Filed under: Humor, iPod Family
Zune gets a smackdown on Family Guy
As if the Microsoft Zune didn't have enough bad publicity, now the Fox Show Family Guy is beating up on the iPod competitor. In last night's episode, called "Ocean's Three and a Half", Carter Pewterschmidt asks Bill Gates for some help programming his Zune. Then Carter remembers he has an iPod, "like the rest of the world." Zing. Pow. Of course Apple doesn't escape the sharp scalpel of satire either. In American Dad, a Fox show from the creator of Family Guy, Roger the Alien thought he was facing certain death and said: "I'm going to be dead, and I have two more years of AppleCare." Rim shot. Clank.
Here's a Hulu link to the clip from the show last night, and you can also watch the entire episode from the same link.
Thanks to Nick and John for the heads up. I've just got to start watching more television.
We heard a while back that Apple and the movie studios were in 
Last night
on Fox's Family Guy, Stewie had a little fun with his Mac. While practicing for the Olympics, his brother Chris
interrupted his "training" (don't ask). Stewie responded by knocking Chris unconscious with a book, and using
his motionless body as a landing platform for his pole vaulting practice. Delighted, he announced, "...That was
even cooler than playing with the speech function on my Macintosh."
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