Apple love in the EW Pop Culture Gift Guide

My old buddies at Entertainment Weekly (hi Wook!) have put out a holiday shopping guide with a twist: the concept is "what would you buy for your favorite TV characters?" Unfortunately, only shows currently on the air were eligible, so my dream of sending Buffy Summers the million-candlepower flashlight she SO NEEDED must remain unfulfilled. *sigh*

Anyway, the EW crew did include a bit of Apple kit in the gift mix, but perhaps not the item you'd think of first. Shopping for Dr. Christian Troy of the plastic surgery nauseodrama Nip/Tuck, they suggested the black MacBook along with a Slingbox AV as a roaming MD's ideal video combo.

So where were the iPods in this gift guide? Absent: not an iPod was featured, not even a Shuffle. There is another DMP from another vendor, in a fetching shade of brown, listed as a gift for The Office's Jim Halpert... but this is the Unofficial Apple Weblog, and we don't need to mention that product again. (Today, anyway.)

Update 11:28 am: As noted by several readers, the Jim Halpert (not Halpern) character on The Office already uses an iPod. So, that "other" music player, really not such a great gift for him.

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Brendon Carr

Jim, not so much. But can't we totally envision Dwight Schrute rocking it out with the Zune?

December 04 2006 at 8:55 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike R.

Thanks Ryan. I worried I was the only one who wanted Buffy to put one of those X-Files 'blind a vampire at 100 meters' super halogen flashlights on her Amazon wish list.

December 03 2006 at 3:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ryan

Awesome Buffy reference! Seeing that reference at this site is a blending of two of my favorite things, and it's nice to see one of TUAW's writers share it. You should up your star count to three just for that, but then again that's just my opinion and I don't have the ability to give stars.

December 03 2006 at 2:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike R.

Spelling correction and Office/iPod connection noted in the main post.

December 03 2006 at 11:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Yuri Walkiw

Jim HALPERT!! Not halpern.

December 03 2006 at 11:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sherman Homan

Halpern wears an iPod. So I am assuming Microsoft got to the Entertainment Weekly reviewers with boat loads of cash.

The digital music player Whose Name Must Not Be Mentioned:
Satan's iPod, the CamelShitBrown Zune.

December 03 2006 at 10:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rick

Jim uses an iPod [on the show].
How stupid of them to suggest the brown brick.

December 03 2006 at 9:40 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply