In the commercials, drivers and their passengers get into accidents while driving the VW Jetta; upon exiting the vehicle unharmed but shaken, the characters exclaim "Holy..." (as in the beginning of the expression "Holy shit") before being cut off by a titlecard that jokingly finishes their sentence with the word 'safe' instead of 'shit', and then adds 'happens' (a minced version of 'Shit happens', as stated above).
He also played Norvo Tigan, the brother of Nicole de Boer's character of Ezri Dax, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Prodigal Daughter"; "psychic-guy" patient Mr. Duff in the Grey's Anatomy episode, "Save Me"; the driver in the 2001 VW Jetta ad, "Big Day"; and the groom in the Apple iDVD ad, "Elope".