Commercials / Radio

Tucker Ridge Spring Sale

Tucker Ridge Hardware is a family owned regional hardware store running a spring sale. Two announcers trade lines, prices, and small town jokes with no visuals to lean on. Ends with the address and store hours tag.

Length60 sec GenreRadio Words222 Cast
Cast 2 Female×1 Male×1

commercialradiovoice-overtwo personupbeat

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Radio only. Sound: birds, a screen door creaking open, a distant lawn mower sputtering, then dying.

ANNOUNCER ONE

(bright, warm)

Hear that?

ANNOUNCER TWO

(dry)

That's Gary's mower. Third time this week.

ANNOUNCER ONE

That's spring, Dale. Spring is the sound of stuff that needs fixing.

ANNOUNCER TWO

And Tucker Ridge Hardware is where you fix it. The Spring Sale's on now through April thirtieth.

ANNOUNCER ONE

(quick, listing)

Twenty percent off every rake, hoe, and shovel.

ANNOUNCER TWO

Say that three times fast.

ANNOUNCER ONE

Rake hoe shovel, rake hoe shovel, rake hoe...

ANNOUNCER TWO

(cutting in)

Potting soil, two bags for seven bucks.

ANNOUNCER ONE

Garden hose, fifty feet, nineteen ninety-nine.

ANNOUNCER TWO

Grass seed, five pound bag, twelve ninety-nine. That one's for you, Gary.

ANNOUNCER ONE

(sweet)

And we cut keys while you wait.

ANNOUNCER TWO

We also cut glass. Not while you wait. Give us a day.

ANNOUNCER ONE

Tucker Ridge Hardware. Family owned since nineteen seventy-one.

ANNOUNCER TWO

Three generations of telling you which screw you actually need.

ANNOUNCER ONE

(warm, the tag)

Four twelve Ridge Road, right past the water tower.

ANNOUNCER TWO

Open Monday through Saturday, seven to seven. Sundays, nine to five.

ANNOUNCER ONE

Tucker Ridge Hardware. Spring is a project.

ANNOUNCER TWO

(beat)

Bring Gary.

Sound: the mower starts, catches, and runs clean.

End of script

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