Every year as the Super Bowl approaches, my thoughts turn to television ads. I (and everyone else who watches the professional football championship game) enjoy seeing the advertisements that sponsors unveil during the contest.

A few years ago I wrote an article about Super Bowl ads, so I won’t examine that cultural phenomenon again. I will, however, reiterate one point from that article: that my favorite television ads over the last few years have been those for insurance giant GEICO.

Recently, GEICO (short for “Government Employees Insurance Company”) has been running an ad that is a takeoff...