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Best Local Commercial Theme Music

U-Wrench It

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Published on October 17, 2002

In the U-Wrench It commercial, spokes-hicks Chester and Otto come up with some "soothing" background Muzak to accompany panoramic overviews of gutted automobiles. The flowery instrumental so disturbs the duo's rugged sensibilities that they decide to silence the song -- by crushing the cassette player with car-compacting equipment. As they regard the squashed stereo with smug satisfaction, Chester and Otto seem convinced by the logic of their solution: The best way to deal with horrible music is not to adjust the volume but to destroy the offending appliance.