can't stand "Flo" and the Progressive Insurance ads (vanity)

Progressive ^ | 6/11/2010 | self

[The_Victor]

I think she's cute ...

She definitely looks better without the overdone makeup.

[MozarkDawg]

“Flo” is related to a family friend. I hear she’s a very nice person.

Ooh, you can settle a long-standing argument -- did she or did she not have a *baby bump*, they were hiding it behind the counter, her clipboard, etc., a year or so ago?

[wxgesr]

I love me some Flo!!! I think she is HOT!!

[evets]

[SMARTY]

They’re a pain and so’s she. But I better STFU because someone here blasted me the other day for not fawning all over Amelie Earhart.

You never know how people get attached to personalities in the MSM

[HungarianGypsy]

An acting colleague said he has worked with her. I am just depressed that I didn’t know about that audition.

[Deb]

Lewis and Soros are partners in lots of Marxist projects like funding MoveOn.org and the Huffington Post.

[mmichaels1970]

did she or did she not have a *baby bump*

I'll have my daughter ask and post back.

[dangus]

General rule:

The cuter the car-insurance ads, the worse the policy. Providers of good insurance policies expect that their customers will be reasonable, intelligent consumers. Scams and hacks expect that their customers will obey the suggestions of talking lizards.

[MayflowerMadam]

The only TV ads that I MUST mute: Hilshire Farms when they call cadence and then scream, “Go meat!” Ugh.

[ConservativeStatement]

Most TV ads are annoying, the “Most Interesting Guy in the World” is an exception.

[Non-Sequitur]

I can take Flo a whole lot better than I can take this guy.

[dangus]

>>>> did she or did she not have a *baby bump*

>> I’ll have my daughter ask and post back.

You’re wondering if Flo was late? That’s inappropriate. Period.

[fieldmarshaldj]

You were saying ?

[apillar]

I really don't care one way or another about the “Flo” commercials, but the commercials that are currently setting my teeth on edge are the zappos commercials with the fugly, bucktoothed puppets acting out voiced over calls to some sort of call center. I have no idea what zappos even is from the commercials. Are they selling a product? An Internet site? Long distance service? I don't know or care. But it's obvious they are to cheap to use real actors...

[streetsmart]

Same with me. I tried to switch but could not get anyone to come close to matching their rates. & I have not had a ticket of claim in 10 years.

[mnehring]

Pun intended?

[Sax]

During that commercial where the guys are marching through a field singing "I wear no pants..." I heard my younger son on the other end of the bit sofa mutter "Ha! Those guys are homos."

I pretended not to hear and Mom was out of the room. I left the room to chuckle - he's too young to be talking like that, but he has an older brother...

[SonOfDarkSkies]

You may not like Flo but the brilliance of those ads is the very reason you're posting a thread about them.

In the end, consumers may not like Flo (she isn't real anyway)...but they sure as h$ll have heard about Progressive and its products.

The brilliance of Flo and the Geico lizard is they generate HUGE name recognition and that converts to big sales volume, and that permits them to cut their rates. And they do.

And then Flo and the Geico lizard tell you about those lower rates...and generate even more volume.

BTW, when I first saw the ads I hated Flo. But after a while, because the ads so beautifully walk that fine line between being almost too unattractive and not quite so (all by design), she began to grow on me.

I still find her obnoxious but appreciate the fact that Progressive's ad firm pushed the envelope (and Progressive had the guts to go along).

[Texas resident]

“Flo” was hired to sell insurance. Like her or not, she got all of our attention, didn’t she. But the whole story line is getting old.