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Most awful Apple video ever
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Feb 9, 2006, 08:36 PM
 
Originally Posted by Macenstein
Here’s a little gem guaranteed to make even the biggest Apple fanatic consider buying a Dell.
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\me cringes. I can't believe Steve didn't burn the videotape.
     
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Feb 9, 2006, 08:40 PM
 
HAHAHA That's great. At first I thought it was gonna turn into a spoof, the music just seems like it would. For the 80's though, it's not really that bad.
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Feb 9, 2006, 08:51 PM
 
I wish I could un-see that.

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Feb 9, 2006, 08:58 PM
 
God. That was almost as bad as watching two Switch ads in a row.
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Feb 9, 2006, 09:56 PM
 
I've never understood why the 80s was so keen on the combination of neon pink, pastel yellow and blue, and stripes of them on black backgrounds.

If there ever was a decade where nuclear anhilation made sense, the 80s was it.
     
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Feb 9, 2006, 10:10 PM
 
i foresee a bad 80's band taking apple to the cleaners ala postal service and lugz.
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Feb 9, 2006, 11:38 PM
 
Please.... kill me.... kill me....
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 12:10 AM
 
My eyes. They burn.
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 12:41 AM
 
You guys have no taste. That was pure 80s gold.

I wonder if they really got Irene Cara to sing that, I always liked her...
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 01:05 AM
 
Originally Posted by paul w
You guys have no taste. That was pure 80s gold.

I wonder if they really got Irene Cara to sing that, I always liked her...
Wow....taste sure is a personal thing

You're right tho - it IS pure gold.
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 01:26 AM
 
Originally Posted by paul w
You guys have no taste. That was pure 80s gold.

I wonder if they really got Irene Cara to sing that, I always liked her...


I've had the song for a couple years now - that and "Apple II Forever" - but I never knew there was a video to it.

My only beef is that the arrangement is kinda cheap - seems like a simplified Flashdance knockoff.
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 03:34 AM
 
And this is from the time when apple had the most market share in their history. They could risk doing things that will offend future generations!

Switch ads will be just as bad in 2020 of course.
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 05:32 AM
 
Switch ads will be just as bad in 2020 of course.
Due to the cromulent nature of the people they chose for them*, the Switch ads are already bad, even by 2004's standards.


*Not including Janie Porche, of course.
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Feb 10, 2006, 10:17 PM
 
Originally Posted by Jim Paradise
I've never understood why the 80s was so keen on the combination of neon pink, pastel yellow and blue, and stripes of them on black backgrounds.
We are Apple,
Show your colours now!!

LOL Now I've got "What A Feeling" stuck in my head.
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Feb 11, 2006, 12:11 AM
 
Man the freakin' Lisa was in that commercial.
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Feb 11, 2006, 12:28 AM
 
I like the part where the fat greasy kid found out he had no talent, and was just a fat greasy kid.

Oh wait, that was real.
sig? lemme look around and swipe something original.
     
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