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I find the Progressive Insurance commericials that bash Baby Boomers offensive. It drives me crazy whenever they are on. Does it bother anyone else?
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,053 posts)EYESORE 9001
(25,989 posts)Im not sure which ones the OP is referencing.
Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)EYESORE 9001
(25,989 posts)As a general observation, why do insurance commercials have to be funny anyway? Its serious stuff, after all. To my knowledge, the only one that doesnt resort to humor is USAA.
TheProle
(2,199 posts)EYESORE 9001
(25,989 posts)I still dont get the need for humor to sell insurance.
a kennedy
(29,715 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,053 posts)Diamond_Dog
(32,096 posts)I think theyre hilarious! And we are Boomers.
DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)They are insulting.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,053 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)The one with Dr. Rick.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/03/16/dr-rick-progressive-ad/
Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)"We don't need to print the internet." "Nobody who made the movie is here." "Let's stop talking about parking."
DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)Are you a Boomer?
Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)I see myself in some of those ads, too. But I can laugh at myself.
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Stallion
(6,476 posts)I'm a baby boomer and love those commercials
Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)he ALWAYS plotted his early escape from every concert or game in advance...we never saw ANYTHING to the very end...
Diamond_Dog
(32,096 posts)And we are both Boomers.
Diamond_Dog
(32,096 posts)Where he makes the woman get rid of all her plaques that say Live Love Laugh
And taking away the garden gnomes
Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)"Forever?" "Yep."
Or my millennial son's favorite about the airport, because he teased us for printing up our plane tickets: "Paper tickets?! We're off to a terrible start!"
a kennedy
(29,715 posts)Emile
(22,955 posts)Ocelot II
(115,869 posts)and I think the ads are hilarious.
DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)isn't funny to me. IMO
ripcord
(5,537 posts)Of course I tease my younger relatives when they don't get the context of something before their time by saying "oops your millennial is showing".
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)I think we're the first generation that was so vocal about not turning into our parents. We'd be young and hip forever, we'd break with the older generation's traditions. We'd-- oh, shit, now I forget why I came into this thread...
renate
(13,776 posts)I don't mind a gentle teasing. They aren't cruel. They're like the joke about how you know you're getting older when you save a box just because it's a nice solid box.
TheProle
(2,199 posts)A true rarity in advertising.
MineralMan
(146,334 posts)It's not really about Boomers as the "parents." It's about every generation and its parents. We all end up risking becoming our parents. I experienced the same thing, myself, and am a lot like my parents. However, that's not really a bad thing. They were good people.
I have nieces and nephews who have teenagers and young adults as children. I skipped doing that, but it's funny to see those nieces and nephews becoming their parents. Their children will do the same thing. We all take on some of the characteristics of our parents, and develop some other characteristics that are our own.
The commercials are playing on that, not going after Boomers. We'll all be old folks -- if we're lucky, and our children will be horrified to see themselves turning into us, just as we did about our own parents.
Thos commercials are genius!
Torchlight
(3,361 posts)if the teasing is done at the expense of the following generation?
Mariana
(14,861 posts)bahboo
(16,364 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)The perception that your parents are doddering fools who dont understand anything and are just annoying in everything they do (and many of those things are things younger people do as much if not more) creates a pov thats actually dangerous.
Try reading work by Becca Levy on how the brain changes in older people according to how theyre (were) perceived and treated. Its appalling.
Sympthsical
(9,121 posts)Also, as a new homeowner. The ridiculous, meandering conversations about pointless things my partner and I have now. He's becoming his mother. "You do not have to sweep this floor five times a day." And I'm turning into my father somehow, "Yeah, let me get up on the roof." (What will I do when I get up there? It's anybody's guess!)
I can't believe these harmless ads are getting anyone's nose out of joint. They're making fun of everyone. Bad Janet was right!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The little kid may be going places. When he asks why the sign guy isn't doing all the fancy tricks the other sign guy is doing, he wipes his nose on his sleeve, then when he protests that he's "four-and-a-half" he cups his hands. These two little gestures look totally unrehearsed and natural; makes me think the kid has talent.
ratchiweenie
(7,754 posts)never do that but my parents actually did. It makes me laugh when he says " I can see we have a lot of work to do". My boomer husband constantly picks up the remote and wanders around talking and leaves it in the weirdest places and of course I can't call it to find it. I've thought about it. LOL.
nuxvomica
(12,449 posts)I enjoy watching them. Besides being funny, they remind us that all the fussiness and concern that we used to ridicule our parents for was actually part of their struggle to make the world safe for us, and to ensure our happiness, an enormous responsibility that they met, sometimes imperfectly, and with little reward.