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Tex and Edna Boil's Organ Emporium: Rhythm Ace

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The setup

In the very first Tex and Edna Boil commercial, brassy pitchwoman Edna sells a bargain drum machine and a cookout weekend while her husband Tex plays along at an organ.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Standing in front of a crudely superimposed sign for Tex and Edna Boil's Organ Emporium, a bewigged Edna in white cat-eye glasses launches into a hard sell for the couple's round-the-clock showroom, its endless rows of organs and this week's bargain Rhythm Ace drum machine, while Tex sits at a keyboard behind her and chimes in only to agree. She announces a cookout weekend, and grainy film of the parking lot shows Tex at a grill handing out sausages to shoppers, before Edna warns customers to keep their greasy fingers off the instruments. She repeats the deal and the store name, garbles a pitch about discovering a musical prodigy in the family, and signs off with the store's cheerful slogan.

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Highly quotable.

Keep those fingers off the merchandise. Those little piggies are greasy.

We'll put the song back in your heart.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The first of SCTV's Tex and Edna Boil commercials. In the original broadcast it airs in the middle of Cooking with Edith Prickley, where Edith introduces Edna as her sister.

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