# Flo for Progressive Insurance: Hot, or not? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837 "2009-11-24T22:57:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/41 "2009-11-25T16:43:35Z")
She is so NOT hot. But not because of her style. I find Abby from NCIS extremely hot, and they share many stylistic elements. So there must be some other reason that she takes the lead out of my pencil. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/42 "2009-11-25T17:15:29Z")
She’s “mom hot” if you were 14 and she was your friend’s mom… you’d have a boner for her. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/43 "2009-11-25T17:16:16Z")
Hot, in an unusual, “I never liked makeup before” kind of way. The actress, without the makeup, seemed too gray-eyed to me. Recently I got my insurance to pay for somebody dinging me while the car was parked and unattended. The body shop reassured me my insurance would be no problem, but that Progressive (and Geico) are a huge problem because they fight so hard to deny valid claims. This tells me that Flo is shilling for thieves, and the little lizard should be replaced by a weasel. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/44 "2009-11-25T18:20:13Z")
I don’t have an opinion on her hotness or not. I think they have toned the character down a little since her first appearances probably in order to make her more appealing in the hotness category. They’ve also toned down the Lying Glade Lady and made her less of a lying pretentious bitch but probably not to increase her hotness but just make people despise her less. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/45 "2009-11-25T19:07:00Z")
I would tap that Lying Glade Bitch long before I’d go for Flo. With all her lying and conniving, you wouldn’t have to feel guilty about doing the most vile things with/to her. She’d deserve it, and probably love it! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/46 "2009-11-25T19:14:50Z")
As someone who works with people (I’m a cashier), Flo is in a line of business similar to mine and she seems like she loves her job and loves being around people and helping them out, which I also like. Plus, I’m a sucker for a girl in Chuck Taylors. The only problem is that I doubt she doesn’t talk about anything except insurance- not really my interest. ---
**Author:** ![drpepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@drpepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drpepper)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/47 "2009-11-25T20:18:56Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I’m fairly certain her un-hotness is a premise of the commercials. Interesting comment (and I love succinctness). I have no dog in this fight (being a straight female; if I were pinned down I’d say she seems kind of like the dorky girl-next-door to me), but I would have guest hot-appeal (or SOME sort of appeal) would be the premise here. But honestly, I have no idea, and the poll results are sort of surprising me; in fact what exactly the effect the commercial is intended to have wrt Flo is a bit baffling to me. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/48 "2009-11-25T21:11:44Z")
> [@drpepper](#): > > I have no dog in this fight (being a straight female; if I were pinned down I’d say she seems kind of like the dorky girl-next-door to me) Speaking as a straight male, I see a cute woman who is super-enthusiastic and goes overboard painting her face; she’s putting out, um, an “excited” signal – and even in a non-sexual context, that makes us look twice. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/49 "2009-11-25T21:22:45Z")
Well, the hots are approaching 60/40. Pretty soon they’ll be able to block a not-hot filibuster. Which I might have to lead. > [@dhkendall](#): > > Interestingly, she’s cuter than [Stephanie Courtney](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1941215744/nm0183960) … Man, I don’t agree at all. Stephanie is maybe, not _smokin’_ hot, but at least ok. Flo is just nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/50 "2009-11-25T21:28:44Z")
Even though I don’t think about her sexually, I’m pretty sure I know why most other guys do. I think I said this in another thread, but I’ll say it again. It’s the same reason why more men preferred Mary Ann over Ginger. Mary Ann was the girl next door, and Flo is too. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/51 "2009-11-25T21:44:50Z")
Stephanie Courtney from her photo at [imdb.com](http://imdb.com) (linked above): very cute. Probably hot. As Flo, with her dippy personality, aggressive but smarmy manner, and caked-on makeup? Not hot. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/52 "2009-11-26T04:31:18Z")
She’s _weirdly_ attractive. Not hot. Barely lukewarm. But probably kinky in some as-yet-unimagined way, as in she doesn’t wear leather underwear, but velcro. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/53 "2009-11-26T05:04:23Z")
> [@stuthehistoryguy](#): > > If she were you’re friend’s wife, you’d tell your friend she was very attractive. > > Otherwise, she’s hardly head-turning material. My friend would be able to get better, and also, that’s not a question you ask, because there might be an answer you don’t want to hear. Nah. Flo isn’t my type at all and isn’t hot. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/54 "2009-11-26T05:43:36Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > Even though I don’t think about her sexually, I’m pretty sure I know why most other guys do. I think I said this in another thread, but I’ll say it again. It’s the same reason why more men preferred Mary Ann over Ginger. Mary Ann was the girl next door, and Flo is too. The girl next door with spectacular legs and a great bod. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/55 "2009-11-26T06:31:22Z")
I voted “hot” - just sat through some commercials on youtube. I wouldn’t have said so based on stills I’ve seen before now, which made her look, I don’t know, white-trash-y or something? But on video the bubbliness comes through and lessens the negative impact of all that makeup. She has geek appeal, I think. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/56 "2009-11-26T10:43:27Z")
She’s quirky and quirky is sexy. She’ll be 40 in a few months so she’s also older than she looks. [She’s also Marge on Mad Men](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iFFqwC2BrU) Camille Paglia also had a theory a few years ago on how women with prominent mouths are attractive because men associate that with oral sex. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/57 "2009-11-26T16:18:22Z")
With a bag on her head and / or her mouth corked up with, er,… something, she’d be OK. But there are better bodies in the next commercial, almost whatever it is. I think ole \*\*LouisB \*\*anlayzed it perfectly in post #9. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/58 "2009-11-26T18:04:20Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > With a bag on her head and / or her mouth corked up with, er,… something, she’d be OK. But there are better bodies in the next commercial, almost whatever it is. Unless that next commercial is the Subaru “Fire in the Disco!” ad with the carwash sumo wrestlers (off the air now, thankfully). > [@MrDibble](#): > > She has geek appeal, I think. **THAT’s** what it is! Was trying to put my finger on why she did appeal to me when I thought about it, it’s the geek thing! (Interestingly, I married a non-geek, who doesn’t even look like a geek at all, and is a brunette (where redheads _always_ turn my crank) - why is that?) ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/59 "2009-11-27T18:34:15Z")
I voted “Hot” but would have preferred a “Doable” option. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837/60 "2009-11-28T05:34:45Z")
> [@astro](#): > > She’ll be 40 in a few months so she’s also older than she looks. I disagree with the 2nd part of that sentence. She looks 40ish to me. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Not that I think she’s hot, just her 40ishness isn’t the main non-hot thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-for-progressive-insurance-hot-or-not/518837.md?page=4)