# Flo from Progressive

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-from-progressive/732341>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 23, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-from-progressive/732341 "2015-09-23T21:18:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-from-progressive/732341/41 "2015-09-24T19:05:13Z")

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I like her and/or her character, but the TV commercials are getting tedious. And the radio commercials are all kinds of horrible. Her singing badly, doing bad gangster impressions, etc. Can’t stand them.

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**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-from-progressive/732341/42 "2015-09-24T20:04:50Z")

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I am unfamiliar with the actress in anything but the commercials… and I already have insurance, so I don’t pay a whole lot of attention. She doesn’t make me want to flee the room screaming or shoot the TV or anything.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-from-progressive/732341/43 "2015-09-24T21:05:04Z")

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Generally, I like her, but the ones where she plays all her various family members are too disturbing to give her an unconditional green light. So “Depends” (though usually).

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**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-from-progressive/732341/44 "2015-09-24T23:56:46Z")

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Voted “indifferent” but really it’s time for Progressive to come up with new ideas and a new spokesperson.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-from-progressive/732341/45 "2015-09-25T03:52:09Z")

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> [@Jophiel](#):
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> As far as commercial spokespeople go, she’s alright. Better than talking lizards and stacks of money with googly eyes.

And that stupid box. I hope the TSA keeps him.

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**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-from-progressive/732341/46 "2015-09-25T05:42:20Z")

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She (they) try so hard to mimic the clever, funny, sophisticated, successful Geico marketing campaign, and fail embarassingly, though a few ads are mildly amusing. Her radio commercials mimicking professions, such as drill instructor or football coach, using insurance dialogue is intolerable. I turn the station every time. I bet they’re turning away more customers than they’re attracting.

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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-from-progressive/732341/47 "2015-09-25T13:44:26Z")

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In [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=766832http://), we were discussing the hotness of various corporate spokesmodels, including Flo, Jan, Lily, and Red (Progressive, Toyota, AT&T, and Wendy’s, respectively). Here’s how I put it:

[QUOTE=BrotherCadfael]  
Lily, Wendy (real name Morgan Smith Goodwin), Jan. Then a loong, loooong, gap. Then Clara Peller. Then Flo.  
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