Well in the "spirit of halloween" i thought i'd mention this (even tho it probably belongs somewhere way back on that commercial thread).
Everytime i see that Geico commercial it's freakin me out! A woman holding hands with a reptile and swinging in circles and riding a two-seater bicycle all to the song "sometimes when we touch" and mouthing 'i love you' to him.
You can love your pets..just don't love
your pets
I hate that gecko and those stupid Geico commercials anyway so I never watch them
Sorta reminds me of "howard the duck"..sometimes when it comes to inter-species romance...you don't need to go there!
You know what commercials scared me? Those freaky Pepsi commercials with that weird little demon child. Her eyes were as black as Satan's heart. Faith Hill and Aretha Franklin, I can only speculate, were the heinous golem's captives, subjected to unfathomable torture.
Is the one where the lizard interrupts the two toys preparing to do battle on the sleeping boys headboard.
WHY? I ask everytime I see this, is a talking lizard selling car insurance to TWO TALKING TOYS!!!
Why is a gerbil the spokesperson for blockbuster. I'll never see a gerbil the same again after the richard gere rumors,(truth or fiction..i'm scarred by the very idea!). I guess i'm just not amused when he gyrates those hips. If I see a cat selling chinese food, i'm done for.
But the geico one really scares me..it implies that woman has more than just a pleutonic relationship with that lizard. I could ask..but then..i just don't wanna know!
Not to mention she isn't riding a car anywhere in the commercial. She rides a bicycle built for two, however. (as in the Daisy song, which is a love song too. I guess with those two it won't be a stylish marriage!)
>sometimes when it comes to inter-species romance...you don't need to go there!
I guess you wouldn't be interested in a copy of Donkey Love then... :)
I find it a bit unnerving that almost every commercial for everything lately makes no sense whatsoever and has nothing to do with the actual product. I have suspicions that the advertising industry is trying to turn us European by making us more accustomed to existentialism. Next we'll see downright pornographic ads at 11 AM.
Susan mentioned the Blockbuster ads; the latest one features the guinea pig (not gerbil, too damn big!) "adjusting" the rabbit's ears to readjust their "picture."
Get it? Rabbit ears! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
...I am SO old. This is mistake number one: "rabbit ears" are long gone, folks. I know, I know, there are still people beyond cable's reach who don't trust "satellite" and still watch black-and-white sets with a foil-wrapped wire hanger tied to the back. I'm still pretty sure none of them live near a Blockbuster Video.
Mistake number two: are you telling me that these "guys" find an evening of watching security camera footage of the local Blockbuster...entertaining? Indeed, more entertaining than, say...a MOVIE FROM BLOCKBUSTER? Earlier--funnier--commercials showed us that the guinea pig watches too many Jennifer Beals films or Kung-Fu epics; why is he watching a static shot of the outside of the store? He could be doing other things, like eating his own poops or making porn with Carl The Rabbit.
The woman digs the Geico Gekko because (a) he isn't the Taco Bell Dog, and (b) he can find her G-spot, which is more than most human males can do. The "Toy Story" one IS pretty stupid, but the point is that they're all trying to impress each other with their super-abilities. I just wonder why a kid would have a gekko statuette in the first place. I liked the Gekko better when he was licking his own eye and begging people to stop calling.
AFLAC! AFLACKKKKKKKKKK!!!
The best Geico commercial I can remember is the one with the agents in the plane and the lead agent drops the briefcase out the open door and then it shows the other agents with their heads in their laps scared as hell!
The absolute WORST commercial in my recent memory is the Country Crock butter commercial that shows only hands. The woman tells the husband she's pregnant over a tub of margarine!!! Get real!! What a Country Crock of s**t!!
Well, now that the Aflac duck has been summoned forth......
....That bird is the latest version of the Energiser bunny. omnipresent, and unavoidable. Like landmines in Viet Nam, they wait the careless viewer, prepared to shred synapsis's from here to Tierra Del Fuego.
....Leave us hope some other company does a commercial involving duck hunters, 12 gages, and #9 shot. Welll....i hope so,,,,,