YOUTUBE CLASSIC

It's The "Death Of A Salesman" Of YouTube

MEET JACK REBNEY, A.K.A. The Winnebago Man, YouTube sensation and subject of his own Wikipedia entry.

Drink him in, my friends, and find gut-churning pleasure in his extreme displeasure of himself, as well as flies, his mind, the heat, and just about everything else in his path.

"We've got flies all over the fucking place. Sh-on of a bitch! Get out of here you fucking flies! ...We've got flies coming for us,'' he warns in these video outtakes from a 1988 shoot for a Winnebago promotional film. "Get the fuck out of here you flies!" and so it goes.

But flies aren't his only target: Jack does a fair share of verbal self-flagellating with frequent outburts. "I've got to read it again because my mind is just a piece of shit this morning! God I can't fucking make my mind work!"

Evidently the shoot was on a very hot day, causing Rebney him to forget “the goddamn line” numerous times. This guy is the angriest, vulgarest, awesomest cartoon ever, and his outbursts are so authentic, never forced, always terrifying.

Though the video is astonishing because of Rebney's violent bellowing, one of my favorite moments is about 30 seconds in when he gets so angry, all he can do is throw his arms up in the air, stiffly and repeatedly. The original video apparently nabbed third place in VH1’s Best of Web Junk 2006 but the original is not your only option.

You can check out the Winnebago Man Gibberish outtakes or the Ultimate Extreme Edition for an additional 45 seconds of the lunacy. Do me a kindness, and enjoy this video, you goddamn jackass!

Sophia Ulmer, a creative writing major at Columbia College in Chicago, writes about YouTube for CrabbyGolightly. She enjoys drinking copious amounts of wine, riding her vintage bike, and snuggling with her kitty-cat named Gretta. You can check out her cooking blog at feckinfranchtoast.blogspot.com