This ridiculous story only proves my point. Two weeks ago it was announced that Microsoft had made a deal with Seth MacFarlane to produce an hour-long, commercial-free TV spot featuring Family Guy characters to promote Windows 7. Today, they’ve backed out:
“The company had originally signed on to tie Windows 7 to an uninterrupted half-hour episode of the show known as Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show that airs November 8th but now says the material it saw in an early cut is ‘not a fit with the Windows brand’ and will leave any Windows 7 advertising to a 12-week Family Guy-related tour.”
Clearly, whoever gave this the green light has never seen an episode of Family Guy. Off-color humor is the thrust of the show. I don’t understand that they’re thinking in Redmond.
[...] special that Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane made with Microsoft to promote Windows 7, only to pull before it aired. Here are several clips from the show that could have been. There are 3 more [...]