Frankie & Johnny's (F&J Furniture) Commercial - New Orleans - 1990

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  • Опубликовано: 18 май 2022
  • Newly-unearthed instance of a beloved local commercial series featuring "The Special Man," without the "WITH NOOOOOOOOO PROBLEMS" guy who always looked like David Alan Grier to me
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  • @89horizon
    @89horizon Год назад +70

    "I have perfect credit!"
    "Now hol' on just a minute..."

    • @Reagan_Ridley
      @Reagan_Ridley 7 месяцев назад +5

      you still need to see the Special Man

    • @504boi504
      @504boi504 6 месяцев назад +1

      😂😂

  • @MJ-qd2po
    @MJ-qd2po 3 месяца назад +6

    lol, I was showing my nephew his dad Franky. The young woman speaking Spanish at the back end of the commercial is my youngest sister! She was with him almost 30 years before he passed.Proud to say that we loved Franky! He was very, very good to our family. He and my sister were very much in love. Also very proud to say that he was a Marine and my sister is retired military as well.

  • @fillitup100
    @fillitup100 Год назад +74

    I just filed bankruptcy 🥰

  • @MJ-qd2po
    @MJ-qd2po 3 месяца назад +6

    The Special man was my brother in law, Mr. Frank Trapani! He was the most wonderful person in the world! He loves my whole family dearly and we all miss him dearly. Especially his youngest son! My beautiful nephew A.😊

    • @GidDree
      @GidDree 2 месяца назад +1

      I love y'all too !

    • @redrhino1911
      @redrhino1911 2 месяца назад

      May he rest in peace!

  • @kevparkers3237
    @kevparkers3237 Год назад +33

    I miss them so much , the originals that many won't remember

    • @fr13nd_
      @fr13nd_ Год назад +3

      I remember Japanese Ogre

  • @ToastyCas
    @ToastyCas Год назад +8

    0:38 as a Spanish speaker, hearing the first line with a thick accent and then the second line coming out so natural so hilariously jarring on my ears 😭😂😂

  • @vapordave2234
    @vapordave2234 Год назад +10

    I just filed for bankrupty_ With her smile on her face. hahahahahahahahahah

  • @randyscott3386
    @randyscott3386 6 дней назад +1

    Classic American Fall foilage farm print with wild turkeys sofa and wagonwheels on the ends ? They got it ! And they got the wagonwheel tables too !

  • @GVGames1986
    @GVGames1986 Год назад +13

    'I'm a convicted cannibal with a bad credit rating'... 'have to see the special man!'

  • @WilliamtheWorst
    @WilliamtheWorst Год назад +6

    "With noooooo problem!"

  • @soldtv
    @soldtv 4 месяца назад +4

    You would swear is a Tim and Eric skit

  • @masterjedi7648
    @masterjedi7648 Год назад +6

    Grew up in Amite and we still say see the special man lmao

  • @trendygirl3489
    @trendygirl3489 Год назад +8

    3 rooms for $599!

  • @riansfn5380
    @riansfn5380 Год назад +5

    Nowadays they check your credit and income and all that BS. Back in the day they just take your word for it.
    I miss the old days!!

  • @teddymoulin906
    @teddymoulin906 Год назад +12

    Thank you for uploading this. These are the ones I originally remember seeing.

  • @jonathandp81
    @jonathandp81 Год назад +17

    You think acting is easy, then you try it. 😁

  • @trentpettit6336
    @trentpettit6336 Год назад +5

    Notice if you listen closely that the Spanish-speaking woman in the pink dress (at about the 0:38 second mark) definitely has a Southern-sounding American accent when she says the magic phrase SPECIAL MAN! Her accent in English implies she must be an ISLENO from the Louisiana coast... Islenos are descendants of colonial Spanish settlers from the Canary Islands (which are still a Spanish colony today) but Islenos don't usually speak fluent Spanish today, and they definitely speak English with a Southern drawl! Many do make an attempt to learn Spanish at an elementary level though! I guess there also is a possibility the woman here is originally from Florida of Cuban heritage, but with English as her first language (yes, there are some "Cubans" in Florida who speak English with a Southern accent!) or possibly a "Tejano" born and raised in Texas!

    • @taralen1101
      @taralen1101 Год назад

      Or it's not that deep. It's just a 80s furniture tv advert lol. I'm African-American, so I'm just going by observations. Customer lady looks Guatemalan/Honduran/Belizean etc., due to how tan she is, and it's not my business how she or her family ended up in Louisiana area; and the employee, I'm 100 percent sure she's just American/Latina American, (a lot of Latina American girls in the 80s/90s had their hair cut medium short like that etc.) that's bilingual, and She's just a Spanish/Latina woman, probably has family roots from Cali, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas etc. working for a Black owned furniture store, she would most defiantly have to be fluent in English too, in New Orleans you know. lol

    • @helicopterspies
      @helicopterspies  5 месяцев назад

      Yeah I don't think it's a good idea to assign ethnicity to someone you've never met, especially based on a couple of seconds of audio from over 30 years ago. I'm partially Isleño and you'd never know based on how I look or speak. Isleños certainly exist here but so too do people from Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean, and South America. There also isn't a monolithic "Spanish-speaking accent" so the portion spoken in Spanish, however confidently, should be more indicative of ethnic origin rather than an assumption based on a perceived Southern drawl.

    • @MJ-qd2po
      @MJ-qd2po 3 месяца назад

      I do though! She was born in Cuba and came here with our two sisters, my mom and my dad in 1966. We arrived in New Orleans and made our life there with many other Cuban families at that time that were escaping a deadly regime known as the Castro Brothers who assassinated many, many innocent people. The accent you hear in English is right from N.O. Where we grew up. We lived in uptown New Orleans and we went to the catholic schools in and around there. Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Stephen’s, De La Salle high school, Ursuline Academy ect. We all live away from New Orleans now but we still remember our great childhood!

    • @trentpettit6336
      @trentpettit6336 3 месяца назад

      @@MJ-qd2po OMG, my mind is blown! All them snarky folks who commented above can stuff it! 😄 How may I ask did you happen to find this conversation which I started last year?

    • @helicopterspies
      @helicopterspies  3 месяца назад

      @@MJ-qd2po Your stories about your sister are very sweet, thanks so much for sharing!

  • @boobooboogoo
    @boobooboogoo Год назад +1

    Love these commercials!!!!

  • @retroguy1976
    @retroguy1976 Год назад +1

    i found this on fb yesterday i was cracking up

  • @ChrisHadleyWriter
    @ChrisHadleyWriter 2 года назад +6

    I have this same commercial somewhere in my collection.

  • @tellodoroteo2543
    @tellodoroteo2543 Год назад +26

    What if they cant pay?
    Let em have it

    • @nlee4566
      @nlee4566 Год назад +2

      😂😂😂😂😂

  • @RichardX1
    @RichardX1 Год назад +6

    His enunciation improved

  • @ggray1213
    @ggray1213 Год назад +7

    But sir we're losing money, and going to have to file bankrupcy because people are not paying for the items we sold them on credit...
    IRS - "Let em have it"

  • @demetrithorpe5911
    @demetrithorpe5911 Год назад +2

    WITH NOOO PROBLEM!! 😃

  • @GidDree
    @GidDree 2 месяца назад

    I'm on dat dope, but I need dat furniture....."LET HER HAVE IT"

  • @billythebunny9568
    @billythebunny9568 Год назад +4

    I want to smoke an FNJ right now

  • @Powerwagon563
    @Powerwagon563 20 дней назад

    I was sure the Special Man was gonna say “Let her have it” in Spanish. Nope.

  • @bicapricorn
    @bicapricorn Год назад +2

    I love 😍 this commercial too!

  • @kevinweaver4981
    @kevinweaver4981 4 месяца назад

    Why do I think the 3 rooms for $599 furniture would fall apart before you would ever pay it off?

  • @SnarkyRC
    @SnarkyRC Год назад +1

    Gimme that.

  • @michaelagoh9172
    @michaelagoh9172 2 года назад +2

    To watch

  • @randyscott3386
    @randyscott3386 5 дней назад

    70's Spanish black leather livingroom set and the zenith allegro quadrophonic sound stereo and the compton three piece leopard skin party bar I'm gon'na buy all that shit when I get my check . I'm takin all the wagon wheel shit back . When they doin fried chicken again ? Do I have to bring my own 40 ? Will they give you book value credit if you bring in classic sneakers in the original box ?

  • @bpcruiser
    @bpcruiser Год назад +2

    Fn J

  • @robertryan399
    @robertryan399 Год назад +1

    Back in the good old days when people could have welfare

  • @owenb8636
    @owenb8636 29 дней назад

    Where's "with no problem" 😢

    • @helicopterspies
      @helicopterspies  29 дней назад

      That guy was a later addition that people accepted as part of the canon. "With No Problem" is the Poochie of Frankie & Johnny's

  • @fr13nd_
    @fr13nd_ Год назад +2

    SHAZAM IS COMING!!!! ZOOLANDER 3 JAPANESE OGRE

  • @stevenc123
    @stevenc123 9 месяцев назад

    Habla con el Hombre Especial

    • @helicopterspies
      @helicopterspies  9 месяцев назад +1

      Jajajaja claro que si, el hombre especial es el mejor 🤠

  • @BRExteriorPro
    @BRExteriorPro Год назад +1

    Are they still in business 😂?

    • @taralen1101
      @taralen1101 Год назад +3

      According to Google Maps, unfortunately no. Building was completely overhauled into a clinic/nursing home facility.

    • @GVGames1986
      @GVGames1986 Год назад +3

      They were until pretty recently. There is a news clip of the place, like two decades after they filmed this and one of the women acting in this was still working there!

    • @jakeg3126
      @jakeg3126 Год назад

      @@taralen1101 thanks I was gonna ask same question. Do you know if it was the same business though and not bought by someone else?

    • @taralen1101
      @taralen1101 Год назад +1

      @@jakeg3126 I don't, but I believe F&J still have other locations still open, but the one in this video, I assume for undisclosed reasons the business closed, and whichever company bought their lease space, is the new owners, and it could be a restaurant or barber shop or dry cleaners etc.

    • @jakeg3126
      @jakeg3126 Год назад

      @@taralen1101 ok Thanks.

  • @RookieCDLDriver
    @RookieCDLDriver 10 месяцев назад

    The other commercial is more funny

  • @abdulararsa9928
    @abdulararsa9928 Год назад

    This is racist

    • @helicopterspies
      @helicopterspies  Год назад +5

      Abdul, do you wanna elaborate

    • @jakeg3126
      @jakeg3126 5 месяцев назад +1

      How is it? I might learn something.