# Geico and their insulting commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 9, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966 "2004-08-09T01:58:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966/41 "2004-08-11T02:11:13Z")
> [@MizQuirk](#): > > Gosh, I’ve got to stop recording every show I want to watch just so I can zip through the commercials. This ‘Soap Opera’ one is the only one I’ve seen, and it cracks me up. DiTech? What is DiTech? and Enzyte? Oh man, you’ve got to be kidding, even with TiVo, you can’t miss that guy’s revolting grimace. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966/42 "2004-08-11T02:50:43Z")
> [@pohjonen](#): > > Ditto on that here. Not on loving their commercials, but being quoted double what I pay now. Their commercials aren’t nearly as funny as their rate quotes. I have a 20 year clean record, and I’m in the safest statistical demographic. I don’t know who they want to sell their insurance TO. Not low risk drivers, apparently. Guess they gotta pay for all that commerical airtime somehow. I pitted these lying ass dogs for this last year! The reaction was split right down the middle. Either posters got lower quotes or the were quoted _double._ (like me) I can’t undertand it. Why woudn’t they want my business? Theyd just collect checks and never pay anything out! (I know, we can’t say that for certain blah blah blah…) I could understand it if it were more but in the same ballpark, but _DOUBLE_??? I hated going through the motions of getting the quote just to find out they didn’t want my business. ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966/43 "2004-08-11T02:54:21Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > I’ve always favored The Muppet Show Law of Three: A joke that is too bad to use once may not be too bad to use three times! It’s my new act! \*\*Gonzo Fiddles… …while George Burns!\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966/44 "2004-08-11T03:39:01Z")
I like how the hair loss guy tried to lay claim that his tenis game got better since he got his new hair. Hair loss guy: “It seemed like I was always _ace-ing_ the guy” The first time I saw this commercial I got whooshed too. And I couldn’t believe that a hair loss company would actually try to give its costumer the impression that their tenis game would get better. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966/45 "2004-08-11T07:31:46Z")
I like to think of the guy in the DiTech ads as the unacknowledged son of the Maytag repair man. Less sympathetic, and playing for the losing team besides, but rooted in the tradition of workaday slob mired in an unsatisfactory life. How this man is supposed to encourage thoughts of buying a house rather than thoughts of self-defenestration, however, is beyond me. And I like **Sweetums** ’ idea of turning the tables on the smug Geico clients. While I think that basically the stooges in the joke are pretty unsympathetic (prisoner, white collar criminal, wannabe rapper, yuppie scum), the heroes are all people who are supposed to be invested in these people’s problems, are in a position to help, and instead are self-absorbed and callous. Geico could reconfigure the spots to end with something truly horrible happening to these guys, the stooges plucking a Geico flyer of of their cold, dead hands, and deciding that the extra 15% might help them out of their difficulties. That might give the campaign a few more minutes of life. In general, I am dissuaded from buying any product shown in ads wherein the users of the product are portrayed as incredibly self-centered jerks. I want to share _any_ characteristics with these creeps? Why no, and thank you for bringing it to my attention that your company’s idealized customer is a stupid, self-centered, ignorant twerp. On the other hand, I can tolerate pretty much anything, now that I am no longer being told to avoid the Noid. ---
**Author:** ![MizQuirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@MizQuirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizQuirk)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966/46 "2004-08-11T10:33:13Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > Last Christmas I was doing everything I could to get leave and see my family. . . . My NCO said he would consider letting my go home if . . . I did this. I then submitted it and waited for his reply. The fucker, knowing how badly I wanted to go home and be with my family, calls me up. > “CPL Nenno, I have some good news for you” > “Really? I can get leave for Christmas?” > “No, I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Gieko” (followed by jeveneile laughter) > “Thanks SGT. Why don’t you fucking grow up asshole!!” (followed by me hanging up) That must have seemed especially mean to you at the time. Did you get the leave? ---
**Author:** ![MizQuirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@MizQuirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizQuirk)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966/47 "2004-08-11T10:47:15Z")
> [@The King of Soup](#): > > Geico could reconfigure the spots to end with something truly horrible happening to these guys, the stooges plucking a Geico flyer of of their cold, dead hands, and deciding that the extra 15% might help them out of their difficulties. Now that would be funny! > [@](#): > > On the other hand, I can tolerate pretty much anything, now that I am no longer being told to avoid the Noid The Noid is? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966/48 "2004-08-11T15:48:59Z")
> [@MizQuirk](#): > > The Noid is? [The Noid](http://www.animateclay.com/thenoid.htm) was a claymation character used in Dominoes Pizza commercials circa 1984-1992. He had an obsessive hatred of pizza and a bunch of Wile E. Coyote-ish schemes to destroy it, all of which humiliatingly failed. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966/49 "2004-08-11T19:26:15Z")
> [@](#): > > [hijack] My god, how timely your post is. My girlfriend has been househunting intensely for her first. Just this passed Sat. we went to look at a house that she (and me actually) had completely fallen in love with. Adorable, on top of a hill, with a view of the water, a beautiful deck, etc. We’d seen it before and she had actually already put a bid down. Sat. was the engineer walk-through. Hooo Boy!! The entire foundation was crumbling!!! (and that’s one of many problems). > > Yes, we’re learning. [/hijack] [hijack] **Moe** You learned your lesson before it became painful. Don’t fall in love with it until the foundation, roof, windows, electrical and plumbing are a-ok. Everything else inside and outside is just cosmetic. No one sells a house because it’s in perfect shape. They are all hiding something. Every.one.of.them.rat.bastidges. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966/50 "2004-08-11T20:51:12Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > I like how the hair loss guy tried to lay claim that his **tenis** game got better since he got his new hair. I like how Enzyte Bob claims that he’s got a bigger pennis now. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966/51 "2004-08-16T09:54:28Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > I like how the hair loss guy tried to lay claim that his tenis game got better since he got his new hair. > > Hair loss guy: “It seemed like I was always _ace-ing_ the guy” > > The first time I saw this commercial I got whooshed too. And I couldn’t believe that a hair loss company would actually try to give its costumer the impression that their tenis game would get better. Well, I’m still whooshed. “Ace-ing”? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966/52 "2004-08-16T10:01:58Z")
I kinda like the Geico commercials. The one product I’ll never buy however, is McDonald’s Chicken Select Strips. Apparently they induce some form of Hallucinatory Paranoid Schizophrenia. ---
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966/53 "2004-08-17T00:27:07Z")
The one about the kid in the OP sounds pretty tasteless, but I have to admit I bought the hair loss one hook, line and sinker! I really thought it was another hair club type of add. There is a radio spot that sounds like a weather person giving a report about how totally suckey the weather would be this weekend, when it was supposed to be gorgeous. I bought that one too! DUH! :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-and-their-insulting-commercials/258966.md?page=2)