Day 16 - See Day 15
by Andrew JohnsonWe’ve mentioned before the superb quality of the local TV spots. We’re not exaggerating when we say they’re often more entertaining than the daytime programming. For those of you familiar with “Raising Arizona,” we have found the actual furniture store owners upon which that movie must have been based. A husband and wife team, whose primary marketing talent seems to be based on parking themselves in the deal of the day and, using visualization/projection techniques, get the viewer to imagine themselves in said furniture (never mind that the viewer cannot actually SEE said furniture, because, well, let’s just say our proprietors have hit the Chik-Fil-A once too often…). And our favorite (the one whose leather sofas were “worn by cows to work only last week”) has a new spot wherein he pushes his face up to the camera and scolds us to get our fat butts off the Lazy-Boy and come down and see him, “Bub.” This is the same guy who tells us to come down right away to take advantage of his deals because he “fell off [his] medication.” A cross between Crazy Eddy and Uncle Fester. This is all not a slam on these spots - we love these things. When we’re feeling down from our colds, the wait, the being away from home - 30 seconds of this kind of therapy is like a shot of adrenaline to keep us going until the next commercial break!
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