#Allstate commercial

[bereft-of-frogs]

I put on a series of mediocre-to-bad horror/thrillers tonight and I have now watched

A movie I honestly kept confusing for 'picnic at hanging rock' when it came up on the hbo max suggested list

the most graphic allstate commercial i've ever seen

'devil' but even worse

if 'sharp objects' was the most painfully canadian movie you've ever seen

[youre-where-i-wanna-go]

manifesting someone making a gif set of her 1989 allstate commercial too 🤭🤞🏻

[purplepints]

When the Mayhem campaign was new I did the team pumpkin at work as several of the commercial mayhems at the time (2010?): a puppy, a girl on her cellphone, a dude spilling hot coffee, a branch, a kid listening to headphones and a lady working out.

Here is a fantastic pic from my old phone 😂

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

I'm forced to see this allstate commercial that's about glitchy wifi fucking everything up and the only thing my ass takes away from it is STOP CONNECTING BASIC SHIT TO THE INTERNET FOR FUCKSAKE!

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

Ah yes, that great pantheon of commercial actors who've become synonymous with the companies from their iconic advertisements:

Flo from Progressive

The Mayhem guy from Allstate

Jake from State Farm from... uh, State Farm

Curt Mega from Hunt A Killer

[handsmotif]

had a vision for a poll tournament for voting for the most fuckable commercial mascot like mayhem from allstate or the hamburger helper glove and the winner ended up being the sunsetter retractable awning (keeps patios 20 degrees cooler!)

[swedishghostvoice28789]

Something funny I think everyone will like: Hermie Sadler interviewing Kasey Kahne in 2008 regarding one of his Allstate commercials.

This is so cheeky. I loved every second of it.

[salvadorbonaparte]

Seeing an Allstate commercial on television is wild like omg it's that ad from the compilation I watched on tumblr like a decade ago

[popcornzippy]

Sorry nobody told me the actor that plays Mayhem in them allstate commercials was in Law & Order SVU and also nobody told me he'd be..... kinda hot

[youre-where-i-wanna-go]

My YouTube account just reached 1k subscribers so now I'm gonna make a list of the coolest Angela Bassett video finds I've found and shared on there and how I found them (even if the target audience here is only like one person)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith deleted scenes

Gonna start with the most recent find bc I never thought this footage would see the light of day. They shot all these scenes and only 30 seconds of Angela's voice made it to the movie bc the villains were dropped completely. Turns out the footage had been hiding on the second disc of an unrated special edition DVD release all along.

Old TV Commercials (KFC, Equal, Allstate)

These commercials you're really only able to find if you know what you're looking for. And the way I found out was through interviews in which they were mentioned (one was a newspaper clipping from 1991 that mentioned Equal and Allstate). Then it's watching tons of old commercials from those brands on YouTube until finally Angela's pretty face shows up. So grateful to the people who uploaded them first (even if they didn't mention Angela in the description).

Doubletake & Liberty

There are quite a few movies and shows in Angela's filmography that seem impossible to find. And some of them are really not available to watch anywhere unless you pay private sellers to send you the files. That's what I had to do to unearth these two rare gems. [insert Thanos gif iykyk] but no regrets because I really wanted to see them. Still hoping to find Equal Justice, STAT and the full Ryan's Hope episode

Ryan's Hope clip

Which brings me to the next tiny (very tiny) gem. For some time I had my doubts she was actually ever even in this soap opera. That was until I watched the Oscar's red carpet 2023 and they aired this super short clip of her character. Next to Angela's dress and Gaga's performance that was my highlight of the night.

My Man Bovanne

Talk about credits that aren't even on her IMDb. I found out about her role in this in the Playbill of Joe Turner's Come and Gone (which Angela starred in on Broadway in 1988). Made an account for the one website that hosted this little-known-about short film to be able to screenrecord it. That was a happy day. Fun fact I learned in a newspaper clipping since: Angela only got to be in it because the person who was first cast for her role got sick.

HeartBeat

Another one that took me very, very long to find. This is probably the one I had to use the most detective skills for. Found a dead video on a site that used to host it, tried to look up the account owner on other social media channels and finally found their tumblr that was still active (hooray) and they sent me the file. Best day ever (even though the plot of the episode is really heartbreaking).

Angela talking about kissing Gaga to Access Hollywood

Listen... Listen. If you know me, you know that these two are my QUEENS. They are everything to me and the fact that they played lovers? That they kissed and enjoyed it? Means the world (read my fanfiction on AO3 😉). This interview in particular has only been available as an article to read on their website for many years now but I could never find the video. I wanted to hear Angela say how she kissed Gaga and pulled her in and told her I love you when the director called cut and made Gaga jump. I found an old link to a long deleted YouTube video in an old tweet on one of my many Twitter searches for any trace of this video. Bless the person who uploaded it back then and bless the people who shared it on Twitter and bless the person who backed it up in the Wayback Machine. I owe you all eternal gratitude.

A 17-minute interview about Ruby's Bucket of Blood

DVD extras hold many gems and this is one of the biggest Angela-focused special features on a DVD I've seen. According to a friend who bought the DVD much longer ago, it wasn't even always part of it so I feel very blessed that this came with my DVD that I only bought bc it's one of my favorite movies and I like to collect those on physical copies.

Her Boyz n the Hood audition tape

In a newspaper clipping I read that this has actually been a part of physical releases of this movie since they still put out Laser Discs. But somehow I've never seen it surface online. I found it in a torrent that had all the Bluray special features (the best kind of torrents) and decided to share it of course. It has since gone viral on TikTok (where someone reposted it) which made me very happy. Who thought we'd ever get to see Ms. Angela Bassett audition??

Celebrity Poker Showdown

You have to admit, Angela in a reality game show is just gold. Was looking for this for a long time too and eventually found a Russian torrent (thank you Russians). Was luckily able to share the full episode on YouTube so everyone can get the full experience of "Angela folds" ten times in a row 😁

Angela's full performances of 3 songs on Close to the Enemy

[I only linked one here] Angela's character on Close to the Enemy was unfortunately very small but the British DVD release had extended scenes of 3 of her performances on it. [The American Bluray for some reason didn't.] Glad I found out about these.

1993 Fresh Air radio interview

I don't know if this counts as a rare find as it is freely available on the NPR website and in my university library BUT I have never seen it acknowledged until I shared it on YouTube and let me tell you I put blood, sweat and tears into captioning this 16-minute interview 😭 the payoff was grand. One interviewer from Variety used it in her research and mentioned it to Angela (who couldn't even remember it lmao) and part of the audio was also used in a tribute post the Academy (yes the Oscar Academy) did for her birthday. It's not my interview but I know they wouldn't have done so if it wasn't for my video (that I posted in tribute to the great Tina Turner. RIP.)

(Assumably) all her episodes of Search for Tomorrow

If I'm not mistaken this was her first on-camera acting job and a cool guy posted all her episodes (and hundreds of episodes she wasn't in) on YouTube last year. Luckily I downloaded them all right away as his channel no longer exists. Her episodes are safe on my hard drive tho and her scenes are safe on my YouTube channel :)

I was going to share a link to the unaired pilot of Identity (2011) that someone posted but it's already been privated again. Might post her scenes at some point, in the meantime if you're interested in this episode you can always dm me, I saved it to my hard drive. Very exciting find indeed as I also never expected it to see the light of day.

Honestly I get excited over every interview, DVD extra, speech or segment from a TV special that I come across (especially old ones). Sharing these on my YouTube channel is my pride and joy and I also have a scenepack account on Instagram (@/angelabassettscenes) where I share all her scenes from her bigger projects that I can't share to YouTube for everyone who wants to watch, edit or GIF them. Seeing people get as excited as I do when I share my finds makes me so happy and I'm definitely not done. Many DVD featurettes still to come. Angela's work will be preserved on this channel by any means necessary 😌

If you've read this far, thank you for reading and have a good day/night

[crispy-ghee]

this is probably just a coincidence, but I do also believe you manifested the Larry Bird allstate commercial

LOL yeah it was just me exuding enough Larry Bird energy to convince the universe to rerelease Larry into the wild

I do think it's cool that I got into this guy who had pretty much gone quiet/hermitty for years in his retirement just in time for him to step out of his house again, even if just for a small thing. I get the joy of seeing him in New Things and also of seeing some of my friends/family/followers experiencing recognizing him and it feels kinda nice.

[juniperhillpatient]

oh I also kinda like the progressive commercials where they’re like “wait who’s the boss? :0” & they’re like. at an rv campsite. but I wish you guys could understand the meme within my family that is my disdain for the geiko gecko. they already know I go into rage mode when he even shows his face. I constantly fantasize about crushing that little mother fucker under my heel. the satisfying crunch…..can you imagine? It’d feel so good. but like. I have Allstate & I’m always months late paying them anyway lol. I don’t have a horse in the brands race I just think banter is funny & I hate creepy little guys who break the uncanny valley. Do not get me started on Stuart little

[mlarayoukai]

You'd think the allstate white man in a suit personification of Mayhem commercials guy would do numbers on tumblr but the again he's a guy in his 40s and not a 18 year old twink

[natti-ice]

I can’t hold my truth in anymore

Mayhem from the Allstate commercials is so fine😭

[1mpulsee]

❝ does anyone else think that mayhem from the Allstate commercials is kinda cute — ❞

[zombiepedia]

i wish the allstate mayhem commercial guy would let me hit