When you woke up this morning, you didn’t know what treasures or tragedies this day would bring. You didn’t know if you’d get a hangnail or a free burrito, or whether or not the elastic in your underpants would suddenly give out while you walked down the street. And you certainly weren’t planning to have your heart stolen from your ribcage by a tiny, tiny pineapple named Tiny Pineapple, were you?
Well reader, I’m sorry I couldn’t have prepared you for this sooner, and I’m especially sorry if you’re allergic to pineapples, but I’m NOT sorry for what’s about to happen to your life, your love and your soul.
The Adventures of Tiny Pineapple is a shiny brand new webseries / lifestyle, conceived inside the brilliant brains of comedian and nerdy heartbreaker DeAnne Smith, DJ and visionary Carly Usdin, and photographer to the stars Robin Roemer. Read more below on the genesis and genius of Tiny Pineapple after you watch episode one, “Halloween.”
Autostraddle was given exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the making of The Adventures of Tiny Pineapple, which will air every Tuesday until the end of 2013. We wanted to know about the inspiration for Tiny Pineapple. Carly Usdin told Autostraddle:
“The series was inspired by an Instagram photo I took of a tiny pineapple at a grocery store.”
Score composer Marni Kellison (musician, bear) elaborated:
“So Carly was at Ralph’s last week and posted a picture of this tiny pineapple, just saying like ‘look at this tiny pineapple.’ And DeAnne thought that ‘tiny pineapple’ was fun to say. And Carly bought the pineapple and several normal-sized pineapples and they started filming the soon-to-be smash-hit webseries ‘The Adventures of Tiny Pineapple.'”
Usdin elaborated further:
“We set out to make a show wherein the show opening and the credits were much longer than the show itself, and I think we succeeded here.”
Because I know and appreciate this readership’s devotion to preferred pronoun usage, I asked Usdin about Tiny Pineapple’s gender and pronoun wishes:
“Tiny Pineapple transcends gender. But also his preferred pronoun is “he” because that’s what we’ve been calling him. But he TRANSCENDS GENDER still.”
not tiny pineapples, backstage
tiny pineapple, star of the adventures of tiny pineapple
We’ve been told you can expect a special guest appearance by Arthur, Robin and Carly’s incredibly adorable and wise-looking dog, so be on the lookout for that! In the meantime, follow Tiny Pineapple on every relevant social media platform ever: YouTube | Twitter | Facebook | Tumblr | Instagram
Marni Kellison (musician, bear)
^that killed me.
also, i love tiny pineapple already.
tiny pineapple may be tiny, but this show’s gonna be HUGE!!!!
also really happy this video has inspired google adsense to feed ads for Gushers and Fruit Roll-Ups onto our website
YouTube keeps trying to get Robin to watch Spongebob videos.
youtube showed me a victoria’s secret sexy ad as the TP pre-roll, so i think you’re hitting all the relevant bases
I cannot wait to watch Tiny Pineapple’s shenanigans!
This makes me less than three DeAnne Smith even more.
i’m really impressed with tiny pineapple’s wardrobe department.
this is all kinds of wonderful.
You people are the weirdest and the best.
rt
I hope all this fame and admiration doesn’t give Tiny Pineapple a big head.
Stay real, Tiny Pineapple.
Awww this was awesome!
I’m wondering how I missed this on Instagram. I am going to have to focus my Instagram follows so that I only get images of cats, fruity characters and more cats.
“We set out to make a show wherein the show opening and the credits were much longer than the show itself, and I think we succeeded here.”
Genius.
i feel really, really, really lucky to know you people. also now i feel like i know tiny pineapple. #luckiest
I made the mistake of watching this with my 4 year old brother in the room… we’ve now watched it so many times that he’s singing along with the opening credits. Somehow it just keeps getting cuter :-)
THIS IS THE CUTEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD
Thank you for this.
I think Tiny Pineapple is sweeter than normal-sized pineapples.
I really love fruit, and also tiny things, and also all of the people involved in the making of this, so it feels pretty relevant to my life.
i want this to be the new marcel the shell.
let’s go viral.
let’s write a book.
I agree with all of this.
I agree as well. My senior year English teacher in high school introduced me to Marcel the Shell and I thought she would like this too. Would it be weird to send her the link?
Nope.
This is perfect.
As a relatively tiny human, I fully support Tiny Pineapple.
Can we start a campaign: Tiny Humans for Tiny Pineapple? Think of all the tiny merch!
Tiny Pineapple’s alternative lifestyle haircut is serious. Are we sure he’s not a lesbian?
oh my goodness, this is the best. THANK YOU for making this a thing!
i’m thinking for halloween i might dress up like Deanne Smith As Tiny Pineapple As Tiny Pumpkin
“too niche” they will say. but i will laugh at them in my tiny voice.
I love your comments, Cara. Mostly because I always have to read them a few times to really understand them and this challenges me.
“When you woke up this morning, you didn’t know what treasures or tragedies this day would bring.”
TRUE. But I did wake up this morning with a notification from Twitter that Vanessa, Laneia, and Riese had all started following Tiny Pineapple.
brilliant