Allstate "Mayhem" commercials

[FINFAN]

These crack me up, lol...the guy they chose to be Mayhem is cast prefectly!

 

[mhsjax]

These crack me up, lol...the guy they chose to be Mayhem is cast prefectly!

The first time I saw one, it was the teenage girl driving a pink truck. I was livid. then I saw the others and realized that they were listing all the things that go wrong. I think they are really good, and I find that guy really sexy.

 

[Angelhalo]

I think he's Liz Lemon's ex-boyfriend Dennis the beeper king from 30Rock. He makes me chuckle.

 

[DisGirlAllie]

My all time favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Sjld5yy3Q

 

[Shutterbug]

serious tough saying BFF and OMG...lololol

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

The first time I saw one, it was the teenage girl driving a pink truck. I was livid. then I saw the others and realized that they were listing all the things that go wrong. I think they are really good, and I find that guy really sexy.

I have a problem with that one....every time it comes on I look for my Blackberry!

It's the only one I've seen. Are there others? Since he's a teen girl (upsets me that they are giving girl drivers a bad rap), I want too see a teen boy or the guy in a suit who's too busy talking on his phone to properly merge onto the highway.

 

[mhsjax]

I have a problem with that one....every time it comes on I look for my Blackberry!

It's the only one I've seen. Are there others? Since he's a teen girl (upsets me that they are giving girl drivers a bad rap), I want too see a teen boy or the guy in a suit who's too busy talking on his phone to properly merge onto the highway.

Yes, there are a lot of others, including the uptight executive that is texting, saying you can't afford his $90,000.00 care so he will sue you, because "that is what I do". I am sure they are on You tube, and yes I think they do have a teenage boy. OMG yes, check the you tube link above I think it is called the espresso, it is so funny. MAn I love that guy, they could not have cast a more perfect person.

 

[DisGirlAllie]

I'm a teenage girl learning to drive. Personally, I find the one of him driving that pink SUV hysterical. I laughed so hard I cried when I first saw it.

 

[FINFAN]

I wasn't offended at all by any of them, they are all true...and honestly ( and sadly really), they have a huge amount of situations to draw from. I see this series lasting for a while...SNL skits you name it.

 

[mhsjax]

I was a raging mad woman when I saw it. I just turned around and saw a pin truck with a guy saying he was a teenage girl. Had I known that he made fun of all sorts of situations I wouldn't have cared. I think hubby and I had just been having the conversation that while he has had several minor wrecks, I haven't even had a fender bender.

But I repeat. LORD THAT MAN IS SEXY.

 

[java]

He is the guy from OZ too. I watched that whole show just because of Ryan O'Reilly!!

 

[Darsa]

Haha! I had only seen these commercials without sound (well, with my iPod) at the gym on the elliptical TV's with the closed-captioning on I love these ads, they're even better with sound! Thanks for the youtube link

 

[mhsjax]

He is the guy from OZ too. I watched that whole show just because of Ryan O'Reilly!!

Wow, I have to rent Oz.

 

[erincon23]

These are hysterical! I love the one where he's spitting out car seat foam and says "I'm the puppy that just ate your back seat." The teenage girl in the pink truck didn't bother me at all -- I have a niece like that (she hit another car in a parking lot because her flip flop got caught under her brake pedal). The one of him jogging with the pink headband cracks me up too -- it's not a slam on women, it's on the men who ogle them.

 

[powellrj]

Wow, I have to rent Oz.

Be prepared for lots of full frontal male nudity (especially from Christopher Meloni)

 

[FireDancer]

I have a problem with that one....every time it comes on I look for my Blackberry!

It's the only one I've seen. Are there others? Since he's a teen girl (upsets me that they are giving girl drivers a bad rap), I want too see a teen boy or the guy in a suit who's too busy talking on his phone to properly merge onto the highway.

The whole thing that makes them funny is perpetuating the stereotype of who makes a bad driver. The ditsy blond girl is one of the stereotypically bad drivers along with the aggressive man, woman putting on makeup, etc. Nothing ruins the funny more then people getting too PC about the humor.

 

[mrsheppo]

Dean Winters is fabulous as Mayhem. My favorite is I'm the puppy that ate your backseat.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Be prepared for lots of full frontal male nudity (especially from Christopher Meloni)

Naked Christopher Meloni is still, after all these years, the first thing that pops into my head when someone mentions Oz. . .

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

The whole thing that makes them funny is perpetuating the stereotype of who makes a bad driver. The ditsy blond girl is one of the stereotypically bad drivers along with the aggressive man, woman putting on makeup, etc. Nothing ruins the funny more then people getting too PC about the humor.

It's not that I find it offensive. I find it very funny. But having just put a teen daughter behind the wheel on her own a year ago, it stings a little. I hope I have instilled better driving habits than the commercial depicts. She has been warned not to use her phone at all while driving, and usually the ringer is off so she won't be distracted by it. The only problem I have with DD is her aggressive tendancie...I hope no one does her wrong or vice versa.

 

[Sparx]

Statistically, men are worse drivers than women in that they wreck more often and are pulled over more often, so I can get a giggle out of the texting teenage girl commercial.

My favorite is the executive who spills coffee and slams on the breaks.