# Winnebago Man **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551 "2010-06-17T14:52:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/1 "2010-06-17T14:52:14Z")
Many of you might be familiar with a viral video from a few years back called [Winnebago Man](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDQQfBrSUs0) which features outtakes from an 80’s (I think) commcercial shoot where the guy keeps screwing up and swearing over and over. Well, someone got the idea to find and make a documentary about the guy in the video. I’ve heard some good buzz about the doc from it’s festival screenings but I’ve only just now seen the trailer and it looks fantastic. Here’s [the link to the trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO05RfHO_4s), check it out. Can’t wait to see this one! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/2 "2010-06-17T17:23:14Z")
That looks great. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/3 "2010-06-17T18:02:08Z")
Loved W. Man. This looks like good stuff! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/4 "2010-06-17T18:12:46Z")
This is the first I’ve heard of the Winnebago Man! To think I missed out all that swearing and general crankiness! I’m really looking forward to seeing the movie. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/5 "2010-06-17T19:17:30Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > This is the first I’ve heard of the Winnebago Man! To think I missed out all that swearing and general crankiness! I’m really looking forward to seeing the movie. I saved W. man in my YouTube favorites quite some time ago. It still makes me laugh. Favorite lines: “Get out of here, you g—d---- jackass!” (to a fly) "Would you do me a kindness? ---
**Author:** ![Rafe\_Hollister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Rafe\_Hollister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rafe_Hollister)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/6 "2010-07-02T16:44:08Z")
How the fuck did I miss this shit?!?! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/7 "2010-07-02T19:11:21Z")
If you really like profanity-laden vids, try this one from the Onion about Sony: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8AyVh1_vWYQ/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgYChPMA8=&rs=AOn4CLC4lc8rAZFhM-6gtArIy406QKk88Q "Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ) NSFW, obviously. And this one, about Citibank: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6gNl-cE\_Fg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6gNl-cE_Fg) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/8 "2010-07-02T20:33:34Z")
This looks great. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/9 "2010-07-02T20:43:17Z")
In a similiar vein, wasnt there a series of youtube collections called something like “crazy shit my dad says”? ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/10 "2010-07-03T17:58:01Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > In a similiar vein, wasnt there a series of youtube collections called something like “crazy shit my dad says”? A [Twitter feed,](http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays) actually. Although I think Bill Shatner did a reading from some of them, and that video’s on YouTube. This documentary looks awesome. “Thank you very much. I appreciate that, Tony. DON’T SLAM THE FUCKIN’ DOOR!” ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/11 "2010-07-04T17:30:58Z")
> [@SanibelMan](#): > > A [Twitter feed,](http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays) actually. Although I think Bill Shatner did a reading from some of them, and that video’s on YouTube. > > This documentary looks awesome. > > “Thank you very much. I appreciate that, Tony. DON’T SLAM THE FUCKIN’ DOOR!” S\*it my dad says started as a Twitter feed, then became a book, and now is going to be a TV series featuring Shatner. The book is hilarious, by the way. Read it! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/12 "2010-08-04T04:14:21Z")
Thank you, **Bob Ducca** , for starting this thread! I saw the movie tonight and I really enjoyed it. Jack Rebney proved to be a great subject, a man who turned out to be more than someone with a bad temper you laugh at on youtube. For all the enjoyment that he unknowingly provided for thousands of people, it’s good to know that he got a bit more than his 15 minutes of fame. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/13 "2010-08-16T02:56:52Z")
I saw the movie tonight and loved it.I had never seen the originals on YouTube, so I got to laugh at his tirades for the first time while seeing the film. I really liked how the filmmakers treated Rebney with respect. They didn’t take any easy shots at him. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/14 "2010-08-16T08:27:05Z")
“I don’t want any more bullshit! From anyone! That includes me!” He has such an awesome voice. That’s what makes the video for me: all that cursing, but in such a mellifluous tone. If he could control his temper, he might have become the voiceover king, especially after the “In a world…” guy died. Also, the idea of the filmmakers going to the ends of the earth to find him reminds me, we haven’t found Donald Eugene Ivens yet… ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/15 "2010-08-16T08:56:31Z")
I did this as a (possibly ill-advised) date movie. She (not from here) liked it a lot. Profanity actually translates well, it appears. The documentary, as such, maxes out for me as a 6.5. Very slight. Funny, bathetic at points. Then it reduces to the big reveal with SF hipsters, which isn’t worth much to me. Here’s my documentary plug for: > **[Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary (1997) ⭐ 7.6 | Documentary, Comedy, Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116481/)** > > 1h 38m | PG ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/16 "2010-08-16T09:05:07Z")
Didn’t want to double post, but I also found [this.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6jNBr_owfs&NR=1&feature=fvwp) Be advised you’ll have to watch a Hamburger Helper ad first. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/17 "2010-10-04T00:22:00Z")
Just a bump for those in **Chicago** to say that this movie will be playing at the Gene Siskel Film Center October 15-21. Unfortunately it’s playing at the same time the Chicago International Film Festival is going on, so it might not get the audience it might have received at another time. I plan to fit it in somewhere, sometime during the week. I’m still working on my schedule to coordinate films at the Film Fest/Siskel/Music Box. I still haven’t watched the video or the trailer linked in the OP, but when I saw it in the Siskel schedule, I remembered it from this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winnebago-man/543551/18 "2010-10-05T02:15:31Z")
Cool! Let us know if you do see it.