• He'd be perfect in one of the "Mayhem" Allstate ads.

• Unless Charlie Brown's bald because of chemo, the Peanuts gang has no need for life insurance. Voltron doesn't either because, um, he's...not alive? He-Man? He needs it because he's constantly fighting Skeletor, but he can't get it because he's...constantly fighting Skeletor.

• I don’t think its targeting geeks at all. You don’t have to be a geek to recognize and enjoy these characters. My parents liked the commercial and grew up with many of the characters and they’re far from geeks. I think the tagline “I can do this” is more about saying how people from all walks of life can easily use their service just like all the different cartoon characters can. The targeted demographic is essentially everyone within the appropriate age group.

• It's nice to see that Yosemite Sam and Quickdraw McGraw found each other they deserve happiness. Wonder if Met Life covers Domestic partnerships.

• Yeah that's what I thought, too.  It was all characters from Saturday morning cartoons in my generation -- except they avoided the big Warner Brothers stars (where were Bugs and Daffy?) Although I was very pleased to note Tex Avery's wolf.  I'll bet the animators just snuck that in.

• Insurance person: "Sorry, Mr... is it Albert? You have a pre-existing condition and your insurance does not cover that." Fat Albert: "But this operation will help me lose some weight. My doctor recommended me for Gastric-Bypass Surgery."

• Why do 80's cartoon characters need life insurance ? They cant die.

• How in the world did no one mentioned Waldo?! He was like in every scene!!!

• This felt really patronizing, probably because of the tagline about "I can do this." Do they think that I think I can't do this? It's like the marketing department is targeting retro-geek culture and identifying our taste as a form of arrested development--an escape from the grown up world. "It's okay you immature man-child who spends his money on 80s DVDs and action figures...we know the idea of life insurance sounds like big scawwy grown-up talk from the adult table...but we can make it all kiddie-like and friendly, nice and simple...just like the world was when you were seven...which, by the way, was over two decades ago."

• Regardless of the product in question, I squealed like a little girl when I saw this. In a bar. With my brother-in-law.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtRBpu-OjF4 It was a MasterCard ad from 2005.  It also aired during the Super Bowl.

• You know your getting old when they use your cartoons to sell life insurance.

• Man the realization is gonna SUCK in 10-15 years when MetLife uses Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Histeria!, Freakazoid!, the DCAU/Animesque Teen Titans, TOM from Toonami, DBZ, Pokemon, Project G.eeK.eR, Fillmore, Rugrats, Wild Thornberrys, Spongebob, Flint the Time Detective, Tenchi, Gundam Wing, Sailor Moon, The Simpsons, Captain Simian, Outlaw Star, etc to shill their insurance in a Super Bowl commercial to my fellow mid-to-late 20s people. :'(

• Looks like Daphne finally dumped Fred's poor college kid ass and hooked up with a major player. Poor little rich kid, you got game. Doc

• HA! Missed that the first time. That is amazeballs.

• Yeah and look at Stanley Sprockets expression when Richie Rich got out of the limo... Bow Chicka Bow Wow

• Really? All this did was set the internet aflame with nostalgia to crap Hanna-barbera cartoons. He-Man and Voltron are the only "cool kids" in that crowd. Okay, maybe Fat Albert. Okay, maybe Waldo. Okay... not so bad now, I guess...  UNDERDOG! UUUUUUUUUUNNNNNDEERRRRRDAAAAAWWWWWWWWWGGGG!

• I would be honored to animate either of those characters.  Also, why no love for the Gruesome Twosome driving the Creepy Coupe?

• That whore is about to fuck Top Cat! Look at her! Richie, seriously, GET A PRE-NUP!

• richie rich and daphne......the image hasn't left my head since yesterday.

• you don't need to see the cantina bit at the end of the VW ad. that's not the commerical you're looking for.

• So It's agreed. We're all just going to forget the Mos Eisley cantina bit at the end of the Volkswagen commercial, right? Good. It's probably for the best.

• You know, we can rage about Disney the Evil Empire all we want, but at least we don't have to suffer through Mickey, Buzz and Woody and the Muppets whoring themselves out like this. And yes, Daphne is a gold-digging slut. Richie needs a pre-nup, bad.

• Grape Ape = WIN!

• Hahahahahaha Casper's in a life insurance commercial hahahahahahaha

• my first thought was all these characters together did some random kid find drugs and is be bothered by a drug monster?

•  and Beagley Beagley

• Sell life insurance to kids?  I dunno how many kids you know but I guarantee none of them have heard of most of the characters in this spot.  I'd say it's much more likely that this commercial was directly targeted at aging, 30-something, nerd bloggers that likely have a strong nostalgia for said characters.

• You guys keep bitching,but all I hear is "mwa mwa mwa mwa"....oh god,now thats all I hear!!!!!!! DAMN YOU CHARLES SCHULTZ!!!!!!!

• Same thought I had, it's not that they are selling to kids, its just that people who grew up with MOTU and Voltron are now life insurance demo.  Overall the add is really boring and pointless, even thought I liked seeing He Man and Battle Cat.

• The poor bastards had to animate Jabberjaw and Grape Ape. Highlight of that career for sure! Ps. Grape Ape!

• My thoughts exactly. How could Voltron go from being the show we all ran home from high school for to shilling for life insurance? Sigh.

• What was that one series a few years back where all the brand mascots and television personalities got together for dinner? I don't remember what is was for, but I do remember being sorry for the Green Giant that he couldn't come inside and had to squat outside the building, probably in an alley.

• No, companies just want all our money.

• The animation wasn't that great. Looked like flash, but maybe I'm wrong.

• At the party I was at last night, we came to the conclusion that we were apparently in the demographic for life insurance ads, and a sullen hush fell over the group as we sadly realized we were now Old.

• Forget the commercial -- the "outtake" of Voltron doing the Robot is priceless: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehgm_3YTDDA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehgm_3YTDDA</a>

• Overlooking the company behind the commercial for a moment, can we step back and acknowledge what just happened here? He-Man and Voltron, two beloved nerd icons, just blasted across the screen during Jock Christmas. Could it be, we two proud peoples, are finally reaching out to live together after the great Nerd/Jock wars of the 20th Century?

• Came to say: "Cute...  cute...  aw...  Holy shit, is Richie Rich banging Daphne?"

• Wow . . . I ALWAYS love it when we see various different properties get together in the same place- it just sucks that it had to be for 'MetLife'  I mean, I know life insurance is important and all, but the fact that this was all about selling life insurance just drained the life right out of what other wise would have been pretty damn cool.  He-Man riding Battle Cat in the woods only to end up along side the Jetsons, the Mystery Machine and Voltron?  Should have been commercial gold . . .

• I never understood using children's cartoons to sell insurance. Maybe Spawn or some other adult comic character that deals with death.

• The four thoughts that came to my mind as I watched this last night: 1. Suddenly, Progressive's use of Sonic the Hedgehog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kru8ZaC5Wfs ) seems slightly less impressive. 2. Am I the only one who thinks He-Man & Voltron seem a little out of place amongst this crowd? 3. Judging by the expression he makes, did Richie Rich just nail Daphne in the back of a limo? 4. HOLY S***, IT'S WALDO!! HEY EVERYONE, I FOUND WALDO!! SERIOUSLY!!

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