Remember Microsoft’s plan to band together with Family Guy for a Windows 7 promotion? Well, apparently 7 greasy slabs of Whopper and totally awkward launch parties are a go, but Family Guy’s extra special sense of humor ultimately proved too much for Microsoft.
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According to Variety, they’ve pulled their sponsorship from the Fox show after executives watched the taping of it on October 16th. The episode was apparently the typical Family Guy fare, but Microsoft felt that the “riffs on deaf people, the Holocasut, feminine hygiene and incest” were “not a fit with the Windows brand.”
Alright, fair enough — and better to have realized it before the episode actually aired, of course. But on the other hand, had anyone bothered to watch the show before inking the ad deal?
Apparently Fox still plans to air the episode with another to-be-named sponsor. We’ll be very curious to see who that mysterious sponsor is, and how much Windows 7-related content will remain in the episode regardless. Who do you think should leap in and capitalize on the easy PR boost?