Progressive’s “Checkout” Commercial…
Perhaps he’s just big for his age…the man/child riding in the kiddie seat of the grocery cart in the Progressive “checkout” commercial, that is. He’s a bad boy, too…showing the grocery store employee his toy dinosaur, drinking milk directly from a carton, spilling out a bulk food container chute, and throwing items snatched from the shelf on the floor. You’ve seen poorly supervised brats in supermarkets doing things of this sort, and more…but have you ever seen a guy in his thirties pulling the same stunts? Talk about a case of arrested development…
…we are later shown the character called “babyman” in daycare, a Goliath among his peers, as he sits nonchalantly on the floor dressed in bib overalls, enjoying a snack, and later becoming visibly startled by a “pop-up” book. “Act your age! Get your own insurance!,” gruffly admonishes the announcer in this commercial encouraging millennials to chart their own course and question insurance decisions that their parents might have made. Iconic spokesperson Flo is nowhere to be seen…
Perhaps the babyman could use a little firm correction from Flo during his more inappropriate moments, and possibly even a spanking…of course, he might enjoy that, and we don’t want to venture too far into the adult baby fetish thing lest absurdist humor become creepy…
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November 16, 2018 at 9:36 pm
Trust me. This commercial is both absurd _and_ creepy!
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November 18, 2018 at 12:29 pm
It gives new and unintended meaning to the expression, “adult children.” We like children, in their place…but imagine a world filled with such as this, who grew up physically, but in no other way…Aieee!
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November 18, 2018 at 4:53 pm
Out of the Peter Pan; into the fire.
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November 19, 2018 at 11:12 am
Children tend to be romanticized, largely by those who have never had to deal with them on an on-going basis. Those who rhapsodize that “we should all be like children” are out of their minds…
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November 19, 2018 at 1:37 pm
True. Although, it’s equally true that sayings such as “Youth is wasted on the young” were probably coined by grouchy old farts who had no doubt wasted their own.
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November 22, 2018 at 2:36 am
P.S.—I know foxes usually like to hunt their turkeys the old-fashioned way. But, a store-bought/home-cooked turkey is just as much fun to “gobble” down.
So, Happy Thanksgiving! 🙂
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November 23, 2018 at 1:28 am
And to you also!
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