# Some random thoughts on the AFLAC duck **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 18, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239 "2001-06-18T17:55:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/21 "2001-06-21T01:31:10Z")
1st Hollywood Agent on airplane: So who do you like for the lead in this new picture? Duck(unseen, flying outside window): Afleck! 2nd Agent: How about that kid, Matt Damon’s friend? Duck: Afleck!! 1st agent: Oh, yeah, what’s his name? Duck: Afleck! 2nd Agent: I can’t think of it. Duck: Afleck! William Shatner (to Flight Attendant): There’s something outside my window! John Lithgow: I aw it, too! Duck: Afleck!! ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/22 "2001-06-22T15:01:49Z")
I guess my crotch is hurting too. The first few were annoying, I’ll grant, but a few nights ago I saw the roller-coaster one for the first time, and found myself giggling uncontrollably. It’s passed from unfunny into annoying, then past that into funny. I can’t explain why. But to all you complaining: you realize this is the essence of effective advertising, don’t you? You don’t have to like the ad, you just have to remember it. And clearly you all do. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/23 "2001-06-22T15:32:43Z")
[tips rakishly tilted cocktail hat to CalMeacham] ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/24 "2001-06-23T14:02:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ThisYearsGirl \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > > **The AFLAC duck doesn’t do a thing for me, but lordy oh lordy did I love that Bathroom Duck of a few years ago. You know, the relative of Toilet Duck? He’d come winging in on his biplane, wearing a leather bomber jacket and aviator’s cap, quacking that bathroom clean and shiny! Whoo-hooo!** > > Oh dear God I loved that duck. Those commercials killed me, enough to the point where just reading your post made me just die with laughter. \*\* I agree. Cranky’s post gave me my first laugh of the day. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/25 "2001-06-23T14:07:19Z")
You know, you can download all the AFLAC Duck commercials [here.](http://www.adcritic.com/content/?letter=A) Toilet Duck, sadly, is nowhere to be found on that site. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/26 "2001-06-23T14:27:03Z")
[_saunters in, late, and awards **Mouthbreather** a perfect **10** for the OP rant._] Dang. Wish _I’d_ written that… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/27 "2001-06-23T20:30:41Z")
You can count me among those who like the AFLAC Duck. Or at least I like the thought of Gilbert Gottfried getting killed and coming back as a duck who can’t get anybody’s attention. ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/28 "2003-10-05T14:07:12Z")
I have now joined the ranks of Insurance People. Care to guess who I work for? 😃 I have a BIG box of those ducks right here. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/29 "2003-10-05T14:29:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crown Prince of Irony \* > \*\*You know why that duck has pissed **me** off? After the first time I saw the commercial, which was mildly amusing (note to self: must buy protective crotch gear now), I was by the riverside with my SO, we were feeding the ducks. I saw a white duck, turned to her and said, in all earnestness, “ **ASSCRACK!!!** ”. We both had a chuckle, then she called me a dork (I love it when she talks like that). \*\* Back during the anthrax mailings, I heard a parody on a radio station which cracked me up. “Someone’s mailing out germy powder . . . I can’t remember what the name of the disease is.” “ANTHRAX!” “Yeah, I heard about that, too. It’s some disease that cattle get.” “ANTHRAX!” “It’s been used as a biological weapon in the past . . . the name just escapes me.” “ANTHRAAAAAAAAX!” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/30 "2003-10-05T14:39:16Z")
The duck can stay, but the Verizon “Can you hear me now? Good!” guy must be tortured and killed. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/31 "2003-10-05T14:50:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aenea \* > \*\*I have now joined the ranks of Insurance People. > > Care to guess who I work for? 😃 > I have a BIG box of those ducks right here. \*\* Heh. First, congratulatons on getting a gig with one of the _Fortune_ Best Companies to Work For. Second, when I saw the OP I was thinking, “people are _still_ pissed about the Duck?” Then I saw the dates. Third, the high-quality rants here aside, you might have got the job to accomodate AFLAC’s growth, a direct outgrowth of what might be [the most successful ad campaign of all time](http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/best2003/aflac.html;COXnetJSessionID=1Aw6guaBdokrEfmkqKQEmIPhKMrG1YaEJOincyCeckhByMiBySW7!-1403265975?urac=n&urvf=10653656902280.27083912635590257). Fourth, I would totally name my first child after you if I could get a duck. Well, OK, probably not. But I’d buy you a beer. ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/32 "2003-10-05T15:18:47Z")
Mannny, For you no problem. Just send me an email with an address to send it to. (and they are Very Cute so beware!) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/33 "2003-10-05T15:35:12Z")
The AFLAC duck is a joke with my mom and I. We’ve put practically every organization and company in the AFLAC duck voice. Nothing gets a laugh like the idea of a duck walking up to someone and going “NAM-BLA” or “GOAT-SEX”. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/34 "2003-10-05T16:18:10Z")
My son loves the AFLAC duck! His favorite was the one where duck walks into a baraber shop and stops in front of one of those hairstyle posters and it looks like the duck has an afro. Josh laughed himself silly over that one. aenea, how does one (who is not manny) go about getting one of those ducks? Josh would love one. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/35 "2003-10-05T16:30:13Z")
C’mon, guys, yeah - the one with Yogi Berra at the barbershop (“And they give you cash, which is just as good as money!”) was one of the funniest TV bits I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/36 "2003-10-05T16:30:22Z")
Well there are a few ways to go about it actually. You could: A) buy some insurance from me or another agent 😉 B) head over to the [website](http://www.aflac.com) and order one for about $9.95 (retail price) or C) wait a few weeks till I resupply and I’ll send you one [sub](I have a company enrollment coming up this next two weeks and will need this box but then I will reorder)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/37 "2003-10-05T17:00:30Z")
I think the frustration in the duck’s voice hits a chord with people who were fond of Donald Duck and his streams of barely-audible profanity. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/38 "2003-10-05T17:06:30Z")
For all you AFLAC duck haters, a [talking plush duck](http://duckgear.aflac.com/ccduckgear/product.asp?dept%5Fid=1&pf%5Fid=001) to shred. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/39 "2003-10-05T17:10:45Z")
The duck must be destroyed. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239/40 "2003-10-05T17:29:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ElvisL1ves \* > \*\*The duck can stay, but the Verizon “Can you hear me now? Good!” guy must be tortured and killed. \*\* Hey now, don’t you be dissing the “Can you hear me now” guy. He’s one little hottie, he is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-random-thoughts-on-the-aflac-duck/69239.md?page=3)