Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 18, 2014
August 17, 2014
August 19, 2014
Transcript:
Television: ...and with 75% of the precincts reporting, it's Lacey Davenport with over 63%! Rick: Well... that should do it. At least one of the good guys won... Joanie: *sigh* yeah... Rick: Guess I better get home and file my story. Want to watch the rest of the returns with me? Joanie: At your place? Rick: Yeah. It's not far from here... Joanie: Okay. Gonna try anything? Rick: Hope to. I mean, unless they want rewrites...
thebird55,
It wasn’t Pat Morita, and it wasn’t on Happy days. It was an Isuzu (remember them) car commercial.
An Anglo customer has trouble pronouncing the word Isuzu. The Japanese-American salesman tries everthing to get him to pronounce it right; from slowly-repeat-after-me to finally manipulating his lips while getting him to pronounce it right is the highlight of the bit (it’s all very funny).
After the voice-over talks about the features of the car, the commerical ends with the buyer signing the deal while the salesman says “It’s okay, kid, I can’t pronounce Chevroray.”