# Ladder Life Insurance Commercials

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladder-life-insurance-commercials/965947>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** commercials-ads\
**Created:** [June 10, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladder-life-insurance-commercials/965947 "2022-06-10T01:24:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladder-life-insurance-commercials/965947/1 "2022-06-10T01:24:25Z")

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Funny, but also IMHO creepy as well. Seems like a parody but it isn’t.  
“Life insurance so good, they’re gonna want you dead”.  
Really?  
Think the Family Guy and South Park style of humor influenced this?

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YvYGO4o334I/hqdefault.jpg "Ladder - Life Insurance So Good You Might Wish You Didn't Have It") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvYGO4o334I)

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/W7sQnmwGsbc/maxresdefault.jpg "Ladder - Life Insurance So Good, It’ll Croc Your World") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7sQnmwGsbc)

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**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladder-life-insurance-commercials/965947/2 "2022-06-10T01:58:54Z")

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I have to tell a friend of mine about these. The other day she was joking with me about how I need to write my will (something I keep putting off) so she can start planning to have me bumped off. Since I’m widowed with no kids, I had told her once that I was planning on leaving everything to her.

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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladder-life-insurance-commercials/965947/3 "2022-06-10T02:06:06Z")

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The effect is going to be extreme either way.  
Either people are going to find them weird but acceptable, like the Skittles ads, or they are going to find them too weird and in bad taste. The company is taking a risk, albeit maybe a calculated risk.

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**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladder-life-insurance-commercials/965947/4 "2022-06-10T12:09:37Z")

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I saw two of these ads yesterday and one of my first thoughts was to post something about it here.

It doesn’t _offend_ me but it does seem kind of tasteless. Dark humor isn’t a bad thing but I can’t help but think about the large percentage of people who don’t share my slightly twisted sense of humor.