Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)

Disney gets in on this Wacky Race action with the third installment in their Herbie the Love Bug franchise, starring Dean Jones, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars, and the The Young and the Restless-Guy! More appropriately titled "Horn Dog Herbie" for reasons that will become apparent, this movie has everything: sexually aroused cars, necessary racing, unnecessary diamond heist subplots with liberal cribbing from Return of the Pink Panther, bumblers who don't bumble, fuel filler lines with widths are the size of forearms, a Muppet Borat, physics defied, and - of course - oil spurting on to people's shoes like a dog urinating on a hydrant. (It's never not funny...!) Wade & Siggy discuss this outlier's contributions to the Wacky Races sub-genre, what works and doesn't work, and the Herbie franchise as a whole. They dig deep into the effect of later retconning Herbie's origin story and the incongruous attempt to define his personality, noting that he could very well be a narcissistic sociopath who only looks out for No. 53. And a deadbeat dad. Fun was had by all. Before listening to our spoiler-filled discussion, check out Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, available on Disney+ and VOD. "It really picks up once they go to Monte Carlo!"

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Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) is an episode from You Watched It Wrong by Wade & Sigmund.

This episode is 119:39 long.

This episode was published on May 7, 2023.

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