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Entry #5 - What Could Go Wrong?

 The debate about whether cats or dogs are has been ongoing since the beginning of the 2000s. Many people say dogs are better because they are energetic and loving, while others say cats are more than that. This rivalry has also created many stereotypes about both. Dogs are crazy and rambunctious, while cats are devious and mess-makers. In the ad "Cat :30 | Allstate Mayhem," Allstate portrays the "cat stereotypes by showing Mayhem as a cat trying to promote their home insurance.

Cat - Allstate Mayhem
The ad starts with Mayhem playing with a toy and saying he's your cat. He then says he's going to destroy you! He's been planning this since the day you got him, and "This is a billion years of tiger DNA just ready to pounce" that it's not the love you think it is. While explaining this comfortably on the couch, they show Mayhem doing cat stuff, like standing on the Roomba (autonomous vacuum), looking out of the cat tree, and turning on the faucet to get a drink, leaving it overflowing. What usually happens when you get the bathroom flooded in a two-story? Results in the bathroom falling downstairs, right? In this case, it creates a huge mess that must be fixed and paid for. Mayhem then says that choosing the wrong home insurance, you could be coughing up the cash to fix it. Then he says you should go with Allstate and be better protected now instead of later from Mayhem, like "Meow." 

Cat - Allstate Mayhem

Showing the audience what your pet could do to your house with the comedy Mayhem presents hopefully convinces viewers that they should get home insurance, for example, Allstate. The intended audience is anyone with a home with pets because you never know what could happen when looking away. Allstate hopes that by using the comedy of Mayhem causing a mess to the house like a cat, you might consider going with the best option, Allstate. This ad can be seen as funny because of Mayhem's ridiculous actions and the mess it's causing. Even in American culture, most people might go with insurance that doesn't cover the crazy things like Mayhem does, but by using Allstate, you won't have to deal with finding the money to fix something. Don't assume the worst won't happen because Mayhem might come along and ruin your day. After reading this, I hope you consider what kind of insurance you have and how or why an ad is funny or crazy. Who knows, you'll accidentally get Mayhem as a cat, and he'll be a menace to you.


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  1. Chalaya WestfallOctober 29, 2023 at 3:02 PM

    Great analysis of this commercial this is so well written but very informative.
    - Chalaya Westfall

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