Must See: Mad TV Predicted the iPad in 2006

Since introducing its iPad e-reader on Wednesday, Apple has been absorbing heavy criticism for muffing the naming of the new product. You don’t have to be a Mensa member to have seen that this was just a bad idea, period. Even more damning, though, is that Mad TV actually ran a parody of the iPod called the “iPad”… in 2006! Zennie Abraham and Rachel Sklar mentioned the sketch in their columns, and AdFreak shines a spotlight on it today.

Here’s the sketch, one of the funnier things I’ve seen from Mad TV:



See, I never would have known that women discuss the dimensions of their cervices at work.

I interviewed several reporters yesterday for Inside the White House Press Corps, and I threw in a question about the iPad to be topical, and to see if I could provoke a fresh wisecrack or two. Interestingly, none of them touched on the hygienic implications of the name.  Maybe we’re making too big a deal out of this.

Nahhh.

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