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What Everyone Knew (11/4/99)
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Okay, we admit it-- we're suckers for cheesy theme parodies of pop-culture hits. While we'll run screaming from a lot of the popular dreck that pollutes the waters of our collective media pool (someone tell us just how in hell "Full House" stayed on the air all those years), if you take an insipid show and rewrite it as a parody incorporating elements from some other aspect of popular culture, we're there. Urkel vs. Regis Philbin in a fight to the death? Sign us up. Tinky-Winky is assigned Monica Lewinsky as a backstage personal aide and hilarity ensues? Cool, what's the URL? It's even better when the parody is based on something we enjoyed in the first place, and knocking something lame is a plus, too.
And so, we were thrilled when faithful viewer Shane Burgess pointed us towards IDG's Blair Witch Project parody, the "Rare Glitch Project": "three student filmmakers disappeared in a building in Redmond, Washington, while shooting a documentary... they are attempting to document the Rare Glitch Project, a legendary version of Microsoft Windows designed to be compact and stable." That's comedy gold, people!
But best of all is the poll posted at the end of the parody, which asks readers whether they think Windows 95/98 is a buggy operating system. Is it any surprise that out of the 39,000 people who voted, 92% said "yes"? Faithful viewer Alan Clingan notes that there should be a follow-up question for those people:
If you voted yes and you own Windows, why did you buy it?
- a) Stoopid
- b) Don't know any better
- c) Every other OS is going out of business
- d) Masochist
To that, we'd add the following:
If you were one of the 3,000 people who said Windows is not buggy, where do you buy your crack?
- a) Needle Park
- b) That scary coworker with the eyepatch
- c) No crack, but I suffered severe head trauma as a small child
- d) No crack, but I get my brown acid from Steve Jobs
Just a thought...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/4/99 episode: November 4, 1999: It's time for Apple to end the naming madness-- are "model years" in store for upcoming Macs? Meanwhile, even straitlaced old Hewlett-Packard is leaping into the color pool, and a Blair Witch Project parody raises serious questions about who's buying Windows...
Other scenes from that episode: 1889: Kicking The Tires (11/4/99) Okay, we all know that when Steve Jobs retook the helm at Apple, the whole product line was a big stinking mess. It's not that the products themselves were particularly bad (well, okay, the Power Mac 4400 belongs in the Apple Hall of Shame), but they revealed a certain lack of direction... 1890: More On The Bandwagon (11/4/99) For those who doubted that the iMac would have an impact on computer style industry-wide, doubt no more. The iMac clones are one thing-- it was utterly predictable that at least a few companies would go for the cheap score by simply copying Apple's design...
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