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Bat-O-Matic
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
In a candlelit chamber, a pitchman in a magician’s robe tells sorcerers and witches that grinding ingredients by hand is a thing of the past. He reads an old love-and-hives remedy from a spell book, tosses grisly ingredients into the Super-Bat-O-Matic ’77 and finally drops in an entire bat before switching the blender on. A satisfied customer in dark witch’s garb drinks the brown result and reports that it worked. The pitchman urges viewers to throw out their mortar, pestle and cauldron.
The funny people
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Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Faster than you can knife a goat!
And mix in the body of one whole bat!
I’m in love and my hives are cured!
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The fictional Rovco company also sold Super Bass-O-Matic ’76 in an earlier first-season commercial parody that aired on April 17, 1976.
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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