yup, he got the computer she wanted, "a blueberry one"
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Calihafan said 1:07PM on 6-21-2005
Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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ChillyWIlly said 1:18PM on 6-21-2005
Brian... thanks for that classic reminder from the Simpsons.... with Nelson chucking the Newton at Martin.
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ChillyWilly said 1:35PM on 6-21-2005
BTW, the Stewie iPod ad was deemed as failed and featured the song "Warrior" by 80's has-beens - Scandal.
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Wes said 4:14PM on 6-21-2005
Wasn't there a Simpson episode where an iPod is the DJ of Bart's school dance?
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Rums said 4:47PM on 6-21-2005
Rob from the comic Get Fuzzy uses a Powerbook with a Pear logo on it (with a bite, of course).
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jeff said 5:42PM on 6-21-2005
oh, and in malcom in the middle in craigs house.
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