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Line 3: {{quote\| '''Peggy''': "Thank you for calling USA Prime Credit, my name Peggy."}} Peggy is a customer service representative for USA Prime Credit, a spoof credit card company seen in [http://www.youtube.com/user/discoverpeggy series of advertisements] for Discover Card. Peggy lives in Siberia, speaks with a Romanian accent and is a somewhat [[Affectionate Parody]] of people who work in call centers in countries such as India. Peggy's goal seems to be to provide you the least helpful customer service possible, by not answering your questions, giving you the run-around and refusing to deal with you directly. Further ramping up the parody, Peggy (as you can see in the page image) [[Samus Is a Girl\|is a man]]. Line 9: Peggy is played by [http://www.petrut.biz/ Tudor Petrut], an actor and writer who also works as a high school algebra teacher. USA Prime Credit has an [https://web.archive.org/web/20121229174700/http://www.usaprimecredit.com/ official website], but it is always broken. == {{tropelist\|Peggy and his commercials give examples of: ==}} * [[Break the Motivational Speaker]]: In this case, Lou Holtz: "Lost my card, need a replacement sent..." "One month." "Do you believe in yourself? I believe in you." "You inspire me! Three weeks." * [[Celebrity Endorsement]]: A couple of the commercials feature well-known figures in sports or entertainment calling Peggy.