the progressive girl

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

http://i51.tinypic.com/x4nbc5.jpg

<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

don't feel like a maroon. i think there has been a fair amount of debate whether or not that was the case.

xxpost

aw thanks Will

no prob. thanks k3vin k. i had not seen the NYT article.

i wanted to do a t/s thread between flo and the education connection girl but she's already got one

Education Connection vs FreeCreditReport.com commercials

no prob. thanks k3vin k. i had not seen the NYT article.

― hypnosis is the reason some Jewish people backed him → (will), Sunday, October 3, 2010 2:31 PM (36 minutes ago)

well it was more a profile piece with what i mentioned as a funny ancdote - here's the article http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/04/us/04beliefs.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=christ%20wire&st=cse

She was on House and revealed that she probably doesn't have much of a career beyond those commercials.

have a crush on this lady tbqf

did not know she was on mad men.

I totally signed up for Progressive auto insurance just because that guy gave $3 million to the Marijuana Policy Project. That was honestly the only reason I went with them.

!

He gave a lot of $$$ to other causes I like, too.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/peterlewis.asp

As far as insurance *mascots* go, I think this guy is a much better Halloween costume:

http://www.thegeneral.com/images/theGeneral.gif

fwiw, the Buffett Foundation has been sponsoring a contraception awareness campaign in Iowa and a few other states ("Avoid the Stork"). So some Geico money is going to decent places, too.

Shows up on Glitter in the Garbage:

http://www.earwolf.com/episode/episode-4-stephanie-courtney-ron-morehouse-sam-pancake

Did not know she was/is a Groundling.

http://twitter.com/#!/ochocinco/status/56168984344670208

Retweeted by iLikeDonks and others

iDonks would be an odd soulja boy related amalgamation

there was a time when I told everyone who would listen that she was the blonde doctor from Scrubs, and but I got a closer look and man do I feel stupid

lol

a couple of months ago my brother was telling me an amusing anecdote about his 7th grade math tutor, and after his story was over he casually says, as just an afterthought, "and a couple months after she left the school I recognize her as the lady in those progressive commercials," at which point I flip out and yell "FLO!?!??! Your teacher was Flo???"