Yellow Phone is a commercial when a Thomas Lau gets a nightmare for getting too many texts, messages phone calls from people on cell phones and telephones. At the end, the Thomas's tail is tangled up with yellow wire and ends up in a trash can.
Commercial First aired: October 2, 2000
Commercial Last aired: May 17, 2002
Thomas Lau as Himself
Voice of VO as Andrew Anthony
Transcript[]
(Scene: Dining Room - a Thomas Lau pushing yellow phone while being bothered by ringing)
Thomas Lau: (pushing the phone) Night and day, the calls. Save me this. Save me that. I'm a gecko, not GEICO!
(pushes phone off the counter into the trash as it still rings but his tail gets caught by the wires)
Thomas Lau: AAAHHH...!!
(phone falls of the on-hook telephone and stops ringing, landing in the trash with a thud)
Thomas Lau: So stop CALLING me!
(Cut to GEICO Direct - The Thomas's arms are caught with yellow wire)
(Phone: 1-800-947-AUTO)
(URL: GEICO.com)
VO: GEICO. A fifteen minute call could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.
Trivia[]
The way the Thomas's tail gets caught by the phones wires shares the same way his tail get caught in the suction of a tube. At the end, the Thomas appears to the bottom right and he doesn't press his hands to his hips because they're covered in yellow telephone wire.