Geico's Maxwell The Pig Is Back, Kill Me Now

The original ad made sense, it was annoying but it made sense. The Geico spokesman with eyes way too close together would say some sort of well known saying and then prove it true, in this case a piggy crying weee wee weee all the way home. Cue Maxwell....doing just that. It was annoying as hell, but it had logic to it and it fit in with the existing ads in that campaign. Somewhere along the line Geico decided that the pig was popular enough to warrant a second ad. Kill. Me. Now.

WHY THE HELL IS A PIG ZIP LINING? Why a zip line of all things? The pig is no longer crying wee wee wee all the way home. He's crying while ZIP LINING. Also why the hell did they need to give him pin wheels again? Why 2? Lastly, as if anyone who actually came up with this sorry excuse for advertising has ever been zip lining, explain to me how the hell the pig SLOWS DOWN then SPEEDS BACK UP. Ugh! I'd be surprised if this is the last we see of the annoying pig. Geico is now up to what, 4 different spokes-people? The Gecko, Cavemen, the aforementioned spokesman with eyes way too close together who introduced Maxwell originally, and now Maxwell. He doesn't even have ANYTHING to go with selling insurance in this new ad. He is serving no purpose what so ever except for the admen at Geico to pretend they're in touch with the youth, undeservedly pat each other on the back, and have a circle jerk fest. Nothing worse then advertisers who don't plan for something to be popular, it happens to catch a wave, and they pretend they planned for it all along and ride it all day long.

What other company out there right now has a minimum of 4 different spokes-people(animals?). That's right, virtually none. Geico's marketing team has their head up their ass. They're obviously employing a strategy that involves throwing anything at the proverbial wall and hoping it sticks, then milking it for all it's worth. Wasn't having 1 spokes-animal enough? Completely off topic of this ad, I used to have Geico for all of 2 years when I first got married. Geico til this day sends me a piece of junk mail with a picture of a heart and the Gecko on it saying "please come back" once a month. I sh*t you not. I DON'T WANT TO COME BACK DAMN IT! It just goes right in line with their annoying advertising technique. Throw enough stuff at the audience and eventually we might get 1% of them to convert!

Ok I'm done.

Imagine how much money Geico could really save you if they weren't wasting money on new ads every single day.

Bunch of frauds.

Ow, my freakin' ears!  Can't hit the MUTE button fast enough.

I was just thinking that the other day, for me personally, it seems like there are zillions of insurance commercials--I think I see more of them than any other product, by far.

My parents hate it and I'm beginning to hate it too.

There's only so much Maxwell you can take, and since Geico is running this into the ground it's grating on my nerves.

Every channel I watched today played the crap out of this commercial.  I like it, but I'm getting tired of it.

I have a feeling Geico is starting to realize that their sh*tty cavemen and gecko characters are losing steam. So this is an attempt to create yet another mainstream, universally known character for their brand.

I think the thing that makes Geico the most annoying is they over-saturate the market (TV airwaves) with this stuff NONSTOP.  They basically bombard you with all these stupid obnoxious commercials from all angles.  Turn to NBC you got the Maxwell WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE every 15 minutes, then you put on ESPN or ABC and you got the BRIAN ORAKPO CAVEMAN SCRABBLE commercial...hell yeah..Pancake Social!!!!!!! (whatever Suit and Tie sitting in the boardroom came up with that one needs a swift kick to the genitalia.   IT never ends.

Uh... why would I want to download their ap? These things are irritating to me.

Like Progressive (I was over Flo 1-2 years ago), Nationwide(idiot man), and State Farm (Dennis Haysbert--tho Mayhem is still good) aren't drilled into our head? Where I live they are all aired way too much.  It just boils down to which insurance "characters" appeal to you. I thought the Nationwide guy was obnoxious from the first commercial and that they have never had a good commercial with him in it. I thought their was an "app for everything" and I have seen many that I thought were pretty stupid.  How about the Cascade dish detergent or cereal or pens?  We really need apps for those, eh?

Yeah...this commercial blows goats!

lkl005 wrote: At the end it says, "Everything you love about Geico, download it today"  I'd like to take a big dump on the front steps of headquarters.

regulus wrote: This Commercial isn't as bad as their others, but they'll run it about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Times before thay replace it.

At the rate Geico airs commercials on TV I'd say that would be in about a week.