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THE BASS-0-MATIC May 8, 2008

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Dan Aykroyd is a born salesman. He’s got the relentless patter of an auctioneer, looks completely at home in a patterned suit and grins like a huckster who’s got you in the palm of his hand. I actually want to buy a blended bass after watching this video, which is probably why Aykroyd’s pitchman persona came to define much of his career (we still think Ray Zalinsky was the best thing about Tommy Boy). “Bass-o-matic” was one of SNL’s earliest forays into the commercial-parody genre that it would eventually come to dominate, and no one could have jumpstarted it like Aykroyd and his quick-and-easy fish preparation device. — Caitlin MacRae

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