Toyota: What the Hell??

Cidu Bill on Mar 5th 2010

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22 Responses to “Toyota: What the Hell??”

  1. Elyrest Mar 5th 2010 at 03:08 pm 1

    When I saw this one yesterday all I could think of was going to hell in a handbasket. ???

  2. Cidu Bill Mar 5th 2010 at 03:11 pm 2

    Elyrest, they clearly are going to hell in a handbasket: but adding Toyotas to the cartoon seems like adding zombies to Pride and Prejudice.

  3. GagWriter Mar 5th 2010 at 03:21 pm 3

    We need a new category for “Trying way too hard to get a gag out of a cliche” or something like that.

  4. paperboy Mar 5th 2010 at 03:22 pm 4

    Going with my “possibly” wrong concept of “going to Hell in a handbasket”, (which is: “heading to disaster while seeming to be doing well”), maybe it means that in trying to save ourselves with less polluting vehicles, we end up killing ourselves riding in those same inventions. (Oh, the irony!)

  5. Mateus Mar 5th 2010 at 03:27 pm 5

    Since the yak is holding a steering wheel, I’d assume they’re on a highway to Hell.

    “No stop signs, speed limit
    Nobody’s gonna slow me down
    Like a wheel, gonna spin it
    Nobody’s gonna mess me round.” - AC/DC, “Highway to Hell”

  6. Mary in Ohio Mar 5th 2010 at 03:45 pm 6

    Uh - I don’t think it’s a yak, I think it’s Old Scratch.

  7. Elyrest Mar 5th 2010 at 03:52 pm 7

    “seems like adding zombies to Pride and Prejudice”

    Seemed like a good idea to someone and I know the zombie lovers have made it a hit. Me - meh.

  8. Charlene Mar 5th 2010 at 04:12 pm 8

    Adding zombies to Pride and Prejudice actually worked, though. I’m not sure about this.

  9. Lgchrist Mar 5th 2010 at 05:42 pm 9

    My take is that Toyota’s reputation for quality has gone to Hell with it’s recent problems. Therefore a Toyota becomes a more appropriate form of transportation than a handbasket.

  10. Kaitlyn Mar 5th 2010 at 06:14 pm 10

    The toyota won’t stop, so they’ll get to hell on time? Or they’ll all die and go to hell because it won’t stop?

  11. chuckers Mar 5th 2010 at 07:31 pm 11

    Trying *way* too hard to be “topical.”

    Could easily have been done without the Toyota line.

    “Nick, while I do enjoy the scenic route, I think you missed our turn back there.”

    Last year, they could probably could have (did?) the same joke with the passengers being CEOs of the Big Three Automakers:

    “I realise congress criticised us for flying to the hearings but shouldn’t we be taking our own brand of cars?”

  12. turquoise cow Mar 5th 2010 at 08:54 pm 12

    I never did understand why someone (thing?) would be going to hell “in a hand basket.” Is it because we’re being carried to hell (and not going willingly), perhaps by Satan himself? Is it because a hand basket invokes the image of a little girl in a party dress with bows heading to a picnic, or some other cutesy/innocent thing, which is the opposite of hell?

    And the banner sign in the background confuses the issue. “Gi-normous (why the dash?) Hand Baskets Take One” implies that each person is entitled to their own, and yet these people are not only sharing, but they’re apparently being chauffeured (by the devil? his minion?). Take implies you should be able to pick something up, not be put into it…

  13. Dyfsunctional Mar 5th 2010 at 09:35 pm 13

    paperboy (#4): I think the term usually means “headed for disaster in a rapid, spectacular fashion.” One of those phrases that works more for its rhythm and alliteration than for its literal meaning, like “dead as a doornail” or “mad as a march hare.”

  14. paperboy Mar 6th 2010 at 12:05 am 14

    Thanks, Dyfsunctional#13; I didn’t want to look up the term, hoping that my concept of it would be that of the majority, but, there I am again; a lone bunch of letters in the cyber-wilderness.

  15. David A. Rooney Mar 6th 2010 at 07:34 am 15

    This whole cartoon could have been done without the dialogue simply by putting the Toyota logo on the basket itself.

  16. David A. Rooney Mar 6th 2010 at 07:36 am 16

    BTW, when is someone going to reference “Fight Club” and Ed Norton’s explanation to his fellow airline passenger about his job as a recall investigator for a major auto maker?

  17. Lola Mar 6th 2010 at 09:30 am 17

    I was told by someone (maybe grandmother, aunt, uncle) a long time ago that going to hell in a hand basket not only meant you were going there quick, but in metaphorical pieces, hence the need for a basket to keep your bits together.

  18. Igelino Mar 6th 2010 at 11:18 am 18

    Or maybe it’s just “if you’re going to hell, you’ll get the faster in a Toyota than in a handbasket.”

    But that would work better if the handbasket didn’t have a steering wheel.

    Yeah, Turquoise, whenever I hear the phrase, I get the image of a little girl in a pretty dress, carrying a handbasket to hell.

  19. Mark in Boston Mar 6th 2010 at 03:09 pm 19

    Drive like Hell. You’ll get there.

  20. chuckers Mar 6th 2010 at 06:13 pm 20

    ‘BTW, when is someone going to reference “Fight Club”’

    David, did you forget the FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB? DID YOU?

  21. David A. Rooney Mar 6th 2010 at 10:22 pm 21

    Are you refering to it’s slogan, or is that a critique of the actual film?

  22. josh Mar 7th 2010 at 02:56 pm 22

    but, the japanese are a majority of shinto-buddhists

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