AFLAC commercials?

Question

Is it a duck or goose? Help me win this dispute with hubby.

Answer 1

It's a duck! I found this on the web:

Dear Bird Folks,
This is a weird question, but my husband and I are having an argument. He says the white bird in the "AFLAC" Insurance television commercial is a duck and I say it's a goose. Who is right?


Linda, Eastham
It's OK Linda

We live for weird questions, so don't worry about that. However, I do think you and your hubby are having a little too much TV time. Since your marriage is riding on my answer, I decided to personally contact AFLAC to find out for sure. It turns out that it's not a duck or a goose, but a raccoon wearing lots of makeup. Ever since they made such a mess while filming that Alfred Hitchcock movie, birds have been banned from joining the Screen Actor's Guild. So AFLAC decided to offer the role to a young struggling raccoon just out of Julliard. Wow, talk about uncovering a Hollywood secret.

It's a duck, Linda, a white domestic duck. The same kind of duck that barbaric people, like my wife, eat. A domestic goose would be about three times bigger and a lot crabbier. Sorry I couldn't back you up, kid, but your husband was right this time. But you knew he was bound to get something right eventually.

And I found more:

It all happened late in the summer of 1999. That's when Aflac Inc. hired Kaplan Thaler Group, Ltd. to boost its name recognition. Kaplan Thaler's creative team of Tom Amico and Eric David put together several campaigns for the company, including one that featured "Everybody Loves Raymond" star Ray Romano.
But with just days until the deadline, they weren't satisfied that they had a winner. The team went to brainstorm in a park across the street from Kaplan Thaler's New York office. "This is impossible," David said to Amico. "We can't even remember the name of the damn company!"

His frustration growing, David began blurting the company name over and again. "Aflac, Aflac, Aflac!"

In a moment of innocent genius, Amico said, "You sound like a duck."

Since then, the duck has reached 90 percent household awareness in the United States and Aflac has increased its advertising budget from $30 million in 2000 to $50 million in 2004. Yet, even more noteworthy than Aflac's ability to push the duck on its own, have been its many random, high-profile appearances:
• The duck has been spoofed on "Saturday Night Live,"
• A commercial was recreated on "The Late Show with David Letterman," minus the duck,
• The duck has been featured in comic strips such as Mother Goose and The Family Circus,
• The duck has been the question to an answer on Jeopardy.
The list goes on.

It all signifies the independent cultural acceptance of the duck. Amos said among the most exciting of these occurrences came when Aflac earned a free mention in the 2004 movie "Along Came Polly." In the movie, which starred Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston, Aflac's name was mentioned several times as the company Stiller's character worked with to assess potential insurance clients. Amos said Aflac never asked for the opportunity, it just happened.

Answer 2

Aflac Commercials

Answer 3

Duck

Answer 4

They say it's a duck.
Remember the one when the chinese delivery guy brings duck and the aflac duck gives a scared look?

Answer 5

It's a duck. I have AFLAC insurance and when I received the stuffed animal, the insurance agent said it was a duck.

Answer 6

If you talk to an AFLAC agent, they say it's a duck. They have ducks and the word "duck" all over their offices.

Answer 7

Goose.

Answer 8

Goose. And by the way geese aren't cute at all in real life-- they are miserable animals.

Answer 9

duck

Answer 10

goose