New themes in TV ads -- eating pets

[Thudlow_Boink]

@Wheelz

It’s OK not to find it funny, but I think it’s just silly to find it offensive.

For the record, I don’t think it’s offensive, or even in poor taste; I just personally find it unfunny and a bit of a downer. I’ve also never really liked that old joke with the punchline “A pig like that, you don’t eat all at once.” On the other hand, I’ll happily watch commercials featuring Burger King’s King or Quiznos’ spongmonkeys. One man’s disturbing is another man’s funny, I guess.

[lieu]

I don’t find the commercial itself either funny or offensive, but I do like the Dad’s comedic timing. His “What are you gonna do?” is effective and he’s in at least one other non-Geiko commercial now where his style there too makes me smile.

[Happy_Lendervedder]

I don’t think the TV ad trend is eating pets. The trend in TV ads lately is to prominently feature assholes.

[Kent_Clark]

@Sudden_Kestrel

Absolutely! Why don’t they ever think of the children?

Geico seems to be the champion at “funny” commercials that are really just irritating. I’m not sure that’s the best way to attract customers (doesn’t work on me) but it’s their advertising dollar, so whatever.

Geico actually has a commercial where parents trying to save money for their kid’s college education teach their five year-old to dunk a basketball. The commercial ends with the kid hanging from the rim and the mother telling the father to get him down.

There’s also a cut-rate insurance company (maybe SafeAuto) with a commercial where random passers-by kick a guy in the crotch, to show what it feels like not to have auto insurance. I personally don’t see the funny in that one, either.

[Rattlehead02]

@Thudlow_Boink

For the record, I don’t think it’s offensive, or even in poor taste; I just personally find it unfunny and a bit of a downer. I’ve also never really liked that old joke with the punchline “A pig like that, you don’t eat all at once.” On the other hand, I’ll happily watch commercials featuring Burger King’s King or Quiznos’ spongmonkeys. One man’s disturbing is another man’s funny, I guess.

The spongemonkeys were fantastic! Did you ever see the video that inspired the commercials? We Like The Moon - the Spongmonkeys - By Joel Veitch rathergood.com, song by Joel and Alex Veitch

[NDP]

@ugly ripe tomato

Actually, it’s because I’ve been pretty serious fancy goldfish hobbyist for at least 10 years so the very notion of eating someone’s pet fish is cruel and disgusting to me, and I would never want anything to do with a company that would find that funny.

Besides that, goldfish are too bony.

[Casey1505]

I love the GEICO commercial.

We’re not real proud of it. (No, we’re not.)

shrugs What are you gonna do about it.

[Azeotrope]

@NDP

Besides that, goldfish are too bony.

come on, ya gotta have something in there for crunch

[Cuckoorex]

@kenobi_65

Other ads in that campaign are the one with the woman who sends her daughter to a daycare center staffed by robots

I love that one! When the little girl reaches for the drink box that the robot is offering, and the robot squeezes it and it sprays her face, the reaction of the girl is hilarious!