Heh... I see their commericals all the time on TV where I live.

Wow, LaVar Arrington is really into it. Would it have killed Melo to try a bit harder?

Oh man, I was just thinking about how much I love this commercial while I was watching MASN last night. I hope this is crossposted on Deadspin and "Wonderful Athletes in Terrible Commercials" becomes a recurring feature.

Ahhh, Eastern Motors - the gem of the DC/VA/MD area!

Dang! Can't get that jingle outta my head! I've only seen it the once -- here -- and I'm already humming "Eee-stern motors . . . la la la la laaaa."

Glad they're not near me. If I were looking to buy a new car, I'd be tempted to go there -- and something tells me that it would be a "King of Cars" experience -- not good for the consumer.

I wish you could find the "Mr Submarine" ad with Scottie Pippen. Hahahaha!

"Hey, girls - wanna party?"

That was truly bad.

There was also an early 80s Reebok ad starring Magic Johnson that was truly awful:

"They bad!" or something like that.

Thanks to Eastern Motors and the "Kiss my bumper!" auto insurance guy (DC-area folks: is he even still on anymore?), there's definitely no shortage of high-quality car-related commercials on local cable tv.

EasterS   Motors, not Eastern Motors.

I meant EasternS, not EasterS :-p

Catchy tune isn't it?

YES! my favorite! you can download an mp3 of the jingle (and the "slammin' club" remix!) from their website and listen to it all the time...[www.easterns.com]

I think Alan Iverson did the music. Not sure, but not joking either.

My friend was rejected employment at one of their locations, the reason they gave him was that he wasn't "playa enough." Or maybe because he was Asian.

Unfortunately my work blocks youtube feeds, so I haven't seen which one is up here, but I live in the DC area and I'm well versed in the Easterns Motors ads.

There was one that was so badly edited -- it had all of the then-local sports guys singing along to the theme song, except the video was about 2 seconds behind the audio. It looked like they were lipsynching in a foreign languafe.

@KALEMAAT: Yup, the "Kiss my Bumper" guy is from senate insurance. All of their commercials are available on their website at [www.senateinsurance.com]

There's an Eastern's "Toy Box" like 5 miles down the road from my job...whatever that is...

At eastern motors... your jobs your credit, credit.

Eastern's Toy Store seems to sell sports cars.

CC
who used to work for Kaplan around the corner from them.

It looks like a commercial for all of the "poor black people with bad credit and a bad job". How is this commercial not racist?

YES!!!! The top one is the best one!!! I moved out of the DC area over a year ago and I still miss these commercials. And they ran the entire song on the radio, too. What excellent advertising

Aah, those and the Kiss my Bumper ads are my constant companion. I work at an office that has the TV on all day in the waiting room so it's all I hear.

I love that they're suddenly getting attention outside the area. They're pretty hilarious.

You need to find a YouTube of the Kiss My Bumper ads though, they're hilarious too.

there's a local DC group named Jebus that performs a live rock version of the Eastern motors song - it's my understanding that they do pretty good job

and everyone that has mentioned the kiss my bumper ads (and those that haven't) are 100% correct, those ads are the absolute shit - they're for Senate insurance, for those interested in writing the wikipedia entry if there already isn't one (there should be)

and bob, you are very confused - all the black people in the eastern motor ads are very, very wealthy