I used “surreal” up there, because I think someone on Mad Ave. is on something chemical.
The latest one has a “taste test” of some kind of red juice which is purportedly Geico insurance. Taster tastes it and likes it, is then offered sample “Y” and almost chokes and spits it out.
Okay, I get it: The spot is a takeoff on supermarket samples, but come on! It’s insurance fer Chrissakes! If it’s something that tastes that awful, I think I’d be worried about a lawsuit.:rolleyes:
I’ve come to like “Flo” (Progressive) a little better (although I don’t think I’d wanna kiss her with those too red lips of hers), and her spots are at least a little more entertaining, if a little tedious.
But the Geico one? Would it make me wanna buy their insurance? What do you think?
Okay, you guys! I give. You’re right. I miss the cavemen though! Didn’t they have a tv show that was on for about 10 minutes?
And, while we’re talking insurance commercials. That Allstate guy with his car up a pole and in the middle of what he calls his “house” (looks more like a storefront to me). How the hell do you run a car up a pole??? The tires are on the frickin side! And is that a pager he’s wearing on his belt???
Okay, I’m done bitchin’ about commercials for today!
Yeah, they did, on ABC. It was actually really good. But it got a lot of bad publicity, just for being a sitcom based on a commercial. It was suspended after six episodes and then the writers’ site was the final nail in the coffin. They didn’t even broadcast all the episodes that had been made. By Superbowl time, the cavemen in the commercial were making fun of the sitcom.
Funniest part to me is, why have a water tank and row at all? A wheel would generate power (and probably more efficiently). It’s such a harebrained scheme that his focusing on the difficulty he had training the guinea pigs is all the more hilarious.
I’ve been taking a big break from TV lately, but with the NHL playoffs about to start up I will be subjected to Geico’s inanity on a nightly basis. I hope I can come out of it with my sanity intact…
I think you sort of missed the point of that one. Personally, I saw it as kind of a gay joke (because it’s guys riffing on Journey), until he says “place was filled with hot chicks” which indicates the guy isn’t gay. And the fact that his now (not then) wife looks at him funny and he hangs up, means he’s not cheating.
And to me it’s funnier than the one where the guy’s talking on the phone to some guy at 3:00 a.m. and his wife catches him. Not because I think he’s cheating, just the he felt he had to make that phone call at 3:00 a.m. to some poor guy working nights and probably doesn’t need this crap from some jealous wife.
They have another ad where that guy has somehow managed to drive his car through a corner of a building, leaving it stuck there like a bone through a tribesman’s nose. Oddly, his headlights still look intact.
