Anyone catch the Saturday Night Live “Commercials Only” special on Sunday night? Some of them were hit or miss, but the commercial for Old Glory Robot Attack Insurance featuring Sam Waterston was pretty funny. It aired during the 1995 season of SNL but is still relevant today.
More about the insurance plan:
- Coverage available for anyone over the age of 50, regardless of current health
- Robots are everywhere and they eat old people’s medicine for fuel
- Benefits limited in the first two years
- Cause of death in persons over 50 years of age: 42% heart disease, 58% robots
- When robots grab you with their metal claws, you can’t break free because they’re metal and robots are strong
- Policy costs $4 per month, no health examination required
- Persons denying the existence of robots may be robots themselves
[via Hulu]
It is the best thing to come out of Saturday Night Live during the 90s.
This was seriously one of my favorite commercials when it came out. It was right up there with the 3 legged jeans, yardapult and the cologne for dogs.
This version is actually cut. There’s a part in this commercial where they go back to the group and one of the ladies gets scared by a toy robot. Then the closing line has one of the other ladies saying: “Oh, it’s just a friendly robot…(looks into the camera)…this time.”