# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/81 "2009-09-09T10:43:17Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > 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 Me, I hate the hair bubble … She is as my grandmother would have said Cute as a button … ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/82 "2009-09-09T12:51:25Z")
I think part of the appeal is the way she is totally focused on you, the customer, and in making you happy. She wants what’s best for you, at a price you can afford, and she gets very happy for you when you get happy. She loves what she is doing and that helps you feel better about what you are buying. Flo is the perfect salesperson…no pressure, no hustle, no fast talk…you want to trust her because she so obviously believes in what she is selling. If I hadn’t dropped my Progressive policy a few years ago for a USAA policy that cost me half the money, I’d be feeling proud… ---
**Author:** ![Fastidiots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@Fastidiots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fastidiots)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/83 "2009-09-10T01:35:04Z")
I’d like to contributed that Flo tickles the same cerebral sulci as Kari Byron from Mythbusters, for me. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/84 "2009-09-10T04:56:32Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Personally I hope they’ll conclude the series by getting her together with the “Yes! YES!” guy. The sexual tension between those two was palpable. Actually, I think she’s going to ride off into the sunset with the motorcycle guy. And then she’ll ride _ **him** _ all night long, making that “vroom-vroom” noise (which is not a 500, but a 900 V-twin). ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/85 "2009-09-10T04:58:16Z")
Yeah, she was definately trying a little harder to impress the motorcycle guy than her other customers. I need to find and kill that motorcycle guy before he start returning her flirtations. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/86 "2009-09-10T05:07:46Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > I still prefer the secret agent babe with the fuschia-colored hair in the E-surance commercials. > > What; she’s a cartoon? I hadn’t noticed. Doesn’t matter; she’s still hot. Erin E-surance seems to be the older sister of Kim Possible. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/87 "2009-09-10T05:09:33Z")
Flo: She could sell me insurance, and I’d hang out long enough to ask her what her evening plans were. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/88 "2009-09-10T05:11:39Z")
This thread wants fresh, tasty braiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnsssss ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/89 "2009-09-10T05:25:00Z")
Mmmmm Erin E-surance… As for Flow, while I’m not sexually attracted to her, it’s simple to figure out why others are. It’s the same reason most guys wanted Mary Ann over Ginger, even though Ginger was supposed to be the sex-pot. Flow is the girl next door[sup]tm[/sup], and since the girl next door[sup]tm[/sup] doesn’t wear her sexuality on her sleeve, it’s assumed that it’s because she saves it all up for behind closed doors. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/90 "2009-09-10T05:29:43Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Know what she’d say? > > “You need to go to the _altar_ this Sunday, Bill!” SUNDAY?!?!? Point oit what a cliche it is and you can buy some time away from the toon you REALLY love. Bro, my real email is in my profile. Send all bribes there, if you know what’s good for you. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/91 "2009-09-13T03:38:13Z")
An interview with the actress who plays Flo: [Actress Stephanie Courtney talks about Progressive Corp.'s Flo campaign | cleveland.com](http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2009/09/crushin_on_flo_youre_not.html) ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/92 "2009-09-13T08:46:13Z")
Wow, I had no idea this was a ‘thing’. My husband asked me a week ago if I could sleep with anyone on TV, who it would be? I answered Seth MacFarlane, he said Flo. Explains why he was paying such good attention to those commercials. Wait until I tell him he’s in such good company. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/93 "2009-09-13T15:23:28Z")
Flo, Kari Byron? Yea, they all have that **something** along with…Kate Botello from Tech TV… > **[beertripper.com](http://www.beertripper.com/otttvKateBotello.html)** > > Ale Beer,Craft Beer,Alcohol in Beer Some cartoon characters seems to exude that **something** like Erin Esurance, or the chicks from Josie n the Pussy Cats cartoon. I doubt anyone is crafting and doing this on purpose, it’s just a thing that works. I’m sure there’s more. Oh yea, that original chick from Beakmans World, Josie I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/94 "2009-09-13T15:55:31Z")
There’s just something about bright red lipstick with dark hair. The combination gives off that [Bettie](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W4dlDe4EAYg/SJJTEjVRE_I/AAAAAAAAAO0/Amj4d6eVur8/s400/Bettie_Page3.jpg) [Page](http://www.usmagazine.com/files/bettie-page-b.jpg) vibe. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/95 "2009-09-13T17:01:56Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > [She](http://www.austin360.com/tv/content/tv/stories/2008/10/1020progressive.html) is quite attractive when not under all that make-up. I don’t find her attractive in those commercials but she does look good in that picture. She seems a little ditzy and some of her interactions with customers put me off. It’s like they’re trying to make her an average Jo and I’m supposed to trust her with my business but she happens to ride a V twin (the “you’re excused” line, I don’t like it). > [@Khadaji](#): > > _Wow, that would buy a new pair of shoes!_ And the progressive woman replied something like: _Or a big, tricked out, name tag._ To me, that ad backfired. You’re trying to convince people to switch because they’ll save a lot of money and it’s only enough to buy shoes (does that verge on sexism, lady dopers?) or a name tag? ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/96 "2009-09-13T18:11:19Z")
My mom can’t stand her, “ **Power to the People** ”!!😛 ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/97 "2009-09-13T19:54:56Z")
It could be the self confidence too. So many women are endlessly criticizing themselves, but Flo is weird and seems like she is perfectly happy with herself. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/98 "2009-09-14T02:32:10Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > My mom can’t stand her, “ **Power to the People** ”!!😛 Let me guess, your mom’s an old lefty? 😃 Yeah, it makes me wince too. Reminds you she’s not real, she’s advertising. Is it me, or is she wearing a little less false eyelash these days? I like that. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/99 "2009-09-14T03:16:05Z")
The new pair of shoes woman needs to make another appearance. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856/100 "2009-09-14T10:04:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > An interview with the actress who plays Flo: [Actress Stephanie Courtney talks about Progressive Corp.'s Flo campaign - cleveland.com](http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2009/09/crushin_on_flo_youre_not.html) > [@Stephanie Courtney](#): > > When I picture Flo in life she drives her little Mini Cooper around town and it’s basically like when Bob Hoskins drove into Toontown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Basically all the buildings and the birds are singing in her mind. And little humming birds are like “Hello Flo! Bye Flo!” So I think that’s how she sees the world: just a great big Toontown. Well, this explains why Flo is so perky all the time: She’s on drugs. Lots and lots of drugs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flo-the-progressive-insurance-chick/492856.md?page=6)