#the fact that i even spent time cobbling this meme together says a lot about my thriving loss of social life fjrfrd

[heffrondriving]

this is probably why i have no friends

#(and no life to speak of either) #if no one got me i know my immense hyperfixation for a boyband that projects me back to childhood got me can i get an amen #welp that's what this blog is for;; no thoughts just a screaming void of rusher brainrot 🙃 #big sorry to anyone who has even been subjected to the merciless wrath of my raging obsessions lmao #you are looking at the ceo of talking too much being annoying and driving people away 🙌 #the fact that i even spent time cobbling this meme together says a lot about my thriving loss of social life fjrfrd #even my entire family knows of my btr insanity in some form or another;;; i get judged by my younger sister hard in particular #since she also used to watch the show as a kid and seeing her older sibling going feral for a kid's media is prob concerning #but fuk u the era of the btr comeback be upon us!!!! #btr #big time rush #rusher #band #music #show #meme #edit #mine #nickelodeon #big time memes #stop it forever #kendall schmidt #james maslow #logan henderson #carlos penavega #kendall knight #james diamond #logan mitchell #carlos garcia

[foodbytesback]

Adam Sandler's Dunkaccino Bit is the Greatest Product Placement of All Time

I want to make it abundantly clear that I am saying that as someone who is not a fan of a single Adam Sandler movie.  A lot of his directorial works/productions follow a fairly cynical pattern: put in just enough effort to get a lukewarm reception at the box office to ensure studios will pick up future projects, then cram in as much product placement as possible to maximize profits.  So it’s no surprise that Jack and Jill, a movie where one of the eponymous characters is apparently a marketing executive, is full of such marketing.  But one specific instance has outlived everything else from that movie: Dunkaccino.

Everything about this scene is mesmerizing.  The narrator calling Dunkin “D&D,” for some reason.  The fact that they convinced Al Pacino to do any of this in the first place.  His awkward talk-singing. The even more awkwardly shoehorned-in references to his other movies in between bits where he babbles gibberish.   The magically materializing man in a coffee cup suit.  Everyone involved seems to be putting tons of effort into their choreography, while whoever was in charge of the background track and shouts of “Dunkaccino!” put in no effort at all. The fact that replacing “Al” in his name would make it “Dunk Pacino,” which no one ever questions.  

But this bizarre scene alone isn’t why I’m calling this the most effective product placement of all time.  It’s the fact that years later, this had somehow become a meme.

It was so rife with comedic potential, the internet couldn’t help but chop and screw it.  So many of these Youtube Poop edits had sprung up that eventually a Twitter account was created for archiving them: Daily Dunkaccino.

Yesterday the admin of Daily Dunkaccino announced that they would stop posting to the account 5 months from now, seemingly on the 1-year anniversary of them creating the account.  When the time comes, we will all be pouring out some of that chocolate blend for the homies.

The reason why I call this the greatest product placement of all time is that 10 years after the release of Jack and Jill, we are still talking about this scene.    Mr. Sandler and Mr. Pacino have probably long since spent the money Dunkin gave them to do this bit, yet the memory lives on.  Have I purchased a Dunkaccino since these videos started surfacing? No, but here I am, talking about Dunkaccinos.  And here you are, reading about Dunkaccinos. 41,600 people follow a Twitter account dedicated to the Dunkaccino scene, and even if only 1 in 1000 people who see one of those videos goes and buys a Dunkaccino shortly after seeing them, that’s 41 more instances of Mr. Dunkin leaning back in his office chair, steepled fingers and all, triumphantly declaring, “Gotcha.”

And sure, the scene itself is similar enough to all the weird Olive Garden stuff in Sonic, but will people be making Youtube Poops of that in 10 years? I think not. 

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to cobble together an edit where an amnesiac Al Pacino keeps asking “What’s my name?”

#food #dunkin #dunkin donuts #dunkaccino #al pacino #adam sandler #product placement