‘Dune: Part 2’ is going viral for its popcorn bucket that some joke is NSFW
“Dune: Part 2” is going viral more than a month before its scheduled release in theaters — for reasons that have nothing to do with the movie.
“Dune: Part 2” is going viral more than a month before its scheduled release in theaters — for reasons that have nothing to do with the movie. It was the film’s purported promotional popcorn bucket that turned into immediate meme fodder for its … questionable design.
Covering the bucket is a lid fashioned to look like a replica of a sandworm — the giant extraterrestrial creatures from Arrakis, a fictional planet featured in the “Dune” novels and movies. The sandworm’s open mouth consists of a ring of long, sharp “teeth” with a small hole in the middle, where a hand could reach inside and grab popcorn.
But that’s not the use case that crossed people’s minds when photos of the bucket circulated online this weekend. Instead, internet users had a field day comparing the lid to a fleshlight and joking about engaging in sexual activity with the bucket.
“Just hear me out for a minute,” one X user wrote in a reply that accumulated 12,000 likes.
“Six pumps of butter, hold the popcorn,” another user wrote to 11,000 likes.
Rating: 5