Saturday, May 26, 2007

Jack Rebney: Winnebago Salesman Extraordinaire

Have you ever seen Jack Rebney lose it? He’s the angriest man ever caught on film. You can only imagine. Below is an edited transcript of the infamous out-takes from a Winnebago industrial commercial taped in 1988/89. Due the extreme nature of the language I will only provide you with an edited the transcript (source: Wikipedia). The video itself is hilarious, and you can easily find it online. I will not be posting it here, though.

The video opens with Jack Rebney sitting in the Winnebago, complaining that he has to be able to move. He then gets up and starts talking about the Winnebago's bathroom, but forgets his lines and says, "I don't even know what the f**k I'm reading". It then cuts to a scene where Rebney, rubbing his temples, exclaims "I wonder what the f**k the real dialogue is!". A man is shown walking across the screen as Rebney asks, in reference to a windscreen wiper, "What the f**k is this thing?". The man walks up to assist him as he says, "Part of the windshield, for f**k's sake." The next clip is a Winnebago by itself, and Rebney can be heard saying, "Oh, f**k". Then, Jack is in the middle of a parking lot and says, "What? What the f**k did I say?"
The next two clips are again of Winnebago’s. In the first clip, Rebney asks "That didn't sound for s**t, did it?". In the second clip, he explains that they are "Building a f**king industrial film", and he's "Trying to give these people everything they can get. I mean, that's it, f**k it." That clip quickly skips, and Jack appears to be explaining how a frame-mounted handle is going to help one to not fall out of the RV, at which he laughs and concludes, "You big dumb son of a b*tch!". Again, he yells "I don't even know what the f**k I'm saying!" as he strolls away from the RV. The next clip shows Rebney holding open a panel on the side of the mobile home, and getting angry when he accidentally lets go of it, to which he says, "Gotta do it again, right now.". A similar instance occurs again, this time with him waving his arms in frustration afterwards.

The next sequence of clips is just Rebney cursing, in this order: "Oh, f**k! F**k! F**k! F**K! Oh, f**k! S**T!." We then return to the same setting as the first scene, and he asks his assistant Tony to "do him a kindness," to which Tony replies "Leave? I ain't gonna be walking in and out if you're gonna f**k up and I gotta come back in here...." Rebney replies with "That doesn't make any difference to me at this juncture", and as Tony departs the frame, he says "I appreciate that, Tony... Don't slam the f**king door! No More!". He then explains that he does not want any more bulls**t from anyone for the rest of the day, including from himself. He explains that it is going to be very hot and uncomfortable outside for everybody, and that if there is any more yelling, "The s**t is gonna hit the fan!".
The next two clips are Rebney getting furious because he can't remember the lines he wrote, saying things like "I f**ked up the word rear", and "What does the Goddamn line say, Tony!?", and "I don't give a s**t what the line says." The next few scenes are him irritated about the presence of flies near (or on) the RV. He says "Son of a b*tch. Get out of here, you f**kin' flies.". Then Tony is seen walking toward the camera in the next scene, with Jack off-camera, saying "We have flies coming for us. F**k!". He tells Tony to make sure they don't get a fly in the shot. Rebney then becomes extremely agitated at the flies, swatting at them with his hand yelling "Get outta here, ya Goddamn jack*ss!". He takes matters into his own hands in the next scene, sneaking up on a fly and crushing it in his hand. The next few scenes show Rebney even angrier about flubbing his lines, exclaiming "I can't f**king make my mind work!". A tired Rebney then politely asks Tony for a towel. We see the towel fly in from outside the frame and hit the Winnebago; Rebney did not see it coming, explaining he was "Blinded by that f**kin' hot light.". The next scene is Rebney in the the Winnebago driver's seat, yelling "Goddamn son of a b*tch!". After that, he is seen climbing down the back of the RV, shouting "What do you mean? I'm gonna fall off the f**king thing!".

The next couple of scenes show Rebney back inside the Winnebago, exclaiming "Bulls**t, I ain't gonna slate this f**ker!" and how he "Hasn't got time to mark this motherf**ker.". In the next scene, Tony says the camera is still rolling, to which Rebney replies, "Well, turn the f**king thing off!". Rebney then says, in reference to Tony, "Ya dumb*ss." and "Man, I'd like to kick your f**kin' head in...". We then see Rebney walking out of the Winnebago telling us to "Meet innovation. Money!" He flips a coin into the air, but swats it onto the ground when he tries to catch it, gets angry and goes to pick it up. After a few more scenes, he starts making noises with his mouth.

Then we go into a montage of different scenes where Rebney says, in this order: "Son of a b*tch! Jesus Christ! F**k! S**t!". A couple of scenes later and we once again have Rebney frustrated because he "Can't remember the Goddamn line.". He tries to tell some customers about a Winnebago "accoutrement," before wondering "Accoutrement?!? What is that s**t?". After a couple more scenes of Rebney explaining how his mouth "Gets so Goddamn diuretic" that "it never stops," we see the penultimate shot of him inside the Winnebago, musing that it "Ain't worth it. Not this s**t. It ain't f**king worth it."

The final shot shows Rebney confidently talking about the "Mini-Winnie" being part of American tradition, with which he concludes, "Do you believe any of that s**t?".

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