Funny, but also IMHO creepy as well. Seems like a parody but it isn’t.
“Life insurance so good, they’re gonna want you dead”.
Really?
Think the Family Guy and South Park style of humor influenced this?
I have to tell a friend of mine about these. The other day she was joking with me about how I need to write my will (something I keep putting off) so she can start planning to have me bumped off. Since I’m widowed with no kids, I had told her once that I was planning on leaving everything to her.
The effect is going to be extreme either way.
Either people are going to find them weird but acceptable, like the Skittles ads, or they are going to find them too weird and in bad taste. The company is taking a risk, albeit maybe a calculated risk.
I saw two of these ads yesterday and one of my first thoughts was to post something about it here.
It doesn’t offend me but it does seem kind of tasteless. Dark humor isn’t a bad thing but I can’t help but think about the large percentage of people who don’t share my slightly twisted sense of humor.