{"id":190771,"date":"2009-10-27T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/27\/what-the-were-they-expecting\/"},"modified":"2009-10-27T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T22:54:00","slug":"what-the-were-they-expecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/27\/what-the-were-they-expecting\/","title":{"rendered":"What the $#@! Were They Expecting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, Microsoft teamed up with Seth MacFarlane<\/span> for a Family Guy\/American Dad<\/span> special, and when they saw the show, they dropped it like it was nude pictures of Joe Lieberman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They had promised, “an upcoming television event devoted to the comedy of Seth MacFarlane<\/span>, creator of Family Guy, American Dad and The Cleveland Show” that would be, “unique Windows 7-branded programming that blends seamlessly with show content”.<\/p>\n

So far, so good, but what they also<\/span> got was”<\/p>\n

According to reports, Redmond marketeers sat in on the recording of the variety special. While Windows marketing messages were presumably seamlessly integrated into the schtick<\/span>, so were jokes about deaf people, the Holocaust, feminine hygiene and incest.<\/p>\n

While Microsoft was clearly reaching for a hip and edgy audience, they presumably meant the “check me out, I’ve got an extra shot in this latte and I’m wearing an Hawaiian shirt” kind of edgy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am wondering if these guys ever watched Family Guy<\/span> or American Dad<\/span>, because this is pretty much what he does for humor.<\/p>\n

Or, to quote Eric Duckman<\/span>:<\/p>\n

Bunch of thin-skinned, no-humor pansies! You tell them an ice-breaker or two about women’s libbers, gays, environmentalists, several minorities, the homeless, couple of religions, anorexics, obese people, the handicapped, old farts, baldness, and people who walk real goofy because they’ve just had a vasectomy, and suddenly, they get all sensitive, like I offended one of them or something! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, Microsoft teamed up with Seth MacFarlane for a Family Guy\/American Dad special, and when they saw the show, they dropped it like it was nude pictures of Joe Lieberman. They had promised, “an upcoming television event devoted to the comedy of Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy, American Dad and The Cleveland Show” that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1065,1064,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-media","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}