Well, there's the famous Simpsons moment where Homer enters 3D, and one of the formulas flying past him seems to be a refutation of Fermat's last theorem. But a

Well, there's the famous Simpsons moment where Homer enters 3D, and one of the formulas flying past him seems to be a refutation of Fermat's last theorem. But a part of it is a matter of the craft of the joke. Listen to this: http://www.oldmansimpson.com/sounds/season04/lets/sound01.mp3 http://www.oldmansimpson.com/sounds/season04/lets/sound01.mp.... The joke is that old people tell long stories. But the story itself is funny and cleverly-written. It's not just a "let me talk and be boring," it's actually a long, boring story. Like I said: they could have done something like made Cupertino akin to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. They could pull a FSJ and make Steve a would-be Zen master. They could have had a scene with a bunch of "unique artists" all using Macs in Starbucks. It would still be a parody, anti-Mac people would still like it, but it would be accurate to what Apple really is. And that's what irritates me: not that they spent 6 minutes attacking Apple, which is a gratuitous amount of time for a paltry amount of jokes, but that they didn't make fun of what Apple ACTUALLY is: a company with a cult-like following and an obsession for perfectionism, even when said perfectionism borders on the insane. That's hilarious. The funny Apple parodies focus on that. This wasn't an Apple parody so much as it was an Apple insult.