Pete Rose Knocks It Out of the Park in Wonderfully Awkward Local Furniture Ads

Cameo by his Playboy model fiancée

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It's a hit! Pete Rose mistakes a recliner for a couch and pretends to eat pastry in these awesomely awkward, sublimely stilted low-budget commercials for Muenchens Furniture in Cincinnati. There's so much to savor: Pete's plaid pajama bottoms … his "I love baseball" T-shirt with a baseball representing the heart … the hat that makes him look like somebody's confused grandpa … Pete's 40-years-younger Playboy-model fiancée, Kiana Kim, overemoting in the last seconds of her 15 minutes of fame now that their TLC reality show, Hits & Mrs.,

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