While I am by no means against Capitalism, a line has to be drawn somewhere. I may have seen the most ridiculous commercial ever to be created. It was no normal commercial. It had been spawned out of the minds of those that brought us the Geico Gecko. Yes, the minds of Geico. This particular commercial left me hungry. For pancakes. The computer generated Geico Gecko was nowhere to be found, for he had been replaced by a more multicultural symbol, Aunt Jemima.
This talking bottle of syrup was narrating a customers car claim. I didn't hear anything she said. All I could thing of was geckos and pancakes. Not a very savory combination, to say the least. And while my mouth was inexplicably drooling, I realized that Capitalism had reached a new level. Here was a commercial with two completely different products, one being car insurance and the other, pancake syrup. Both products were benefiting from one advertisement. Not only that, but Geico was distracting my fantasy of squeezing Aunt Jemima's innards onto some lightly fried confectionery. Sick, yes, but completely true. Call me crazy, but the fact that one company's logo narrating for another company is a bit annoying to me. And by annoying, I mean delicious.
With that said, we can only hope for more of the same, however weird it may be. I think I would be good at shoving as many products in a consumers face as possible all at once. It would be a good day for all when the Dunkaroo's kangaroo (nostalgia, anyone?) has Nike Pumps on and is using an Ace Hardware toilet plunger to do a new dunk style into the frosting. That would be badass and delicious.
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