I usually don’t find MadTV skits very amusing, however, this one touches both on the way technology is used and social commentary about the war. In the technology segment, Michael McDonald who satirizes Apple creator Steve Jobs goes on to introduce the typical Apple products: the iPod, the Macbook, iPhone but then spoofs the iMicrowave, the iVacuum and lastly the iRack. This first part plays on the consumption of culture and way we value these products as essential to daily life. It’s basically saying that we need Apple to create products that fit in to every part of our lives. The skit then goes on to comment on the war in Iraq by using the iRack as a medium to do so. It mentions that we are putting too many resources into the war and the situation there is unstable. While I currently cant pull more quotes from the video (the internet is very slow at the library, so much for Net Neutrality… thanks Comcast and Verizon), the skit is very well done and clever.