On Saturday Night Live, host Will Ferrell and musical guest Paul McCartney played a couple of gibberish-speaking mechanics who end up taking some naive car owners for a ride.
Ferrell begins by explaining to the owners (Mikey Day, Ashley Padilla) that their Rav4’s “sprog box” was shot, and that “creates camber.” He brings in mechanic Santiago (Marcello Hernandez), who explains further—first in nonsense English before transitioning to Spanish.
“I’m sorry, what was that?” Padilla asks.
“Spanish,” Ferrell says dryly, adding that the “sprunkbell is real tree-trunky.” He and Santiago demonstrate by making sexual noises.
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Ferrell then recommends that the couple “replace all the parts,” doing so around the oil, which he says is fine. The cost, Hernandez says, is “only about forty-one-hundred-seven-hundreds-eight-thousand-forty-hundred-ten-thousand.”
When the couple ask for a second opinion, chief mechanic Nigel (McCartney) tells them: “Your tipsy-whipsy’s all dangly-doodly, and the spiggly-wiggly’s gone crumpily. The whole car is knackered.” He then gives his own imitation of the concerning sounds.
“Plus,” he says, “the steering wheel’s on the wrong bloody side.”
There are two payment plans, the mechanics say: “all the money now,” or the husband can “pay in ass.”
And that is what they decide.
“Is that good with you, hon?” he asks.
“I mean, yeah,” she says. “Whatever you want, babe. I’ll just go to Costco and walk around, and you just text me when you’re done.”
The mechanics then drag her husband into a back room.
From Rolling Stone US
