Geico’s “Animal in the Attic”
I’ve always felt that Animal, the Muppet drummer for Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, might have been helped by the proper psychotropic medication. On medication, however, his explosive and wildly exuberant drumming might have suffered. It’s a trade-off, really…
The Geico commercial begins with an unremarkable middle-aged couple sitting on their couch, with the guy professing that they love their house, and have lived there for years. “Yeah, but there’s an Animal in the attic,” adds the lady…
…and so there is, flailing away at his drum kit while vocalizing such snatches of speech as “Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah! Drums! Drums! Aaaah! An-im-al!
When not loudly pounding on his drums, Animal invades the kitchen, literally swings from the rafters, and slides down the bannister. Remarkably, all his unwilling hosts can do is try to ignore him. At least Geico makes bundling their car and homeowners insurance easy…
In a closing scene, we are shown Animal shambling across the couple’s yard, the length of broken chain around his neck a nice touch. Animals just have to be free, ‘ya know…. 🦊
(…tip o’ the pen to Carycomic!)
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FOXSYLVANIA 
October 7, 2021 at 4:59 pm
An ex-childhood babysitter of mine would no doubt have described Animal as “so homely, he’s cute!” But, if Animal is like most sentient males, he would deeply resent being called “cute” to his face. As that particular four-letter word usually connotes reproductive inability.
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October 9, 2021 at 11:35 am
Maybe we’re headed into a Muppet revival, perhaps updated for modern times. I could write some episodes…in one, Miss Piggy flies into a karate fury at the grocery store over toilet paper availability. Meanwhile, Fozzie Bear gets treated for the Delta variant… 🙀
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October 9, 2021 at 2:04 pm
And being stuck in quarantine for two whole weeks drives him “whocka-whocka-whocka?” 😉
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October 9, 2021 at 5:59 pm
He hallucinates, thinking he’s seen a badly-drawn Yogi…
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October 10, 2021 at 3:57 pm
Super-lol! 🙂
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October 21, 2021 at 5:52 pm
Btw: that looks like the same attic formerly filled with creepy broken mannequins that scared off both the Gecko and the previous (African-American) home owner. I wonder if the mannequins got scared off by Animal?
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October 22, 2021 at 12:04 am
Either that, or they couldn”t stand the noise! “Animal” might have found them tasty, too…
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