In Popular Culture
Winnebago products have appeared in various works of film, television and music. For example, the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain, features a 1974 Minnie Winnie, which is made to fly in a memorable sequence. A spacecraft made from a 1986 Winnebago Chieftain appears in the Mel Brooks spoof Spaceballs. Other examples include the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, the 1985 film Lost in America, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, the Frasier episode "RDWRER", MTV's reality television series Road Rules, Family Guy, Robert De Niro's character has one in the comedy Meet the Fockers, and the title character's (Jack Nicholson) Winnebago Adventurer in About Schmidt. A popular hunting show on the VERSUS network, GUN IT, features Benny Spies traveling the countryside in his 1973 Winnebago hunting with friends, family, strangers, & just about anyone else who enjoys the outdoors.
Punk rock band the Dead Kennedys have a song on their 1982 LP, Plastic Surgery Disasters entitled "Winnebago Warrior", which mocks the habits and self-perception of stereotypical RV owners with lines such as "Winnebago warrior, brave as old John Wayne; Winnebago warrior, a true Yankee pioneer". In the US animated series The Venture Bros., Brock Samson, the hulking bodyguard of the Venture family, is described as "one-half Swedish, one-quarter Polish, one-quarter Winnebago". The 2009 stop-animation cartoon Glenn Martin, DDS is based on a dentist driving a Winnebago around the country. Winnebago Man is a 2010 documentary feature film about Jack Rebney, an RV salesman, whose profane outtakes from a 1989 Itasca Sunflyer sales video circulated underground on VHS tape, until Internet users turned the clip into a viral sensation.
A Winnebago was mentioned in the 1975 song " What Do You Want From Life, by The Tubes. In a long list of items that as "..an American Citizen, you are entitled to...", they list many vehicles, among them: "A Winnebago! Hell - a herd of Winnebagos, we're giving them away!"
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