You’ve been driving around for most of this week in a Subaru
Hatchback. That’s fine if you want to
pick up moms or posture yourself in a manner that implies you care about the
environment. But it’s not great if you
want to fulfill an elaborate plot to disgrace a corrupt infrastructure. So today you’re going to drive your car, with
your sister and your talking giraffe with a shadowy past riding along, into the
wall of a secret government lab.
Once you’re through the wall, you’re going to go deeper and
deeper into its halls, with your sister ripping out throats and the giraffe
shooting people in the face left and right.
It’ll be tremendously interesting, but it’s all ancillary to what we’re
here to talk about today: the sweet ass talking car you’re going to find in the
sub-sub-basement of this government lab.
It’ll be a hybrid of David Hasselhoff’s consciousness and
the chassis of a classic Dodge Charger (1969), which will make it the perfect
car for people who still think mullets are cool and/or people who build plans
based on the plot of Night Rider episodes.
Once you enter its car-chamber, you’ll be greeted by David
Hasselhoff’s rich voice emanating from the car’s trunk subwoofer.
“Oh thank Christ!” the car will scream. “I thought I was going to die here!”
You’ll ask it how it, as a car, can actually die, at which
point a buzzing will take over its speakers before it repeats: “Oh thank Christ! I thought I was going to die here!”
You’ll give up talking to it right away and instead load
your sister and your weird animal friend into your sweet new ride and take the
elevator up, out of the lab. On your way
out the car will drive itself, largely avoiding harming any lab personnel
because of an ethical subroutine in its consciousness programming that prevents
it from killing unnecessarily. You’ll grudgingly
accept that you won’t be able to use the car to kill anyone directly, and that
it’s probably a bad idea to make what is effectively a robot capable of
committing acts of random murder, but it’ll be vaguely anticlimactic. After all that trouble, the killing and the
breaking and entry and the destruction of the car where your lost your anal
virginity to your frat brother Glenn, you thought you’d get more.
But, of course, life doesn’t always work out as you want it
to. So as you drive back to your college, filling in the car on the last five
years of popular culture with help from your sister and the giraffe, both of
whom watch a lot of reality shows about drag queens and weddings, you’ll come
to terms with disappointment, loss, and the bittersweet joy of a plan coming
together.
Congratulations on Finding a Talking Car!
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