# Please help me find this TV ad

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-tv-ad/980202>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** commercials-ads\
**Created:** [February 22, 2023, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-tv-ad/980202 "2023-02-22T17:37:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-tv-ad/980202/1 "2023-02-22T17:37:03Z")

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Maybe 10 years old?  
It’s for car insurance, I think.  
We are on the bridge of a Star Trek-like ship, and the ship goes to red alert after it is hit by another spaceship. Turns out it was just an accident. The captain says “It’s SPACE! Couldn’t you just go around?”  
The alien captain apologizes. One of the crew of the “Enterprise” comments that his face looks damaged, and the alien says that’s just his face, to her chagrin…

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**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:** [February 22, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-tv-ad/980202/2 "2023-02-22T17:41:54Z")

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[Here you go.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rROSNdmiI9M)

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**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:** [February 22, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-tv-ad/980202/3 "2023-02-22T17:46:36Z")

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I’d not seen that ad before. It looks like it _is_, in fact, the _Enterprise_ set (from the J.J. Abrams reboot films), and the actors are wearing canon Starfleet uniforms, as the ad makes mention of _Star Trek Into Darkness_ (suggesting to me that Esurance had a sponsorship deal with the film).

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-tv-ad/980202/4 "2023-02-22T18:20:03Z")

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Thanks!  
I could not find it using any search terms…

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**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-tv-ad/980202/5 "2023-02-24T17:13:04Z")

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My favourite live-action Esurance commercials are the [“That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works!” one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq_1l316ow8) and the [“Candy Crush” one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THkX4WgbioM).

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**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-tv-ad/980202/6 "2023-02-24T18:39:11Z")

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Good commercial. I like how the hulking alien replies in a hurt voice, “That’s my face”.