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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis GEICO commercial mocking McGruff The Crime Dog is Offensive!
Poor McGruff!
I think this commercial is terrible in the way it mocks McGruff - once proud Public Service Mascot!
You wouldn't do that to Smokey The Bear!!!
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Not so much anymore; some being horrendous!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Unfortunate that so many of the ads really suck!
Demovictory9
(32,488 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Demovictory9
(32,488 posts)the pig commercials. They were pulled quickly.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,485 posts)a kennedy
(29,744 posts)kysrsoze
(6,024 posts)Saw fit to belittle a cartoon character and a good role model for kids.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,380 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)I refer you this grenade-launcher filled news article:
McGruff the Crime Dog has fallen on hard times. Actor John Morales, who dressed as the famous bloodhound known for taking a bite out of crime, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.
The sentencing on Monday followed a guilty plea, three years after police seized 1,000 marijuana plants, 27 weapons including a grenade launcher, and 9,000 rounds of ammunition from Mr. Morales home, CBS reported.
Mr. Morales was arrested in 2011 when Galveston police and their drug-sniffing dogs pulled him over for speeding. The McGruff actor had two indoor pot-growing operations diagrams sitting on his front passenger seat, and marijuana plant seeds stored in the trunk of his car.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/8/mcgruff-crime-dog-actor-sentenced-16-years-prison/
Selling pot is one thing. Selling pot with a Grenada launcher as a sidearm? Picture McGruff with that kind of armament under his trench coat.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)hexola
(4,835 posts)And this commercial mocks that lack of communication - not cool!
McGruff might have been trying to tell them about this weird kid who just bought an AR-15!
Slow news day on DU?
This was the first Id seen the McGruff commercial, but I dont think its that bad. Geico is a great insurance company and no matter how you look at it, at least theyre not that goddam Flo!
For those questioning the purpose of the ads; there is literally nothing you can say about insurance. Everybody knows what it it is. Nobody likes buying it. Geico is already known for stellar customer service. Their message is very simple; no one wants to buy this shit, so you might as well save some money. Ill take McGruff over Flo reciting beat poetry any day of the week.
hexola
(4,835 posts)I have to think this character and her ads have been much more successful than Progressive ever dreamed - she's at every toll both in PA!
The ads have spun off to other characters - the ads with JAMIE are the funniest.
Gotta be 10 years of Flo...no?
ProfessorGAC
(65,322 posts). . .that she's coming up on her 10th anniversary as a spokesperson. Her name is Stepanie something and now after all this time, she makes around a half million a year, but in the 9 years prior only got enough to be worth a little under a million bucks. So, until now she had a decent gig but wasn't getting rich.
MariaCSR
(642 posts)And I think that commercial is HILARIOUS!
PCIntern
(25,619 posts)We are talking about it and Geico. It worked!!!
The sensitivity levels are at an all-time high these days unfortunately.
kcr
(15,320 posts)Whoever Geico hires is great.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,400 posts)which, if they're still being sarcastic, would be in poor taste itself.
Kaleva
(36,372 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,204 posts)we can do it
(12,210 posts)Historic NY
(37,457 posts)Bayard
(22,196 posts)sammythecat
(3,568 posts)I liked it too.