Here’s The Profane Goodbye Ad RadioShack Should Air To Everyone Laughing At Its Doom

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As you’re no doubt aware, increasingly irrelevant retailer RadioShack — whose image was so mired in the 1980s that it included Hulk Hogan and Cliff Clavin in a 2014 Super Bowl ad — declared bankruptcy last week and plans to close thousands of stores across the country. The news has been received by many, including myself, with a shrug, but is that any way to treat a company that’s been around for nearly a century?

Not according to John Oliver, who last night tut-tutted the media for its response to the death of RadioShack.

“The death of RadioShack in itself is not surprising. What is surprising is the glib, jokey tone with which its demise has been discussed over the past year,” Oliver explained on his HBO show Last Week Tonight. “This is a dying, 94-year-old business. At this point, it’s like you’re sitting across from your grandfather at Thanksgiving dinner, saying, ‘Ya know, I don’t really see the point of Grandpa Fred in 2015. Frankly I’m sorta surprised he still exists.’”

And so, Oliver and his staff put together the following profanity-filled F-U of a commercial that RadioShack can run to say goodbye to all those people having a chuckle at its darkest days:

by Chris Morran via Consumerist