Commercial crossovers are always painful. There may not be an iron-cladder ironclad rule in all of showbiz. Years of watching peak-years Simpsons episodes with bafflingly terrible Simpsons Butterfinger commercials airing during the breaks first educated me about this rule, and that terribleness has rolled on through to this day in the form of — take your pick — transforming GMC vehicles.
Does this rule excuse the following Family Guy Windows 7 commercial from being the laziest lazy that ever lazied? You be the judge:
I give it two weeks before Fox makes this commercial their 17th Seth MacFarlane Sunday night show in an animation block that’ll run from 8:00 to 3 pm the following Tuesday.
(via Videogum)
