Great Moments In Commercial History: Appliance Direct
Here is my all time favorite pitchman Sam Pak from Orlando's Appliance Direct. Sam is the best! He is the star of a AD's 30 minute infomercials and also all of their commercials. When my husband and I are in Florida we sit around and wait for his commercials to come on.We read this email not knowing what "wakkie nu nu" might mean. We watched the commercial. We're still not sure. Sam does seem to love appliances, though. Anyone with information about the etymology of "wakkie nu nu," is encouraged to come forward.If we're lucky, sometimes we'll catch a 30 minute spectacular. He LOVES appliances!
If you don't pick Sam for a "Great Moments in Commercial History" you are wakkie nu nu!
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Loved these while I was going to Rollins College..
Plates smell like poop? Maybe itsa you dishwasher?!?
I think the wife that always wears the same dress with the wacky nu nu bangs is best part..
Then there are the parodies...
That's 60 seconds of my life I'll never get back. I'm pissed.
If only there was a way I could show you the ads from Corpus Christi, TX in the early 90's from a company called Delta Tire. They were wonderfully bad. Everyone in Corpus Christi knows the tagline of the commercial and I'm sure that the kid who had to say the tagline over and over in the spots is sick to death of people repeating it to him. It was the cadence of his voice that really did it.
Living in Central Florida, I can attest to the novelty of these ads, if only because the guy can keep on going for half and hour at a time. It's amazing to watch him go on and on and on...
That said, I still think that Allied Discount Tire takes the title of Central Florida's best bad advertising of all time.
I too enjoyed these commercials during my stint in Orlando. These and the family automart commercials.
On a side note, the "wife" in the appliance direct commercials is now doing commercials for scratch and dent world in the Naples/Ft. Myers area in Florida. S&D world sells damaged appliances, perhaps dented from a crazy asian guy hitting them.
Urban Dictionary says "wakkie nunu" is "An expression, made popular by appliance salesman Sam Pak of central Florida fame, to say that something is crazy or stupid. Wakkie Nunu is quickly becoming a popular and widely used expression by central Florida teens."
His claims about bleach & detergent are somewhat wrong!
As long as the bleach is added after the detergent has started working, they don't neutralize each other, they actually make each other work better.
What he's trying to do is sell a couple of brands of washers instead of the others because the ones he's pushing have a higher profit margin for him!
He must have been a used car salesman at one time!
*cough cough* http://whiteporcelainremix.ytmnd.com/
Yeah, I know that linking to YTMND is usually frowned upon, but trust me on this one.










Thank you! I was wanting to submit these very advertisements, but my googlefu was weak. JUNK!