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I was a kid on Long Island when Crazy Eddie was big - it was impossible to not know the commercials' tag line by heart - "Crazy Eddie! His prices are in-saaaaane!"

I was young enough when all of this went down that I remember being super sad the guy in the commercials was a criminal. And then blown away to learn he was just an actor.

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I'd only heard of Crazy Eddie via a New York area local historical society, the Beastie Boys, who boasted [1]:

  I splash on beats like sauce on spaghetti
  Putting MC's out of business like they're Crazy Eddie

And once made an ad for an album in the style of the Crazy Eddie ads:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OR8O0u2fDY

[1] https://genius.com/Beastie-boys-shazam-lyrics