Now that you repeat the quote I remember the guy.
“Madam… hooowww do you doooo?”
I don’t know, but I have this strong urge to lease a Cadillac Catera.
Everyone loves “Where’s the beef!” but I still prefer the more-obscure “Step aside!” Wendy’s ad.
I’ve been using that line for decades. Weird how that stuff gets implanted.
Did you catch the line at the very end of the commercial. I think they tried this gimmick for a while.
Eventually we had a Crazy Eddie store in my small Connecticut town. And then shortly thereafter, the chain blew up in a financial scandal. I think Eddie Antar (not the guy in the commercial) fled to Israel to avoid prosecution.
Taco Bell 80’s
They have no thumbs, so they get no nachos.
I still use the “they/you got no nachos” line when someone comes up empty.
Very local: Shadoe Steven’s “I’m Fred Rated for Federated”
“The bank of Bob and Ray” was big for awhile in the 1980s in the AZ/NV/NM area.
Along with “parrot checking”.
Not sure how obscure it is and it may be just a Cleveland area commercial but, “Garfield one, two three two three.”
We had a big razy Eddie in East Brunswick, NJ, the next town over from mine. And we got the commercials all the time on New York TV. The prices were low, but not really insane.
The spokesman was Jerry Carroll, who died in 2020. “Crazy” Eddie was Eddie Antar. Apparently the business he and his brother started was fraudulent from the beginning, but it kept coming back to life (and Carroll kept getting hired as spokesman). His story really WAS insane. He did flee to Israel in 1990 using the name “David Jacob Levi Cohen”, which sounds like he was trying to come up with the most Jewish-sounding name possible. You can read his tangled story here
“Gallery Furniture SAVES YOU MONEY!”
Mattress Mac from Houston, Texas.
“We make your dreams come true!”
“You bet your boots!”- Wild Bill Gatton, Bill Gatton Chevrolet in Bristol, TN.
Ha, ha. I can hear the accent. Didn’t they close down recently?
Sadly, yes - the building was demolished two years ago.
Thinking of Cal Worthington (with or without Spot) there was a guy in Milwaukee, with a sout side der hey accent “Who do ya know wants ta buy a car?” I can’t remember his name. Anyone?
So nobody can identify this one? Mother spills something, wipes it up with a paper towel or something, mentions that it will absorb it, and a oair if incredibly annoying little girls stare at each other and say “Zorb it!” and start cackling like addlepated hyenas?
Hmm, now that I’ve seen this commercial again…can anyone name the actor who is complaining about his stage getting trashed?
Danny DeVito.
YouTube says this commercial is from the “late 80s.” Danny DeVito was already a pretty big star by then, to be making cameos in commercials. So I’m gonna guess it was another actor in the same ballpark, intended to look (somewhat) and sound (a lot) like DeVito.