the progressive girl

Lauren Graham - sex = Flo.

I love Flo, and I covet her hairstyle. I'm totally in her demographic.

and [she'll] play Progressive rock

it's a flo chart!

This has been a productive thread.

hate both this chick and the name "progressive"

love that you love her laurel

Ty! I do think they've cornied her up a little bit since the first ads, but I still like her wide-eyed, flatly earnest delivery of every line.

courtesy Catsupppppppppppppp dude (not entirely safe for work):

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1. weirdly cute
2. oh my eyes

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Not a few couples have attended Halloween as Progressive Flo and the Geico Caveman:

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does flo wear a bumpit y/n

― mookieproof, Monday, May 3, 2010 5:37 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

lololol at this btw

i mean, that has to be a bump-it

you guys are full of hate

i like the way she says "maybe" in the radio ad.

you guys are full of hate

not me i like her

dude, i love this woman! i'm just sayin'

i mean if i could wear a bump-it, i would

i mean if i could wear a bump-it, i would

this has completely brightened my day

haha you know it's true too

In the vein of annoying commercials, there's quite a few around right now that simply feature annoying customers yelling "WHAT A DEAL!!" in a real obnoxious way. There's one for an office supply store and there's another for a car rental. There's no funny skit involved, no wacky costumes -- the whole gimmick is 'look how big an asshole this customer is'.

the character is a little too college comedy troupe cheesy to really be funny but i've rarely been ever been actively annoyed by the ads. and she's total WS material out of character (and WS of shame material in charater).

cracked me up how i had no idea this is what this thread was gonna be about w/o caps in the subject line.

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I am embarrassed to say that I find her really attractive. :(

A crush of shame for me. She's so.... positive.

I really don't get the hate. The ads are fairly innocuous and occasionally amusing. I also really like the actress when she's on Mad Men.

I kinda feel bad for the actress tbh. The first few commercials, it was kind of amusing I guess, but as the commercials grew in number her character has started to get reaaaaally fucking annoying. Who knows, maybe she loves the way the character has developed, but for some reason I think that she hates the character, she knows she's ruining the rest of her career because she'll always be the the high-strung "quirky" Progressive girl, but the money is good, it would be foolish to throw away easy money that takes less than a weekend's work per commercial. She's completely empty, she knows the commercials can't last forever but doesn't know where to go next. Who knows.

― party time! (Z S), Sunday, May 2, 2010 8:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

from what i understand of the advertising world, spokespeople for big ad campaigns usually get locked into long term contracts (probably as much to keep competitors from hiring them for gotcha ads as anything else), and if you're the star of a series of ads that gets played on every channel all day every day, those contracts can be REALLY lucrative. so she probably made the decision to ride this out for a while, and is making so much cash that it's hard to really regret it.

the character is a little too college comedy troupe cheesy to really be funny but i've rarely been ever been actively annoyed by the ads. and she's total WS material out of character (and WS of shame material in charater).

cracked me up how i had no idea this is what this thread was gonna be about w/o caps in the subject line.

― hey lol hipster (some dude), Monday, May 3, 2010 9:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^^^

I could be friends with this girl. She may be the only one who understands me in this mysterious, chaotic world.

this thread should be titled the progressive woman. Come on people, this isn't the 50s!

it's not like we smacked her on the tush and lowered her salary by 35%

from what i understand of the advertising world, spokespeople for big ad campaigns usually get locked into long term contracts (probably as much to keep competitors from hiring them for gotcha ads as anything else), and if you're the star of a series of ads that gets played on every channel all day every day, those contracts can be REALLY lucrative. so she probably made the decision to ride this out for a while, and is making so much cash that it's hard to really regret it.

― hey lol hipster (some dude), Monday, May 3, 2010 9:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm. 'can u hear me now' verizon dude can never work anywhere else as an actor, nor will he ever 'have to' work as an actor again. we all make choices, basically.

I think the verizon guy could come back if he wanted to, in like 10 years. Do a guest spot on Law and Order as a creep. Back in business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Guy

Ben guest-starred on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and an episode of Law & Order in 2007.

I remember Patricia Richardson, the mom from "Home Improvement," coming on some talk show & talking about her acting past. She had been in some O.B. tampons commercial (iirc as a bike cop) in the early '80s that she said "kept her from getting a job for 10 years." But look, she went on to be in that TV show, and then, judging by appearances, I think she was also the drummer for Sleater-Kinney. So there's hope for the Progressive girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoyBCz30cQM

so many major actors have a cheesy commercial in their past that Leno or whoever can dredge up for LOLs that i feel like anyone that blames ads for stifling their career is just scapegoating.

The trick is to have a heavily stylized/made-up commercial persona. Verizon guy can still audition without his glasses. Progressive Flo's career advanced without the bump-it. And depite the fact that Stephanie Courtney's stand-up comedy has, shall I say, a limited audience appeal.

"are we having fun yet?"

can't find the picture of her doing stand-up in an exorcist t-shirt, I like her just because of that

lol lamp i didn't even think of that.

i'm still pretty wowed that this is the same person who did the ogre-ish voice for tom's 400lb wife in tom goes to the mayor

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<3h8 this broad

the worst

fuck you jordan sargent but u are right. sb.

http://christwire.org/2010/09/progressive-car-insurance-lady-secretly-finances-sex-drugs-and-radical-politics/

O_O

That screed borders on spiteful fanfic. Just, wow. I mean I can't stand her but I feel grateful that things haven't spiraled out of control so badly for me that I'm imagining what she wears when she gets off work. The only thing this is missing is the phrase "dirty pillows". Jesus christ these fucking nutjobs, seriously.

"One imagines her outside of work prowling after-hours night clubs in inner cities, stomping around in high-heeled black boots that lace up to her ruddy knees, a torn heavy metal t-shirt revealing a milky shoulder blade and eyeliner that makes her look heavily bruised.

lololol

xp isn't "christwire.org" a satire site?? surely?!

Haha omg you're right. Lol @ me, what a maroon.

yes, it's a satire site

there was a good article in the NYT recently about how they fooled some actual crazy christian writer into letting them syndicate her column along with their bogus ones

Haha that's awesome

I work in insurance and yeah I think most companies are good with most claims, it's the weird edge cases where things can get a little wacky. That's why I think the Dean Winters Mayhem ads are very good, because we get a lot of strange claims and it's definitely true that just picking the cheapest option isn't going to cover everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qinHYwRhYug

We had NJM when we lived in NJ and they were very good, always sent us money back at the end of the year. Now that we're in Montana we have Allstate. So far they seem...fine.

We have Travelers for auto, they are very good and fast about paying claims. Rates are competitive also.

I have had Progressive long enough that I've almost hit their top loyalty tier. The only perk left to attain? They will not drop you no matter what. It's already incredibly hard to get dropped by them as they're a carrier of last resort, so I have no idea what this means.

You don't need car insurance while in prison so presumably it'd have to be some accident where you're not at fault but manage to destroy an entire building, or something

I looked it up online and someone who was a progressive employee posted this comment
Crown literally is just adding the renewal guarantee. Believe it or not, some crown progressive policyholder has a firetruck on their personal auto policy, which is a big no-no. Idk who was fool enough to add it in the first place, but we can't do shit about it bc they're crown.

So I guess if I insure something they decide isn't insurable in the future, they're stuck

hah yep that is one of the challenges of the insurance industry you have to design a system that's smart enough to kick out all the weird shit because if something slips through and you bind it there's not really a way out of it

fwiw I'm emerald tier so when I call in they connect me directly to Flo

There's one commercial where she shows up in the rain and it's paced like a romantic comedy.

It didn't make me switch insurance but I did think it was well-done.

(Somehow after years of Progressive I ended up getting Erie. I am not sure they even have ads.)

Due to my credit only my EMERALD status at Progressive is saving me from paying a fortune for my car insurance. Even then just barely.

Next status up allows me to vandalize people's cars thrice per year