From the eighties this clip shows a typical Hi Fi Salesperson at work ... "Not the Nine O Clock News" with Rowan Atkinson purveying stereos to innocents. Whereas the "Gramophone" enquiry has faded possibly a similiar reaction might ensue from an enquiry for a "Stereo system" ...

Sadly the counter and backdrop is a dead spit for my HiFi shop in Cambridge of that time and Rowan actually resembles the particular gentleman Brian who worked there in both appearance and mannerism ...

In truth seeing this type of parody hits a nerve for me as the proprietor of this SME. One desparately hopes that ourselves don't behave like this.

There are still HiFi retailers who treat their clients with condesencion and contempt, oddly they are not the very established specialist retailers but generally blinkered niche and bulkstore that ally knowledge and ignorance.