There are nice people working at Dorion Suits.

August 26, 2013

This can be either endlessly amusing or incredibly frustrating: commercials read by radio broadcasters during games, as per Bob Greene in this CNN piece (with commentary by this piece from RadioLink.com.

In sports, everything seems to be “brought to you by…” and some business is the “official (fill-in-the-blank) of the (team)…” One spot for the Mets highlights the 15th batter of the game, a reminder that 15 minutes can save you big dough on your car insurance.

I can only speak for what it’s like in the New York area; I don’t know what commercials are like in the smaller markets. I do know how poorly produced some of the ads can be on cable TV (any insomniac can vouch for that), invariably using the store owner and his or her family as “talent” to save money on professional actors.

Too bad I can’t find one of my all-time favorites from Montreal TV back in the late 1970s for a Men’s Warehouse-type company. The tag line for the store: “There are no hassles at Dorion Suits.” They would hire local sports heroes to do their commercials. Can’t remember who did this particular classic, but I know it was a Quebecer because of the heavy accent, who turned that phrase into something quite different, sounding more like “There are no ass-oles at Dorion Suits,” which is nice to know, because you don’t want to go to a store where the employees are, you know….

Here’s a very poor substitute, just to give you an idea of the establishment:

 

 

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