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TIny Cars SUCK!

2009-01-15 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Science & nature · comedy performance

Back from the Detroit auto show, Hank sings a satirical song in the voice of a gas-guzzler lover who scorns small fuel-efficient cars, then announces Song Wednesday's return and plans to read his own old journals.

What is said

00:00:00 — Satirical song about the North American International Auto Show sung as a big-car lover: V8 Hemi, tiny cars, France, Mini Cooper, smart car

  • ★★ Hank says he just got back from the North American International Auto Show in Detroit and wrote a song about it while there. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ In the song Hank voices a driver who wants a huge V8 Hemi getting two or three gallons to the mile and finds the show's small cars not worth his time. (satire) — 00:00:42
  • ★★ The song's narrator links tiny cars with living in France and being a commie, says the Mini Cooper makes him ill and consigns the smart car to hell. (satire) — 00:00:42 · France

00:02:42 — Auto-show report promised; return of Song Wednesdays; Hank will follow John and read his old journals, samples two entries; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank says he will actually talk about what he saw at the auto show later in the week. — 00:02:42
  • ★★ Hank announces that this video marks the return of Song Wednesdays. — 00:02:42 · Song Wednesday
  • ★★ Hank plans to follow John's lead next Tuesday and go through his own old journals, and reads two sample entries. (hedged) — 00:02:42

Humor (dominant)

  • The narrator describes his ideal car. — 00:00:42 > «all I want's a V8 Hemi weighing 8,000 pounds, if it weighs any, getting two or three gallons to the mile»
  • The narrator explains what driving a tiny car would make him. — 00:00:42 > «I'd live in France I'd be a commie and my wife would be hairy and I'd wear ridiculous pants»
  • The narrator rates the small cars he sees at the show. — 00:00:42 > «And the smart car belongs in the seventh circle of hell»
  • Hank reads a 'startling observation' from his teenage journal. — 00:02:42 > «People get upset when you tell them that you wouldn't cry if they died.»

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