They found Herbie The Love Bug at the BOTTOM of the ocean!?!

Embark on an intriguing journey of automotive exploration in our latest video, as we delve into the mystery surrounding the original Herbie the Love Bug story, "Car, Boy, Girl," penned by Gordon Buford. Join me as we unravel the fascinating origins of the beloved anthropomorphic Volkswagen Beetle, tracing its roots back to Buford's imaginative narrative. But that's not all - prepare for a deep-sea dive into cinematic history as we uncover the astonishing discovery of the Herbie Goes Bananas car resting at the bottom of the ocean. Uncover the secrets, unveil the tales, and ride along on this investigative adventure that unveils the untold chapters of Herbie's extraordinary saga.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Man, I could go for a cone or Condorman Crunch right now!

[@cfmagal]

After Herbie and Dudu,there was Bumblebee as a yellow Beetle.😁

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Yes!!

[@mm72213]

Hey what about Christine and THE CAR and. K.I.T.T.?😂

[@TheMysticalFusion]

@@mm72213 K.I.T.T was a robot disguised as a car used as a tool for spies. Christine was a car who was run by Satan, and The CAR was a Hellspawn but not specificall Satan like christine. Herbie was powered by the love of a scientist that he had for his deceased mother. The knockoffs are just plain unexplainable

[@DangerAngelous]

Never underestimate the power of a sequel or reboot long after the original thing was made, Herbie Fully Loaded when I was 7 got me hooked on Herbie's first movies. In a similar way the 2004 Thunderbirds movie did the same for the original Thunderbirds show!

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Oh yeah! The marionette show! Love that show!

[@ThexEpicxMechanic]

There's a Herbie at the volo auto museum in North Illinois. It's bumper is hinged and on a chain drive so it drops forward on que.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

That's so cool! Hope to see that some day!

[@lezbarker2673]

I just watched a 1997 Love Bug with Bruce Campbell in it and the original actor from the first Herbie turns up to help rebuild Herbie after he is murdered by another VW built by the guy who made Herbie it’s an insane movie and I loved it. Never heard of it either I grew up with the original ones watching them I’m on video as a kid in the 80’s.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Yes! That movie is an underrated gem. It does create a continuity issue because after Herbies funeral they say he needs to be rebuilt from all original parts, but in Fully Loaded he's allowed to get new parts... but it's a magical car. I guess continuity isn't that important. ;) Thanks for watchinG!

[@GrafsGarage3]

Dude, I love Herbie! I had all five originals on VHS, then the box set of the first four and the Lindsey Logan one on DVD. Wont lie, The Love Bug was probably my favorite! But ive see goes banana’s 1 million times! Glad I stumbled upon your Bic video then found this one! 5️⃣3️⃣

[@PointlessNostalgia]

So glad to hear it! Yeah, Bananas was my favorite as a kid but Love Bug is so excellent.

[@srbarkerchan]

I'll always have a soft spot for Herbie Fully Loaded as it was what introduced me to the franchise as a kid.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

I love that movie.

[@novawolf_gaming]

Glad to hear you enjoyed it Just went on a Herbie marathon (including the underrated 1997 TV Movie) and I actually didn't enjoy Fully Loaded much on a rewatch, I remember enjoying it as a kid but compared to the others, not amazing My list goes as follows, from worst to best Herbie Goes Bananas Herbie Fully Loaded Herbie The Love Bug '97 Herbie Rides Again Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo The Love Bug Still all great films tho

[@kevinnelson66]

Fully Loaded was great. Too bad Lindsay Lohan went off the rails shortly afterwards.

[@Falconurbex]

Love the herbie films they were cool and herbie was awesome.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

It’s such a wonderful series. I saw Volkswagen has a new commercial that shows Herbie for a moment. Thank you so much for watching my video!

[@KING_VHS]

when you said to give a thumbs up the like button glowed with a rainbow aura... Liked the video either way

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Woah that’s cool. They are always innovating! Hey thanks so much for liking the video!

[@PULRN]

Great video!

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[@PULRN]

@PointlessNostalgia I'm going to be watching the Dudu movies that I never knew about. I'm a huge Herbie fan. Last weekend, I found a knockoff Herbie sculpture of my own at a flea market for just $1. Not as wild as yours but kind of similar.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

@@PULRN the Dudu movies are a trip! I love them.

[@evilbeetlekustomscreations4965]

My friend George owns the Herbie bug that was used in the Lindsay Lohan scene where she's driving in the destruction Derby in the monster trucks going to run her over she couldn't drive a manual transmission so it's a right hand drive car and you can't see the guy driving it because of the black sheet over the top of him and a small steering wheel he got the car back after the movie was done fully restored for the price he sold it to them there is a Herbie movie premiere in Brenden theaters in Modesto in the car got to be inside the theater for the premiere and our VW club got to park our cars in front 😊✌️

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Wow! This is the coolest comment! So much great information. So glad so many people share the love of this car!

[@evilbeetlekustomscreations4965]

​​Even though the bug is a 63 in all the movies the horn sounds pathetic, the best sounding horn was a 1967 model beetle which is a 1-year only bug and the horn from a 67 was used to get that signature honk😂✌️I love pointless Nostalgia also!!! ​@@PointlessNostalgia

[@TheGraytOutdoors]

Love Herbie.. still do.. love VW’s and Dune Buggies in general.. speaking of that, have you ever tried to find out what happened to “Wonder-Bug and Shlep” from the Kroft Super Show??

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Ooh that’s a good question! I wonder!

[@eugenenelson5398]

Glad i came across your post . I grew up watching herby. I now want to get one of those modified bugs thats been put up on a 4x4 , and paint it like herby!

[@PointlessNostalgia]

That sounds awesome! Thanks for checking in!

[@samurai_jack_1]

U can call it monster herbie. If it looks like a monster car that is. Lpl

[@mikehorrocks2909]

Love all of the movies of Herbie! Also love the movie Condorman!🤪

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Yes! Condorman is such an underrated movie. I really enjoy that era of family films

[@Ajen1959]

Luv your video! just subscribed!

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Thank you so much for saying that & thank you for subscribing!

[@mre9593]

when I was a kid our theater had a Herbie replica parked in front of the theater.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Wow, very cool. What state?

[@mre9593]

Illinois

[@westabsupplyebay4093]

I saw herbie split in half at Disney world in 2006, good times. We also saw the honey I shrunk the kids attraction complete with super tall blades of grass and a huge thing of play doh. My youngest sister 2 at the time got to meet and hug pooh bear.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Oh what good memories! Yeah, he was in the stunt show back then!! Thanks for watching!

[@ghiajunkie]

Herbie had a soul. The german DUDU was a computer car.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Yes! That’s true!

[@AV20242]

I remember seeing the picture years ago. Also remember thinking about it a couple weeks ago. Funny how this showed up on the recommendations. Too bad that beetle is still down there... And it'll probably stay down there.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Yeah, unfortunately.

[@Bender1729]

Did somebody say "shameless clickbait" ... ?

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Hey, sorry if it felt that way. I was talking about the fake Facebook story about the divers finding Herbie but sadly he’s still down there.

[@littlealbertagirl]

Speaking of the little Herbie Money bank. I have a (I think it's stainless steel) VW beetle money bank with functioning wheels. I've had it for as long as I can remember, and I know I will have it for a long time still 😊

[@PointlessNostalgia]

That is awesome! That’s my favorite kind of stuff. It’s one thing to collect old stuff from your childhood, but when it’s the stuff that you actually had as a child, it’s so much more meaningful.

[@Greencroc123-SG]

5:26 to 5:48 channel 5 Singapore

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Yeah, they cut a great promo!

[@ericmadsen7470]

Bring HERBIE back.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

100% agree

[@kevinnelson66]

Probably the Herbie mockup which "walked the plank" in Herbie Goes Bananas.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Yep!

[@samurai_jack_1]

I have 4 herbie movie on vhs. Im watching the monte carlo movie right now

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Monte Carlo is such a fun video. Thanks for checking this out!

[@samurai_jack_1]

@GuyHutchinson it was a fun video. Thank u. Do u have any more documentary of famous cars. Like the batmobile or green hornet? Or maybe jfk car?

[@stigma115]

We need a new movie of herbie called thunderbug

[@PointlessNostalgia]

I would love to see it!

[@eugenenelson5398]

So where is it actually under water at and why haven't someone try to get it.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

It’s several miles off the coast of Grand Cayman I believe. The problem is that a car would be so hard to find. It’s much smaller than a sunken ship and they are hard to find!

[@brandonmcclellan30]

I have that SAME Herbie t-shirt, & I have a stuff-ed Herbie, too. My stuff-ed Herbie won't quit being kooky. I call him kooky little stuff-ed car with retarded windshield wipers and screwed up decals!

[@PointlessNostalgia]

I love that shirt! Thanks for watching!

[@sinistercharger]

So where was the car at the bottom of the ocean as the Title suggested ?

[@PointlessNostalgia]

At 6:58. They dumped Herbie in a scene in Herbie Goes Bananas. A website showed photos of divers finding it but I debunked the photos. Thanks for watching. Hope you enjoyed it.

[@MiamiMillionaire]

I have the SuperBug film on Super8 😁👍

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Wow! On Super8, that is a gem! The SuperBug films are a real hoot!

[@jamesfeussner3606]

you forgot to mention gatlinburg tennesse ripleys believe it or not herbie on display with the copy of the actual amount walt disney paid for the car

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Oh wow! I didn’t even know that! I’m planning a video about Ripleys. I’ll have to take a look into that!

[@njr75003]

I’m watching on my iPhone and the boxes are there! Dunno what mobile devices these other folks are using…

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Ah! Interesting! It may have to do with the brand or the software update that determines if they see it! Thanks so much for watching, Nick!

[@njr75003]

@@PointlessNostalgia Always, my friend!

[@bobmchenry7993]

Hi wasn't the original called Dudu??? German movie dubbed in English??

[@PointlessNostalgia]

The first of the Superbug series was called Dudu, but Herbie was released 3 or 4 years before that.

[@MadisonHernandez-xd7jz]

What Intro Music Is ?

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Local high school marching band

[@mustrook1]

On a Samsung phone and I see the boxes. Must be an iPhone thing.😁

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Ahh! Probably!

[@ontherez7860]

As a kid in the 70s I remember seeing a movie sticker for a movie called killer bug or swamp bug it was a nasty looking VW and had a row of sharp teeth in its hood does anyone remember it?

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Doesn’t ring a bell, but there was a car named Swamp Buggy around that time. It had giant wheels but no teeth

[@peterparker6584]

Maybe this is the Mandela effect. I used to have Disney Channel here in Canada back in the 1980s there was a television series where Jim Douglas was a teacher at a driving school and Herbie was the car at the school part of the series was this guy teaching people how to drive and I forget if him and his wife were married or divorced the reason I bring it up is the show had more than five episodes it had like 20 or 25 episodes all together that's why it's weird that the only television series you came across had five episodes I don't know the exact name of the series but it had Herbie and Jim Douglas and it was done by Disney it's bugging me because like you said this series you mentioned only had five episodes but they used to run the thing like three or four episodes a day on the Disney Channel back in the 80s was a syndicated space fillerWatched a lot of it playing with Lego blocks when I was a kid

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Interesting! It's definitely the same plot, in the show Jim works at the Famous Driving School! The episodes were long and put in an hour long block so maybe Disney split them into small episodes for syndication? I'll dig around and see if I can find anything! Thanks so much for watching!

[@peterparker6584]

@@PointlessNostalgia Digging at the back of my brain. Like I said I remember it being a full length series I could have sworn it was like 20 episodes or more because it was something they played quite a bit on the Disney Channel when I was a kid and if it was only six episodes I can't imagine them looping six episodes over several months every week LOL I loved the Bruce Campbell movie by the way and I wish they had at least had him do a cameo in the Herbie movie they did after that. The way that they did it that Jim Douglas was dead in the movie was kind of Twisted because the actor that played Jim Douglas at that point and I'm pretty sure now is still alive and the guy would have gladly been in the movie far as I know he even has one of the cars they used in one of the movies where he hung onto the car. I remember there being an interview a couple years ago and he had a VW any claimed it was from one of the movies he starred in Playing Jim Douglas. I'm trying to remember the name of the actor but my memory sucks. It's kind of funny when you think about Bruce Campbell has been in everything to the point he was in a Herbie movie. About the only thing I think he hasn't done at this point is James Bond or an episode of Doctor Who lol. When you look at how many projects he's been involved in in front or behind the camera you get what I mean. Plus he's also a voice actor for animation.Really would have been nice if they could have had him and the Jim Douglas character do an appearance in the last Herbie movie. Given how popular the character is I'm surprised there hasn't been more movies

[@bencaulkins]

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[@PointlessNostalgia]

Will do!

[@dubworldvwadventures]

I know who has the script.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

Oh cool! I hope they release some of the details! It's really interesting!

[@dubworldvwadventures]

@@PointlessNostalgia all we can do is hope.

[@scottfirman]

Do you know how many of those cars were made? Not only for the movie eather. I remember counting at least 3 Herbies in our town. I have even seen a newer Volkswagen with the stripe and number. It looked Lame.

[@PointlessNostalgia]

You should look up Herbie Day at Disneyland if you’ve never seen it! There were sooo many!

[@scottfirman]

@@PointlessNostalgia I lived through the Herbie craze. I am sure I had the model kit as a kid.

[@scottfirman]

@GuyHutchinson I ment not just for the movie, sorry

[@richardshepard380]

Why don’t someone rebuild Herbie

[@PointlessNostalgia]

I hope I get a chance to ride/drive one. They are super cool