Crazy Eddie

[EddieMCGamer]

My names eddie :)

[peter11772]

Crazy, yeah crazy like a fox.

[Durwood71]

Great commercials. The story behind the company is even better.

[38patton]

@Durwood71 would very much like to hear the story :) .

[Durwood71]

@38patton The Wikipedia entry for Crazy Eddie is fairly comprehensive.

[NYKID10014]

Nobody beats the Wiz

[OldLadyUU]

Is that a rotary phone on the right? I want it!

[wanative57]

I went to college in New York City. More than 30 years later, I've forgotten most of what I learned in college, but I can still remember that 645-1196 is the number for Crazy Eddie. It's good that I can remember the important things in life...

[otime666]

they really did hit him... with a GIANT LAWSUIT!!!!

[lisamaria1972]

CRAZY EDDIE WAS THE BEST!!!!!!!!

[weeagona]

Crazy Eddie was the largest retail fraud in the world, he fooled wallstreet into thinking

That wallstreet was filling him

[illznick]

crazy story. it turns out crazy eddie was making a killing selling false warranties on all products...... ALL OF THEM!!! true story i had met a former associate of his who also suffered alot of lawsuits as a result of Eddie. he told me that when people actually started to call for repairs, the number and location for repair was non-existent.

crazy eddie lived up to his name until his bitter end lol.

[UndercoverDoctor]

Those are some pretty crazy deals.

[WOOCHIP]

loved the 1980s

[ZEROEVILDARKCOOL]

CRAZY EDDIE WAS REALLY CRAZY. 

[ValamirCleaver]

NY had Crazy Eddie, L.A. had Federated

[sheemsheem]

Crazy eddie is the fucking king, he made over 400 million cash!

[macdaddynyc]

Cocaine is a hellofa drug!

[ltownposse]

pretty funny how he got caught, undercover lady cop bent over looking under the hood of her car with a mini skirt and no undies, he stop jumps outtta the car grabs her ass and says thats a great ass, she said.... your under arrest. lol.

[Bagatronic]

Is that guy still on the run from the IRS?

[illuminatioracle]

crazy eddie had a brother named sane larry who owned a chain of frozen yougurt places

[dingaling24]

CRAZY EDDIE BITCHES!!!!

[sheemsheem]

Crazy Eddie....he made so much money from fraud!

[Adventurestud]

only 2 places in the US where you'd see a commercial like this: CA and NY.

[gecko2gecko2]

Does he sell guns so and I can go see him.

[goku178]

i never seen this before at all.

[Longcatcrusade]

What an excellent advertisement.

[lgjamieson]

I got my 1st stereo from Crazy Eddie. Good memories

[murcielago06gt]

Isnt Crazy Eddie the store who's owner got in a lot of trouble for fraud and tax evasion?

[datanyc004]

Man you made me home sick and that brought back a lot memories

[cugamer]

Anybody else think he looks like Glen Beck?

[Quex01]

or Alex Jones

[TheAuthenticStinray]

@Quex01 Who the hell is Alex Jones?

[lelenina2]

He kinda reminds me of a combination of Billy Mays, and that guy on the Major World commercials, on WCBS880 radio station.

[haubai]

god i miss the 80's so friggin much

[TheHeidiGame]

his ads made me uncomfortable as a kid; for real!

[mrwhon]

Crazy Eddie  = Another Fraud Kosher like Madoff

He only got nine years for $300 million scheme?

[SupermanLover89]

So what is he is a Syrian Jew?

[TheBelobog]

yeah he just regular cock sucking jew bastard

[anothablend]

LMAo @ taht one

[drakeb]

@TheBelobog You fking racist mf

[crammer04]

yep

[hustletv]

Crazy Eddie and the WIZ.

80's Queens, NY Shit!

[Gaus212]

You should add Corvettes & Alexanders department stores....No Body Beats The WIZ :-)

[RAYLOWMASTERS]

I remember this when i live in NYC in the 80's and found out he was a rip off and went out of business..

[richdanks]

crazy gideon is way trippier. an la version of this who sells old outdated shit

[AngrySeniors]

"hit me! hit me! hahaha" Anybody else see Heath Ledgers inspiration for the Joker in the Dark Knight??? hhmmmhhmm??

[Quex01]

wow, it's Alex Jones!

[cheerbear237]

I used to like these commercials when I was a kid because they were so loud, obnoxious and colorful.

[Lockiel625]

i would buy stuff if he was still selling them

[Watcher3223]

If you ever read about the circumstances that led to "Crazy Eddie" going out of business, I'd doubt you would want to.

[isaachaaze3]

best pitch man in the business here, f*ckin' INSAAAAAAAAANE!

[hustletv]

He might of been the first real Pitch Man too.

[badumpy]

now thats when commercials where actually funny..."hit me hit me" too funny

[blanenbishop]

is he coked up ?

[RosannasMom]

It was the 80's after all... ;)

[DeVstatrOmga]

Just watched the rise and downfall of Crazy Eddie's on Master Minds. Very intriguing story.

[DamnStraightM35A2]

I just watched it too, amazing what he got away with for so long!

[tedcantu1]

CRAZY EDDIE !!!.. I remember seeing this guys ads when I was a kid.. ROCKIN !

[DeVstatrOmga]

Oh gosh, that Eddie! He's so crazy!

[lazy10594]

I'll hit him all right!

(With a Gigantic Boulder)!

[cadu1995]

Crazy Eddie Antar ran to Israel to get away from being jailed,came back n did jail time.

[beartunes]

the actor in the commercials wasnt the one that went to jail.

I liked nobody beats the wiz better anyways, wonder how much a magnavox odyssey is worth now?

[zman1974]

LOL> I remember those commercials. Disturbing....all of the products he's pitching are defunct now..VCRs, Answering Machines. LOL

[dannydunlop]

HIT ME!

[Libitina72]

LOL! I remember these commercials. He was famous but then he go in HUGE trouble!

[raccoonantlers]

hes arrested

[fatman50000]

That's not the guy who got arrested.

[KKK4lyf23]

HE IS A SYRIAN JEW

[mistahkleen1963]

Yeah they ran the company into the ground. There was that one in the Bronx on Fordham. Used to love going in there.

[80s90shousemami76]

i remember these comercials too bad he stole so much money....wikiepedia his name ...

[darthshitface]

fuck you fast talking guy

[KKK4lyf23]

crazy eddie is my uncle hes really an awesome guy

[baylorrugby]

yeah right... eddie antar was a syrian jew. Plus, that would make you sammy e. antar.

[TamaSlamma]

I loved these when I was a kid...

[JiggidyNDG]

I just have to ask, is this the same Crazy Eddie in "Weird Al" Yankovic's movie, "UHF"?

[starscape09]

it;s bassed off him. crazy eddie was big in the 80's. very known. if you see anything in a show or movie and the guy has crazy in the name, it;s bassed of this man

[mikeygeneral]

Thief!

[MrPerfect77]

Thier is a place using this line. My prices are insane ? Is that Legal ?

[Iridium242]

haha good old crazy eddie. I miss those ads :) I even used to shop there years ago back when I lived in NY

[NipplesMagee]

Legend...

[QUESTED]

Alex Jones... lol

[meatman310]

fUNNY.....WE DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE HE WAS A THEIF AT THE TIME.......LOL-]

[manggolium]

Eddie Antar was a bad guy! He faked things and got so much money that he didn't know where to put it! The funny part is that he went to Israel and he saw a woman leaning over her car. He said "You got a great butt" and the woman said "You're under arrest!" That was SO unpredictable! I thought no one was gonna catch him!

[johnsmdm]

Eddie fled to Israel and then was arrested after picking up a cop dressed as a whore..

[manggolium]

Eddie Antar was a bad guy! He faked things and got so much money that he didn't know where to put it! The funny part is that he went to Israel and he saw a woman leaning over her car. He said "You got a great butt" and the woman said "You're under arrest!" That was SO unpredictable! I thought no one was gonna catch him!

[PS3Fan14]

the best american ever. haha

[PinkStupidity]

OH MY GOD!! This brought back some awesome memeories!! I grew up in Queens, and I can remember seeing Crazy Eddie commercials all the time, when I was a kid. This makes me really homesick for NY!! And that pink cassette player is awesome, I want one!!

[oscargurses]

after reading this i checked out your profile, then eventually your myspace, I LOVE IT, you rock!! remember Punky Brewster? Freazy Freakies? lol, i grew up in queens too, live in Miami now and thought id google crazy eddie( visiting famikly and i got an old school feel) didnt read your myspace and skimmed thru, brought a smile to my face

flickr nycratkiller

what neighborhood?

[sboyd]

oh wow - what a flashback. i had no idea about that backstory!

[scrstr10]

I like how Jorge just basically copied and pasted Crazy Eddie's Wikipedia article

[JorgeIgnacioNavarro]

Crazy Eddie's management was engaged in various forms of fraud...paid employees off the books, and regularly skimmed thousands of dollars (in cash) earned at the stores. For every $5 Crazy Eddie reported as income, $1 was taken... depositing much of this money (hundreds of thousands of dollars) in Israeli bank accounts. The Antar family skimmed an estimated $3-$4 million (US) per year at the height of fraud. In 1 offshore bank account, the family deposited more than $6 million

[JorgeIgnacioNavarro]

Crazy Eddie spokesman played by radio DJ Jerry Carrol

[nynjkid777]

Awesome - I grew Up On This

[mcsquared2]

Check out our "Krazee Eddie" parody on YouTube >

type " 30centplayers " (all one word) into the YouTube

search engine and track it down from there.

[Warning - not suitable viewing for children]

[310stanger]

crazy eddie was a syrian jew. the guy in the commercials is not him, its a radio DJ hired by crazy eddie.

[epocs]

yep, fled the country after being investigated by the SEC ...was hit with a 70+ million dollar judgment and eventually extradited to the US from Israel and spent 7 years in jail.

[monkeyattackedmyass]

umm...hes been out of jail for a while.

[labtechperson]

crazy eddy = crazy bubba in jail

[TestShoot]

they are making a movie of him lol danny devito is doing it

[NipplesMagee]

Where's the Crazy Eddies Robber tape????

[ChrisK42]

Actually, the guy you see in these ads is NOT "Crazy Eddie" Antar, it is spokeperson and WPIX late night DJ Jerry Carroll who is in thr ads, but as I said, he is NOT the real Crazy Eddie

[gunfighter1173]

Jailbird or no... I loved those commercials in the late 70's

[jasper153]

This guy was a criminal and thrown in jail.

This guy is a jail bird do some research online.

[Primordeum]

He can't be, Jews don't lower their prices!

[Pobeman]

Actually he is a Syrian Jew

[Icarus08854]

Crazy Eddie the Syrian Arab thieve!

[mikeygeneral]

he is still white in most peoples eyes.

[ifeelove2]

You mean crazy white man!

[mikeygeneral]

silly white man !

[mikeys12]

better than a silly black man

[mikeygeneral]

so you say. but most whites do anything for some money.he was so greedy that he fucked his own life up. so how much better he could be than a silly black man. cracker!

[mikeys12]

you are the one that brought race into it BROTHA.

And besides that this guy was from the middle east or somewhere like that so he wasnt white.

Go sell some more rock on the corner!! Jiga

[mikeygeneral]

Funny thing is that i can prove what i said.silly white men do anything for money.ask crazy eddie. oh by the way, i dont deal with drugs at all. i am a Structural Engineer for the LIRR/Long Island Rail Road and i make $83,000 anually with a BA in Civil Engineering.and i'm only 27. What do you do for a living? LOL

Call HR Automated system 718-558-7400 to varify. My ID# is 54037 My name is Michael H. Now who has more money again? LMBAO

[mikeygeneral]

"go sell some rocks on my corner". NOPE. i choose to use the whiteman's tools of education against him to beat him at his own game!Don't yall hate to see rich black people? ha ha ha LMBAO. I'm not rich, but damn am i getting it? THE RIGHT WAY too.i make more money than 3 average american households. (read above)

[mikeys12]

Yeah ok sure I believe you hahahaha

[danleehagar]

Thanks for posting.

Does anyone remember his sendup to "Saturday Night Fever"? It was called "Crazy Eddie Fever" and it ran in the height of the disco craze.