About
“You Could Stop At Five Or Six Stores” is a scripted line repeatedly uttered by several actors while auditioning for an unknown commercial at the Sarantos Studio of Acting.[6] The quote rose to online notoriety and became a popular subject of parodies after an edited montage reel of the audition, which consists of various actors awkwardly delivering the tagline along with other off-screen commentaries and dramatic poses, was uploaded to YouTube in 2010.
Origin
On May 1st, 2010, YouTuber Architect uploaded the earliest known footage from the audition reel in a video clip titled “The Billy Smith Post.” (shown below, left) On February 4th, 2014, YouTuber Josh uploaded an extended montage from the same audition (shown below, right) at the Santos Studio of Acting in Oak Park, Illinois. Since being uploaded to YouTube, the two video clips have garnered little over 200,000 views and three million views, respectively.
Spread
On March 19th, 2013, a YouTube playlist was made for the /r/cringe subreddit[1], showing several clips of the various auditions, with the thread gaining 76 upvotes, and on February 22nd, 2014, another thread[2] was made of the video uploaded by josh, which has gained over 3,000 upvotes. On August 3rd, 2013, BuzzFeed staff member Dave Stopera posted an article[3] on Buzzfeed about the videos, asking users who they would cast. Online, particularly Tumblr and Reddit, various images and posts relating to the clips can be found[4][5], as well as multiple discussions and requests, and comments on the videos themselves, for what the clips are about[7][8]. As of April 2016, there are over 89,000 search results for the phrase “you could stop at five or six stores or just one” on YouTube.
Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]Reddit – A playlist of Sarantos Studios auditions. The best actors on Earth.
[2]Reddit – You could stop at five or six stores or just one. But once you see the one you’ll probably want to look at the other five stores.
[3]Buzzfeed – Quite Possibly The Best Auditions For A Commercial Ever
[4]Tumblr – Search Results for You Could Stop At Five or Six Stores
[5]Reddit – Search Results for You Could Stop At Five or Six Stores
[6]YouTube – ActingClassSarantos
[7]So Bad So Good – CANSOMEONE (ANYONE!) PLEASEEXPLAINTHISRIDICULOUSVIDEO?
[8]Blogspot – 1 2 3 4 KYLE 6 7 8 9 – OBSESSED: Sarantos Acting School Demos
[9]YouTube – Search Results for you could stop at five or six stores or just one
[10]Reddit – What is the origin of the video, ‘you could stop at five or six stores?’
[11]WorldStarHipHop – This Commercial Was On Some Weird Sh*t: You Could Stop At Five Or Six Stores, Or Just One!