Sunday, January 27, 2013

Geico "When Pigs Fly" Ad

This is the one where the pig is flying on the plane, and the flight attendants ask him to turn off his word game (a little Alec Baldwin joke there), and the pig brags about his super-slick Geico smartphone app, and one of the flight attendants is incredulous, saying: "I'll believe that when pigs fly." Oh, and then the pig gets offended at the politically incorrect statement, making this one a callback to the insulted cavemen ads.

Is this one called "Pigs on a Plane?" Where's Samuel L. Jackson screaming: "I have had it with this motherf*ckin' pig on this mother*ckin' plane!" Oh, if only they had dressed him up as a flight attendant for this ad! (Maybe next time?)

But what I'd like to know is this: Why didn't the pig go "Wee, wee, wee!" all the way home? (Or isn't he flying home?) That could have punished the flight attendants for their insulting political incorrectness. Oh, but they could have gotten revenge by acting like this was a terroristic threat and had everyone incapacitate the pig for the remainder of the flight, after which they get our Geico pig put on a no-fly list. Then they could say to each other at the end of the spot: "Let's see pigs fly now!"

Here's the pig on the plane:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-r4Z1K_LDc