The Microsoft Girl's Fingers Are Dirty

I think we’ve talked about those Microsoft commercials where the people go shop for a computer, find a PC they like, and then get free money for buying it, right?

The infamous one is the filmmaker who gets a PC over an Apple and then acts really pretentious about being an artist, but I think the companion piece is even more disappointing.

It’s the one where the cute blond college girl goes to the store with her mom. Conceptually there are no problems here, but if you note the images to your right, her fingers are filthy.

Like, this commercial has a lot of potential, but the carelessness of the hand cleanliness takes me from…

YEAH GIRL YOU SO HOT – ARE YOU 18, GIRL??? I’M A COLLEGE DROP-OUT, NOW LET’S GO ON A BIKINI DATE.

…right to…

WTF ARE YOU MAJORING IN – GARDENING? GET OUT DA STORE AND STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE “TEE-HEE I’M IN LOVE WITH YOU. YOU LOOK LIKE A MAN – LET ME FEEL YOUR ARMS. OMG SO CUTE LET’S DO KISSING.” GIRL, YOU DON’T NEED A COMPUTER TO USE THAT PLANT SPATULA!

Really – I inspected this footage over and over – those aren’t shadows or anything else – it’s dirt.

Have you ever been an 18-year old girl in a commercial? An 18-year old girl in a commercial who bought a computer with dirty fingers? I’ll bet you have – did you scold the director and/or DP via email when you saw it?

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Yahtzee

I dislike the whole "She usually does" comment by the Mom at the end of the commercial, referring to the girl getting what she wants. It reminded me of an episode of "My Super Sweet Sixteen," which I assume will be featuring Bryce Maximus James in about 14ish years.
Brian

Haha dat was a good one. Bryce Max has a nice life and is well provided for.
TVBrain

I am a mac guy, but I once ran into Best Buy (one photographed by Eastham Way) and bought a cheap pc laptop on my lunch hour because I was working a freelance job that required that I have a computer. It was under $800 and it is terrible. I'm using it right now because I'm on another freelance job a year later. I want to print up an MS Word document, but Microsoft wants to charge me $139.99 for a Word upgrade for the privilege of saving and printing. I wonder if they'll show that moment in follow up ads.
Brian

I did the same thing once - got a Compaq at Wal-Mart for like 600. I ended up taking it back when I was done because I hated it and I'm a bad person.
TVBrain

I'm a bad person because what bugs me most about the alleged filmmaker in the PC commercials is that she has a man's body.
Brian

I don't like how she says "I'm a filmmaker and an artist" in a tone of voice best reserved for the moments leading up to gang violence.
orange5o

i don't like how onion buns are so much more expensive than kaiser buns.
TVBrain

It's because onion buns come with raisins!

(See what I did there?)
orange5o

no
Boney

Adam Lambert is gay

HEY OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

+1
NDEddieMac

Wait....when did we go back to Airplanes? I dont pay nearly enough attention to these things.
Adam J

I think we can all agree the worst one is that lady and her 11-year-old husband.
TVBrain

Who needs a haircut.
Kingsley Le Corbusier

If you count "wedding videographer" as artist, then maybe she qualifies.
joe

you guys are going to have to trust me here.. that girl is not going to law school. i know it will make some of you sad to realize that commercials are not real life. law students keep their fingers incredibly clean.
Brian

Hot Young Booty Lawyers - this fall on the CW
Greg Odens tonsils

Or Brian Spaeths epic, pretentious, and stupid book, HOT YOUNG BOOTY LAWYERS.
Brian

wtf man - PRELUDE to a YOUNG HOT BOOTY LAWYER.
Greg Odens tonsils

2 points.
NDEddieMac

There need to be more Hot Young Booty Lawyers...or not even, just Hot Young Booty Law Students, preferably in Dallas, before I leave school. That's not too much to ask
alexiskn

you obvi don't hang out close enough to SMU.
also, when they (at least "hot young bootys" maybe not the "law student" part) file into small/unassuming restaurants in herds, my dad always declares, "Oh shit. I didn't know it was ho night..."
NDEddieMac

haha, actually I GO to SMU. No doubt, there are several there who are mighty attractive, including most of my friends. But it's not like there can ever be enough, plus, need more single, guess I should've thrown that in.
alexiskn

DAMN BOY HOW YOU EVEN SEEN THEM FILTHY FINGERS YOU GOT EYES LIKE SUPERMAN OR SOME SHIT???
(i cant even pretend to sound cool when i do that...)

my favorite is the one where the girl is like "im not cool enough to be a mac person" ... you're absolutely right. you're not cool enough.
Brian

I can't explain how to do it. :/
nrojb

she's about to be a law student, so she's gotta be at least 21. don't know if that makes it better to have dirty fingers or not. she prob still doesn't have the specs you're looking for.
Greg Odens tonsils

Microsoft is quivering in their dirty boots Brian. They don't want none of you. They're barking up the wrong tree.

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