To makers of small-town TV commercials

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So you can afford some singers. Good for you. That doesn't make this a song lyric:

"Howard Valens Electical Sup-PLY-Y
Convenient
AFORDable
And only MINutes form downtown!"

Stop it.
 
Another thing about small towns:

Is this thing on my lawn a newspaper? I had Archie comicbooks thicker than this. Plus Reggie.
 
Aw, but those things are so darn catchy*!

Lookie, lookie, lookie!
Here comes Cookie!
Cook's... PEST CONTROL!


Yay!!!






*adj: having the quality of planting root in your brain and refusing to gtfo.
 
You get newspapers delivered?? Wow. Big town!
We have a one-day a week paper that on a really big week runs to 12 pages. It gets mass from the two regional magazines that run as inserts.
 
There's this annoying woman in a commercial for a scratch and dent appliance store near here that shrieks like she has a wolverine in her panties while advertising their sales.

I'd like to lock her in a fridge and drop her in the river. :mad:
 
To makers of small-town TV commercials

I love them. All those awkward owners, their children, the local community theater actors and the cheesy effects.

A collection of those commercials would make a great coffee table book.
 
Hey even big towns have weird/sucky commercials. If I never have to see another commercial for Cal Worthington and his fucking dog Spot again, I will be a happy woman!

(BTW, Spot is never really a dog. The best one was when Spot was a tiger and it started chasing his ass around the car! :D )
 
I tried, but I couldn't find an ad for Carl's Diner here in West Milford. It was so bad it was hilarious. I wonder if I can find the ad that my mother was in for her old store...
 
Hey even big towns have weird/sucky commercials. If I never have to see another commercial for Cal Worthington and his fucking dog Spot again, I will be a happy woman!

(BTW, Spot is never really a dog. The best one was when Spot was a tiger and it started chasing his ass around the car! :D )

I miss Cal Worthington. :(
 
One of my all-time favorites, from Florida's Tire Kingdom. Disclaimer, I have done consulting work for the Tire King, who wrote and starred in his commercials.

He is really a king? An exiled king of some third-world former monarchy, who is now selling tires, I can see. But a monarch who presides over some mystical tire-based kingdom? I'm skeptical.
 
I do radio commercials in my town. Ever tried to make goat cheese sound exciting?
 
He is really a king? If he's the exiled king of some third-world former monarchy, who is now selling tires as he adjusts to life in the United States, I could almost feel sorry for him. But if he's claiming to be the reining monarch of some mystical tire-based kingdom, I'm skeptical.

No, he just called himself the Tire King. He loved making the cheesy commercials, though.
 
The ones that get me down here are the lawyer ads with their testimonials.

Victim: I was broadsided by a delivery van and broke two fingers and injured my back. I sued for pain and suffering.

Lawyer: I got her $42,076.42! I'm Jim Adler, the Texas Hammer!

Of course, what he doesn't say is that the judgment was for $100,000 . . . . :rolleyes:
 
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