I saw a billboard today for Odwalla juice or naked juice or something and it said "Vitamin C has never tasted this good." It just struck me as a really dumb thing to say. Has anyone ever thought to themselves "I wish there was a tastier way to get my Vitamin C?" Those chewable orange-flavored Vitamin C tablets are delicious. I'm sure the juice tastes great but it's not like I would sitting there drinking it and thinking "I can't believe there's vitamin C in this; it tastes too good!" Anyways, I'm just sick of advertisements saying that really don't make any sense...kinda like this State Farm commercial.
As they've been doing for seemingly years now, State Farm continues to perpetuate this myth that their agents are these social mavens that everyone in the neighborhood loves. I mean hell, apparently Aaron Rodgers just hangs out at their office all the time. I would venture to say most people don't even know their auto insurance agent's name but in State Farm's world they're local celebrities. It must be tough to be a State Farm agent when you can't even go to the grocery store without everyone recognizing you and asking you about renter's insurance. State Farm really should change their dress code policy that apparently stipulates you wear a red sweater everywhere you go.
So on to this specific commercial. You're telling me this guy actually asked his insurance agent to come to a basketball game with him? It's just such an unintentionally sad premise for a commercial. Clearly the guy is lonely and has no friends to take to the game with him. How would that idea even enter a normal person's mind? So you're happy that your insurance agent helped save you some money and you're thinking of a way to thank him and your conclusion is "I'll take him to a basketball game?" When I go to my dentist appointment in a couple weeks I almost just want to casually say "hey you've done some great work here, wanna go catch a ballgame sometime?" to see his reaction. To me that sounds like "I have no friends and you're the first person I've had a positive interaction with this week so you need to be my friend." The poor guy must have no friends and some serious family problems if he's hanging out with the guy from State Farm. Really sad stuff guys.
I'm not gonna get into the whole dancing thing. It isn't funny and really doesn't make any sense how they have this entire dance choreographed but I'm going to let it go. What I do want to point out however is the fact that NO ONE around them gives a crap about their stupid dance. Usually at a game when someone is on the big screen everyone around them is either watching the people do whatever it is they're doing or they're trying to obnoxiously get their face into the shot so they can see themselves on the big screen too. But not here--everyone is just sitting in this strange silence like thy're trying to pretend that they don't even see what's going on. It must be because they're trying to be respectful of the celebrity auto insurance agent and don't want to gawk too much.
