Pop Culture References
Since the show's debut, Pimp My Ride has been referred to numerous times by other television shows and comedic acts; several similar shows have aired on other networks. Other companies, including MTV itself, have spoofed the series on their own shows, acts, or television commercials.
As part of a 2006 advertising campaign, Volkswagen created a series of television commercials called VDub, starring Swedish actor Peter Stormare as an effete German engineer named Wolfgang. The ads were created as a parody of the Pimp My Ride TV Show. The three 30-second spots became something of an Internet phenomenon when popular automotive news website Leftlane News uploaded the ads to the video distribution service, YouTube.
Xzibit appeared as a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and a sketch was shown called "Pimp My Bride". The sketch shows a typical bride forming into a lingerie-bearing bride, with an LCD screen attached to her back (which is very common in the MTV program itself). The sketch was filmed in the same style as the show, most notably the camera angles.
Additionally, due to his association with the show Xzibit has attained popularity as an Internet meme, whereby his picture is juxtaposed with recursive statements beginning with "Yo Dawg" and following the format of "Yo dawg, I heard you like Y-ing so we put an X in your Z so you can Y while you action_with_Z", where Y is an action able to be done with/by X, like X=pool and Y=swim and Z=car. Here are some examples: "Yo Dawg, I heard you like cars so we put a car in your car so you can drive while you drive." or "Yo Dawg, I heard yo and yo dog like yo-yos so we put yo dog in a yo-yo so yo can yo-yo yo dog while yo dog yo-yos, dawg" Xzibit isn't too thrilled with this trend, however, he does find some of the pictures to be quite funny, and even made an attempt at creating a joke himself, which went: "YO DAWG, I hear you can't hear, so I put a hearing aid in yo hearing to listen while you're listening".
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