“Cycling is my passion!,” declares Janice, sister of Progressive insurance’s arch sales rep, Flo. The trouble is, sister Janice isn’t terribly passionate about anything, like so many today. Peddling her exercise bike at a snail’s pace while chewing gem and taking “selfies,” Janice maintains that she is “blasting her quads.” So when disturbingly perky and intensely focused sister Flo appears at Janice’s house in her trademark white uniform to push the notion of using Progressive’s Home Code Explorer feature, Janice can only complain that Flo is ruining her workout, finding all kinds of reasons not to look at Flo’s presentation. “I’m in a meeting!,” she contends as she scrolls idly through her phone.- – Isn’t technology wonderful, keeping us all connected? One can hardly fault Janice for giving Flo the brush-off.
There’s a little bit of trendy Janice’s self-defeating absurdities in many of us, or at least we may know someone somewhat like her. If not, Flo’s dysfunctional family resonates in the American psyche…and actress Stephanie Courtney has played Flo in over 100 commercials, together with all the members of her fictitious “family…”
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