Seems like I remember that Charlie Daniels wrote a song about being a hippie traveling through intollerant-redneck-infested territory. But he now seems to be a spokesman for intollerant rednecks. Can this be right? Did he become his own oppressor?
Uneasy Rider, that’s the song.
I prefer to think Charlie was just trying to help the musician out, in case he ever went to Georgia and was challenged to a fiddle contest by a gentleman on a hickory stump.
If they made a movie about Charlie’s and he played himself would that be fiction?
I dislike a smart-assed character in a commercial named Charlie Daniels and who plays a mean fiddle and every effort is made to make us believe he is Caharlie Daniels and that part is played by Charlie Daniels.
Excuse me for thinking that person might be Charlie Daniels.
If that part was played by me, and no mention was made of CD, what would you think of the character then?
Again, for all I know Charlie Daniels may be a complete asshole. I can’t say, I don’t know the guy personally. But if he is, it has nothing to do with his behavior in that commercial. It’s just a freaking commercial. Get over it.
Have yet to hear about the lawsuit from him wrecking that man’s fiddle and bow, or over the theft of the breadstick.
Oh wait, it wasn’t real.
Reminds me of the people who go to the Star Trek conventions and ask what it feels like to be beamed up.
Have you by chance seen “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle”, with supporting actor Neil Patrick Harris, who plays a character who is an actor named Neil Patrick Harris? You should.
It might be. Why not? Unless it’s a documentary.
I certainly wouldn’t think you were re-enacting real life.
Look, there’s only what, three of you left? Put it to bed, okay?
Thie is after all MPSIMS. Chill.
Sorry, I forgot you.
No you wouldn’t, but you might think I was a buffoon. And mean. In real life.
No, I wouldn’t. I would think you were an actor hired to play a role. I’d be an idiot to think otherwise.
Remember that movie The Man with Two Brains? The Elevator Killer turns out to be Merv Griffin, playing himself. It’s amazing that Merv went through life hosting talk shows and whatnot, and never got in trouble for killing people! I mean, he must have been a murderer IRL, right?
Similar to the original, except the classical fiddler reveals himself to be “Ike” Perlman, who clobbers Charlie with his crutch and then resumes playing the Chaccone.
Title fade-in: Disability insurance: don’t raise hell without it.
Not so much related to CD, but does anybody wonder just how much Geico’s advertising budget is? The Gecko, the Cavemen, the Celebrity Spokesperson series, now Charlie Daniels, the ads are on ALL THE TIME- if they’d cut their ad budget in half they could probably save you 30% instead of 15%.
Actually companies like GEICO need to spend lots and lots of money on advertising because they don’t have a physical presence. People only deal with the company over the phone or web. If they stopped advertising, people would forget they exist when it’s time to buy insurance and instead would only look at insurance companies that have offices in their town, like State Farm or Allstate. I’d bet whatever money it GEICO spends on advertising is less than they’d spend maintaining offices and employees all over the country.
I’m glad their ads are on constantly. It’s a continual reminder of what fucking idiots they are and that I must never never never do business with them.
Plus, they advertise locally EVERYWHERE! They have billboards up in practically every arena. And don’t forget that many other insurers also have significant advertising. Think of how many Progressive, Allstate, State Farm, etc. we are also constantly bombarded with. While I don’t advocate collusion, if they all made a 50% cut to their ad budgets, they’d probably still have the same market share. And we’d all be paying less. They should all hire game theorists, as these ad strategies are like a prisoner’s dilemma situation gone wrong.
I certainly hear 2ply’s point on competing with small local insurers, but I can’t believe that people would forget about GEICO.
Then again, I’m sure each of these firms has teams of analysts working on their strategies so I acknowledge that I could be missing something.
Hey, you have never traveled unless you’ve had Shatner as your agent!
There are a lot of intolerant rednecks, or people with that streak in their character, out there. If seeing a poorly paid conservatory musician *and *an anonymous urban suit get pwnt by a financially secure country fiddler makes them feel righteous or at least gives them a satisfying warm-but-not-fuzzy, and that in turn leaves them positively disposed to GEICO, or even more likely to remember GEICO, GEICO has gotten what the advertisers promised to deliver them.
Now whether all this non-product-related advertising really works is another matter entirely. I’ve never seen word one on how well it gets people to buy stuff. Maybe it’s just another part of the great trend of the age: marketers marketing to marketers.
Whatever happened to “we’ll all stick together, and you can take that to the bank. That’s the cowboys and the hippies, and the rebels and the yanks”?