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Insane Proprietor

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A weird mutant kind of ad that tends to turn up in lesser time slots, wherein the proprietor of a discount retail outlet yells about how he's gone completely mad, and that his insanity is manifesting itself as his selling his wares at prices so unprofitably low that only a lunatic would set them. No doubt because of the owner's deranged price-slashing, many of these stores seem to be perpetually on the verge of going out of business, holding innumerable closing down sales where "everything must go!!!". They also often refer to the owner's mental state right in the name of the store, e.g. Crazy Larry's Carpet Emporium.
In a variant, the "boss" is out of town and the underlings are the ones indulging in this madness — but buy quick before he realizes what's going on and comes back!
Arguably originated by the Crazy Eddie consumer electronics chain that existed in the Northeastern United States from 1971 to 1989. It was famous for the fast-talking, near-frothing announcer Jerry Carroll (contrary to popular belief, not Crazy Eddie himself) who, clad in turtleneck and sports jacket, would stick his face into the camera and spread his arms wide to give the company's trademark slogan, "Hey-heh-heh-heh hey, it's Ca-raaazy Eddie! His prices are IN-SA-A-A-A-A-ANE!" Of course ol' Eddie himself might have been inspired by Madman Muntz.
A relatively well-known variant of the Put a Face on the Company principle. Often seen in the kind of Kitschy Local Commercial that Honest John's Dealership uses. May be the explanation why We Buy Anything and We Sell Everything.
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Also spoofed on Sheep in the Big City, with an advertisement for the Les is More Electronics Warehouse, with a proprietor named Les Wiggles who may have been genuinely insane: selling an elephant for sixteen cents, but a battery for $42,000 and a piece of wire for a million dollars and five cents.
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The dad in Roundhouse did this for a garage sale. Until led away for apparent insanity.
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Rules of Engagement: Jeff only buys electronics from stores like owned by Insane Proprietors, because crazy store owners offer the best deals.
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X-Play features "Crazy Adam's Import Imporium", which contained several rip-offs of real games and imports (such as Fast Driv3r, which was set in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin). The owner is just straight criminally insane, with antics that include his ranting that he's going to make a woman suit, and preparing to take a sledgehammer to the head of a tied up employee (by the end he had moved to Mexico because he had violated every consumer law in the California Commercial Codes). His theme song was "Crazy, crazy, crazy, Adam; crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy Adam!"
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Dee plays an Insane Proprietor character when she and Charlie in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia decide to make a viral video to advertise the bar. Charlie doesn't think it's complete without beaning her directly in the face with a ball.
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The Simpsons: One episode features "Crazy Vaclav's Place of Automobiles". Oddly enough, the Slavic-accented Vaclav doesn't seem that crazy, although his wares definitely fall into The Alleged Car category, like being three-wheeled, tiny, running on kerosene, made in countries that no longer exist, needing a push to get started, and still having Cyrillic dashboards (hence "put it in H" for "put it in n(eutral)".
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Almost Live! had a few of them, but "Roscoe's Oriental Rug Emporium" takes the cake as the proprietor starts out reasonably sane, and quickly unravels like, well, a cheap rug.
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Classic Disney Shorts: In "Susie the Little Blue Coupe", after the eponymous car starts to show her age, she's sold off by her owner and ends up lingering in the lot at "Maniac Martin's".
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Invoked in SimCity 3000 with a building called "Crazy Larry's Flea Market".
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In the Time Squad episode "Big Al's Big Secret", the Time Squad discovers that Albert Einstein had given up theoretical physics to become a lovably-wacky used-car salesman known as "Big Al": "To sell you a car, I'll eat a bug!"
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One episode of Rick and Morty features a (clearly ad-libbed) commercial by "Ants-In-My-Eyes Johnson", whose prices are low due to the fact that he can't see anything because of the ants in his eyes. People are seen in the background taking stuff from his store without paying during the entire commercial.
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Yet another Crazy Larry, from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Why are his prices so low? "Because he's loooooocoooooo!!"
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Parodied with Tom the Dancing Bug's "Crazy Morty", where Crazy Morty's ad copy was nothing but a disjointed stream of nonsensical rambling, such as the price of a cellphone being set to "an acorn", followed by a note from his psychiatrist confirming that Morty suffered from advanced schizophrenia and was therefore incapable of setting prices to conform to market value. This is later followed up with "Medicated Morty", in which the ad copy is lucid and also informs the reader that there is no planet-wide underground machinery, and the new motto is "Our prices are so rational, we'll make a modest profit on each transaction!"
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On Head of the Class Charlie got an acting gig as "the King of low prices," a crazy late night commercial pitchman for an appliance store.
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Some episodes of WordGirl end with fake commercials for "Uncle Larry's Superlative Warehouse", a furniture store for villains. "If it's not the best, it's not Uncle Larry's!" These segments teach viewers about superlatives.
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During a Sunday strip of Piranha Club, a money-grubbing doctor tried a "Crazy Eddy" style of adverts to get people to come to his clinic. Naturally what works for a car dealership isn't going to work for a Doctor.
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Hot Fuzz has Simon Skinner, who adopts a similar persona when meeting new cop in town Nick Angel as part of a Gaslighting scheme to make him think he's going Javert and imagining a serial killer out of a series of accidental deaths.
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: The "Monster Mart" ads, where Martin turns into a giant purple monster before declaring that Monster Mart offers monstrous bargains, resemble this format, and were probably inspired by it.
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A fake commercial on This Hour Has 22 Minutes portrays the minister of finance as Crazy Jim Flaherty having a two-for-one sale on CBC shows.
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Parodied in Get This.
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On Kenan & Kel, there's Crazy Betty's Electronics. Unfortunately, Betty wasn't crazy enough not to charge Kenan for a video camera Kel broke.
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Parodied on the Martin/Molloy radio show where Tony Martin posited that many of these proprietors might not really be insane at all, and then showed what an ad made by a truly insane proprietor might be like. It ended with the proprietor holed up in the attic taking potshots at the police and the announcer screaming about bats coming out of the walls.
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Spoofed in UHF, where "Crazy Ernie" tells the audience "If nobody comes down here and buys a car in the next hour, I'm gonna club this baby seal. That's right! I'm gonna club this seal to make a better deal. You know I'll do it, too, cause I'm crazy!" Sadly, when the movie was shown on Comedy Central, the "club a seal" part got cut, probably due to concern that groups like PETA would throw a fit. So instead of looking crazy, he just looks like a guy who yells a lot.
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Fallout: New Vegas has the hidden Wind-Brahmin Salesman. A funnily multi-layered example in that he purposely uses "craziness" in his sales pitch yet is oblivious to the ways he's genuinely crazy. For example, the Wind-Brahmin he's trying to sell are tumbleweeds.
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When a car is being given away on The Price Is Right, Drew Carey often refers to Rachel, the model who usually stands next to the car, as "Crazy Rachel".
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The US ads for Mario Kart Wii featured a hyper-stereotypical southern used-kart salesman, Cowboy Jed.
Probably inspired by the ad for the original SNES game.
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Played straight in Inspector Gadget's Last Case, with "Crazy Eddie's Used Car Lot". Here, Crazy Eddie is a used-car salesman who dresses like a superhero in commercials; the gag here is that he sold long-since decommissioned cars that once belonged to superheroes; at one point he gets the Gadgetmobile itself in his lot. It's promptly bought up by Dr. Claw himself, masquerading as "Devon Debonair" in his effort to destroy Inspector Lieutenant Gadget once and for all.
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Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! absolutely loves this trope. You can expect at least one Show Within a Show television ad featuring this trope per episode, often more.
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Parodied on Grojband with 3-D Dave, a TV dealer who runs "Peaceville's most mentally stable home electronics store, where prices may seem crazy at first but actually result in a modest profit while still offering bargains."
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/tg/ created Crazy Hassan, an insane camel proprietor who pops up in improbable locations to sell players slightly-used camels. And they will be the best slightly-used camels you have ever seen or used.
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Fallout 3 has Crazy Wolfgang, who is actually completely sane and just has a more involved sales pitch than the rest of the merchants — his prices are exactly the same as everyone else's. Moira Brown, meanwhile, is legitimately crazy, though this is largely incidental to her role as a merchant; she doesn't quite build her sales pitch around it.
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The Rotten Ralph episode "Anything for a Buck" had Ralph refer to himself as "Crazy Ralph" while selling property that wasn't supposed to be given away at the yard sale Sarah's family started.
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The Borderlands games have Crazy Earl, proprietor of a scrapyard, and later in charge of the black market. He's so paranoid that we've never seen any of him except his face through a slot in his door, never speaks below a shout, and ate one of Scooters cars. With a fork.
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An episode of Arthur featured a Jack's Joke Shop commercial, where the proprietor showcases several of his gag items that he's giving away for free. Buster says that that's just crazy.
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Beetlejuice: Betelgeuse does the insane proprietor shtick on a TV ad sent exclusively to the Maitlands, where he promises "I'll eat anything you want me to eat, I'll swaller anything you want me to swaller!"
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Seinfeld: "Nobody beats me, because I'm the Wiz!"
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A parody commercial in You Don't Know Jack credits for "Crazy Leo's House of Used Appliances", where Leo himself is a doddering senile man who interjects random nonsense when the regular announcer isn't speaking; it's right next door to Mad Manny's Mattress World (Manny is just angry and curses at you).
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Fallout:
Fallout 3 has Crazy Wolfgang, who is actually completely sane and just has a more involved sales pitch than the rest of the merchants — his prices are exactly the same as everyone else's. Moira Brown, meanwhile, is legitimately crazy, though this is largely incidental to her role as a merchant; she doesn't quite build her sales pitch around it.
Fallout: New Vegas has the hidden Wind-Brahmin Salesman. A funnily multi-layered example in that he purposely uses "craziness" in his sales pitch yet is oblivious to the ways he's genuinely crazy. For example, the Wind-Brahmin he's trying to sell are tumbleweeds.
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Garfield and Friends has recurring character Madman Murray. (No relation.) "Madman Meets His Match" brings us Demented Dave. They fight over Jon's business until Garfield suggests they team up. Jon considers it a mild triumph that he got out for under $1000 (though he still doesn't have a t-shirt), but Garfield tells us the two are about to find out what it can be like to have a business partner... He's proven right when Murray and Dave start arguing over who gets to appear in their new ads.
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The Onion:
"Local Merchant Sane Freddie Driven Out of Business"
Psychiatrists Warn Nation's Used Car Salesmen Going Insane, Practically Giving Cars Away.
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In Newhart, when Dick is roped into co-hosting a home shopping program, he hams it up by billing himself as "Strange Dick Loudon" and, after saying he must be "all wet" to offer such bargains, spraying himself with seltzer.
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A particularly ill-advised example from 30 Rock:
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Eugene Levy and Rick Moranis made a couple of fake ads on SCTV for "Crazy Hy's", selling video equipment, except they acted and dressed as straight-laced orthodox Jews, and couldn't quite muster the required manic enthusiasm. Inspired by a series of real-life ads for "Crazy Joe's" drapery stores around Toronto, which did have the enthusiasm.
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Mystery Science Theater 3000, "Attack of the The Eye Creatures", in a police station:
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In Splash, Madison is momentarily frightened by an actual Crazy Eddie ad that pops up on the TV she's watching with her face mere inches from the screen.
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Chapter 2 of Deltarune brings us the living embodiment of spam email, Spamtom G. Spamton. He may not actually own a business, running his services out of a garbage dump, but he very much fits. His introduction has him emerge from a dumpster and make a sales pitch to Kris that half way through turns into a rant about his own life and it doesn't let up. Interestingly, his insanity is played for laughs and horror in equal measure.
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Futurama: Spoofed through the robot car dealer "Malfunctioning Eddie". When he gets too excited, his head explodes. When he turns up in a robot asylum in a later episode, Fry remarks "I guess his prices really were insane." It turns out he's in the asylum to cure his excitement-triggered exploding. By the last time we see him, it just causes a little pop on his shoulder, which he's told can be handled with medication.
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Saturday Night Live parodied Crazy Eddie with 1977's "Crazy Ernie," where the spokesman advertises prices that aren't just "crazy prices" crazy but "not playing with a full deck" crazy — amps valued at over $500 on sale for $50, $900 turntables for $12, and $699 TVs for 52¢. It turns out the spokesman is actually Crazy Ernie's cousin, Crazy Frank, who's deliberately ruining Ernie's business in revenge for Ernie stealing Frank's girlfriend.
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Played totally straight in Plants vs. Zombies, where the shop you buy seeds and the like from is run by Crazetopher David Blazing III, commonly known as Crazy Dave, and the shop itself is called Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies. Dave himself is a blabbering lunatic who wears a pot as a hat and frequently yells "Buy now! I'M CRAAAAAAZY!!!" at the player whilst frothing at the mouth and shaking. Quite bizarre, but a nice calm experience compared to the rest of the game...
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Parodied in Invader Zim, with the Krazy Taco food chain and its mascot, a screaming man in a taco suit.
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Robot Chicken has a sketch about a used car salesman named Crazy Davey, who ends up having his family leave him while he's announcing his prices and attempts to shoot himself in the head, only to find that the gun has no bullets.
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The remake of The Bard's Tale featured a town overrun by undead vikings, but one shopkeeper had stuck around. Crazy Thorvald plays this trope to a T.
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Mr. Stereo, of Mr. Stereo's Crazy Stereo Warehouse on Kappa Mikey, is another one whose insanity is not an act. If someone beats his prices, he's promised to eat garbage, jump out of a plane (without a parachute), and/or marry a piano. At the end of his ad, he breaks a window with his face. Don't ask about what he's like in person, it'd take up too much of the page with the antics.
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The Late Show (1992) had a regular segment where they showed low-budget local ads from around Australia and mocked the hell out them. Naturally this included a fair number of 'insane proprietor' ads. Some of these were so popular that the show made multiple returns to check out what the latest installment in the ads were.
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Tiny Toon Adventures:
An episode centering around the prom has "Crazy Tazzy's House of Tuxes", where the already-established-as-several-kinds-of-insane Taz applies these tactics to selling formal wear, of all things. The commercial features Taz grunting, spitting, and spinning his way through cutting prices on tuxedos as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck chased him in white coats with butterfly nets.
There's also Bicycle Bob, who claims he'll eat a bucket of scorpions if you're not satisfied with the trade-in on your old bike. Guess what ends up happening after Buster gets even with him for ripping him off...
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SpongeBob SquarePants:
A variant pops up with Angry Jack's Shell Emporium. "Jack is really angry! Don't bring your kids."
Another variant is the guy who's selling vacation homes by screaming "GET OUTTA TOWN!" at people.
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The Animal Crossing series has one of these guys in Crazy Redd, a fox with a decidedly sketchy store. He claims to be selling things at cutthroat prices, but in actuality peddles his wares for twice what the local general store sells them. The game heavily implies that he's selling stolen goods, and in Wild World, some of the paintings he sells are actually forgeries.note Which can be a bit Fridge Logic-ish when you consider that often the whole point of theft and forgery is to cut costs in order to undercut legitimate competition, but still, Rule of Funny and all. One of the only reasons to buy from him is that some items are inexplicably exclusive to his store, even ones that are part of a larger set that can otherwise be obtained elsewhere.
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In Living Color!! has: the Crazy Tom's Electronics" sketch. A business owner of sorts who trades a brand new top of the line VCR for an empty glass liquor bottle. After introducing the staff, he then recalls a regular dialogue he shares with customers:
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Monkey Island:
The recurring character Stan, a manic salesman who gets locked into a coffin in the second game and released in the third, has been the proprietor of a used-coffin business, a used-crypt business, a used-ship business and a life insurance business, plus others.
If you accuse King André of being mad, he replies he's not, but his prices are.
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Parodied, once again, by the Crazy Warehouse Guy in The Chaser's War On Everything. He usually advertises Persian rugs, as those are the most common things "crazy" people sell in Australia (for whatever reason).
He's a very specific parody of a series of ads for warehouse sales in which the (unseen) narrator would scream every single word at the top of his lungs. "PERSIAN RUGS FIVE BUCKS, JUST FIVE BUCKS!" were a common fixture, but they also advertised used CDs or slightly damaged clothing, among other things.
The Crazy Warehouse Guy also went out and about, buying lunch at McDonald's (yelling out the entire price menu in the process) and asking a passerby for directions.
He even does this in church: "OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN MASSIVELY HALLOWED BY THY NAME! OUR KINGDOM COME BEFORE CLOSE OF BUSINESS TODAY! ON EARTH DIRECT IMPORT FROM HEAVEN! GIVE US OUR DAILY BREAD AT NEVER TO BE REPEATED PRICES! FREE HOME DELIVER US FROM EVIL. FOR THINE IS THE POWER AND GLORY FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY AMEN!"
The Chaser parodied it again with more Persian Rug warehouses. Julian went around saying he was from the Rug Proprietors Guild, telling people to have a Closing Down sale... it didn't matter if they weren't actually closing down. And he made the manager roll himself up in a carpet. Ah, memories...
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In Peggy Sue Got Married Peggy Sue's husband Charlie Bodell is known by all their friends as "Crazy Charlie" from doing these kinds of ads.
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: Eddy's hot bike scam in "Ed, Ed, and Away", in which he refers to himself and the other Eds with "Crazy" in front of their names. The bike he tries to sell Kevin falls apart while he's riding it, injuring him. The Eds spend the rest of the episode chasing after a balloon around the cul-de-sac, which turns out to have been deliberately let loose by Kevin just to mess with them. Kevin then jokingly describes himself as an Insane Proprietor as he lets another one go.
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Aladdin has a brief scene with Crazy Hakim's Discount Fertilizer.
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Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show!: One sketch features a proprietor who states that if you can find a better deal, he'll cut his eyelids off with pinking shears. He then proceeds to do it anyway, cackling maniacally all the while, because he is insane. He's later seen in a padded cell with bandages over his eyes.
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Family Guy:
A joke that is used more than once is the "Wacky Wavy Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man!" Due to a shipping error the Wacky Wavy Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man Emporium and Warehouse is currently overstocked on all Wacky Wavy Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Men and I am passing the savings on to YOOUUUUUUUU!
Another episode has Cleveland parodying a slight variant, in his usual deadpan manner:
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Parodied by Baldur's Gate, of all things.
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The TV in The Brave Little Toaster imitates this spiel to get Rob to go down to the junkyard to find his old appliances, turning "Ernie's Disposal" into "Crazy Ernie's Amazing Emporium of TOTAL BARGAIN MADNESS!"
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The Muppet Movie has Milton Berle playing "Mad Man Mooney" the owner of Mad Man Mooney's Hubcap Heaven used car lot.
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In a few Histeria! skits, Loud Kiddington played this role, each time saying his dog Fetch will eat a different animal's feces if the customers aren't satisfied, much to Fetch's protests.
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The Mattress King's advert in Friends: "I'm so upset, I'm going to slash my... PRICES!!! Check it out!"
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In Short Circuit 2, there is Manic Mike, clearly a spoof of Crazy Eddie.
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Australia again, but from the 1980's, The Dodgy Brothers from sketch show Australia You're Standing In It. Every "ad" they made, for every product they sold, emphasized that they had BOTH "gone crazy."
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