Pumpkin coffee is back. And so is Dancing Pumpkin Man. Back in 2006, comedian Matt Geiler killed time on an Omaha, Nebraska news station by putting a pumpkin mask on his face and dancing in front of a green screen on Halloween night. Little did Geiler realize that the video would soon go viral; nor […]...
- 8/15/2017
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
It's almost that time of year again. Halloween decorations go up, fall sweaters go on and pumpkin flavored treats make their way back to the Dunkin' Donuts menu. This year, the coffee company has pulled out all the stops and brought to you, by popular demand, the Dancing Pumpkin Man. You may know him from viral videos and gifs sprinkled around the vast corners of the internet but now he's making his grand comeback in the most fitting way possible. "Dancing Pumpkin Man, by definition, has to be excited about the arrival of fall and pumpkin-flavored anything," says Matt Geiler, the man behind the mask. "Plus, I'm a huge Dunkin' Donuts fan in real life, so I'm thrilled to help...
- 8/14/2017
- E! Online
Everyone is going wild for Saturday Night Live's David S. Pumpkins this Halloween season but what about that other dancing pumpkin man? I didn't watch SNL this past weekend so when everyone was raving about David S. Pumpkins come Monday morning I went in search of the video. I'm still not sure I'm totally on the David S. Pumpkins train but bless silly Tom Hanks. But respect should be given to the dancing pumpkin man who came before him. The "pumpkin dance" was originally broadcast in 2006 on Kxvo news in Omaha, Nebraska on Halloween of that year. Wnyc's Studio 360 actually even did a feature on him and Inside Edition recently posted a ten year retrospective on its subject Matt Geiler. He told them, "[People are] still reposting it, still hypnotized by the magic. It’s pretty amazing." Especially when you consider they were just trying to kill some time on air.
- 10/28/2016
- by Jill Pantozzi
- Hitfix
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