# Flo, The Progressive Insurance Chick **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 12, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856 "2009-04-12T16:58:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/1 "2009-04-12T16:58:17Z")
What is it about the Progressive girl Flo that makes me and many others say? “I dont know what it is about the progressive girl” What is so evasive about her attractiveness? ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/2 "2009-04-12T18:09:21Z")
I think part of her “charm” is that she seems truly interested in her customers. It’s not about her – it’s about them. I feel the same way about Meredith, the host of _Who Wants To Be A Millionaire_. She’s got a mother vibe going or something, very soothing. And she focuses on the contestants, unlike other game show hosts who are very mechanical. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/3 "2009-04-12T18:23:34Z")
[She](http://www.austin360.com/tv/content/tv/stories/2008/10/1020progressive.html) is quite attractive when not under all that make-up. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/4 "2009-04-12T18:31:11Z")
She isn’t nearly as good as the “[FreeCreditReport.Com](http://FreeCreditReport.Com)” guy [Eric Violette](http://www.ericviolette.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/5 "2009-04-12T19:21:52Z")
She seems like she’d be an absolute freak in the sack. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/6 "2009-04-12T19:22:46Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > [She](http://www.austin360.com/tv/content/tv/stories/2008/10/1020progressive.html) is quite attractive when not under all that make-up. Of course, you’re judging by the one, the _only_, non-Flo picture of Stephanie Courtney ever made public. Which ain’t bad, but still, it’s _one_ picture. I would say Flo’s magnetism is multi-dimensional. In the Austin360 piece, Courtney herself suggests Flo is a highly “asexual” character. If that’s true, it’s true only on the surface. First there’s her name. “Flo” is the mythical aunt associated with the menstrual cycle. What could be more female, more suggestive of woman’s sexual mystique and the cultural “curse of Eve”? Yes, Flo is woman eternal - woman writ large. And not just in her name, but in her seductive makeup and crisp white uniform - which call up the pure-but-dirty dichotomy so central to many men’s desires - and her irrepressible, effervescent, very-possibly-flirtatious personality. She is business, true, but is she _all_ business? Textually, we’re left to wonder - but subtextually, we know otherwise. Flo’s promise goes far beyond bargain-priced coverage - she betokens the heterosexual female at her most sensual, free, and pleasure-loving. > [@Wheeljack](#): > > She seems like she’d be an absolute freak in the sack. Indubitably. Insurance isn’t about sex appeal, and saving bucks isn’t either, but if that were the whole story, Progressive could have had some friendly male yuk in a polo shirt as a spokesperson. Instead they have Flo, who has inspired interest far beyond her rather dull product. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/7 "2009-04-12T20:39:49Z")
Dear Miss Manners I am smitten with Progressive Insurances’s fictional character Flo. What is the best way to ask her, Erin Esuarance (and possibly the Geico lizard) out on a date? yours TD ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/8 "2009-04-12T20:51:39Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Of course, you’re judging by the one, the _only_, non-Flo picture of Stephanie Courtney ever made public. Which ain’t bad, but still, it’s _one_ picture. She also appears unadorned in that Glade Plug-In yoga commercial. She’s attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/9 "2009-04-12T22:24:09Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > She also appears unadorned in that Glade Plug-In yoga commercial. She’s attractive. Plus I love it when she says “kiss my grits”. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/10 "2009-04-12T22:32:21Z")
Any linx to the Glade spot? Here’s [Stephanie doing standup.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRZiMUJ8bqE) Great voices and energy - sort of a rubber personality. 😃 'Course, by picture, I meant _still_ picture. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/11 "2009-04-12T22:57:38Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > Dear Miss Manners > > I am smitten with Progressive Insurances’s fictional character Flo. What is the best way to ask her, Erin Esuarance (and possibly the Geico lizard) out on a date? > > yours > > TD Not suprisingly, the best way to do so would be to ask them about car insurance. It’s all they ever talk about. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/12 "2009-04-12T23:20:08Z")
She is cute in an ugly sort of way. Like David Schwimmer. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/13 "2009-04-12T23:50:23Z")
Ecch. Now I have to think of whiny clammy Ross, or that soulless bastard Capt. Sobel, whenever I see Flo. Og help me. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/14 "2009-04-12T23:51:45Z")
I started out being completely repulsed. Over time, I got all over her. Next week it’ll be an obsession and from there it’s only a trip around the corner to stalking. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/15 "2009-04-13T00:27:05Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Any linx to the Glade spot? Best I could find is this annoyingly remixed version. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B-BKwJbDTeA/hqdefault.jpg "Glade Youtube Poop (Yoga)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-BKwJbDTeA) ---
**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:** [April 13, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/16 "2009-04-13T01:00:10Z")
> [@fifty-six](#): > > What is so evasive about her attractiveness? Whatever it is, it’s evasive enough that I don’t see it. I think she’s a pill. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/17 "2009-04-13T01:35:45Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Whatever it is, it’s evasive enough that I don’t see it. I think she’s a pill. I don’t see it either. There are women that don’t do it for me, but I understand why other men find them attractive, but this is one of those WTF moments for me. I guess that is why they say there is a lid for every pot. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/18 "2009-04-13T01:58:21Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > (and possibly the Geico lizard) Kinky. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/19 "2009-04-13T10:55:56Z")
Nothing wrong with her personality or delivery (something **very** wrong with the copy writers), but does anyone besides me think she could do with a hair re-make? Or whatever ya call it?🙂 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/20 "2009-04-13T12:08:44Z")
Naw, she’s perfect the way she is, just the kind of girl I’d take home to meet the folks. Didn’t she play one of Bud Bundy’s girl friends on _Married with Children_? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856.md?page=2)