There’s an episode of The Simpsons called “Mypods and Boomsticks”, famous for tackling the subject of Islam and terrorism, and attacking America’s perception of the religion. It also features rather blatant, shameless mocking of Apple, its userbase, and its line of products.
Typical, then, that Wikipedia’s editors (and by “Wikipedia’s editors” I mean the loose global collective of sticklers, pedants and, let’s be honest, complete fucking morons who take it upon themselves to update the encyclopedia) would include the following passage on their article about the episode:
“MyPod“, “MyPhone“, “MyCube“, “Mapple Store“, “Braniac Bar“, and “Mapple” may be parodies of Apple Inc. and its products, though this is ambiguous.
“Ambiguous”? It’s blatant, init? Blatant! And in case you’re wondering, I didn’t add the links in that quote. They’re right there in the original article, linking to the articles relating to the Apple products the episodes parody.
Two sentences later in the very same article, it says this:
The CEO of Mapple is “Steve Mobbs”, a parody of Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs. The scene where Comic Book Guy throws a sledge hammer at the screen is a reference to the famous “1984” Apple commercial.
Yes, well, of course.