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Typeminer wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:That was actually a scene in one of the Herbie movies. It was a Latino kid that kept calling Herbie "Ocho", throughout the whole movie... and the driver (Fred McMurray? Dean Jones? I forget) who asked that very question at the end of the movie...

Dean Jones, for sure. Buddy Hackett as the mechanic.

I saw that movie twice, I think. We were well into the reamed-out VWs as advanced go-karts phase, and it was funny as hell at the time.

I don't remember that line, though.

Obviously I do . . .

Might have been Herbie Goes Bananas?

--FreeFlier

funnny, the original VW SCIROCCO is officially a 'Type 53'...

btw- We often hear talk of the inevitable 'Alien Overlords' or 'SkyNet' waking up, but then there is [url=ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Happening_(2008_film)]"It's Not Nice to Fool With Mother Nature..."[/url]

FreeFlier wrote:

Typeminer wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:That was actually a scene in one of the Herbie movies. It was a Latino kid that kept calling Herbie "Ocho", throughout the whole movie... and the driver (Fred McMurray? Dean Jones? I forget) who asked that very question at the end of the movie...

Dean Jones, for sure. Buddy Hackett as the mechanic.

I saw that movie twice, I think. We were well into the reamed-out VWs as advanced go-karts phase, and it was funny as hell at the time.

I don't remember that line, though.

Obviously I do . . .

Might have been Herbie Goes Bananas?

--FreeFlier

Yes indeed. I never was the whole movie, but I saw that one scene... I went looking for the quote on IMDB, and found it:

IMDB wrote:D.J.: Why do keep calling this car Ocho? Ocho means eight. Can't you read the numbers?
Paco: Sure I can read the numbers. Five and three are eight. Anyone knows that.

And it was not Dean Jones, in that movie.

Incidentaly, Buddy Hackett as the mecanic is only in the first Herbie movie. In Herbie goes to Monte Carlo, it's Dean Jones and Don Knots, and in Herbie Rides again, Dean Jones is absent. Ken Berry replaces him.


[time spent on IMDB...]

Oh, this is cute: Herbie the Love Bug has its own actor page on IMDB!

My misunderstanding there. Assumed it was The Love Bug; forgot about the sequels.

Don't believe I ever saw the original . . . I know I saw Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (I remember Gisele batting her eyes at Herbie)and Herbie Goes Bananas. Don't know about any others.

Pretty sure I never saw the TV series.

--FreeFlier

I rented the original one, many years back, and was surprised to hear Buddy Hackett's New Age type explanation for Herbie's sentience. I saw Herbie Fully Loaded (the one with Lindsey Lohan), and I saw the end of Herbie Goes Bananas (hence my remembering about ocho.)

I also remember that there was a non-Disney movie made that was similar to the Love Bug movies, with a VW bug that was tricked out with all sorts of gadgets, but I don't remember if it was sentient or not.