I think it’s safe to say that there’s many contexts where the addition of googly eyes to something improves it. Like a compressor, or an anvil, or perhaps some plants. I saw this old brochure for a 1977 Renault 6 – a sort of upmarketified Renault 4 – and realized that, in an ideal world, large oversized googly eyes would have been applied to that woman’s fur coat there, transforming it into some sort of possibly friendly gumdrop-shaped hirsute monster riding in the back there. I think it makes for a much more evocative image.
Also, is the word hirsute somehow derived from “hair suit?” Let’s check. Hm. Not exactly, it’s from the Latin word hirsutus, meaning “rough, shaggy, or bristly.” Well, crap.
Anyway, here’s what the brochure looks like sans eyes, and I think you’ll agree the eyes are a huge improvement:
Also, Renault is really going all out showing the features of this car: armrests! Door pulls and crank windows and an ashtray? Is that woman an Empress? A dome light, too? Who is she, a god?
I kinda like the simple dashboard here, even though Renault is guilty of a bit of false advertising, because once that car reaches a speed of any miles per hour, those glasses are going to slide off that dash like an Olympic ski jumper and will lodge themselves under a seat. It’ll happen pretty much immediately.
The Renault 6 also had kind of a stern little face there. I think it’s something about those rectangular headlamps, and their strange aspect ratio; they seem more vertical than horizontal, which is unusual for car headlights. They’re like a 3:4 ratio.
Anyway, it looks a bit miffed at you. What did you say to it?
Don’t stop with the coat. Add googly eyes to the headlights and the woman
> there’s many contexts where the addition of googly eyes to something improves it.
There are no contexts where adding googly eyes to something doesn’t improve it.
Ok I’ll just say it. The furry thing with the eyes is a spy from FIAT. Looking to understand how Renault builds such great cars. And pondering how to get Miss Panties in a bunch to hand back his cool sunglasses from the dash.
I could say more about the huge hair ball in the back, and how it relates to French self grooming and care, but am trying to be polite until the meds kick in. As the Corsican Brothers said, “it looks like some kind of hairy sea monster.”
This is at a scout camp in CA. I cannot confirm nor deny responsibility.
Look at a picture of Charles de Gaulle and then look at that straight-ahead, stern-faced picture of the Renault 6.
I’d like to think it was Renault’s tribute to le Général. It’s probably not true, but I’d like to think it anyway.
Looks like the Monster from Looney Tunes “Hair-raising Hare”.
https://tenor.com/view/bugs-bunny-monster-orange-run-walls-gif-10708051
That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw the googly eyes. Gossamer, the big red hairy monster.
” I think it’s something about those rectangular headlamps, and their strange aspect ratio; they seem more vertical than horizontal, which is unusual for car headlights. They’re like a 3:4 ratio.”
Jason is obviously under googly eye induced hypnosis to give the headlamps this scrutiny and not mention the bipolar doppelganger aspect.
I traveled in Spain in the mid and late 90s and those headlights were popular on various European vehicles at the time. They were sort of the Euro version of the US large single and smaller dual rectangular sealed-beam headlights — they must have used dual-filament bulbs and different lenses for the single ones (less common) and single-filament bulbs for the dual setups (Which showed up on buses and trucks more often.) They must have been the solution for more modern-looking front end styling when the designers and manufacturers didn’t want to spend the money on model-specific aero headlights.
According to some sources, the term hairsuit may be a bastardization of hirsute due to poor pronunciation. If so, I blame the English.
This is the French equivalent of the Ford Granada looks like a Mercedes ads.
How kind of Renault to include color-matched helmets. Obviously, in the pre-airbag era, there was a broad range of attempts to improve occupant safety and this is quite creative.
What’s that?
That’s her… hair?!
Oh, dear.
there was a time when that hair was State of the Art. 1976 me woulda had….issues
I bought a pack of 100 googly eyes on Amazon.
My Wife “Why would you buy 100 googly eyes?”
Me “Why wouldn’t I buy 100 googly eyes?”
The question is whether you have children… But even if not, experiment with placing them on fruits and vegetables. A halved bell pepper can look fantastic.
“To stick on your boobs while you’re asleep, that’s why”
Just use a magic marker for that. It lasts longer and she stays pissed off longer.
At least that’s what a friend told me.
It was very nice of that couple to help the hitchhiking muppet answer Kermit’s call to get the gang back together.
I’ll just leave this here:
https://metalalbumswithgooglyeyes.tumblr.com/
Crack the Skye is amazing with googly eyes.
Based on the blur outside the window, I can see why she’s clinging to the assist handle. Klaus is driving the car beyond its limits, or perhaps the brakes have failed on an Alpine road.
Am I the only one who thinks it looks like Klaus has driven so hard the interior’s spun sideways and flung the tailgate open?
I can’t believe I missed this, but THERE IS NO KLAUS. You can clearly see the empty driver’s seat in the foreground. The plot thickens.
I sure hope that fur coat doesn’t fly out, leading to a CHiPs style pile-up.
No, really, I promise it’s upmarket. Look at this photo here with the fur coat in the back. See? Upmarket!
Speaking of shit on the dashboard. Lately every other Wrangler I see has little rubber duckies lined up along the dash. What happens when they make a turn? Is the interior of the car just a chaotic stew of flying rubber duckies? Or are they gluing them down?
The ducks are because it’s become a trend over the past 3 years or so for Wrangler owners to put a rubber ducky on other Wranglers they see parked, so people collect the ducks they receive and keep extras in their Jeep so they can give them out themselves
Weird cult
(Searches Amazon for ‘most disturbing duckies’)
This may be one of the few times I’ve read “ducking” en masse without it being autocorrect at work. Anyway, NPR of all places did a decent and succinct explainer of the phenomenon and its origin: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/18/1188244113/what-the-duck-people-are-leaving-the-rubber-birds-on-jeeps-in-a-new-trend
“I think it’s safe to say that there’s many contexts where the addition of googly eyes to something improves it.”
Indubitably! Cf. Everything Everywhere All At Once!
Well, I can also suggest another place to put the googly eyes. And I am not going to apologize for my gutterbrain. But just imagine going over speedbumps……
I was going to say put the googleyes over the headlights of the Renault, but…I assume you’re talking about another set of headlights.
Is this one of those “low brow” comments I’ve been warned about? You owe me a new monocle!
We can lend you a googly eye to replace your monocle.
The eyes only make it look more like a Snuffleupagus pelt
“..and that’s when Gordon told Big Bird that Snuffy wasn’t real. At least, not anymore.”
Money was tight, and the lady offered a good price. Elmo did what had to be done.
They… Snuffed him :,(