Allstate - My Bad

I hope you have good car insurance, not some cut rate policy.

As I said in a thread I started before I realized this one existed, whats up with the "....and you still get an All State Agent!" part?

At least Allstate still isn't even near the level of Progressive or Geico in terms of bad commercials.

I am so annoyed with all the new ads these days. Thank God for premium channels and decent weather to get out in.

EMCEE wrote: I'm not sure who I would punch in the balls harder: the hippie douche or the stuck up rich old f*ck.  Decisions, decisions.

Its simple. The hippie guy.

i hate both of the people in this commercial. however, i really hate the stereotypes and assumptions this makes about people. so the rich guy refuses to be "connected" to the hippy. he seems to be against the idea that anything could possibly be shared between two human beings in a chance encounter. we're supposed to believe that he is successful in business, and in order to do that, you must lose most of what makes you human. and the hippy? he is so connected to the world ,and everything cosmic, that of course he is a poor bum. and what is up with the old rich guy saying "i too have allstate"!? who talks like that? 

PitLoad413 wrote: Hold it! Hold it! What the hell do you mean by that?! You actually believe that Geico and Progressive has more annoying ads? I rather have a perky chatty woman with a 60's era beehive hairdo and a talking lizard any day.  At least they don't fear you into buying their bullsh*t with an evil prick mascot and Dennis Haysbert saying that young people on a budget eat nothing but Ramen noodles every night in a condescending tone that's otherwise insulting. The other companies don't use the term "cut-rate". The way I see it that some insurance is a hell of a lot better than no insurance at all. Give me a break!

Allstate is easy to forgive after its awesome "Mayhem" series.

I think "Mayhem" is hot, but that's been debated elsewhere.  ;)

Just on a technical note, the first thing the "hippy" probably shouldn't say in an accident is "My Bad". Even if you knew you were in the wrong, the insurance companies don't like it when you volunteer incriminating evidence. And on that note, does anyone know how it works when both parties are represented by the same agent and insurance company? From what I understand one agent\company does their best to pay the least, and the other does their best to get the most. In other words there is a conflict of interest. It seems that the Hippy would win in this circumstance, as it would probably be in Allstate's financial interests to say "accident, what accident?"    

Vindicated wrote: Just on a technical note, the first thing the "hippy" probably shouldn't say in an accident is "My Bad". Even if you knew you were in the wrong, the insurance companies don't like it when you volunteer incriminating evidence.

That's something that possibly saved me from a claim filed on me for only 1 car instead of 2.  I was behind a car who was behind another car.  The car in the front stopped to make a left turn, got rear ended by the car in front of me, then I ran into him.  The middle car's insurance company would've tried to make a case that my hitting him is what rammed him into the car in front, but at the scene he admitted to hitting the front car first, then was hit from behind by me.  So my insurance only had to pay for the rear damage, which was pretty minor.

"Small world" side note - This was my senior year in High School, and that year I sat at the same table during lunch with the kid in the middle since we had a mutual friend, and the girl in the front I'd known since 2nd grade. 

aycorn wrote: While I freely admit this is an unbearable commercial - let me get this straight.... You hate the hippie - who is polite, friendly, and taking full responsibility for his mistake, more than the uptight old guy who is rude and judgmental? So, rude and judgmental trumps polite, friendly, and honest ... if the polite, friendly, and honest person has long hair and a beard? Yeah, that makes sense. PS - many long-haired and bearded men are employed.  Often quite gainfully.

MrTim wrote: ...The "Allstate Value Plan"  =  The "Happy Meal" of insurance plans ?