The line is delivered with manic eagerness, capturing the strange intimacy customers once had with cable installers.
Investors of a certain vintage may remember the movie The Cable Guy. This 1996 comedy was set on the cusp of the dot-com boom. Back then, cell phones were clunky bricks with antennas. Executives still wore suspenders.
The movie features a cable-TV installer called Chip Douglas (played by Jim Carrey) who befriends a customer. At first, Chip is viewed as a godsend. He knocks on the door and says: “I’m the Cable Guy! I’m here for you.”
