Exactly what the title asks. Are those new FOX promos, not for any specific show, that have the animated --arabian probably?-- cabbie driving around New York saying things like “pretty lady, pretty lady, drunk pretty lady”, racist? If they are not a FOX network anti arab PR campeign, then what are they? A poor attempt at humor?
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I can tell you what they aren’t. Funny and original.
The character’s name is Oleg the Taxi Man, which to me sounds more Eastern European than Middle Eastern. In either case, the idea I guess is that New York cabbies are stereotypically foreigners.
Wow. With that much back story, I fear we’ll be cursed with him for a long time, or they might try to make a show.
Wow, it’s not as if someone else hasn’t had the idea of a character from Eastern Europe with a funny accent making observations about American life before… right?
Latka was a mechanic, not a cab driver.
But…why? What the hell is this all about? Is it a new show coming out and these are some sneaky promo? That’s some expensive looking animation, it would seem really strange to just use it as a Fox promo.
The whole thing just leaves me confused.
It just leaves me annoyed.
I hope they get rid of him soon.
OK, but Tony Shalhoub played a foreign cabbie twice! (Wings, Quick Change)