I just lost all respect for MacFarlane and Borstein now :(

Thank god! I'm delighted that my fave show isn't staffed by a bunch of Macholes.

How is that a sneak peak? Wasn't that from the episode with Joe's baby, and Stewie made a music vid to Bryan Adams Everything I Do? Just look like they changed the voice over.

Yeah... Kinda doubting this is real, guys. Sorry.
Although my faith is restored in Family Guy for not stooping to that level, woo!

@Maous: Odd.. It didn't embed the video, atleast not on my screen.

Anywho, that's the original video that this was dubbed over with.

@Willow01:

@radleyas: I'm sure they're staffed by whoever-drive-a-truckload-of-cash-up-to-their-offices-holes.

That was... depressingly bad.

@Maous: I'm with you. Pretty sure it's a fake.

Ughhhhh... that video makes me cringe. Seeing one of my favorite shows becoming a corporate shrill makes me sad. Let's just hope the "adver-special" isn't as blunt as this video.

@BillyDee_CT: Then you fail at life. This should be good. You can't be against an extra episode for family guy. And since there is nothing wrong with windows, who cares if it is the sponsor.

Odds are you just upset apple didn't think of it first.

@Maous: Or not.

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I feel sick.

@Corporate_guy: No, and no.

@strathmeyer: Whoops, should've noticed 'Corporate Guy' and ignored everything you said.

will it be better then the old windows 386 video

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@strathmeyer: Sorry Corporate, but this is corporate whoring at its best... right up there with the Simpsons playboy spread. Completely and utterly tasteless. The Simposns Mapple episode on the other hand was hilarious.

@radleyas: Slurs aside, no, Seth McFarlane is a proud Mac user. The Windows promotion comes with a boatload of cash, no doubt.

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@Joeb5:

wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-windows/386!

Sometime I need to write the lyrics down for the songs in that video. I can then just start singing them to drown out the next 'doze lover that starts talking to me.

@zimmi88:

The word is "shill." There's no R in it, nor is there a C.

I am glad that you used it to mean what it actually means, though.

MacFarlane's just looking for another excuse to bore us to death with endless singing. Between that and voicing nearly every fucking character on that show, I've never seen a man so in love with his own tiresome voice.

I'm sure Seth would do it his way if he does. I would almost bet that he would poke fun at M$ and Apple!!

@fantomesq: I agree. It's pure product whoring and I even think it's worse than Marge on the cover of Playboy. That existed somewhat outside the show - this is blatant. Microsoft waved a check and they practically begged.

Eh, I'll stick to South Park.

I have a platonic man-crush on Seth MacFarlane, so I'll follow his pied pipering to the Gates of Windows itself.

@Homerjay is utterly alone.: What happened to my comment??

@Joeb5: That video was horrible! UNFUNNY horrible.

@Homerjay is utterly alone.: Long words/sites are truncated. It's not smart enough to deal with hyphens.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Is this fundamentally worse than the Simpsons and Butterfinger, Mastercard, KFC, Burger King, CC's chips, CC Lemon, Dominoes, Intel, Toyota...

(Hell, I only knew about half of those until I started searching Youtube.)

Back in the 60s, Fred & Wilma Flintstone & Barney Rubble were flogging cigarettes.

And here's Fred & Barney flogging Busch Beer

So Seth McFarlane selling out to MS isn't bad at all in comparison.

Blatant whoring. The guy has eighteen fucking shows out so I'm sure money isn't an issue for him. If he is desperate for money or something and needed it to take care of his dying grandmother then I would be more understanding of the situation. I guess the money MS is giving him will offset the loss of respect and maybe a few fans.

While I'm not a fan of MS, I would totally do this. Then again, I'm just some random dude with a family and extra cash would make some things a little easier.

@Willow01: What better way to get money for nothing? If you don't have to pay animators to draw new stuff that leaves more money for the producers. Especially McFarlane, as he does a lot of the voice work himself.

Now if they actually use that Dire Straits song in the episode I'll laugh my *ss off. But I'm not impressed with this marketing effort. I guess I'm still waiting for the "WOW" that was supposed to have started 3 years ago...

@Greasy Thumb Guzik: I didn't realize that Fred and Barney worked at a Wazzu watering hole serving "Pullman Water."

I just want to say that Windows 7 is awesome (posting from my Windows 7 netbook)

@BillyDee_CT: You still had respect for them after American Dad?

Gotta love how people universally love family guy. The second they hear they are flogging Windows 7 "zomg I hate that show now, I never did!"

Its also funny to go along with the in crowd. Yeah its fun to hate on windows 7, so I don't look like an outcast! Nice backbone there...

Since I don't watch the show (or any of the other cartoons on Fox), I do not anything about it. But to answer the big question of whether or not it's an infomercial or not, I'd say if it's being scheduled in the same time slot as the show normally broadcasts (and from the looks of it, it is), then it's whoring. If it was airing at 2am on one of the shopping networks, then it's an infomercial and not whoring.

That's just like the time that I was a corporate shill for anyone who would give me money!

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@pecan 3.14159265: Meh - content creators are faced with fewer ways to make a buck as ad revenues go down... particularly on the old network stations.

I think they ought to run flyspeck ads (those ones they usually use to tell you about other shows on the bottom of the screen)throughout their entire broadcasts... the channels have to make some money on their programming somehow... it's not the BBC.

@WiZZLa: American dad rocks, I think it is better than family guy.

The haters also assume that Microsoft just drove up to MacFarlane's office and dumped piles of hundreds onto his desk. Chances are Fox Broadcasting (which owns the show) said, "Hey, Seth! The good people at Microsoft are going to pay us an S-ton of money to do something with Windows 7 and Family Guy. So you guys go think of something".

Hopefully it will be tongue-in-cheek enough that the writers can keep their dignity (think 30 Rock and Verizon phones/Snapple). At the end of the day, you gotta pay bills.

Holy frijoles, that trailer was so bad I think it gave me cancer.

So it's going to be like The Colgate Comedy Hour... only it won't be funny, it will sell you something that you're not going to buy at launch (it's an OS, people), and there will be no Abbott and Costello. Damn.

Wow...that was bad. Worse than having a bear as a next door neighbor. MacFarlane must be licking toads when he's writing this crap. Mehhehe...SIMPSONS DID IT!

@nstonep: Besides...doesn't Brian seem like the kind of guy that owns an mac? In fact...didn't he actually have a mac in the cartoon (I can't remember).

@TechnoDestructo: Wait, wait, wait...CC Lemon, Japan's gift to the world, is hocked by The Simpsons? Now I love the stuff even more! Of course, I originally loved it because it has tons of sugar. The Simpsons is just icing on the CC Lemoncake.

@BillyDee_CT:

I don't understand why everyone has such a problem. Yes, it's corporate whoring, but isn't Brian driving a Prius instead of some unnamed vehicle corporate whoring? Isn't every time some actor drinks a name brand beverage in a shot corporate whoring? I hope you didn't like 'I, Robot'. Or much of anything else for that matter.

This is just another business opportunity for both parties. Yay capitalism!

@MattSaintCool: Don't remove the idea balls!

@pecan 3.14159265: As long as the episode is funny, who cares?

@RickRussellTX: Bravo for the subtle Futurama reference.