Incomprehensible Lizards
I've said before that I like some of The Martin Agency's work. (Although I did spot someone doing the robot in a new UPS ad, so my positive opinion is beginning to wane.)
Anyway, you can't turn on the TV lately (especially during playoff football) without seeing their new stuff for GEICO, featuring the return of that insufferable but apparently popular gecko spokes-animal.
Let me be honest: I fuckin' hate the gecko. If it were up to me, I would dispatch the USPS eagle to snatch him from the earth with his sharp talons, only to take him to a secluded mountain vista where his innards would be eaten. Slowly. And painfully.
Of course, the most annoying thing about the gecko is that he's British. He sounds like a planner for chrissakes, jabbering incessantly about everything and nothing.
The gecko also sounds a lot like Ricky Gervais from "The Office."
So to recap: annoying planner + ricky gervais = gecko.
In one of the new spots, the gecko appears to be having a conversation with an iguana or gila monster or some kind of godforsaken reptile. And for the life of me I cannot make out a single word that little british motherfucker has to say.
I've tried paying attention. I've tried turning up the volume. Nothing works. Either I'm not getting the joke or The Martin Agency has intentionally created gibbberish for the sole purpose of pissing me off.
Bastards.
Nice job of consistently taking yourself out of the running for any job, at any shop whose work you despise.
Good luck at J Walter.
Posted by: tom lout | January 23, 2006 at 07:33 AM
i already work at j walter. dammit!
Posted by: advertisingwithoutpity | January 23, 2006 at 07:56 AM
i thought you worked at grey la?
Posted by: sasquatch | January 23, 2006 at 06:15 PM
Hi, I came to your site after a google search on "ricky gervais gecko". Never did find out who does the voice.
But I just wanted to say I absolutely love the gecko, especially with the cockney accent. I don't know why, I just think its brilliantly quirky. And I'm not really a fan of the british version of The Office, which is just a little too much britishness for me.
A whole show, annoying, a 30 second commercial, entertaining. But maybe I'd like The Office more if it was done with immaculately rendered CG lizards.
Posted by: Rob | April 04, 2006 at 01:57 PM
Right on! I fucking hate the geico gecko as well. Tie it to a brick and throw it in the fire.
Posted by: jdhuck | September 12, 2006 at 06:38 PM