Friday, June 28, 2013

State Farm Iron Maiden (Joke) Ad

You know those silly ads from that State Farm Insurance ad campaign where people break something and sing: "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there!"? Well, I thought it might be a bit more fun to have some rock singer with a ridiculously high range sing that part. So in this joke ad, Iron Maiden is playing a concert at some mansion filled with expensive antiques, and there's a crowd of metalheads all slam dancing and moshing around, and stuff starts getting broken, panicking the college-aged guy whose parents this house belongs to. And so seeing this, Bruce Dickinson ends the song and says: "Hey, don't worry. Check this out!" And then he belts out, in a very high, continually rising operatic metal singing voice (as in the chorus for "Run to the Hills"): "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is the-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-re!" And so a State Farm agent appears in a huge explosion of pyrotechnic flames and smoke, wearing an 'Eddie' (or a maybe even a Satan) costume, like on the cover of the Iron Maiden album: Number of the Beast, and she says: "Oh, hey guys! What's up?" And so Bruce points out the damaged antiques, and the insurance agent lady says: "Oh, no problem!", and (*Poof!*), the antiques are replaced good as new! And so then the State Farm agent lady sings along on the next Iron Maiden song, and the party crowd all starts slamming around again, trashing the new replaced antiques.

And then, if this ad was popular with viewers, there could be a whole series of them, like with someone driving into Iron Maiden's tour bus, and Bruce Dickinson getting out to survey the damage. And so the other driver would be all apologetic and everything, and Bruce would say: "Hey, no problem, man." And then he'd sing: "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there!", and his voice would shatter everyone's windshields. And then the State Farm agent would arrive, again in a huge fireball explosion of pyrotechnics, dressed like 'Eddie' (the eight-foot-tall monster), and she'd remove her rubber mask and say: "You again? You're always breaking stuff. What's up this time, guys?" And they'd show her the wreck, and, she'd say: "Oh, no problem!" and fix everything, including all the shattered windshields, with a snap of her fingers (*Shazam!*), using that evil brand of insurance black magick they always use to fix stuff for the commercials. (In real life, they get some third-party company to fix it as cheaply as possible.) And then she'd say something like: "Oops: Gotta go. Sorry, Ozzy just broke something." And then she disappears, and we see her appear in Ozzy's house just after he put a sledgehammer through the TV set, and he says: "I couldn't find the remote, and it wouldn't shut up." And she says: "Oh, no problem.", and fixes it. (Oh, but then Ozzy still can't find the remote, so he smashes it again.)

Here's an example of this ad campaign I'm making fun of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB6r2Wi0E98

And this is the cover of Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast (The State Farm agent would be dressed in a costume to look like one of the two figures pictured here.):

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080831220251/music/images/1/16/The-Number-Of-The-Beast.jpg