1st Hollywood Agent on airplane: So who do you like for the lead in this new picture?
Duck(unseen, flying outside window): Afleck!
2nd Agent: How about that kid, Matt Damon’s friend?
Duck: Afleck!!
1st agent: Oh, yeah, what’s his name?
Duck: Afleck!
2nd Agent: I can’t think of it.
Duck: Afleck!
William Shatner (to Flight Attendant): There’s something outside my window!
John Lithgow: I aw it, too!
Duck: Afleck!!
I guess my crotch is hurting too. The first few were annoying, I’ll grant, but a few nights ago I saw the roller-coaster one for the first time, and found myself giggling uncontrollably. It’s passed from unfunny into annoying, then past that into funny. I can’t explain why.
But to all you complaining: you realize this is the essence of effective advertising, don’t you? You don’t have to like the ad, you just have to remember it. And clearly you all do.
[tips rakishly tilted cocktail hat to CalMeacham]
I agree. Cranky’s post gave me my first laugh of the day.
You know, you can download all the AFLAC Duck commercials here.
Toilet Duck, sadly, is nowhere to be found on that site.
[saunters in, late, and awards Mouthbreather a perfect 10 for the OP rant.]
Dang. Wish I’d written that… 
You can count me among those who like the AFLAC Duck. Or at least I like the thought of Gilbert Gottfried getting killed and coming back as a duck who can’t get anybody’s attention.
I have now joined the ranks of Insurance People.
Care to guess who I work for? 
I have a BIG box of those ducks right here.
Back during the anthrax mailings, I heard a parody on a radio station which cracked me up.
“Someone’s mailing out germy powder . . . I can’t remember what the name of the disease is.”
“ANTHRAX!”
“Yeah, I heard about that, too. It’s some disease that cattle get.”
“ANTHRAX!”
“It’s been used as a biological weapon in the past . . . the name just escapes me.”
“ANTHRAAAAAAAAX!”
The duck can stay, but the Verizon “Can you hear me now? Good!” guy must be tortured and killed.
Heh. First, congratulatons on getting a gig with one of the Fortune Best Companies to Work For.
Second, when I saw the OP I was thinking, “people are still pissed about the Duck?” Then I saw the dates.
Third, the high-quality rants here aside, you might have got the job to accomodate AFLAC’s growth, a direct outgrowth of what might be the most successful ad campaign of all time.
Fourth, I would totally name my first child after you if I could get a duck. Well, OK, probably not. But I’d buy you a beer.
Mannny,
For you no problem.
Just send me an email with an address to send it to.
(and they are Very Cute so beware!)
The AFLAC duck is a joke with my mom and I. We’ve put practically every organization and company in the AFLAC duck voice. Nothing gets a laugh like the idea of a duck walking up to someone and going “NAM-BLA” or “GOAT-SEX”.
My son loves the AFLAC duck! His favorite was the one where duck walks into a baraber shop and stops in front of one of those hairstyle posters and it looks like the duck has an afro. Josh laughed himself silly over that one.
aenea, how does one (who is not manny) go about getting one of those ducks? Josh would love one.
C’mon, guys, yeah - the one with Yogi Berra at the barbershop (“And they give you cash, which is just as good as money!”) was one of the funniest TV bits I’ve ever seen.
Well there are a few ways to go about it actually.
You could:
A) buy some insurance from me or another agent 
B) head over to the website and order one for about $9.95 (retail price)
or
C) wait a few weeks till I resupply and I’ll send you one
[sub](I have a company enrollment coming up this next two weeks and will need this box but then I will reorder)[/sub]
I think the frustration in the duck’s voice hits a chord with people who were fond of Donald Duck and his streams of barely-audible profanity.
For all you AFLAC duck haters, a talking plush duck to shred.
The duck must be destroyed.
Hey now, don’t you be dissing the “Can you hear me now” guy. He’s one little hottie, he is.