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Insurance Ad
By Ellie Dauber © 2020

Here’s a VERY short piece, a script based on an ad that keeps turning up on my TV. I mean no offense to the insurance company. This is just something that the wording of the ad suggested to me.

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The scene is a modern kitchen. A young woman in a house dress is sitting at the table drinking a cup of coffee. There are a few papers with some sort of writing on them near where she is sitting. The camera moves in to a medium shot as she speaks.

WIFE:
SINCE TOMMY AND I GOT MARRIED AND MOVED INTO OUR NEW HOUSE,
HE’S BEEN ACTING STRANGE.

VERY STRANGE.

She holds up a sheet of paper. It is some sort of bill. The name “Progressive” can be seen at the top of the page.

WIFE:
OF COURSE, WE DID SAVE A LOT BUNDLING OUR HOME AND CAR INSURANCE
WITH PROGRESSIVE.

An attractive woman in her mid-40s comes in. Her hair is in a bouffant style. She is wearing a fashionable dress and a pearl necklace. She’s carrying a briefcase.

OLDER WOMAN:
I‘VE GOT TO GET TO WORK, HONEY. I’LL BE HOME ABOUT SIX. MAYBE, AFTER
DINNER, WE CAN GO DRESS SHOPPING OVER AT THE MALL. I CAN’T BELIEVE
THAT I’VE NOTHING BUT MEN’S CLOTHES IN MY CLOSET. BYE, BYE!

She kisses the wife on the cheek and heads out of the scene.

ANNOUNCER:
PROGRESSIVE CAN’T STOP FROM CHANGING YOUR HUSBAND INTO ONE OF HIS
PARENTS, BUT IT CAN SAVE YOU A LOT ON HOME AND AUTO INSURANCE.

The wife glares angrily at the camera.

WIFE:
YEAH, BUT COULDN’T IT HAVE CHANGED HIM INTO HIS FATHER?

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Giggling now.

WillowD's picture

Thanks.

snerks

giggles .

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Cute

Patricia Marie Allen's picture

I've seen the commercial, and I could easily see that as the last scene.

Hugs
Patricia

Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt

Where Do I Find Them?

joannebarbarella's picture

Progressive Insurance for me!

Truly Grating

Daphne Xu's picture

... is the repetition of those repetitive ads. No need to apologize. So Progressive can't help transforming people? Mind as well as body, at least to a certain degree, since she's outfitted fashionably and complaining about men's clothes. (Let's hope it's not a complete mental change.) I wouldn't be surprised if the clothes were half a dozen sizes too small.

Nice flash... as long as one doesn't have to read it every half-hour... :-)

-- Daphne Xu

-- Try saying freefloating three times rapidly.

They did

Jeri Elaine

Homonyms, synonyms, heterographs, contractions, slang, colloquialisms, clichés, spoonerisms, and plain old misspellings are the bane of writers, but the art and magic of the story is in the telling not in the spelling.

long line!

There's a long line stretching around the corner waiting to sign up.

Carol Anne