While I anticipate the intrusion of the Geico Caveman commercials as much as Angela Merkal anticipates another neckrub from Dubya (my favorite commercial is the guy who lipsyncs to "Urgent" for Verizon), I had to wonder what sort of analysis was being sallied forth on the social undertones of these ads. Not questioning the appeal, I'm just assuming people who like this stuff are high. Just the undertones. The commercial featuring the caveman who is scorned by his caveman buddies for buying Geico insurance kinda reminds me of a Log Cabin Republican shunned by more radical queers, for example. So I took a spin on the net, and for sure found many, many, debates by people with lots of time to spend arguing as to whether the cavemen were black minstrel stereotypes. Or perhaps gay chariactures! Oddly, no one suggests they may be both. This mishigos is mostly on Utube, although I expect an E True Hollywood Story at any minute. -- Notorious AR
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