<p>The whole concept of commercials is actually quite annoying. It permits companies selling something to enter my home and my consciousness for a period of time (30 seconds, 60 seconds, whatever) and interrupt my viewing of something I want to view. I much prefer reading books – no commercials in them – but they generally don’t contain just-in-time information like TV does.</p>
<p>Actually, they colonize your mind (sort of the way school does). The theory (like school) is that it will remain at least in the background of your consciousness for a very long time.</p>
<p>How Orwellian.</p>
<p>What’s with the new Geico commercials? The watermelon bashing guy? The witches in a broom factory? Slinky on an escalator? I saw all 3 commercials in a row. All annoying, all with no point…and I am supposed to want to buy insurance from this company?</p>
<p>I’d like to see a commercial showing exactly what they are doing for all of their east coast customers who have been devastated by Hurricane Sandy…now that could make me want to buy insurance from them.</p>
<p>Geico is owned by Berkshire Hathaway and I’d guess that the company overall will do matching benefits and donations from employees which is pretty common for large US companies (we received a bulletin on this on Wednesday or Thursday from my company).</p>
<p>It might be a little crass doing an ad so close to when people are suffering. Interviews with customers getting helped out might be a little more appropriate in a month or two.</p>
<p>The Gekko commercials don’t really annoy me but I used to own Berkshire so I may be a little biased.</p>
<p>Private insurance companies won’t be doing much for customers with flood losses to their homes…flooding is excluded from most all homeowners policies. Cars will be covered for flood damage for those with comprehensive physical damage coverage. Federal government’s FEMA pretty much handles all flood policies for dwellings and businesses. Lots and lots of people are going to suffer uninsured financial losses if they don’t have FEMA flood policies. It’s a nightmare for many.</p>
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That’s a good idea boysx3. It’s even better than a gecko with an English accent, a bump-haired lady with too much makeup on wearing white outfits, and comedians smashing watermelons.</p>
<p>Did we forget the most pathetic Geico commercial out there? It’s Eddie Money attempting to sing “Two Ticket to Paradise”.</p>
<p>[GEICO</a> Two Tickets to Paradise Commercial - Happier Than Eddie Money Running a Travel Agency - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>I like the Airfrance commercial of the two people dancing and at the end they form the image of a jet.</p>
<p>That reminds me of how much I hate the commercials for Korean Air. I’m not sure what disembodies models marching in lockstep has to do with flying on their airline.</p>
<p>Have you seen the Jingos commercial It has to be one of the top 10 most annoying TV ads.
[Jingos</a>! Commercial - YouTube](<a href=“Jingos! Commercial - YouTube”>Jingos! Commercial - YouTube)</p>
<p>H absolutely hates the catheter commercial.</p>
<p>I can’t stand the reverse mortgage commercials. I never liked Fred Thompson, but I used to like Robert Wagner. </p>
<p>I like the satirical commercial (I guess it’s for the copy shop) where the two opposing candidates meet and talk about keeping the campaign clean. At the end they bring out the one’s “Honk if you had an affair with X” lawn sign. I think that’s hysterical, but we’re not in a swing state so didn’t have to deal with so many political commercials.</p>
<p>I’m tired of the Aflack duck, too. In addition to the Gekko.</p>
<p>I’m also getting tired of the State Farm commercials where the pitchman’s voice takes over in various scenarios. Although the one with the poodle is cute.</p>
<p>At least the State Farm commercials don’t assume you have the IQ of a poodle.</p>
<p>Living in Cincinnati, I thought I would be thrilled to see the end of the non-ending political ads. Just now I saw that catheter ad (yuck!) three times in a row.</p>
<p>Kinda makes the candidates’ ads look better, doesn’t it!!</p>
<p>VeryHappy, (in deep bass) “Poodles are among the most intelligent breeds of dog…”</p>
<p>Nothing could make the political ads look good. I can’t count how many times I heard “Maggie Hassan lives in a half million dollar house and doesn’t pay property taxes but wants to raise your taxes.” I don’t live in NH. I didn’t even know who she is - now she’s governor-elect so the ad didn’t work. I’d rather do the prep for a colonoscopy than watch more of these ads.</p>
<p>tango14, that’s why I chose poodle!! They may be among the most intelligent breed of dogs, but they’re still dogs. And, except for the State Farm commercials, the insurance company commercials treat us as if we’re idiots.</p>
<p>Revenge will be interesting this weekend. Target and Neiman Marcus will be the exclusive sponsors for the show this Sunday and feature vignettes.</p>
<p>On the watermelon ad - I only connected it to GEICO because of this thread - I’ve seen it a ton of times but I didn’t pay enough attention to it to determine who the sponsor was. So the ad may have been a success in being remembered but may not work all that well in terms of selling the product.</p>
<p>I do associate the Gecko ads with GEICO. Those ads are okay as long as they keep changing them up regularly.</p>