It started ten years ago with the Pumpkin Spice Latte at Starbucks. Pumpkin spice consumer products have spread throughout the marketplace, threatening to bring consumers’ blood allspice levels to dangerously high levels. M&Ms? Sure! Booze? Sure! But why are there so many pumpkin products? This movie trailer explores the Orange Menace.

The group Official Comedy on YouTube imagined a horror movie about the spread of pumpkin spice throughout the American foodscape. What happens when everything is made of pumpkin? What would Linus, “Great Pumpkin” evangelist of the “Peanuts” gang, be like as an adult?

Now we know.

Pumpkin Spice: Official Movie Trailer [YouTube]

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