Winnebago Man

Chances are that if you're reading my silly blog, you're on the computer enough to have caught the Winnebago Man on YouTube.  This is the guy who channels his frustration through a profanity laced stream of consciousness while filming an industrial video for Winnebago.  There's something quite entertaining about the video - watch for yourself, and remember, this isn't a family blog, and I did say the video was profanity laced:



This clip was interesting enough to grab the attention of a young film maker, Ben Steinbauer, who wondered what ever became of Jack Rebney.  So Ben begins a journey to discover who and where Jack Rebney is.  The result is a tug of war documentary where the more young Ben probes into Jack's persona, the more the cantankerous pitchman resists with his quick acerbic tongue.

Interestingly, Jack holds a very low opinion of his YouTube fans, of which there are legions.  In Jack's words, he expected these folks to be of "room temperature intelligence, with the IQ of a refrigerator."  In the final scene, Jack meets his fans during a Found Film festival and happily discovers that they are more like him than he could have expected.

This is an excellent documentary - I was riveted.