The Geico commercials have irritated me for some time. (Well, as you can probaby tell from this blog, most commercials have irritated me for some time.)
The Geico salesperson in most of these is a Gecko. The Gecko's boss is an old white guy executive who isn't very smart. (Indeed, isn't that interesting? Geico is trying to sell itself as a great insurance company, and their two main spokespeople are an incompetent/clueless white executive and a little green gecko?
One of the commercials is the white exec wanting to do a trust building exercise, where he's going to fall backward and let the Gecko catch him. Sure to get a laugh, because it's so stupid...but doesn't it really decrease your trust in Geico a bit?
Another one is where the exec takes out the first dollar he's ever made - that he's apparently saved for 40 years or so, because he wants to show it to the Gecko. Thing is the Gecko saw a dollar on the man's desk, decided to steal it, and treat himself to some potato chips (or crisps as they call them in England.) What's up with that? Teaching kids and even adults that if you see a dollar floating around in someone's home or office, it's just fine to pick it up and spend it? Well, apparently the Geico gecko seems to think so.
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