# Help! What the hell goes on in this Volkswagen commercial? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023 "2002-08-29T00:46:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/1 "2002-08-29T00:46:34Z")
I keep seeing just the end of this commercial and it is driving me batty. I think it’s for Volkswagen…but maybe it’s Volvo or, I don’t know, Geo or DeLorean or something. Work with me. Anyway, Smoking Hot Scruffy Guy comes out of a gas station loaded down with food and stuff and walks to where Adequately Hot Scruffy Guy is pumping gas into their V-whatever. They exchange some words, then long, meaningful glances before SHSG walks around to the passenger’s side and AHSG takes the driver’s seat. What goes on here? Does something happen in the beginning of the commercial that explains the soulful eyeballing? Was their some dialogue about the importance of letting your friend drive your car? Do the Hot Scruffy Guys go somewhere and make out (other than in my fevered brain)? The hell? I went to [Ads.com](http://Ads.com) and tried to find this commercial, but to no avail. Can anyone who has seen this explain it to me? ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/2 "2002-08-29T01:12:05Z")
Remember the Star Trek Epp. with Frank Gorshin(sp) ? Tan on the left, pale the right. On the other guy, well you know. ---
**Author:** ![dublos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@dublos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dublos)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/3 "2002-08-29T01:12:46Z")
LOL… Are you somehow missing the fact that Smoking Hot Scruffy Guy is tan to the point of sunburn down the LEFT side of his body, and that Adequately Hot Scruffy Guy is tan to the point of Sunburn down the RIGHT side of his body? And thus staring at one another and realizing this, SHSG decides to let AHSG drive for this tank full? ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/4 "2002-08-29T01:13:10Z")
They’re each sunburned on one side of their faces/arms, realize this when they look at each other, and switch sides to even it out. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![dublos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@dublos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dublos)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/5 "2002-08-29T01:14:10Z")
And half an hour later, not one but two someones reply at the same time. Very cool. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/6 "2002-08-29T01:53:45Z")
Ohhhhhhh, you mean those two cute boys have SKIN? 😉 Heh, I’m a dork. Thanks, y’all. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/7 "2002-08-29T04:51:33Z")
Heh, I’m glad you asked this, because I saw it once and I was clueless about it too. I guess the tan wasn’t what I was looking at. 😃 What I _really_ want to know is the name of the actor in the other Volkwagen ad, where Nervous But Super Hot and Sexy Guy is racing to the church to stop a wedding of the girl he loves (I presume) to the Also Hot But Looks Boring Guy. Could I find that out on [ads.com](http://ads.com)? ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/8 "2002-08-29T15:34:36Z")
“Nervous But Super Hot and Sexy Guy” looks like James Spader to me. May be wrong. Don’t know the groom. Very amused by the various titles in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/9 "2002-08-29T17:43:57Z")
It’s a Jetta commercial, and I failed to notice the sunburns, either. Merci, I wondered about this ad myself. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/10 "2002-08-29T18:30:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LolaBaby \* > \*\*Heh, I’m glad you asked this, because I saw it once and I was clueless about it too. I guess the tan wasn’t what I was looking at. 😃 > > What I _really_ want to know is the name of the actor in the other Volkwagen ad, where Nervous But Super Hot and Sexy Guy is racing to the church to stop a wedding of the girl he loves (I presume) to the Also Hot But Looks Boring Guy. > > Could I find that out on [ads.com](http://ads.com)? \*\* Don’t know the name of the actor, but it might help in tracking him down to know that NBSH&SG is the same actor who played the doctor on the sitcom “Jesse” with Christina Applegate. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/11 "2002-08-29T18:33:19Z")
[http://slate.msn.com/?id=2057413](http://slate.msn.com/?id=2057413) Here’s a link to a Slate article about the Nervous Sexy Guy in the Jetta ad. It doesn’t give his name but it does point out that the same guy appears in a later Apple ad where he elopes with another woman, creates a dvd and shows his parents the footage, who then wonder what happened to “Leslie”. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/12 "2002-08-29T18:38:03Z")
Mrs. elf6c asked the same thing to me. After a :rolleyes: moment- I pointed out the near 2nd degree burns on one side only of their super pasty bodies. I guess the Jetta is sooooo great that your willing to give yourself skin cancer just to drive it. Although I **do** love my Golf with the 1.8 Turbo engine (180 Horses- plus small nimble car equals zoom!), just not to the point of skin cancer and painful second degree burns. Where were those dolts driving-- Mercury? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/13 "2002-08-29T18:39:37Z")
Isn’t the AHBLBG the insurance salesman in the commercial for (um) car insurance, in which he’s at lunch with one of clients, who’s complaining that she can’t believe that everyone is as blissfully happy as they claim? You know? And he tells her she’s one of the best drivers he knows? Or something? Hello? ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/14 "2002-08-29T18:45:52Z")
Wow, I’m glad you guys explained this. I missed the sunburns altogether. I thought Volkswagen was somehow trying to capitalize on its homosexual market, but I still didn’t get just how. Just the way one of the guys looked the other up and down… ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-the-hell-goes-on-in-this-volkswagen-commercial/126023/15 "2002-09-02T04:53:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Motorgirl \* > \*\* > Don’t know the name of the actor, but it might help in tracking him down to know that NBSH&SG is the same actor who played the doctor on the sitcom “Jesse” with Christina Applegate. \*\* Thank you so much, **Motorgirl**! I found it on [IMDb.com](http://IMDb.com). Nervous But Super Hot And Sexy Guy’s name is Kevin Rahm. 😃