Microsoft has pulled the plug on its previously-announced deal with Fox to imbed Windows 7 references into The Family Guy.
From Advertising Age:
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Turns out Seth MacFarlane isn't PC enough to be a PC. Microsoft was set to sponsor a prime time special by the "Family Guy" creator as part of its Windows 7 media blitz, but was somehow surprised when the typically MacFarlane-esque fare didn't exactly "fit with the Windows brand."
Variety reports that three days after crowing about its new Seth MacFarlane deal to the world, it pulled the plug after getting a look at the content, which included "riffs on deaf people, the Holocaust, feminine hygiene and incest," the company pulled out of the project.
How anyone could get caught off-guard by the kind of humor on Family Guy, which has been around for years?
"Holy crap! You mean there's potty humor on there??? Maybe we should have watched some back-episodes of the show before we built our marketing campaign around it!!!"
Ridiculous.
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