Has mathowie gone commercial?

June 12, 2005 11:20 AM

Disclaimer: This is something you need a TV to know about...
Has anybody but me seen a commercial for Volkswagen (apparently SoCal VW Dealers, but maybe showing in other regions) in which the salesman outside the car is pointing out all the comfort features to the wife in the driver's seat while the husband on the passenger's side is just using the power seat to go up and down and up and down? You'd know it if you saw it, because the actor playing the husband is (to me) a dead ringer for Matt Haughey (including the glasses). I can't find a video of that commercial online anywhere, but I wonder if some actor is going to make a career out of impersonating Our #1... (Or is the resemblence just another sign of my worsening dementia?) Dammit, they are the same glasses!!!
posted by wendell to MetaFilter-Related at 11:20 AM (24 comments total)

I've seen it and yeah, I thought it was him for a minute, too!
posted by routergirl at 11:37 AM on June 12, 2005

I see Matt Haughey everywhere.
posted by Balisong at 12:17 PM on June 12, 2005

everyone has those damn glasses.
posted by puke & cry at 12:19 PM on June 12, 2005

Who is number one?
posted by spaghetti at 12:29 PM on June 12, 2005

Spaghetti: #1 is Matt Haughey, aka mathowie, also known as the Creator of MetaFilter, or MetaFilter Member #1
posted by SpecialK at 12:32 PM on June 12, 2005

SpecialK : "Spaghetti: #1 is Matt Haughey, aka mathowie, also known as the Creator of MetaFilter, or MetaFilter Member #1"

You are number six. Who is number one?
posted by Bugbread at 12:46 PM on June 12, 2005

I got a extra ranch potato chip with an image of #1 on it yesterday. I ate it.

Blogging is the new blogebrity. I'm gonna write a blook about it.

I met a friend of one of my GF's friends at a divebar where someone's ex-boyfriend's band was playing, and she was wearing "those glasses" and I had to bite my tongue to keep from saying something like "So, where's your blog? Livejournal, Blogger, or Typepad?"

At least until she was out of earshot, anyway. Nice enough girl, but I'm pretty sure the internet has ruined me. I actually spoke aloud the words"This phone... it vibrates?" last night at a drive-in.
posted by loquacious at 12:47 PM on June 12, 2005

I couldn't track it down, wendell, but I did find this MP3 file of Boris Karloff's Beetle ad.
posted by Smart Dalek at 12:47 PM on June 12, 2005

Demystifying Public Service Announcement: SpecialK, I don't think Spaghetti's comment was a real question; that's a line from the show The Prisoner
posted by Bugbread at 12:48 PM on June 12, 2005

Bugbread got it.
posted by spaghetti at 12:59 PM on June 12, 2005

I see Haugheys everywhere I go, man. Pheonix, Barstow, Wichita and Omaha... Haughey's everywhere, man. Hey, who's that mowing my lawn? You guessed it, Haughey again.

Haughey is in your jeans.
He's in your cheesburgers.
Haughey is in Nutty Buddies!
Haughey is in your mom!
He's in everybody.

He's in the young, the old,
the fat, the skinny,
the white, the black
the brown and the blue
people got Haughey in them too.

Haughey is in everybody out there.
Everybody's got Haughey in them.
Everybody except one person that is,
Yeah, one person!
The evil opposite of Haughey,
The Anti-Haughey!
Anti-Haughey^* got no Haughey in him,
lemme tell ya.

^* No Haughey in him but the Anti-Haughey does have a trout in his trousers.
posted by cedar at 1:04 PM on June 12, 2005

Haughey
You can see him
In the clouds up in the sky

Haughey
Floats by in clusters
In our water supply

Haughey
He's in all of us, man
In our pores and in our hair

Haughey's
What we conceal
With these corny clothes we wear

Haughey is all
Haughey is divine
Haughey is control
Haughey whips and chains our soul

Haughey-We carry credit cards
Haughey-We live in fear of art

Haughey is the -OM
Haughey is revolution
Haughey is the tapeworm
In the bottle of cheap tequila
That comes alive at night
And sneaks up
And bites your nipple

The power, of Haughey
posted by Bugbread at 1:26 PM on June 12, 2005

quonsar the hutt has noooo Haughey in him...

Jay Stile has no Haughey in him!

CmdrTaco has Haughey in him, but he's trying to get out!
posted by loquacious at 1:33 PM on June 12, 2005

Wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, mathowie'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, mathowie'll be there. He'll be there in the way guys yell when they're mad. He'll be there in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they built - mathowie'll be there, too.
posted by iconomy at 1:38 PM on June 12, 2005

Who does #1 work for? Who does #1 work for!?!?
posted by thedevildancedlightly at 2:16 PM on June 12, 2005

Oh for Christ's sake. Look at this mess you people have made (begins singing the villain's song)

*To the tune of "This Fire" by Franz Ferdinand*

Songs, boring a way through me
Sterilize, this site completely
Now there is a fire in me
A fire that burns

These morons, are out of control
I'm going to burn this website
Burn this website
These morons, are out of control
I'm going to burn this website
Burn this website
These morons, are out of control
I'm going to burn this website
Burn this website
These morons, are out of control
I'm going to burn it, I'll burn it
I, I, I'll burn it down
posted by Ryvar at 2:16 PM on June 12, 2005

wendell-I saw the ad and I thought it was him too!
posted by OmieWise at 3:26 PM on June 12, 2005

tddl: #1 works for the betterment of mankind (and a few womankind) by providing Meta-everything, the showcase for the best of the web, by the best of the web, and for the best of the web. hmm That makes #1 sound more like Spiderman than Abraham Lincoln, but it is so sweet it sets my teeth on edge.
Hey Matt, remember someone wanted the outcome of Askme posts published? Did you ever go to the dentist?
posted by Cranberry at 3:55 PM on June 12, 2005

Extra points for irony: the commercial is for the VW Jetta...
Volkswagen Reveals New Passat Wagon : Jalopnik
I hate the new jetta design, but this is freaking HOTT. Looks like a new Audi A4/A6.
posted by wendell at 5:45 PM on June 12, 2005

Cedar's doing Mojo Nixon and the Skid Roper? This site is getting too surreal for me.
posted by jdroth at 6:46 PM on June 12, 2005

Haughey! I wanna take you to a gay bar!
I wanna take you to a gay bar!
I wanna take you to a gay bar gay bar gay bar!
posted by NickDouglas at 7:42 PM on June 12, 2005

Haughey needs boats.
posted by Feisty at 8:32 PM on June 12, 2005

*Notices Matt hasn't disputed the FACT that he is in the commercial*

*Matt questions the meaning of 'is'...*
posted by Balisong at 8:52 PM on June 12, 2005

I saw the ad and did not think of him. Although I was somewhat creeped out. it was all like "Let's buy this car and fuck in the seats, bitch."

Seems like the kind of car a liberal SF living web designer would buy, though.

Not me though. It looks like a damn corolla.
posted by delmoi at 11:26 AM on June 13, 2005