Some guy thinks he set a world record. Lizard and and his buddy check the records and say he didn’t.
Lizard is running his mouth as usual about GEICO.,
Dude says, “what if I told you I used one hand?”
Lizard and his buddy looked shocked, even stunned into silence, and started flipping through the book.
Was that an innuendo for what I think it was? on tv?
Personally, I never thought of it that way. I just figured it was joke about ridiculous sports stats, like “Smith bats .248 in the month of August against pitchers born in Wisconsin.”
The joke usually goes the other way. Somebody is doing something routine that usually requires two hands, and he shocks someone (a girl) by saying he’s only using one because the other is uh, busy.
can’t think of a specific joke. but I’ve heard this joke from guys since I was too young to understand what it meant.
Yeah, that’s what I thought, too. The fact that Gecko’s assistant almost immediately starts flipping through the book looking for the one-handed record (indicating that there is in fact such a category) made the whole joke seem like a riff on “bats right, bats left, etc.”
I guess those years in my iunior & senior high school locker room had an effect on me. We were always joking about raunchy stuff. This commercial triggered an old, almost forgotten memory of those jokes. YMMV
I picked up on the ‘only using one hand’ line the first time I saw the commercial. But since masturbating over Geico’s rates is really too absurd I thought that either the joke was really lame, or else it was a ‘What if I told you I did it with one hand tied behind my back’ style of thing.
The caller remarkably is not suffering from any shortness of breath - so I’m guessing it’s just the absurdity of speeding up the process of getting a good insurance rate quote by using “only one hand”, as well as the silliness that there should be a ‘record’ for such a thing.
My idea, presented here because I already dislike it enough to never want to actually see it:
[Announcer walks up to the camera]
Can GEICO really save you 15% or more on car insurance?
…Does being the star of a successful commerical series affect an actor’s ego? No. So buzz off, you worms, while I prepare for yet another amazing performance."