# New Geico commercials - anybody watching them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859 "2010-01-14T01:00:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/21 "2010-03-11T06:13:02Z")
Yeah, I don’t mind the “does do [y]?” campaign. All the others can go to hell. The one from the latest campaign that bugs me, though, is the “does a 10-pound bag of flour make a really big biscuit?” one, if just because it’s the least clever. If you had a big enough oven to make one in, then maybe you’d get a really big biscuit. More likely, though, you’d get a really big mess. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/22 "2010-03-11T06:42:06Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Good ads, _crappy company._ You were warned. They beat MetLife by more than 50%, for me. 2100 every six months vs. 806 every six months. Maybe it’s not for everyone, but it sure is for me. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/23 "2010-03-11T07:12:03Z")
> [@Sidney Evgeni Jordan](#): > > I love the Charlie Daniels one. The other ones in this campaign are already overplayed. :dubious: My experience is quite the opposite. I’ve never seen the Waltons one anywhere but YouTube. I’ve see Ed ‘Too Tall’ Jones once, and Elmer Fudd twice. Charlie Daniels, I’ve seen a dozen or so times. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/24 "2010-03-11T07:58:46Z")
My favorite right now is the one with the gecko and the so-stupid-it’s-funny ringtone at the end. I hate the caveman ones, they’re lame as hell. The eyes don’t do it for me much either way, but I probably dislike them just a little more than I don’t care about them. The “Does” guy commercials get old pretty quick, but if they ever make a movie about Rod Serling, he’d be great once he got the right speech patterns down. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/25 "2010-03-11T13:24:08Z")
Do they make the “head up the butt” commercial? We just saw that today and replayed it, but I have no idea who it was for. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/26 "2010-03-11T13:29:36Z")
They got old for me very quickly and I turn them off as soon as I see their spokesperson. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/27 "2010-03-11T14:27:31Z")
The caveman ads were funny. The gekko ads, and the pile of money ads, are unmemorable. I can’t stand the Charlie Daniels ad. Mostly because I can’t stand Charlie Daniels. He’s a shitty fiddle player (if you’ve ever seen him live, or seen unedited live video, you know he can barely play in tune. Intonation? He doesn’t know the meaning of the word), and has a nice side career as a wingnut bible-thumping purveyor of right-wing bullshit these days. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/28 "2010-03-11T14:32:34Z")
[“Does a five pounf bag of flour make a really big biscuit?”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrMfDaLlNkA) I positively adore these ads.I think of the dead pan guy as the antithesis to that annoying perky progressive insurance lady. ---
**Author:** ![Pray\_for\_peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pray\_for\_peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pray_for_peace)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/29 "2010-03-11T14:55:22Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > :dubious: > > My experience is quite the opposite. > > I’ve never seen the Waltons one anywhere but YouTube. I’ve see Ed ‘Too Tall’ Jones once, and Elmer Fudd twice. > > Charlie Daniels, I’ve seen a dozen or so times. Really?!? I see the Ed ‘Too Tall’ Jones ALL THE TIME and Elmer Fudd often. I haven’t seen the Charlie Daniels one for a while. I wonder if they play them at different frequencies in different markets/channels. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/30 "2010-03-11T17:27:35Z")
The Waltons one plays incessantly around here, to the point that I now lunge for the remote whenever the announcer guy shows up on screen. **Lethal Babydoll** , I can’t get enough of those American Express commercials! The big ‘smiling’ boat is one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/31 "2010-03-11T17:41:06Z")
I don’t understand why the caveman walks away in the one where he is helping the hot blonde find her keys on the beach. Sure she had a Geiko keychain but she obviously was so easy even a caveman… ---
**Author:** ![MemJim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@MemJim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MemJim)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/32 "2010-07-30T16:54:51Z")
The latest are the greatest! from Abe Lincoln to the Little Piggy wee weein’ all the way home. the Bird in the Hand is a Treasure, check it out. i might never have insurance with GEICO’ but right now i’m lovin’ them commercials. ---
**Author:** ![MemJim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@MemJim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MemJim)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/33 "2010-07-30T16:57:03Z")
> [@tim-n-va](#): > > I don’t understand why the caveman walks away in the one where he is helping the hot blonde find her keys on the beach. Sure she had a Geiko keychain but she obviously was so easy even a caveman… had it been a male, the caveman would still be there with him. ---
**Author:** ![dmatsch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dmatsch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dmatsch)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/34 "2010-07-30T17:07:05Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > TErin Esurance (different company, I know) Is it wrong to think that Erin Esurance is hot? ---
**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:** [July 30, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/35 "2010-07-30T17:08:08Z")
> [@MemJim](#): > > The latest are the greatest! from Abe Lincoln to the Little Piggy wee weein’ all the way home. the Bird in the Hand is a Treasure, check it out. i might never have insurance with GEICO’ but right now i’m lovin’ them commercials. The rhetorical parody of “Antiques Roadshow” was good. ---
**Author:** ![dmatsch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dmatsch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dmatsch)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/36 "2010-07-30T17:08:31Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I think of the dead pan guy as the antithesis to > that annoying perky progressive insurance lady. That dead pan guy is supposed to be channeling Rod Serling. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/37 "2010-07-30T17:09:49Z")
> [@dmatsch](#): > > > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > > > I think of the dead pan guy as the antithesis to > > that annoying perky progressive insurance lady. > > That dead pan guy is supposed to be channeling Rod Serling. I thought it was supposed to be Robert Stack? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/38 "2010-07-30T17:44:06Z")
> [@MemJim](#): > > The latest are the greatest! from Abe Lincoln to the Little Piggy wee weein’ all the way home. the Bird in the Hand is a Treasure, check it out. i might never have insurance with GEICO’ but right now i’m lovin’ them commercials. Some links: [Was Abe Lincoln honest?](http://www.youtube.com/user/GEICO#p/c/139A69A037F3A12D/5/cdy3orO6tQA) [Can football announcer Andres Cantor make any sport exciting?](http://www.youtube.com/user/GEICO#p/c/139A69A037F3A12D/3/2fXsfAeqimY) [Did the piggy go wee wee wee all the way home?](http://www.youtube.com/user/GEICO#p/c/139A69A037F3A12D/1/8F_G2zp-opg) Though I’m surprised my wife’s favorite hasn’t been mentioned yet: [Does a former drill sergeant make a terrible therapist?](http://www.youtube.com/user/GEICO#p/c/139A69A037F3A12D/6/JhlWddAXSRA) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/39 "2010-07-30T17:59:37Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > Though I’m surprised my wife’s favorite hasn’t been mentioned yet: > > [Does a former drill sergeant make a terrible therapist?](http://www.youtube.com/user/GEICO#p/c/139A69A037F3A12D/6/JhlWddAXSRA) Well, actually, I started a thread about the [newest batch of commercials](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=569561&highlight=geico). I haven’t seen the one with [Randy Johnson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yenuvSUKugc) on TV yet, just YouTube, but I think it’s pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859/40 "2010-07-30T19:21:53Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > [Did the piggy go wee wee wee all the way home?](http://www.youtube.com/user/GEICO#p/c/139A69A037F3A12D/1/8F_G2zp-opg) That one is new to me, and very, very funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-geico-commercials-anybody-watching-them/524859.md?page=3)