I dunno, but I’d likely look at the guy then reply with something like “You’re just working here because your mom won’t let you get a real job, right?” 
OMG!
I thought I was the only one who thought that!
When I was sliding past it last time (about a week ago, 5:30am), I even started doing the cross-armed, head-shaking thing to see if it resonated. I must have looked like a total dork (laptop instead of a wooden racquet)!
It did. I think we can safely confirm it’s the people-mover inbetween H and G.
-Cem
You’re jumping to conclusions there. Just because we haven’t found any neanderthal pianos yet…
What turned me off to Geico was the fact that they couldn’t split my policy on two cars when my wife and I split up, without a formal decree, so I cancelled the policy and got one with their chief competitor. If they’d made that process so easy that a caveman could do it, I would have stayed with them.
I don’t think the ads have that much to do with getting people to switch, except that people stop reading and watch the commercial while they say “geico.com” a couple times.
Even though I’ve always used Geico for car insurance, all of their ad campaigns in the last few years have struck me as near genius in terms of getting me to notice/remember them.
This applies even to the ones I don’t particularly like (the gecko). Beyond the fact that they get old after awhile, my initial reaction to them is to laugh out loud.
The “caveman” series and the “hired celebrity” series have been the best.
Whoever decided to splice Little Richard’s reactions with a George Bush speech was inspired. (It’s on Youtube; I’d link it but that’s blocked here at work.)
Gots no cites, dude, sorry. The herd hipness has always been there–always will be. But I swear I saw some peculiar and unpleasantly un-clever changes start sneaking into TV ads around the time that large numbers of young folks on both coasts got a whole lot of money really fast in the dot-com bubble. Just something I noticed. I don’t know if there is any causation in this correlation.
Ever since then many TV spots have tried to become so ironic, so sarcastic, so “hip-ly base” that they have overdone it, missed their mark, and repelled instead of attracted.
And THOSE spots are in addition to the already run-of-the-mill lame shit like the “ring-around-the-collar” spot mentioned before as an example that TV ads have always been lame. Yeah, the “ring-around-the-collar” thing was annoying, but at least it was annoying in a normal, “remember-our-product” kind of way. They weren’t trying to out-clever all their friends at the agency to see who could write the best Horse-Fart spot for Bud light.
Oh, they drive all right, but their cars don’t have engines. They propel them with their feet.
What, you never saw The Flintstones?
Pssst… I Love Me, Vol I… I think there may be some kids crossing your lawn.
Since this seems to have migrated towards an argument about whether or not you like the cavemen commercials, count me in as one who likes them. I’m on alert for the next one, if there is one.
Ad campaigns that tell a story are too rare. These are funny. The original was okay, but when it progressed to the airport, then the psychiatrist, then the party on the balcony.
Good stuff!!!
One of my favorite commercials of all time was the Roast Duck with Mango Salsa … I don’t have much of an appetite. Next time you might want to do a little research, ok? I still giggle.
Over exposed, well, ANY ad on television can claim that title. And any successful ad campaign by definition will claim it. Who the hell DIDN’T get tired of Clara Peller?
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