Following up on our ongoing examination of the internet species known as youtubus commercialus horribilis, BoingBoing reader Chris Packham says:
An auto insurance company in the Chicago area ran this jaw-dropping commercial for several years in the nineties… it’s extremely famous among people from Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. It features a creepy plastic-headed mascot named Eagle Man, who can lay eggs (and does so, graphically, on camera) despite his eponymous maleness. My sister still leaps at every possible conversational opening to quote from this commercial.
Link to video.
Previously on BB:
Reader commnent: Jordan says,
Yeah this commercial is awesome and has been parodied by several people including Eagle Insurance themselves.
Mancow (a chicago radio personality) was such a fan that he made an official sequel to the commercial with Eagle Insurance, which was equally (but intentionally) as bad. I can’t find it on youtube but there’s more info here: Link.
Mike says,
Where the Eagle Man ad was expanded to incorperate a female eagle, who would then hold two giant eggs up to simulate breasts, while exclaiming, “Look at those LOW RATES!” The low rates would then appear on the egg-breasts. I can’t find a video of this online, but the female version is actually better known among my friends than the original is. Wikipedia link.
Theo says,
I lived on the north side of Chicago when that was played ad nauseum (pun intended).
The version on YouTube contains bits that were not in the original that was played so often, namely the part about “the lowest price on SR-22” and the dazzling special effect of the egg being laid.
Before that, the actor in the suit merely squatted upward from an huge, fake egg that he was already sitting on.