# Volkswagen has anally raped punchbuggy. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 14, 2010, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volkswagen-has-anally-raped-punchbuggy/543114 "2010-06-14T07:41:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volkswagen-has-anally-raped-punchbuggy/543114/61 "2010-06-17T16:20:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Dung Beetle** Punch Buggy Brown! ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volkswagen-has-anally-raped-punchbuggy/543114/62 "2010-06-17T16:31:20Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > “Punchbuggy” is for those who still wet their pants occasionally. “Slug Bug”, on the other hand, is **war**. While Slug Bug does seem a little more macho, Punch Buggy definitely has better rhythm, but more importantly, who ever uses the word ‘slug’ any more (except for in reference to shell-less snails)? It should be relegated to 1930s South Dakota, here it belongs. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volkswagen-has-anally-raped-punchbuggy/543114/63 "2010-06-17T18:55:55Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > who ever uses the word ‘slug’ any more (except for in reference to shell-less snails)? Anyone who wants to take down bears, elephants, sasquatch and most dinosaurs in a shotgun fueled manly fury. Slug Bug is just manlier. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volkswagen-has-anally-raped-punchbuggy/543114/64 "2010-06-17T21:34:10Z")
I’d play along with the tradition if we chucked both of the leading phrases and went with “Anally Raped Punchbuggy BLUE!” ::::smack!:::: “Anally Raped Punchbuggy RED!” ::::smack!:::: ---
**Author:** ![BCHH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/53a042/32.png) [@BCHH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BCHH)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volkswagen-has-anally-raped-punchbuggy/543114/65 "2010-06-18T15:48:31Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > I agree, but god dammit, it’s SLUG BUG, not punch buggy! THANK YOU! I was going to post this very thing. I’ve only known it as SLUG BUG since I was a kid. Punch buggy is used when you spot an Amish transport. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volkswagen-has-anally-raped-punchbuggy/543114/66 "2010-06-18T16:13:25Z")
There’s another level of grotesquery in these commercials that no one else has mentioned. Sure, it’s a little obnoxious that adults are doing it, but if you grew up with it, that’s fine, it doesn’t really bother me. It definitely bothers me that they generalized it to every VW, I think it bastardized the tradition and, thus, undermines their attempt to co-opt it in their favor, but that I can see as some idiot advertiser just thinking it’s a good idea and not, so while horrific, it is at least marginally understandable. But, by God, if you’re going to co-opt the game and apply it to every VW, at the very least keep the basic rules that aren’t affected by your bastardization of the game. You HAVE to say “Punch Buggy Blue!” or, as mentioned, the variant “Slug Bug Blue!” I have NEVER heard of anyone just saying “Blue One!” Yes, it may not be a “Buggy” in your commercial, but at least it would only be a partial bastardization. In fact, it’s a lost opportunity at a mildly humorous introduction to the ad campaign where someone punches someone else seeing some random VW and saying “Punch Buggy”, the other person complaining about it, and then talking about how it carries on some tradition or whatever other marketting BS. Or if you don’t want to do that, at least be creative enough to come up with something better than “One”. Maybe “Volk Poke” (and poking instead of punching) or “Punch Wagon” or anything… anything is better than “One”. Either way, it probably is the worst ad campaign I’ve seen since Quiznos had those horrible singing rats. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volkswagen-has-anally-raped-punchbuggy/543114/67 "2010-06-18T19:38:21Z")
Regarding the name – we have [a poll thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=567672) now, so “Punch Buggy” folks can vote correctly and “Slug Bug” types can try and see if they can click a radial button. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volkswagen-has-anally-raped-punchbuggy/543114/68 "2010-06-18T20:03:26Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#): > > Could those of you who actually recognize this child’s game, please state when and where you played it. I am one of the unfortunates who never heard of this (although I guess there was an oblique reference to this near the end of the Pixar movie “UP”). > > FWIW I grew up in NYC and Long Island in the 60’s-\>70’s. Born in '67, grew up in eastern Long Island. Didn’t hear about it until I was dating in the mid-80’s – 1st girlfriend’s little niece & nephews would holler “Beetlebug Blue (or yellow or what have you)!” First person to call it got to punch someone else with no backsies. [QUOTE=RandMcnally] They try to use “slug dub,” which is just as stupid. [/QUOTE] What, The Orb’s track from _Orbus Terrarum_? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volkswagen-has-anally-raped-punchbuggy/543114/69 "2010-06-19T01:23:49Z")
While I played the nice version, I learned my cousin played the mean one: part of the point was so see who could take the most punches. He would always win in one. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volkswagen-has-anally-raped-punchbuggy/543114/70 "2010-06-20T16:02:30Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Yes, except that the car to spot is the Volkwagen Beetle. That’s it, just the Beetle! No Golfs, no Jettas…just the Beetle! Darn it. Hang on – when I was a kid (70s-80s, Western Canada), there was the following: [ul][li]Punch buggy = VW Beetle[/li][li]Jelly bean = VW van (bus, kombi, whatever)[/li][\*]Bugs bunny = VW Rabbit[/ul] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volkswagen-has-anally-raped-punchbuggy/543114.md?page=3)