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.” ...

Unfortunately, Dancing Pumpkin Man might have been a little too avant garde for the judges of AGT — although guest judge Chris Hardwick, who’s definitely no stranger to the web, ...

That original pitch turned into the pumpkin dance, and internet history was made. Read the full story (and see the pumpkin dancer's lesser-known Christmas dance) on Studio 360's blog.

Dancing Pumpkin Man, the legendary meme born in Omaha, will rise from the dead for tonight’s episode of the NBC game show “America’s Got Talent,” airing at 7 p.m.