Get A Mac - Parodies

Parodies

Videos parodying the Get a Mac campaign have been published online by Novell, to promote Linux, represented by a young and fashionable woman. A different set of videos parodying the campaign have been produced, but with Linux portrayed as a typical male nerd.

Late Show with David Letterman made parodies of the Get a Mac campaign, from Mac's wig being taken off by PC to reveal baldness, to Mac as David Hasselhoff eating a cheeseburger drunk.

YouTube user ItsJustSomeRandomGuy has posted an amateur video series, which consists of comic book action figures discussing their differences in "I'm a Marvel...and I'm a DC". The characters usually compare the performances of recent superhero films from both Marvel and DC.

On an episode of Air Farce Live, aired around the time of the Canadian federal election, had a sketch where one of the comedians was introduced as a Liberal, and the other as a PC (Progressive Conservative). The sketch was split into separate parts during the episode.

To promote Steam on Mac, Valve made a parody with Portal and Team Fortress 2 sentry guns.

City of Heroes offered a series of online video parodies with a commercial featuring dialog centered around two machinima characters. They all start the same: one proclaiming "I'm a hero" and the other proclaiming "I'm a villain." The video was made to promote their new Mac edition of the game for OS X computers, released in February 2009.

Instant Star and Degrassi: The Next Generation were in a parody where they would describe their own shows. Alexz Johnson portrayed Instant Star (Johnson portrays Jude Harrison in the show) and Miriam McDonald portrayed Degrassi (McDonald portrays Emma Nelson in the show).

T-Mobile USA launched in 2010 an ad campaign for the T-Mobile 4G product, which features model/actress Carly Foulkes as a 4G phone going up against Apple's iPhone 4 which at the time was exclusively on competitor AT&T Mobility. (Apple has since released a CDMA-compatible iPhone for Verizon Wireless.) The commercials are strikingly similar as both feature a white background and two people representing the products.

Another web parody of the ads compares Nintendo's Wii game system against Sony's PlayStation 3, with the Wii represented by an attractive blonde in a two-piece swimsuit and the PS3 represented by a rather husky woman in a nerd-like outfit.

SuperNews! made 2 shorts based on the "Get a Mac" ads, which features Bill Gates and Steve Jobs fighting each other. The first one is the highest viewed video in Current's Youtube Channel with over 3,000,000 views.