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December 07, 2005
quality comfort and price--that's annoying
So last night at our company party at the Metropolitan Club, we saw Bernie of Bernie and Phyl's furniture store. And for those of you who aren't from Boston, you can just imagine. Car lot and furniture store owners all feel the need to be in their own commercials no matter where you go--WHY IS THAT?
I was glad that he was without Phyl because she drives me nuts. Most people can't tell who is Bernie and who is Phyl. She's terribly manly. Anyway, Bernie was there without Phyl. He was there with a bunch of good ol' boys, including one of his sons, who is also now featured in the commercials. WHY DO CAR LOT AND FURNITURE OWNERS FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE TO BE IN THEIR OWN COMMERCIALS? I don't get it. They are nearly always terrible and annoying. And when you annoy me too much, I boycott your stuff.
Take Bob, for example. Bob's Discount Furniture stores. Bob, who I won't even link to because I can't stand the guy. Every time he opens his mouth I change the TV or radio station.
And he has Mrs. Bob on the commercials, who is equally annoying. We have no clue who she is (we're assuming it's his wife) but she just shows up, lately without Bob, and talks about how "right" Bob is. Bob is so annoying that he refers to his stuff as "My Bob." And the commercials try to get clever but they flop miserably. Like the one where they cartoon Bob or they have dozens of Bobs (oh my god, RUN!) in the showroom. It's just plain frightening.
Posted by crystallyn at December 7, 2005 07:35 AM
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So I take it you don't have a Bob-a-nizer?
Posted by: adamg at December 7, 2005 02:55 PM
rofl NO WAY!
Posted by: crystal at December 7, 2005 04:12 PM
This post cracked me up! LOL. Bob's website is really bad too, because it has the same exact photo of him next to different pieces of furniture...if you refresh it, it's the same picture of Bob and the furniture keeps changes. Really ridiculous!!!!
Posted by: Krissy at December 8, 2005 10:30 AM
When I lived in Houston there was a guy who would jump on furniture and yell he would save you money. Somehow, someone figured that tacky commericals are perfect for lowend furniture. If you make the commericals really bad people will remember them.
There is a furntiure store in Watertown across from Wild Willy's, you probably don't know it's name... it doesn't do bad commericals.
Posted by: Paulette at December 8, 2005 11:52 AM
or how about the one where the bobs furniture "sings" in barbershop style?? oy.
Posted by: Amy Malkoff at December 12, 2005 09:40 PM