Perhaps due to The Van’s limited budget, the song is reprised at least five times throughout the movie. All the weirder because no one bothered to tell the film’s producers that Bobby’s van was a Dodge, not a Chevy.
Sexual Depravity
Even more than the teen sex comedies of the 1980s, The Van is jam-packed with sexual weirdness. Questionable activities that happen in the back of the Straight Arrow:
* Bobby tries to force a girl to undress, then gropes her as she works to escape his clutches. The young lady clearly doesn't understand that she’s in a van and therefore required to get busy.
* Bobby unwittingly engages a prostitute, who he refuses to pay for services rendered
* Bobby scores with a large naked woman, primarily for the “laughs” of scoring with a large naked woman
* Bobby positions his van across from an apartment window, pulling out binoculars to watch his rival’s girlfriend take off her clothes in front of an open window (don't any of these young women have drapes?)
So Bobby is pretty much the worst. He didn’t so much invest in a mode of transportation as a “Get Sex Free” card. When his sexual wishes occasionally go ungranted, he shrugs his shoulders with a “Women--what can you do?” sigh.
Not improbably for a movie of this caliber, Bobby ends up with the girl who has been rejecting him all along for his womanizing, immature ways. According to The Van, it turns out even smart girls can’t resist The Van.
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