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Old 09-21-2017, 11:24 PM
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There's a new Herbie the Love Bug series in the works for Disney XD.

This worries me.

Lili/Landon is “part scientist, part entrepreneur, part daredevil” and realizes, when her/his parents go missing, that they’ve secretly been working on a government project: a talking car named Herbie.

That had better be a typo. Herbie does not talk except via car horn.

"A talking Herbie? Did these people accidentally get confused and watch a bunch of old Knight Rider episodes?"

It doesn’t really matter why Herbie seems to be self-aware and capable of so much more. Any attempt to fill in some complex, logical backstory is doomed. Did the addition of microscopic midi-chlorians somehow make Star Wars better?



And now, to cool down, here are some more Herbie links...


The Herbie theme



Piano cover of the Herbie theme


The Nostalgia Critic covers the first movie for Disneycember


Star Cars features a fan-made Herbie duplicate
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