Do you say “Punch Buggy” or “Slug Bug”?

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Nynasa@reddit

Here it was "Punchbuggy"! Punchbuggy no punch back

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Downtown_Ganache6727@reddit

I have never heard “slug bug” in my 40 years of life lol. It’s always been punch buggy, no punch backs lol

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HackDaddy85@reddit

I’ve only ever heard pinch buggy. Like in Lilo & Stitch when Stitch throws the blue bug and says “blue punch buggy!”

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aracauna@reddit

Never heard punch buggy, just punch bug.

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sluttypidge@reddit

It's "Slug Bug" in my family. Unless it's blue and then it's "Blue Punch Buggy" in a Stitch voice from Lilo and Stitch 2002.

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NIN10DOXD@reddit

I only ever heard Punch Buggy until this thread.

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throw_every_away@reddit

What the hell!? I’ve never heard punch buggy before and I’m forty years old, how is this possible?

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brownstone79@reddit

I’m older than you and only ever heard punch buggy. Curious: did you have to call the color?

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TheDude-Esquire@reddit

Our rules changed when the new beetles got popular. Then slug bug only applied to old models and color didn’t matter.

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brownstone79@reddit

Ah yeah. The new beetles came well after my playing days hahaha!

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cruzweb@reddit

I never heard "punch buggy" until I moved to New England.

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brownstone79@reddit

It’s always interesting to see the variations in responses to questions like this.

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That was a variant, yes. It’d be like “green slug bug! punch No slug back!” You had to say that so they weren’t allowed to slug you back, of course. It was kinda a house rule, not all of my friends played that way. It just depended on where you were. The core of punching each other upon seeing a vw beetle never changed.

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brownstone79@reddit

I suppose they were all house rules haha! Yes, we had the no punch back rule as well. We would call the color in case there were multiple bugs in view.

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IllustriousRanger934@reddit

Only ever heard punch buggy in Virginia. Guess slug bug is regional

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spacedman_spiff@reddit

What makes you think “punch buggy” isn’t regional to places that had buggys?

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CinemaSideBySides@reddit

I'm surprised at the people saying they've never even heard punch buggy. I feel like it's shown up frequently enough in TV shows and movies.

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pawsplay36@reddit

Name one.

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CinemaSideBySides@reddit

The Simpsons

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Cant-think-of-a-nam@reddit

Same alway been punch buggy to me

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PressxStart@reddit

I've only ever heard slug bug until this thread. 😂

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PressxStart@reddit

I've never heard punch buggy until this thread 🤣

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King_Darkside@reddit

I think Stich says it to Lilo in the original movie.

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TheYeast1@reddit

Same here

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2DEUCE2@reddit

Native Californian here… it was always Slug Bug. Our family car was a 1968 VW Bug for 16 years of my life. We played Slug Bug from the back of our Slug Bug.

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itsalro@reddit

Native Californian (however, Gen Z) that grew up in a classic vw household

Is punch buggy a uniquely newer thing? I swear I’ve only heard of punchbuggy growing up. Slug bug is very cool though

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kbivs@reddit

I've never heard the term slug bug until reading this question. I was born in 1969 and it's always been punch buggy. I'm from Philly but live in NJ now

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LeSkootch@reddit

Used to say punch buggy and I was born in '86. New Englander, though. From the comments I think it's more of a regional thing. Punch buggy definitely isn't something new. New England seems to be the Punch Buggy Republic while California seems to be the Slug Bug Dominion.

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NIN10DOXD@reddit

My entire family has said Punch Buggy for generations. I wonder if it’s East vs West.

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potchie626@reddit

I grew up in the 80s near Santa Cruz and only knew it as Punch Buggy.

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SnoopySuited@reddit

Gen x East coaster. Always been punch buggy to me until I moved out here (norcal). Now I here both.

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IthurielSpear@reddit

I grew up with slug bug in Northern California, my adult daughter says it’s punch buggy

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Gertrude_D@reddit

Same. Or if another parent was picking us up from school and my mom was already home, we knew that as soon as we turned the corner, we could possibly see up to 4 slug bugs, so we got in the ready position and just started punching and yelling when the first one was spotted.

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Low-Crow5719@reddit

SoCal. Slug bug too, but only green Beetles counted.

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TheBotchedLobotomy@reddit

Starting to think slug bug is a California thing lol

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dino-sour@reddit

I've heard and said both equal amounts. But I feel like it's been decades since I've seen one.

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Kotetsuya@reddit

Punch Buggy and PT Bruiser (rather than PT Cruiser)

We also have a 'points' system. A convertable bug is 2 points/punches. A bug with flames is 3.

Same with a PT Cruiser. But if the PT Cruiser has two-tone color, wood paneling down the side, and is a convertable, it's 4 punches.

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Logical-Pound-1065@reddit

I grew up saying “slug a bug.” Now I don’t see those cars anymore and this feels like a distant memory was just unlocked. One time, we were driving past a VW dealership and saw several of them in the lot, and me and my sister were trading punches and shouting colors out.

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Okbrain_456@reddit

Slug Bug.

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Shake307@reddit

The fuck is a "Punch Buggy"?

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the-human-wrench@reddit

I still play slug bug all the time, but we call the color, like "Yellow one!" Wait til you hear about the Pinch Tit Cruiser.

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HoyAIAG@reddit

Both

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Mental_0riental@reddit

I feel like this is a Mandela for me. this is the first time I've heard of slug bug, I've only heard punch buggy.

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AllPeopleAreStupid@reddit

Punch Buggy, never heard of slug bug and I'm in my 40s.

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wytewydow@reddit

We call out "classic" and don't hit each other.

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itdoes_doesntit@reddit

VW Beetle owners never did this. This only for those who were jealous they didn’t have a Beetle.

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Jodanmawashigeri@reddit

I say: “Please stop punching me. I’m trying to drive.”

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allaboutaphie@reddit

More importantly, do you get slugged anytime you give some1 a ride.. lol

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DiHard_ChistmasMovie@reddit

We did the "slug bug" game when I was a kid. I hadn't heard of "punch buggy" until I picked my daughter up from school one day and she spotted one on the way home.

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HotTamaleBallSak@reddit

Seems like an east vs west coast thing. I've never heard slug bug before

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spacedman_spiff@reddit

“Punch Buggy” seems to be for places that had a buggies back in the day.

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Proud-Delivery-621@reddit

Yeah everyone in the comments that I've seen so far who said slug bug is flaired for a state in the west and everyone who said punch buggy for a state in the east.

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TheBraveToast@reddit

I'm in the middle and all my friends and I played slug bug, and banana whack for a yellow car

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cruzweb@reddit

For me, it feels East Coast (up and down) vs the rest of the country.

I also grew up in downstate Michigan and heard mustard more than banana.

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icspn@reddit

I think you're correct! I'm west coast, only heard slug bug.

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MrSnrub87@reddit

No, it was slug bug in Michigan in the 80's and 90's. Definitely not an east vs west situation

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Rammaukiin@reddit

Early 2000’s also. Slug bug was what I’ve always heard.

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wounds-of-light@reddit

Was slug bug to me growing up in SC in the 2000s and 2010s

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Johnyryal33@reddit

Slug bug in MN

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Clayton9523@reddit

Punch buggy no punch back!

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Brashear99@reddit

Punch Buggy

There’s also a Slug ‘Bus’ for the VW hippy vans

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Queermagedd0n@reddit

I've used both

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No_Salad_8766@reddit

Ive always said slug bug my whole life, but ive heard others call it punch buggy. My fiance said he only had heard punch buggy until we got together, and he said slug bug makes so much more sense and sounds better. We definitely play slug bug in the car together still. And every time we are driving alone, and see a bug, we get excited and immediately disappointed that the other isnt there to slug.

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workntohard@reddit

Never heard either of these growing up.

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tsukiii@reddit

Slug bug.

In San Diego

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8696David@reddit

Wtf? Punch buggy exclusively, also San Diego. This is such a weird one lmao

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tsukiii@reddit

Where are your parents from though?

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8696David@reddit

One from Seattle/San Diego (moved when she was 11), the other from Ohio. But I didn't learn it from them, I learned it from my peers.

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xylophone_37@reddit

"Slug bug (color here) no returns"

Also in San Diego

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JimBones31@reddit

Punch buggy yellow, no punch back.

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cruzweb@reddit

this was "Slug bug, mustard, safety" growing up in Michigan

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Fred-Mertz2728@reddit

I have a friend who taught his boys to do it with motorcycles. That way they would be sure to actually see them. But,it’s slug bug.

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MisterDabber@reddit

It’s a “Slug Bug”.

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Davmilasav@reddit

Neither. It's Punchbug.

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Tight_Carpenter_6602@reddit

slug bug here in OK

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parkz88@reddit

There was a scrap yard along my school bus route. They had everything including cars. They had like 10 punch buggys and when we'd past them the bus went into a backseat brawl. The bus driver would tell us the game was over if we go to wild. Fun times.

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Proud-Delivery-621@reddit

Looking at most people with flairs on this thread, it looks pretty consistent that western states called it slug bug and eastern states called it punch buggy. Wonder why.

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631Lifer@reddit

My kids played this many times on our family road trips. Then they came up with Smack-Donald’s, as less VWs were seen and more McDonalds. Thankfully it never got out of control lol

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icspn@reddit

A related anecdote: I used to drive a Beetle and I loved driving past kids, because I'd see them all attack each other, lol.

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Yeegis@reddit (OP)

I love driving mine around, being an agent of chaos

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El_Cartografo@reddit

Do you also serve the Popeye collective?

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cruzweb@reddit

It's fun driving a car that encourages violence.

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Jojowiththeyoyo@reddit

Slug bug

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Narrow-Research-5730@reddit

Punch buggy.

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brittlej@reddit

Punch buggy dont punch back

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brittlej@reddit

Georgia*

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Fire_Mission@reddit

Punch buggy

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Charming-Pack-5979@reddit

Slug bug - born and raised in the West

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Nervous-Smoke5656@reddit

ive always said punch buggy

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Illustrious_Bobcat13@reddit

Are you on the East Coast?

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Nervous-Smoke5656@reddit

nope

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Seeggul@reddit

East of the Mississippi?

Gotta know where the line is

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IthurielSpear@reddit

I think the line is generational rather than regional.

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Murderhornet212@reddit

If it is, punch buggy is not the new one. We always said it and I’m almost 50.

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NIN10DOXD@reddit

IDK. My grandparents also said punchbuggy from what I remember.

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IthurielSpear@reddit

That’s weird. My daughter and I come from the same place and she says punch buggy while my friends and I all said slug bug

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wounds-of-light@reddit

Grew up in SC and it was slug bug to me

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greeneggiwegs@reddit

Punch buggy but I've heard both due to transplants.

BTW they don't make the VW Beetle anymore ):

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bryku@reddit

Never heard of "punch buggy" and I've lived in most states west of the mississippi. It has always been "slug bug".

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yozaner1324@reddit

Punch buggy sounds like what you'd hear in a show if "Slug Bug" was trademarked.

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izyshoroo@reddit

I would say "(color) slug bug no tag backs"

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Soldier8_1981@reddit

And also "Yellow Car." It was extra points if it was a yellow slug bug.

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GeneseeJunior@reddit

Neither, because why would someone do that? 🤨

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SirPonix@reddit

Punch buggy. My friends and I used to do it for cars with a headlight out and cars with wood grain on the side, too. We'd yell "pedittle" or "woody" and then frog someone

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crashin70@reddit

Only ever heard punch bug or slug bug, never punch buggy.

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Ok-Growth4613@reddit

Yup, padiddle is a fun game too.

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False_Counter9456@reddit

It was even better if you could combine the two, lol

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braddoismydoggo@reddit

Hawkeye backlight count it as a padiddle.

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ZhaneTaylor@reddit

I've never heard of any of this. Why would you hit someone for fun?

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Stepjam@reddit

Usually just a light hearted game between children. You generally don't punch hard.

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Stepjam@reddit

My family called it punch bug. But slug bug was an alternative I'd hear.

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pawsplay36@reddit

wtf in punch buggy, are you British?

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Honest_Swim7195@reddit

Repost

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Donald_J_Duck65@reddit

My kids only did punch bug(gy)

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Rocket1575@reddit

Slug bug.

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GreenBeanTM@reddit

Punch buggy. Only learned “slug bug” exists like a week or so ago from other posts talking about this game.

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bananapanqueques@reddit

I’d only ever heard “Punch Buggy” before social media.

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BankManager69420@reddit

Slug bug

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cmcglinchy@reddit

I’ve never heard either term …

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BookLuvr7@reddit

I've never heard of either of these.

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houdini31@reddit

Slug bug

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TheLastPorkSword@reddit

Never heard slug bug in my life until about 7 seconds ago when I read this post.

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scipio0421@reddit

I always say slug bug. Only time I say punch buggy is when I'm doing my Stitch impression.

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bizoticallyyours83@reddit

Slug bug. The only time I ever heard punch buggy was in Lilo and Stitch.

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Llyrithra@reddit

I’ve heard both, but growing up in the Northwest, it was always slug bug.

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vrctsl@reddit

Punch buggy

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rawbface@reddit

I'm in my 40's and I have only ever heard punch buggy

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biggcb@reddit

Punch buggy

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Dorianscale@reddit

Ive heard punch buggy pretty frequently growing up, slug bug isn’t unheard of but less common. I don’t know if either of these are used in younger generations though.

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donuttrackme@reddit

Grew up hearing punch buggy. Slug bug I eventually heard about, but not until I was older.

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AlgaeWafers@reddit

Punch buggy.

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thepineapplemen@reddit

I never really played it but I only ever heard punch buggy

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CinemaSideBySides@reddit

Same. I've never played but I swear I've heard punch buggy a bunch in TV shows.

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DukeofBraintree918@reddit

Punch buggy can't punch back

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Snapper__@reddit

Punch bug. Illinois.

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macfergus@reddit

Never heard of Punch Buggy.

It's Slug Bug, also Cruiser Bruiser for a PT Cruiser.

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Finndogs@reddit

Slug bug, central illinois

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crazymonk45@reddit

Reddit decided I needed to see this so for what it’s worth, in Canada I’ve only ever heard punch buggy. But I might steal slug bug, that’s hilarious

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PressxStart@reddit

Slug bug, don't slug back.

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StarMan-88@reddit

Growing up in Texas, it was always "Slug Bug". Nowadays I'm living in the North and I hear "Punch Buggy".

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pete_blake@reddit

Punch bug

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workswithpipe@reddit

Slug bug, punch buggy doesn’t even rhyme.

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poser765@reddit

I say neither because I’m fucking 45 years old. However, when I was 11, it was absolutely slug bug.

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zeik55@reddit

Native Wisconsin, always slug bug

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fuzzyizmit@reddit

I have heard both, but in my area it was punch buggy (mid-michigan)

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MrSnrub87@reddit

Born and raised in flint. I've only ever heard punch buggy on tv

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ProfessionalCat7640@reddit

Slug bug, no slugs back.

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Scavgraphics@reddit

I always said "punch buggy"

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BC999R@reddit

Native of the SF Bay Area, never heard Slug Bug until this thread. Always Punch Buggy.

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rattlehead44@reddit

Interesting. Exact opposite of my experience. Maybe it a generational thing? I was born in the early 80’s.

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Decent_Cow@reddit

Interesting because my initial impression from this thread was an East-West divide with Slug Bug used in the West. Clearly it's more complicated than that.

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Crazy_Raven_Lady@reddit

Washington state-I’ve never heard anyone say “punch buggy.”

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WildlifePolicyChick@reddit

I've never heard either!

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bren3669@reddit

slug bug up here in Michigan

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TheBraveToast@reddit

Slug bug, and banana whack for a yellow car

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LeSkootch@reddit

"Punch buggy (color here) no punch backs" was the thing we'd say very quickly.

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original_greaser_bob@reddit

any ones family do "cadillac slap"?

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Elegant_Bluebird_460@reddit

Never heard of "slug bug". Maybe it is a west coast thing but certainly not in New England

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rolyfuckingdiscopoly@reddit

Slug bug, until we all started yelling “[color] PUNCH BUGGY!!” at the top of our lungs in the stitch voice

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CheerioMissPancake@reddit

Punch buggy and also woodie wood wacker and PT Bruiser! There was a LOT of punching going on! Although I haven’t seen a woodie or a PT Cruiser in ages

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be-kind-3000@reddit

Side note. Did you also play…. If you saw a car with only one headlight, the first one to hit the ceiling of the car gets to hit the other rider.

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Gertrude_D@reddit

Yep! That one was more rare for my friends to know, but my mom and aunt taught it to us in the 70s. We called it padilly though - not padiddle as the other commenters are saying.

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IndependentEffect202@reddit

Yes, weirdly, we called it "sex" and said that when touching the ceiling. Double points if the car with one headlight had 3/4 working headlights.

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averysmartbear@reddit

You have to call out pididdle and then punch something: a person or an inanimate object. Sort of like a combination of punch buggy and knocking on wood.

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jephph_@reddit

padiddle

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Bearbearblues@reddit

I never really heard of either until I was older. We didn’t play that with my siblings. I’ve since heard of both.

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Gertrude_D@reddit

Slug bug 4-evah!

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Sylent09@reddit

Honestly anymore it's more like "Oh wow! Ain't seen one of them in a while! When did they stop making them?"... but back in the day it was absolutely "slug bug"

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1PumpkinKiing@reddit

Slug bug

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OpeningChipmunk1700@reddit

I have never heard of this game. Now I feel weird given how common it apparently is.

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Decent_Cow@reddit

Did you not have siblings?

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OpeningChipmunk1700@reddit

I did. My parents did not allow me, a boy, to punch my younger sister.

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Decent_Cow@reddit

It's a light punch on the arm. They sound like fun.

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OpeningChipmunk1700@reddit

They were not in the traditional sense, but they are still awesome.

But, more fundamentally, how would a younger sibling have exposed me to this game given that neither of us was aware of it?

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brian11e3@reddit

According to the interwebs, slug bug is west coast and punch buggy is east coast.

Im from Illinois and always heard it as slug bug. I've actually never heard of punch buggy.

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_skank_hunt42@reddit

Slug bug

Grew up in the Bay Area, CA

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Remarkable_Table_279@reddit

Punch buggy…I think it’s regional

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InevitableRhubarb232@reddit

Slug bug. Illinois

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ArkansasTravelier@reddit

Slug bug in Arkansas, but I know other southern states say punch buggy, just like they call shopping carts buggys

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Decent_Cow@reddit

It doesn't have anything to do with shopping carts, I think, that's a coincidence. "Buggy" is just a variant of "bug" because the car is called a Beetle.

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ArkansasTravelier@reddit

I understand… I just mentioned that they also call shopping carts buggy’s, I understand the similarities between slug BUG and punch BUGGY lol

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FirstPersonWinner@reddit

I've heard both, but prefer Slug Bug

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rattlehead44@reddit

Slug Bug. Never in my life have I heard “Punch Buggy”

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Decent_Cow@reddit

Notable examples of "Punch Buggy" can be seen in popular culture in the film "Lilo and Stitch", and in The Simpsons season 14 episode 3 "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade". Both aired in 2002, so it was clearly well-established by then.

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margoawaypls@reddit

from the pnw, always said slug bug growing up now i say either

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Jakaple@reddit

Punch buggy isn't a thing. It's slug bug because you saw the beetle first and slugged your friend.

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Decent_Cow@reddit

Punch buggy is absolutely a thing.

https://youtu.be/bjyB-iDAUoc?si=dm4apLyBOcAvtjEs

Punch Buggy in "The Simpsons" season 14 episode 3, from November 2002.

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IndependentEffect202@reddit

Ive only ever heard punch buggy on lilo and stitch.

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Maleficent_Button_58@reddit

Millennial from upstate NY. Punch buggy, no punch backs.

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WinterRevolutionary6@reddit

Punch buggy but I’ve heard of people saying slug bug.

Just for fun I’ll tell you all the other cat spotting games we have

banana wax - yellow car (punch)
love bug lime - green car (hand squeeze to simulate hug)
brains - smart car (punch)
classic - classic cars that look cool (punch)
paddiddle - cars with one turn signal or headlight broken
out of state/country plate - self explanatory

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jmims98@reddit

Punch buggy, but originally from New England.

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MM_in_MN@reddit

We just yelled Beetle

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Raff102@reddit

Slug bug

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Ok_Entrepreneur_8509@reddit

It used to always be "slug bug". But in the 90s, VW did an ad campaign where they embraced this game, and started saying "punch buggy" to avoid the "slug" connotation.

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Phoenix_Court@reddit

Punch Bug.

"Punch Bug, no punch back".

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itsmebrian@reddit

I've heard both but Punch Buggy is what we used. Philadelphia, if that matters.

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max_m0use@reddit

We never did when I was a kid, but we had "[color] Tracker smacker, no smacker backer" whenever we saw a Geo Tracker. If you got smacked, you couldn't smack the person who smacked you unless you saw another color Tracker. As an aside, Trackers were everywhere in the early-mid '90s, but they all seemed to disappear around 2000.

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Calor777@reddit

Slug bug

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notsosecretshipper@reddit

I say punch buggy, but I've always heard both ways. Maybe I live on the dividing line, lol.

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highlandre@reddit

Never heard of punch buggy till this thread. Always Slug Bug

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Firefly_Magic@reddit

Punch bug

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Applesauce_Magician@reddit

Slug bug, didn't hear about Punch Buggy until I saw in a movie or show

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Online_Discovery@reddit

Never heard of the first one before

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Environmental-Gap380@reddit

Slug Bug. I grew up in Wyoming.

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distrucktocon@reddit

Slug bug.

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AlrightyAlready@reddit

Never heard of any of this.

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aznboi94928@reddit

Slug bug. From NorCal

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ThexLoneWolf@reddit

My dad used to say “slug bug” back when I was a kid. I don’t recall whether I particularly liked it, but I do know he enjoyed it a lot.

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purplishfluffyclouds@reddit

Have never heard either

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Ratermelon@reddit

I heard them both with the same frequency.

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GandalfTheShmexy@reddit

slug bug

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Ok_Orchid1004@reddit

I’ve never heard either term in my life. I’m almost 70 and have lived all over the USA. And we had one back in the 60’s.

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ExternalMaximum6662@reddit

Bug slug. Midwest born.

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Awdayshus@reddit

It was always "slug bug" growing up in Minnesota. I have never heard "punch buggy."

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aksers@reddit

Slug bug

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IPreferDiamonds@reddit

Punch Buggy

And I drive a VW Beetle too!

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IA_Royalty@reddit

Slug bug

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EvaisAchu@reddit

Always said both.

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Signal-Weight8300@reddit

We mostly said Punch Buggy, but Slug Bug was used as well. We restricted it to old Beetles only, not the remake. If it wasn't an air cooled 6 volt system, it's not a real Beetle.

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TrueGritsRat@reddit

Maryland, never heard or slug bug

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SnooPineapples280@reddit

Punch buggy. I’ve never heard slug bug until now.

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burlingk@reddit

I generally say, "don't you dare."

That said, I think both are kind of common in Texas.

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El-Viking@reddit

It was mostly "punch buggy, no punch backs" here in Northern Virginia. But, since this area has so many transplants, "slug bug" would come up occasionally.

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danigotchi@reddit

I personally say Punch Buggy but grew up hearing both. I think for me Punch Buggy just happened to stick a little bit more

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Living_Molasses4719@reddit

Slug bug. Missouri

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iowanaquarist@reddit

Vw bugs are slug bugs. Amish buggies are punch buggies. Why would you call a bug a buggy or a buggy a bug?

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retro-petro@reddit

Slug Bug

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lanikuikawa@reddit

punch buggy no punch backs. 7th generation californian.

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lavasca@reddit

Punch Buggy

Then I punched the guy back and demanded to know why he hit me. He said it was something they did in the midwest.

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cjwest23@reddit

Slug bug, grew up in central CA

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myburneraccount151@reddit

Slug bug so as to distinguish it from a PT Punch

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IthurielSpear@reddit

Gen X here. We said slug bug in California in the 70s.

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_handlemewithcare_@reddit

Punch bug

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Tiamont42@reddit

Slug bug

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Itchy_Pangolin_394@reddit

Slug bug or Slug a Bug.

never heard of punch buggy

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atheologist@reddit

I’ve only ever heard punch buggy.

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Water-is-h2o@reddit

Slug bug. I first heard punch buggy from lilo and stitch so I knew it existed for a while, but I’m still not sure I’ve ever heard an irl person say it

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mutantmanifesto@reddit

Blue-punch-buggy-no-punch-backs!

Long Island childhood

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ColumbiaWahoo@reddit

“[paint color] one!”

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Several_Ad_6576@reddit

From Wisconsin originally, wife from Illinois and now in Iowa. It’s always been Slug Bug.

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ZamHalen3@reddit

Yeah. I grew up having heard both.

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bonanzapineapple@reddit

Punch buggy. Never heard of the other one

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PfalsePflagg@reddit

“Punch Buggy” followed by the color. Grew up around Buffalo NY.

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DOMSdeluise@reddit

Well I'm getting close to 40 so neither, presently, but growing up we used both interchangeably

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MelodyMaster5656@reddit

Oh I had punch buggies, cheeseballs (yellow cars), Jack O’ Lanterns (for an old style of DC taxi that was black and orange), cream cheeses (yellow cars with white tops), and probably more that I forgot.

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hankrhoads@reddit

Slug bug

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hoodiegirl10@reddit

Slug bug in Indiana

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wyvern713@reddit

I've always said "Slug Bug" unless I'm quoting "Lilo & Stitch" when Stitch hits Jumba with a VW Bug and yells "Blue Punch Buggy!"

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blanknullvoidzero@reddit

Texas here, always said slug bug.

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RickLovin1@reddit

I learned it as slug bug when I was a kid in the Midwest. It was punch buggy when I moved to the south.

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YouWillHaveThat@reddit

Yes and yes. Also: “Nazi 911.”

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Duck_Diddler@reddit

Always had it growing up in the south

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Designer-Travel4785@reddit

Punch bug, no punch backs!

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snolds@reddit

Slug Bug and if you got the color wrong the other person got two slugs.
(hard to tell black from navy blue some times)

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gonzagylot00@reddit

I grew up in Pennsylvania. We said Punch Buggy.

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capnsven@reddit

My parents have been playing an uninterrupted game of Punch Bug since 1982.

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Lucky-Remote-5842@reddit

Slug bug in Kentucky.

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msbshow@reddit

A punch buggy was a mini cooper, a slug bug was a VW Beatle

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geaddaddy@reddit

New Englander. Punch buggy

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Sans_Seriphim@reddit

Slug bug, but I hardly ever see Bugs at all any more.

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TheGrauWolf@reddit

Grew up in SoCal. Slug Bug. I have heard Punch Buggy, but I'm trying to remember where... I'm sure it was back east.

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Constellation-88@reddit

Slug bug, but I’ve heard both.

punches brother BLUE SLUG BUG, NO SLUGS BACK!

Bro: MOOOOOOOOMMMMM!

Fun road trip times.

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Ginger630@reddit

Punch Buggy - I grew up in NYC

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PikesPique@reddit

We were a Punch Buggy family

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onetrickpinny@reddit

i’ve never heard slug bug before in my life.

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adwvn@reddit

CALIFORNIA : slug bug

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JoeyBag0Dildos@reddit

We always just said Punch Bug

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BrokenBrainBlink@reddit

Kansas. I've heard of and used them both interchangeably

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c8bb8ge@reddit

I have never heard of any of this.

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Coconut-bird@reddit

Florida here. It's been Punch Buggy since at least the '80s.

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2olley@reddit

When we were kids we said Peewee punch (and no returns). Then I moved and said slug bug. This is the first time I’ve heard of punch buggy.

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hbi2k@reddit

Punchybuggy and then the color, e.g. "Punchybuggy blue!" Also we didn't hit each other, but we did keep score for bragging rights.

I've never heard of anyone who played it like us. Military family, I remember we were playing it that way when we were stationed in Germany just after the Berlin Wall fell. Don't remember whether we picked it up from other military kids or what.

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danny_ish@reddit

East vs west coast thing

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MostAsk855@reddit

I grew up in the 70s, moved to a few states, had kids and now a grandkid. We have never heard punch buggy and have always used slug bug

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EffectiveVarious8095@reddit

Wife and I always played slug bug. We went to Mexico on our honeymoon (years ago) and every other car was a Beetle. Apparently VW sold the tool & dye to a Mexican company where they produced even cheaper versions. On the bus from the airport to our hotel, all the other passengers were agast as the wife and I were slugging the shit out of each other. Someone asked, "Why are you doing that?" and we explained that it was our honeymoon, and laughed.

We agreed after that we would only play with actual Beetles, not any other VW (or VW like) product.

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drumzandice@reddit

Slug bug

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gmanose@reddit

Slug bug

Track smack (when crossing RR tracks)

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