Jon Kinyon

Spahn Ranch Dressing TV Commercials

A friend and I were working on a screenplay for a dark comedy film called, "Six Million Dollar Manson." The idea was that while Charlie Manson was in prison, his limbs got caught in a license plate pressing machine, the doctors rush in to save him and give him bionic arms and legs, you get the gist. Anyway, I came up with the idea that he should be running a business out of his cell in his spare time, making salad dressing called "Spahn Ranch Dressing," which sells like hotcakes to his weirdo fans, eventually spawning an industry of commercial products made by incarcerated serial killers. One thing led to another and I began looking into ways I could manufacture and sell this salad dressing in the real world, in stores that sell off-the-wall stuff like that. Eventually, I decided against it, but not before making some funny TV commercials for the product. I put these up on YouTube and wound up getting more than 150,000 views on them.

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