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The Grapist
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Executives gather to review a new commercial for Fizzy-Pops Grape Blast, whose mascot is a man in a purple grape-cluster costume called the Grapist who bursts into children's bedrooms promising to grape them. One executive (Zach Cregger) nervously points out that the slogan sounds like a rape threat, but the man presenting the campaign (Trevor Moore) waves the concern away as a dirty mind and keeps rolling the footage. Every new scene, from a child tied to a radiator to kids fleeing in terror, makes the subtext harder to ignore, while the presenter grows more defensive and even blames a little girl's purple outfit. The executives agree to buy the campaign anyway, just as the final cut adds a free grape whistle and the Grapist's plan to work through the whole family in the basement.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 5
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Sir! Get your mind out of the gutter. He's a grape. How is a grape gonna rape a kid?
Come here, kid! I'm gonna tie you to the radiator and grape you!
I'm gonna take your whole family down to the basement and grape you all for decades and decades and decades.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.

Zach Cregger
Director

Trevor Moore
Director


Zach Cregger
Writer

Sam Brown
Writer

Darren Trumeter
Writer

Timmy Williams
Writer
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:09
The Grapist
You You kids look like you could use a delicious fruity beverage!
- 00:13
Who are you?
- 00:14
The Grapist
Might I suggest Fizzy Pop's Grape Blast, the new soda from Johnson & Hedges. Open wide, kids, because I'm going to grape you in the mouth!
- 00:23
Advertising Executive
he's He's going to what them in the mouth?
- 00:33
Head of Boardroom
He's going to grape them.
- 00:34
Advertising Executive
He's going to grape them?
- 00:36
Head of Boardroom
Yeah, in the mouth.
- 00:39
Advertising Executive
Right. Sure.
- 00:41
Head of Boardroom
There's more.
- 00:42
Advertising Executive
No, I'm sorry. All right, well, I'm not sure that I'm comfortable with the catchphrase, I'm gonna grape you in the mouth for our new mascot. I mean...
- 00:53
Boardroom Member
We're just not sure about that one.
- 00:55
Boardroom Member
Yeah, we might want to workshop it a touch.
- 00:57
Head of Boardroom
Really? Why? That's his thing. He grapes people. He grapes people in the mouth.
- 01:03
Advertising Executive
We're just not exactly sure that that is...
- 01:05
Head of Boardroom
He sneaks into little kids' rooms in the middle of the night, and he grapes them in the mouth.
- 01:11
Advertising Executive
Okay, see, because I think that the reason The reason that I'm a little hesitant is because to me, it sounds like he's saying, to me it sounds like he's saying, he's going to rape them.
- 01:25
Head of Boardroom
What?
- 01:26
Oh. Oh. No. No, no, no, no, no. What? Oh. I'm sorry.
- 01:32
Head of Boardroom
Sir, get your mind out of the gutter. He's a grape. How is a grape going to rape a kid? What are you talking about?
- 01:42
Advertising Executive
But it sounds like...
- 01:43
Head of Boardroom
It's a grape commercial, sir.
- 01:45
Boardroom Member
I love it! He, like, grapes the kids!
- 01:48
Advertising Executive
Okay, I mean, if I'm the minority here, we can... keep going.
- 01:55
The Grapist
Come here, kids! I'm gonna tie you to the radiator and grape you!
- 02:00
Advertising Executive
Okay.
- 02:00
Head of Boardroom
What? Why'd you stop it?
- 02:02
Advertising Executive
I'm gonna tie you to the radiator and grape you?
- 02:06
Head of Boardroom
What?
- 02:07
Advertising Executive
I'm going to rape you!
- 02:08
Head of Boardroom
Huh? No!
- 02:09
Advertising Executive
That's what it sounds like he's saying!
- 02:11
Boardroom Member
I love it.
- 02:12
Head of Boardroom
Really? Are you back on this rape thing again?
- 02:15
Advertising Executive
Why was he going to tie them to a radiator?
- 02:17
Head of Boardroom
That's how he grapes people. That's what he does.
- 02:21
Advertising Executive
No!
- 02:21
Head of Boardroom
He's the Grapist.
- 02:23
Advertising Executive
The Grapist? That's his name?
- 02:26
Boardroom Member
The Grapist, classic.
- 02:27
Advertising Executive
This is obviously a rape scenario.
- 02:30
Head of Boardroom
What? Why are you trying to twist a children's soda commercial into your weird, sick, sort of twisted, pervy...
- 02:39
Advertising Executive
Why were they running? Why was that child screaming, Mom?
- 02:42
Head of Boardroom
Well, that kid is a horrible actor, and the next time we shoot the commercial, we're gonna use somebody else, because the thing is...
- 02:48
Advertising Executive
These kids were obviously horrified.
- 02:50
Head of Boardroom
Not that girl. Look, she's totally asking for it.
- 02:53
Advertising Executive
What?
- 02:54
Head of Boardroom
Look at her. She's begging to get graped.
- 02:58
Advertising Executive
Will you listen to yourself?
- 03:00
Head of Boardroom
Look what she's wearing.
- 03:02
Advertising Executive
Look what she's wearing?
- 03:05
Head of Boardroom
It's purple.
- 03:08
Advertising Executive
Oh. Okay. Okay.
- 03:09
Boardroom Member
No! No! No! Grape those kids! I love it!
- 03:13
Head of Boardroom
Look, do you guys want the commercial or not?
- 03:15
Boardroom Member
Yes, we want the commercial. Of course we want the commercial.
- 03:18
Boardroom Member
We want it.
- 03:19
Head of Boardroom
Here's the paperwork.
- 03:20
Advertising Executive
I just have some serious reservations about this whole thing.
- 03:23
Head of Boardroom
Do you mind?
- 03:23
Advertising Executive
No, not at all.
- 03:25
The Grapist
Buy some today and get a free grape whistle.
- 03:29
Advertising Executive
A grape whistle? Really?
- 03:31
The Grapist
Okay, when I finish graping you, I'm gonna go upstairs and I'm gonna grape your mother and your father, and then I'm gonna take your whole family down to the basement and graped it all for decades and decades and decades.
- 03:41
Advertising Executive
See, I think this is too much. I think it's too much.
- 03:44
Boardroom Member
Shh.
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