I bet this comes directly from Seinfeld's genius ideas.

 

Ok Ok Ok!

Let me explain this commercial to those that don't have a grasp of it. There are several meanings in this commercial.

1) we see Jerry Seinfeld roaming a mall (funny because if you know Jerry's history, part of his original schtick (sp?) when he was a comedian starting out was making fun of where he grew up on LI in Massapequa, which coincidently has a huge mall, that he made several jokes about it in his routine as a comic.

2) Jerry sees Bill Gates of all people at a discount shoe store of all places as mega-Billionaire....that is funny in and of itself.

3) The next part is just regular Seinfeld comedy with him helping Bill get fitted for shoes.

4) Bill buys the shoes.....the cashier asks if he has a membership discount which he does....going back to his college days!! Here Bill is making fun of himself....that is called self-depracating humor. It normalizes him in the eyes of the regular people, and not as some godlike billionaire. It says...I am just like you...only with billions.

5) as they leave the mall Jerry asks....is there anything coming out from Microsoft that will be world changing (people take the cake thing too literally!!! WTF?!?!) and Bill obliges Jerry and clues him in with his butt shake.

6) Now at the end if you get it, we know that Microsoft will be a leader a technology. Big things will be coming from them. It will be hip...cool. MS is trying to shake the "evil Microsoft" label that has been unfairly attached to it. This commercial is the first part of a series that will "reintroduce" Microsoft as "the new hip and cool" technological innovator...something it wants to be in the marketplace vs. Apple.

 

...and all I see in beer commercials are young women in skimpy outfits. Are they selling beer or swimsuits?

 

The picture on the 'credit card' is from Bill's mug shot when he was stopped for a traffic violation. LOL

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http:/...1&ct=image&cd=1

 

selling young?

 

OH snap! I forgot all about that commercial, gonna youtube dat ish right now Did you see the spoof on MadTV where GI Joe is gay and comes to pick up the Ken doll and leaves Barbie

But I get what he's saying. Even tho it didn't help Nissan sell more cars, it kept Nissan on your mind, and that does lead to sells.

 

I saw this commercial tonight and thought it was great. I don't know why, it just struck me as funny. Of course, I also like the "Bill's last day at Microsoft" short that was floating around a while back too.

 

It didn't help Nissan sell more cars, but it leads to sells?

 

Well I meant this is a car board, and we're pretty much all enthusiast, so no ad campaign is gonna help sell cars to people like us. But advertising probably reaches us on some other area of our lives that we don't consider ourselves experts in(shoes, clothes food, etc.). But I'm sure there was a few people out there who thanks to this commercial and Nissan in their heads, probably added Nissan to their list of cars to try out on when making their next purchase. I'm not a beer drinker, but I can tell you that Budweiser has the best commercials compared to any other beer company. Commercials aren't meant for everyone, they are meant for that consumer who's on the fence, and to keep that brand fresh in our minds.

We all drive Honda's here, but how many of us remember a Honda commercial from 10 years ago.

 

You just proved my point - shoes and cake.