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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: Area 64 on April 14, 2007, 08:27:29 PM
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Who is your favorite insurance commercial character? I've always liked the Caveman commercials, but the Mercury commercials are kind of funny, too. I don't know if I'm missing anyone, though...
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Apparently the cavemen are so popular that they're going to have a sitcom on ABC this fall.
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Really? Where'd you hear that?
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It's not because they're popular. The guy who created the characters wanted to originally make a sitcom, but was writing commercials for a living. So he decided to try out his characters in the ads and the rest is history.
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Caveman are the best, in my opinion.
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The Geico Gecko used to be cool, but then he got a new voice and new model. I don't like him anymore.
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I haven't seen any of these insurance mascots, so other.
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Yeah the new Gecko isn't nearly as cool as the old one.
The cavemen are great, however.
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The cavemen are the best.
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Though I despise commercials and how people quote them more often than the shows for which TV was supposedly invented, I'm just gonna go with the cavemen because the gecko isn't cool anymore and I have never heard of the other two. Don't fill me in, please.
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Those Esurance commercials would make an awesome animated series, provided they lose the whole car insurance aspect.
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I just realized, Geico is spelled wrong in the poll. Twice.
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The Cavemen rock. But I got annoyed when I found out that in the cavemen in the sitcom won't the be the same as the ones in the commercials.
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Where the heck is the Aflac duck?
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I think the Caveman commercials are getting old. It was funny at first when it was this sort of non-sequiter meta-joke (where it's a normal Geico commerical at first, then they make the caveman comment, to which a nearby caveman cameraman reacts negatively), but then it got completely self-indulgent. A caveman sitcom would hopefully end up like every other prehistory-themed sitcom: cancelled. Then, in five or ten years, there would be a sort of "retro" chic thing, which would result in a Caveman Show DVD box set, along with wired controllers and cars with wheels.
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I like The Flintstones, Glorb. :(
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Glorb, Don't all cars have wheels? Well, more modren ones...
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Serialized commercials are the best kind, in my opinion.
Aside from Blow'd Up.
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Aside from Blow'd Up.
30-second version (http://www.chupnet.com/movies/BLOW'D%20UP%2030%20seconds.mpeg)
54-second version (http://www.chupnet.com/movies/BLOW'D%20UP%2054%20seconds.mov)
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Yes, your point?
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The links are for people who haven't seen it.
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Glorb, Don't all cars have wheels? Well, more modren ones...
Yes, but cars in the future will fly. It's a scientificated fact.
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Well they'll probably hover before they can fly.
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Ah, ha ha ha ha.... Vidgmchtr, it depends on what kind of "hovering" you're thinking about. I find it infinitely more likely that (expensive) cars will have flying ability first. But if you're referring to airfoils, those are simply not very effective for ground travel.
Nobody's going to invent a gravity repelling field anytime soon...
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If they do, F-Zero could become a reality at some point in the distant future.
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I'm fine with F1 through F12, thanks.
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I like the Aflac donkey better than their duck.
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I think it's quite possible for scientists and engineers to come together to build some kind of cross between a motorcycle and an airplane. It would look like a small airplane with a low control room and a wingspan a third the size of an average-sized stretch of highway, but would still have two wheels under it and could hold two people... and maybe even have a cupholder!
I can't wait 'till we're all riding those.
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I like the Aflac donkey better than their duck.
When did they have a donkey?
Also, I was just thinking.. I like the older version of the duck better than the newer, friendlier version. The older one would just jump in at any time with the companys' name, but the newer one is just around for advertising purposes.
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Yeah, the old one was more Gilbert Gottfried-like; you'd be eating or whatever, and then he'd jump out of nowhere and go "AFLAC!!" It's really the perfect mascot.
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Yet nobody ever payed attention to him when they were trying to remember the company's name...
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I liked the old Aflac duck too, and I liked how the old Geico gecko would complain about people calling him. I also thought the caveman was funny.
Those Esurance commercials would make an awesome animated series, provided they lose the whole car insurance aspect.
That's exactly what I thought when I first saw one of their commercials.
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When you mean conspiracy guy. Do you mean the deep voiced progressive dude, or the sarcastic guy with the random crap in his box?
Whatever happened to sarcastic box man?
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I almost forgot, what about the dog-handpuppet or the "just lost another lone to ditech" moron?
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Scott Puppet of Petco fame? He ruled!
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Not Exactly.