Movie Night with Casper the Friendly Ghost…
I’m not a big fan of Casper the Friendly Ghost. It’s not that I have anything against him, it’s just that I prefer my ghosts to be scary if not outright terrifying. Casper may be friendly, but I find that annoying, and so he is to me in this Geico commercial, in which young couple Kurt and Jill are preparing to enjoy a movie in the living room of their new house…
“I can’t believe it,” says Jill. “You can’t believe that our house is haunted by ‘Casper the Friendly Ghost?,'” replies Kurt. At that moment, Casper enters the scene, cheerily greets the couple, notices the movie, and enthusiastically invites himself to go get some snacks. He then returns with popcorn, announces the other varieties of it that are available, and sits or hovers there on the sofa back between them, stuffing his face and making a pig of himself. Jill then clarifies herself to say that she can’t believe how much money they’ve saved on their car insurance with Geico.
Perhaps the couple could invest some of those savings to hire Ghostbusters to get rid of this pest, who even chews loudly. This ghost is a milquetoast, not a proper haunt, and his cuteness gets cloying very quickly…
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October 21, 2019 at 4:21 pm
Oh, I don’t know. He was certainly pretty terrifying to the Lunar Tree Men in the 1954 short “Boo Moon.” In fact, when I was of elementary school age, I found those tree men scarier than any traditional ghost!
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November 1, 2019 at 5:17 pm
P.S.—Hope you had a “furry” pleasant Halloween. 🙂
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November 4, 2019 at 8:12 pm
Thank ‘ya! Every day can be Halloween, to those that believe… ; )
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