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    Image of Mikestan Mikestan
    12/01/09

    In reply to Windows Patch Causing Black Screen of Death
    Who needs viruses when you have Windows security updates to do the crashing for you.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/01/09

    In reply to Windows Patch Causing Black Screen of Death
    Black?? But that's the worst color there is!
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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Killed Windows 7 Family Guy Special Even More Horrible Than I Imagined
    Still not as bad as the horrible iPhone insert into CSI.
    "There's an app for that!"
    "That phone has excellent reception"

    I mean reeeeally? At least family guy isn't supposed to be serious.

    "There's an app for that" has to be the most obnoxious marketing slogan this century.
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    11/29/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Apocalypse: Hard Reboot Gets a New Meaning
    That robot looks like Alien Hominid's first boss. o.O
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    Edited by SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! at 11/29/09 3:39 PM SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! was starred SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! was unstarred
    Image of Span_Wolf Span_Wolf
    11/29/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: Yep, my thought too. I was wondering why it wasn't windmilling. ;)
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    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! promoted this comment Span_Wolf was starred Span_Wolf was unstarred
    Image of Nerval77 Nerval77
    11/29/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Apocalypse: Hard Reboot Gets a New Meaning
    yawn [sigh] ...
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    Brian Hogg promoted this comment Edited by Nerval77 at 11/29/09 3:14 PM Nerval77 was starred Nerval77 was unstarred
    Image of Brian Hogg Brian Hogg
    11/29/09

    @Nerval77: Not just a yawn or a sigh, but *both* a yawn and a sigh?
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    Image of hater001 hater001
    11/29/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Apocalypse: Hard Reboot Gets a New Meaning
    um...these videos are boring...they suck....try harder...you've wasted your life...enjoy this coment...
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    Brian Hogg approved this comment hater001 was starred hater001 was unstarred
    Image of Brian Hogg Brian Hogg
    11/29/09

    @hater001: Before I can acknowledge your scathing critique of my work, I need to know what a "coment" is. Your spelling and grammar are otherwise perfection, so I can only assume that it's a thing I haven't heard of and not simply a sloppy mis-spelling of "comment."
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    Image of nicroma nicroma
    11/29/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Apocalypse: Hard Reboot Gets a New Meaning
    By the sound of it, the robot is actually running Windows XP.
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    Brian Hogg promoted this comment nicroma was starred nicroma was unstarred
    Image of Brian Hogg Brian Hogg
    11/29/09

    @nicroma: I was going to use the Windows 7 sounds, but figured more people would recognize the XP sounds.
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    Image of GuidoDoe GuidoDoe
    11/29/09

    @Brian Hogg: Then why call it Windows 7 Apocalypse? lol
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    Brian Hogg approved this comment GuidoDoe was starred GuidoDoe was unstarred
    Image of Brian Hogg Brian Hogg
    11/29/09

    @GuidoDoe: Because that sounds catchier than Windows XP Apocalypse.
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    Image of Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo
    11/27/09

    In reply to The Killed Windows 7 Family Guy Special Even More Horrible Than I Imagined
    Seth MacFarlane in 2000: I'm gonna push some boundaries, because that's the way I like making TV.
    Seth MacFarlane today: HURP DURP I LIEK MONEY
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    Image of James Stewart James Stewart
    11/27/09

    In reply to The Killed Windows 7 Family Guy Special Even More Horrible Than I Imagined
    Family Guy has sucked since season 2 0r 3. Even then... borderline garbage.
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    Image of BeerManMike BeerManMike
    11/27/09

    @James Stewart: Please don't say that southpark is better, just please.
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    Image of psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
    11/28/09

    @BeerManMike: @Millah: South Park fking blows. There I said it. Only brain dead idiots watch it. There I said that too. Don't like my opinions? You don't really have to. There I said that too.
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    HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! was starred psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! was unstarred
    Image of HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
    11/28/09

    @psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!: @BeerManMike: Guys, guys, guys... BOTH your favorite shows blow!
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    Image of mrmonkey72 mrmonkey72
    11/27/09

    In reply to The Killed Windows 7 Family Guy Special Even More Horrible Than I Imagined
    ...wait... this wasn't killed, I saw some of these on the air like last Sunday. Or by killed, is it just that they're not going to continue showing them?
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    tande04 promoted this comment mrmonkey72 was starred mrmonkey72 was unstarred
    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/27/09

    @mrmonkey72: The special that had nothing to do with these clips isn't going to air anymore.
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    Image of taketheleap taketheleap
    11/27/09

    In reply to The Killed Windows 7 Family Guy Special Even More Horrible Than I Imagined
    They shoulda have taken a South-Park-esque stance on it: complain that it doesn't work, bring Bill Gates in
    and when he lies, shoot him in the face.

    ... come on, who hasn't wanted to shoot Bill Gates in the face when they get a BSOD?
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    Homerjay is utterly alone. promoted this comment taketheleap was starred taketheleap was unstarred
    Image of Guard Guard
    11/27/09

    In reply to The Killed Windows 7 Family Guy Special Even More Horrible Than I Imagined
    Am I the only person that watches Family Guy?

    These are all clips from previous episodes, just dubbed over. It honestly looks like the initial clip was a tease, and that the episode was never real to begin with, especially if the "episode" is all clips from previous shows.
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    tande04 promoted this comment Guard was starred Guard was unstarred
    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/27/09

    @Guard: There never was an "episode". The blogosphere put "Family Guy Sells Windows 7" in all of their titles and then, like most commenters, never bothered reading the story that came after.
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    Image of smithers85 smithers85
    11/27/09

    In reply to The Killed Windows 7 Family Guy Special Even More Horrible Than I Imagined
    It amazes me that when people run out of relevant things to say, they start attacking other posters' grammar and spelling. Ah, the world we live in!
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    bobdobbs approved this comment smithers85 was starred smithers85 was unstarred
    Image of bobdobbs bobdobbs
    11/27/09

    @smithers85: Please try not to end sentences with prepositions.

    Sheesh. Friggin douchebag.
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    Image of ctxppc ctxppc
    11/27/09

    In reply to The Killed Windows 7 Family Guy Special Even More Horrible Than I Imagined
    M$ $ù©kz! Now Family Guy does too! ):-(
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    Image of jrghoull jrghoull
    11/27/09

    @ctxppc: i'm not kidding when I say that I now stay away from any/all apple products because of people like you.
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    Image of Darthvinder Darthvinder
    11/29/09

    @jrghoull:

    Looks like a Linux user to me
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/27/09

    In reply to The Killed Windows 7 Family Guy Special Even More Horrible Than I Imagined
    You know, I'm actually one of those rare guys who will say something nice about Family Guy even when everybody is saying how bad it is, how racist the jokes are, how Seth is this or that...

    But those are pretty meh. Like they are not even trying. Maybe watching all of them at once didn't contribute too...

    The spinning mac disk was funny though.
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    Image of mangochutney mangochutney
    11/27/09

    @Bokusatsu_Tenshi: I think this is why MS killed the episode, not because of the racy jokes, but because they were bad.
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    tande04 promoted this comment mangochutney was starred mangochutney was unstarred
    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/27/09

    @Bokusatsu_Tenshi: They weren't trying. I'm sure if they were giving it their all they would have actually animated something new instead of re-dubbing a couple of old clips.

    @mangochutney: Or it could be that there never was any "Family Guy Windows 7 episode" to begin with.
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    Image of mangochutney mangochutney
    11/27/09

    @tande04: Seeing how half-assed these scenes are, I believe you maybe right. If it was a PR stunt, it was a bad one, but well executed.
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    mangochutney was starred mangochutney was unstarred
    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/27/09

    @mangochutney: Thats not exactly what I mean.

    There never was a Windows 7 Family Guy episode planned, conceived, or in any way shape or form executed.

    There were these ads which ran as they were supposed to and a live action show which MS just pulled out of sponsoring at the last second.

    Nothing got killed, nothing was faked, the whole thing went as planned (with the exception of MS pulling their sponsorship).
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    Image of doompod doompod
    11/27/09

    @tande04:
    I doubt Microsoft went through that much trouble to pull a dumb PR stunt like that. Those actually look like real episodes.
    Microsoft most likely didn't intend to pull these from the beginning.
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    tande04 promoted this comment doompod was starred doompod was unstarred
    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/27/09

    @doompod: I never said they did. In fact when the first person misconstrued what I said in that way I made a point of saying that wasn't what I was saying.

    Those are real episodes. In order they are:
    Ocean's Three and a Half
    Road to the Multiverse
    Lois Kills Stewie
    Tales of a Third Grade Nothing.

    They re-dubbed them with windows 7 parts to cross promote both windows 7 and Family Guy (see how it says what time Family Guy comes on at?). They were used exclusively as leads to actual windows 7 commercials and as far as I know only appeared during other similar shows.

    They are not part of some "Windows 7-centric" episode of Family Guy. There is no Windows 7-centric episode of Family Guy. No one who bothered to read past a blog title ever thought there was. There was a live action sketch show called "Seth and Alex" which was originally sponsored by MS but they pulled their sponsorship. The show went on and aired.

    There is nothing for MS to "pull" in the first place.
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