This is one in a series of quite annoying ads where some character starts speaking with the Allstate spokesman’s voice (He’s the actor who played the president in the TV show 24.) when they start talking about insurance-related stuff. Well, in this one, a little girl is talking to her father, and she starts talking with that actor’s deep voice. Well, this makes me think of one thing and one thing only: The Exorcist, of course! In that movie, a little girl started talking with wildly inappropriate voices for her body, and so everybody could tell she was possessed. Plus, she was talking about inappropriate things as well, like a little girl talking about insurance (an industry that’s so full of fraud and dishonesty, it could easily be something the Devil would be involved in). So to me what should happen here is obvious.
Yes, when the little girl starts speaking with the Allstate spokesman’s voice, the father should immediately say that she’s possessed and strap her down to her bed and call an exorcist. Then the Catholic priest who is the exorcist could show up, and when the little girl starts talking about insurance again, the priest could say: “Surely only the father of lies, Satan himself, would possess a young girl to spread the foul false witness of insurance advertising claims! We must get this demon out of her!” So they throw holy water on her, and try to get her agitated by threatening to switch to Geico, etc., to try to dislodge the demon from within her. And what happens is that in the ensuing melee of freeing her spirit from possession, the home is completely destroyed, but because the father had initially followed the instructions of the demon voice to get homeowner insurance through Allstate, his house is replaced at no cost to him. And because it all worked out so well for him, he decides to start worshipping Satan.
(Do you think Allstate will make this ad? Exorcism movies are all the rage again, so the timing couldn’t be better!)
Here’s the corrupting commercial:
