# Geico sushi commercial **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757 "2011-09-18T23:24:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/1 "2011-09-18T23:24:02Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ces98B8W8r4) I like it. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/2 "2011-09-18T23:31:35Z")
Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/3 "2011-09-19T00:41:06Z")
She’s too young to have named her goldfish Capt. Stubing. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/4 "2011-09-19T00:52:54Z")
I think it’s dumb like 95% of Geico commercials ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/5 "2011-09-19T00:56:17Z")
It’s not just that their eating their daughter’s fish. It’s the image of the mother in the kitchen killing and preparing the fish. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/6 "2011-09-19T01:08:38Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > I think it’s dumb > > like 95% of Geico commercials But there’s good news. ---
**Author:** ![mariposalabrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@mariposalabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mariposalabrown)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/7 "2011-09-19T03:51:34Z")
So stupid. Any little fish she had in there would never be worth the time, all those little bones. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/8 "2011-09-19T05:18:24Z")
Well, he doesn’t seem to be really liking the sushi, he’s kind of choking it down. I like it, it’s one of the more humorously cruel commercials in the Geico series. It’s almost as good as the [Oupost.com](http://Oupost.com) commercial with the gerbils getting shot out of the cannon. Plus, they’re not proud of it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![velveeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/13edae/32.png) [@velveeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velveeta)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/9 "2011-09-19T13:40:56Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > It’s not just that their eating their daughter’s fish. It’s the image of the mother in the kitchen killing and preparing the fish. And, he gets BOTH pieces. They’re that in debt that they need to scarf down their kid’s goldfish, but dad doesn’t even share this meager meal with his wife. For shame, fish sucking husband! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/10 "2011-09-19T15:16:59Z")
> [@velveeta](#): > > And, he gets BOTH pieces. They’re that in debt that they need to scarf down their kid’s goldfish, but dad doesn’t even share this meager meal with his wife. For shame, fish sucking husband! Yeah, and then what? Is their neighborhood in for a rash of disappearing fish? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/11 "2011-09-19T21:52:25Z")
it is a bit disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/12 "2011-09-19T21:59:37Z")
Suddenly _Cavemen: the Series_ doesn’t seem so bad, does it? ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/13 "2011-09-20T20:47:51Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ces98B8W8r4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ces98B8W8r4) > > I like it. +1. My wife hates these commercials, but even she liked it. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/14 "2011-09-20T21:09:07Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > I think it’s dumb > > like 95% of Geico commercials > [@ministryman](#): > > +1. My wife hates these commercials, but even she liked it. Paint me the opposite. I at least somewhat like most of the GEICO ads - geckos, cavemen, people crawling out from under a big rock, the stack of money cuing “Somebody’s Watching Me”, the rhetorical question guy (“Is the pen mightier than the sword?”), etc. - but not this one. Too implausible and also too mean spirited to me to like. And I didn’t even catch the oddity of a teenager’s fish being named “Capt. Stubing”. Now I hate it even more! 🙂 The other ones in the same “easier way to save” vein also leave me flat. Like the woman who trained her pets to play “Take On Me”. _shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-sushi-commercial/596757/15 "2011-09-20T21:30:54Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > She’s too young to have named her goldfish Capt. Stubing. I heard Captain Stewy.