I just want to say how much I like those VW commercials with the goofy German dude who unpimps cars by destroying them.
Peter Stormare , best known for his role in Fargo.
He’s actually Swedish.
Wow, that’s Peter Stormare? I don’t know if I ever would have made the connection.
I thought it was! Needed to check back I guess.
I vant to know who hees blonde sidekick is.
I didn’t make it at first either, but then he made one of those freaky type faces and I had a flashback involving Steve Bushemi and a woodchipper.
Us too…and we actually own 2 VWs. Suckers!
VW has a habit of sending out goody packages for the GTIs.
When my husband bought his first GTI they sent us a car detailing package, and we’ve heard rumors of people getting the GetFast Mutant Freaky GlowyEyRabbit Thing in the mail lately after he just bought a 2006 GTI.
He has yet to receive it.
So now that they’ve switched to thisnew Unpimp campaign, I’m hoping they’ll send us a Tall Blonde German Girl.
I will make her do our housework and pick up the dog poop in the yard. She must also search his pocket pre-laundering for tissues.
It just proves the timeworn comedy adage:
Trebuchets are always hilarious.
Or, to quote Chris from Nothern Exposure, it’s not the thing you fling, it’s the fling itself.
And it’s not just any fling.
Trebuchets are funnier than catapults. They are funnier than cannons. The ponderous acceleration, the way the object is whipped in an overhand arc before flying free . . . Comedy gold, I tells ya. Comedy gold.
I think it’s pretty clear that Stormare was cast in those commercials because of his role as the leader of the German nihilists in The Big Lebowski. In fact, I suspect the commercials were written just to work that character into them. Some advertising person was dreaming up a new commercial for VW about how the cars should have all their fancy accessories gotten rid of when it occurred to him to have Stormare’s character rid the cars of accessories in some violent fashion.
Yeah, that’s what I figured too.
The first time we saw the commercial my wife was saying how he sounded like the guy, and I said, “I’m pretty sure that IS the guy.”
Even though I like the nihilist bits in TBL, I think you still need to go back (at least) to Mike Myers doing Dieter on Saturday Night Live for that funny gayish techno german archetype.
It probably even pre-dates that. Are there characters like that in Cabaret?
I recognized him right away from Windtalkers and Minority Report and then looked past him at his assistant.
*Donny: Are these the Nazis, Walter?
Walter Sobchak: No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there’s nothing to be afraid of. *
Normally i hate adverts, but there’s just something funny and cathartic seeing these horribly cosmatically abused Riceboy* cars being destroyed, i hate cosmetically-abused cars (i’m more of a “sleeper” fan)
*the term “Rice”, in this case, does not refer to the car’s or driver’s country of origin, the food rice, or the current Secretary of State of the United States, it simply refers to the practice of cosmetically abusing cars by putting useless cosmetic crap all over them in an effort to make them “look faster” which actually makes them slower by adding weight and screwing up the aerodynamics, and makes them look a lot stupider (both the driver and the vehicle.)
it also refers to the Riceboy’s “I’m a L337 dr1v3r!, I rul3!!!111!!!one!” attitude, when in actuality a brain-damaged chimpanzee on Ritalin has more driving skill than these poseurs
Haven’t seen these commercials yet. (??) I will definitely look forward to doing so!
As an aside to what MacTech said, I am particularly fond of those box-stock 4 bangers that have a muffler hanging out the butt-end of the car with a pipe that must be at least 4 inches in diameter. Oh, yeah, you really need one of those.
For those who are interested; you can watch them online at this page:
Vee-Dub een zeh haus!
Hilarious!
More like the Goatse-car. :eek:
Holy crap, Lute! W
Holy crap, Lute! Watch out for the Bat-gas!