Read this: The Dancing Pumpkin Man is finally embracing being Dancing Pumpkin Man

This format, it turns out, was the perfect creative soil to nourish, grow, and harvest a Dancing Pumpkin Man. Geiler says “there wasn’t much forethought to [the bit] at all.” He requested the song then said he was going to put on the costume “and chew up some television time.” He then danced his famous dance, telling Myers that he employed “spontaneous” dance moves that are “so rhythmically inept that they’re on-beat to everything ever created.” The dance worked because, as Geiler says, “if you’re freeing yourself to the spirit of Halloween, then you’re creating something that can be mashed up with every possible track known to man.”

In 2009, Buzzfeed discovered the clip and it spread across the internet. But Geiler, who had moved to L.A. and was working as an actor, didn’t want to play into his Dancing Pumpkin Man persona, which he knew “would define him.” Eventually, though, in 2016, he gave in to years of requests and appeared on America’s Got Talent to show off his stuff once more.

Geiler thought this TV appearance would mark the end of the Dancing Pumpkin era, but told Myers that, since “every year it comes back,” he’s decided he’s “embracing it” by “licensing his moves and trademarking the character”—becoming, as he says, “an actual Halloween capitalist.”

“So long as I don’t overexpose it and get too crazy with this silly little dance I did to fill time,” he explains, “I think it could continue to keep hitting new heights.”

For more on the man behind the pumpkin, read the rest of the profile.

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