Cult of Mac Lampooned in Online Sitcom
5:59 am, April 16th, 2009, Nicole Martinelli
Well, not us specifically, but people like us (and people like you) were the target of online sitcom “Life From the Inside.”
LFTI, about an agoraphobic jingle writer Mason and his pals, has a certain homemade charm most non-irony impaired Mac fans will probably find entertaining.
“We wanted to do an episode about cults,” says Robb Padgett, a producer, writer and actor on the show. “I have an original Mac and ImageWriter and I thought it’d be fun if the cult we were creating wouldn’t allow their members to use any technology created after 1984. That’s perfect for showing off the original Mac, and for having characters dress up in ridiculous ’80s garb.”
So Cult of Mac it was. In episode eight, Mason’s best friend and sidekick Guy “awesomizes” Mason’s Mac Pro by replacing it with the Mac 128K. Mason tries to lure Guy away from the cult with an iPhone 3G and rescue a friend from “Neo-Amish” cult where members use vintage cell phones, as in the above screen shot. In the all-goes-awry escalation, both Mason and Guy end up getting sucked into an even larger cult, involving black mock turtle necks and New Balance sneakers.
The program, made on a Mac Pro by a three-person team, two of whom describe themselves as “huge Apple geeks,” has also been Zune featured podcast.
Best check it out on iTunes, though.
Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Cult of Mac, Humor | Comment on this article
I love Mac OS and pretty much most Mac machines but i am part of NO cult.
I watched episode 8 (03/23/09), i like it.
Deocliciano Okssipin Vieira, on April 17th, 2009 at 4:40 am
Best thing anyone has seen on a Zune.
Partners in Grime, on April 18th, 2009 at 2:34 pm