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From: mats@dual.UUCP (Mats Wichmann)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.tv
Subject: Re: Of TV commercials: Ed Barbera for "Furniture USA"
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Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 11:03:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 10 11:03:46 1984
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Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA
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The best part of ol' Ed's commercials, are of course the trademark
that has been copied in parody so many times (at least locally):

`Hi, kids!'

He opens each commercial with `Hi, kids, Ed Barbera.........',
and without even drawing a breath plunges straight into the
body of the commercial. Somewhere during all this, three phrases
will be appear: `We want to help you get started in the credit world',
`No cosigners or credit references necessary' (imagine the word `references'
being pronounced as if it were two syllables - rev/rez - and you get the tone 
of the delivery), and `Se habla Espanol'. Still without (apparently) having
drawn a breath, he closes with `bye, kids'.

All this used to be kind of fun, until he decided to bring his son into 
the commercials as well. Furniture USA ads will never be the same.


Speaking of crazy commercials, we used to have a guy out here in the
Bay Area who hung upside down from a tree in a vampire suit trying to
sell cars. Anybody remember who this was?


	Mats Wichmann
	Dual Systems
	Berkeley, CA.
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