Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Futurama lampoons iPhone 4 in the eyePhone episode

The long lines witnessed at the iPhone 4 lunch became an inspiration for a hilarious Futurama episode (Season 6, Episode 3) entitled “Attack of the Killer App.” The episode starts with an apple commercial spoof advertising the eyePhone from Mom, the device that lets you “stalk your ex” and “download porn on a crowded bus.”
It then goes on to lampoon the buying experience at a crowded store that kinda reminds a lot of an Apple store, down to the elegant interior and a video wall showing dancing silhouettes of Mom and her cronies. Mom tells us in the hypnotizing in-store reel that the new eyePhone lets her “check recipes and send threatening emails to unauthorized third party app developers.”
Needles to say, the zombie nation is lining up to get their hands on this extraordinary device. At one point, the clerk warns ignorant Fry that the phone may not be exactly what he thought it was

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