Microsoft pulls offensive vomit ad

[Lordbob75]

Today, Microsoft pulled its latest ad for Internet Explorer 8, which featured gratuitous amounts of vomiting. The ad, was part of a series of ads starring actor Dean Cain and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait.

The removed ad features a wife vomiting uncontrollably after finding hardcore porn on her husband's computer. The man slips over and she continues vomiting over him. Cain, narrating, then pops in to tell viewers that this wouldn't have happened had the man used an I.E. feature called "InPrivate Browsing". The ad was criticized, not only for its excessive use of vomiting, but also because it seems to be offering tips for how to browse porn without your spouse catching you.

According to an interview with Techflash, Goldthwait said these were the first commercials he's ever directed and believed Microsoft brought him on board to bring an edge to their marketing efforts.

Goldthwait created four commercials for Microsoft. The offensive one above titled "O.M.G.I.G.P" or "Oh My God I'm Gonna Puke", plus "S.H.Y.N.E.S.S." (Sharing Heavily Yet Not Enough Sharing Still), "F.O.M.S" (Fear Of Missing Something) and "G.R.I.P.E.S" (Gripping Rage Internet Pathetically Extra Slow').

Here is the add for all those interested:


http://www.examiner.com/x-8155-Seattle-Internet-Examiner~y2009m7d3-Microsoft-pulls-offensive-Puke-Ad

~Lordbob

 

[Joshatdot]

RLY?! RLY MS you OK'd that AD?

 

[Lordbob75]

RLY?! RLY MS you OK'd that AD?

Well it got pulled so...........

I would have the same reaction if someone had IE8 with a massive taskbar (I have seen this, believe it or not! Over Half the screen was the taskbar....)

~Lordbob

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Saw this a day or so ago.

The main reason they Allowed it;

• For the younger audience
• An eye-catcher (sure was!)
• Comedy

The main reason they Pulled it out;

• Many of the older audience thought it was disgusting and offensive.

 

[Lordbob75]

Saw this a day or so ago.

The main reason they Allowed it;

• For the younger audience
• An eye-catcher (sure was!)
• Comedy

The main reason they Pulled it out;

• Many of the older audience thought it was disgusting and offensive.

They did call it offensive. Don't know why, I thought it was cleaver. Even if I hate IE.

~Lordbob

 

[LFB]

Already watched this...

this video is pretty disgusting

Microsoft people are F** nuts... LOL...

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

I thought it was great! Wonder if MS beta tests videos.

Makes a really chopping/poor quality one at first then works on it lmao

 

[Lordbob75]

I thought it was great! Wonder if MS beta tests videos.

Makes a really chopping/poor quality one at first then works on it lmao

LOL this is on YouTube though, so by definition, it has to look like that.

~Lordbob

 

[pop pop]

That's what happens when business people listen to marketing types. I'm not surprised at the ad...Bobcat Goldthwait is a pig and always has been. I am, however, surprised at MS. I'll bet you Bill soiled his drawers when he saw it and made an immediate call to the idiot in charge. Bill may be retired...but not that retired.

 

[smarteyeball]

Geez, no wonder it got pulled. It looked like a parody skit

 

[Lordbob75]

Geez, no wonder it got pulled. It looked like a parody skit

Probably was.

~Lordbob

 

[Win7User512]

Glad they pulled it. Imagine seeing that at dinner time.

 

[John Henry]

Glad they pulled it. Imagine seeing that at dinner time.

It had no effect at all on me while i was eatin and drinkin cuba libre


Jokes apart: it's disgusting that microsoft falls so down to make a such ad just to catch the eye of the young people. Fortunatly such ads does never come to italy.

 

[copernicus]

Thats an awesome ad.

 

[Razzen]

Lmfao. I laughed when I saw this... xD

 

[holo88]

whats so gross about 2G1C? hahahahahaha

+1 though, that ad sucked. but it was more clever than those Mac ads... it actually had SOME thought behind it.

(more clever? wtf does that mean?)

 

[Night Hawk]

The only way you would see an ad like this would be on Youtube especially when you look at who they have as the narrater! I expect to see an ad like that on Comedy Central or HBO rather then.... But you see all sorts of other oddball videos on Youtube anyways! :roflmao:

Ad - Microsoft - I'm a PC - Not Alone [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSiSIzXKMXw"]YouTube - Ad - Microsoft - I'm a PC - Not Alone[/ame]

Man in the Box 4th of July [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23r6EAdWO6w"]YouTube - Man in the Box 4th of July[/ame]

 

[holo88]

question about MS's slogan "Windows [+] Life without walls".

if there are no walls, where the hell do you put a window?

btw, the '[+]' is supposed to be the win flag

 

[Night Hawk]

The walls must be transparencies! thud! boing! crunch "what was that? hey, who put this invisible wall here?!"

 

[John Henry]

Lol @ Ad - Microsoft - I'm a PC - Not Alone
I wondr how much did they pay to all these people lol.