VW gets punchy with Sluggy Patterson work

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Crispin's Volkswagen work wasn't for everyone, including the client, which parted ways with the shop last August. The sometimes-bizarre vibe of the "Das Auto" days is long gone in Deutsch's first work, a series of faux documentaries about Sluggy Patterson, who purportedly started the road-trip game "Punch Bug" (rechristened here as "Punch Dub"), where you punch the person next to you when you see a VW Bug (or in this case, any VW). Sluggy, as you'd expect from his name, is your typical old codger, employing some salty language in an interview given in a diner.

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