A few years back, out here in Oz, a TV celebrity (celebrity? - Oh my God!) named Jeannie Little did a whole series of TV ads for a chain of furniture stores. Her claim to fame was the catch-phrase, "Where do you get it?" delivered in an excrutiatingly shrill drawl, which put the teeth and nails on edge and make your ears shut down in self defence. The ads were the foundation for a whole career for the lady(?) featuring bad acting and a terrible accent. And it was her natural voice! I still shudder......

And those terrible old "K-Tel" ads where everything they made could slice, dice, cut, chop, julienne, mash, grind, and scale fish... even the LP records.

Or those cringingly bad ads with "Wait - there's more!" followed by promises of six steak knives. No wonder they have been parodied. The worst of the parodies is better than the best of the actual ads.