For those of you who don't know, this is Pepé. He is one of the few characters from the ill-fated Muppets Tonight television show from the 90s, who managed to survive into the Muppet continuum. He has appeared in a number of the more recent Muppet films and has become one of my favourite Muppet characters (along with New Jersey's own Rizzo the Rat, and of course the ever clumsy science nerd Beeker!). A few of Pepé's more memorable quotes include:
"You tell him, and I will smack you. I will smack you like a bad, bad donkey, okay!"
"I got good news! I got the fire permit, the health permit, the permit to open a topless nightclub, all the contracts..."
(On beating some other Muppets in a game of cards)
"De prawn cracker wins"
Basically, he is a funny, peppy crustation with fiery red hair and a suave latino manner! So why the hell am I blogging about him in these pages? Well, I know this is going to sound ridculous, but given that my new car is red, suave (technologically speaking) and extremely peppy, I feel that it is appropriate that I name it after one of my favourite Muppets!
Now, yes, I know that I am opening myself up to being called a muppet, or other such muppet-influenced taunts given that I am making the great leap forward into the electric unknown. But I think the name of your car is very important. We can spend quite a large amount of time in our cars (or about 160km in an electric one!) and they become a part of our family for a little while.
I think the anthropomorphisation that we tend to apply to machines is a way of humanising what is on the one hand, a completely inanimate object, but on the other hand is also something that adds a sense of familiarity, or indeed belonging given that it is so much a part of our daily lives. So, here's to my new car - Pepé! May he always get me home safely.
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