Commercials/Advertising : Are Geico Ads too Subtle?

Maybe I am slow or don't pay enough attention.

But the Ice Tea commercial I kept thinking what is the point? Why is Ice Tea saying "It's lemon aide people.."? Final, oh they were talking about him. duh.

And then there was the one with the Gecko who is talking about everything being CGI. "Even this coffee is CGI". Well Duh, so is the Gecko.

I'd like to see a sequel where someone asks, "Arnold Palmer?" (Ice-T and lemonade).

Too soon, too soon.

I got the Ice T ad right away as well as the CGI one. However, I'm not liking the one with the man and woman on the plate. The one where the man with the lute tries to play a Smashmouth song for the woman on the balcony. It's not subtle, just stupid.

Annoying the world since 1960!

There's another one now set in an antique shop that focuses in on a clock with moving figures, primarily two guys sawing a log. One guy asks the other how long they've been working on the log and the other says, "about 140 years", except the arm is attached to the body with a hex screw and hex screws haven't been around that long.

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GEICO

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO /ˈɡaɪkoʊ/) is an American auto insurance company headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

GEICO was founded in 1936 by Leo Goodwin Sr. and his wife Lillian Goodwin to provide auto insurance directly to federal government employees and their families. Since 1925, Goodwin had worked for USAA, an insurer which specialized in insuring only military personnel; he decided to start his own company...

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Who knew? I guess I liked the caveman ads the best. No, they're not too subtle for me.

"Talk amongst yourselves." ~ Linda Richman

“I prefer the honestly simple to the ingeniously wicked.” ~ William Penn (1644-1718)

"That's a joke, son." ~ Foghorn Leghorn

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But the Ice Tea commercial I kept thinking what is the point? Why is Ice Tea saying "It's lemon aide people.."? Final, oh they were talking about him

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I'm not sure even what to say about this.




**~Not my circus, not my monkeys...~**