Growing up in New York, the Crazy Eddie commercials were stuff of legends. I lived about a half mile from the main store on Coney Island Avenue and Kings Highway.
Anyway, I don't know what made me think of this, but dies anyone remember this one? Unless it was a parody that I somehow missed, this one spot had, presumeable, Jerry Carroll dressed in a giant duck outfit and the duck "quacked" out the entire "typical" commercial, giving the same signature cadence and motions to phrases like "...and he'll beat it..." "...his prices are insane...", etc. He spoke ZERO words, he just quacked the whole thing thru.
Can anyone on this board confirm the existence of such a commercial?
you bet there was a duck commercial bud, it was no parody, this was how nuts the francise was!! By the way, who recalls the equally bizarre alligator commercial?!
Originally posted by cgavinelli: Growing up in New York, the Crazy Eddie commercials were stuff of legends. I lived about a half mile from the main store on Coney Island Avenue and Kings Highway.
Anyway, I don't know what made me think of this, but dies anyone remember this one? Unless it was a parody that I somehow missed, this one spot had, presumeable, Jerry Carroll dressed in a giant duck outfit and the duck "quacked" out the entire "typical" commercial, giving the same signature cadence and motions to phrases like "...and he'll beat it..." "...his prices are insane...", etc. He spoke ZERO words, he just quacked the whole thing thru.
Can anyone on this board confirm the existence of such a commercial?
Yes - but it was more like a chicken. We were going to produce a Thanksgiving commercial, but the turkey costume provided by Rubies Costumes looked more like a chicken. Just goofing around Jerry put on the head piece and started clucking like a chicken and we started rolling tape. It was so hilarious we decided to edit it into a finished spot. Like most Crazy Eddie commercials from those days, the spot was shot around 2AM in a soundroom at the Coney Island Avenue store.
you bet there was a duck commercial bud,
