Epic Win: Joe Isuzu
Submitted and Written by surrido.smile, faster than a speeding, well, you know
If you watched TV at all in the late 1980’s then you remember the infamous Joe Isuzu. The notorious car salesman whose cars were more amazing than anyone’s and he had no trouble rubbing it in (even if it was a blatant lie!). Although he would tend to overinflate the qualities of the cars*, there would be disclaimers pasted over the ads that would keep him in check.
*Famous quotes included:
“It has more seats than the Astrodome!”
“If I’m lying, may lightning strike my mother!”
“You have my word on it!”
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I used to work with a guy who looked like a younger version of Joe Isuzu, and was about as skeezy LOL. We always told him he was in the wrong business!
Good ol’ David Leisure, is he still around?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0500601/
I love how in the vid the bullet flying through the air still has the casing on it. LOL
He also had a small role as a Hare Krishna in the classic “Airplane!”.
BAH HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! Oh yessssss
I have a tape of the 1988 Olympics (mostly gymnastics) that has a couple of Joe Isuzu commercials on it. I can still hear his voice echoing in my ears.
Total win! Isuzu had a lot of fun with their name. Prior to Joe Isuzu was a Japanese salesman trying to teach an American salesman how to pronounce “Isuzu” with varying degrees of failure. AT the end of the commercial the Japanese salesman is comforting the American salesman by telling him: “That’s okay. I still cannot say ‘Chevoret’.”
Wasn’t it Isuzu that also had the commercial where they told someone to guess the number of beans in a jar (and there was only one)? Am I remembering this correctly?
For some odd reason, the other day Joe Isuzu’s voice came back to me: “And for those kids, a frozen yogurt machine.”
Heh – Epic Fail: Fired bullet still in shell casing =]