YouTube can be used for all sort of things, some of them good (finding The A.V. Club’s expertly produced video content, for example), and some of them bad (getting radicalized into white nationalism via a downward spiral of algorithmic video suggestions because you watched the guy from Fear Factor interview Andrew Dice Clay). Here’s a use that’s good: some person has posted the same 7-second clip of Bill Paxton’s character Dinky Winks from Spy Kids: 3-D: Game Over every day, for more than three years.
“Somebody ring the Dinkster?” Paxton’s Winks asks as he descends from the sky on a parasol. The YouTube channel in question is called DinksterDaily and it delivers just that: this clip, once a day, for 1,241 days and counting. Each video is helpfully numbered, to let you know exactly which edition of the late, great Bill Paxton asking if someone has ringed the Dinkster you are watching.
DinksterDaily has nearly 34,000 subscribers, and breaks from the Dinkster only to occasionally share a compilation of people asking why someone would do this. While your typical Dinkster gets around a thousand views, the first video posted by the account, “Dinkster #1,” has more than 80,000 views.
DinksterDaily is hardly the only fount of online support for the antics of the Spy Kids franchise’s resident theme-park-owner. Three years ago, a Change.Org petition circulated in hopes of landing The Dinkster his own spin-off film.
“One can infer from a quick google search that The Dinkster is by far the most widely remembered character from the original Spy Kids films, even after the films themselves have fallen into relative obscurity,” reads the petition in part. As of this moment it has 29 signatures, and is no longer accepting additional support.
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After #648 they totally sold out.
They used to be about the Dinkster, man. Now it’s about the MONEY
“Just use the offer code ‘Dinkster’ to save 20% on your first three meals from Blue Apron”
FunHaus’s Hard Nettin’ segment scooped this a few months back. Dinkster Daily even took home the coveted Hard Nettin’ championship, at least for a week.
Bill Paxton deserves better.
Game over, man weekly?
“Pretty Shit Now”
A daily journal of tasteful and artfully-presented turds.
Would a real spy piss himself? Weekly?
Believe it or not you son-of-a-bitch you’re still going to burn!
“First, I’d like to butter your muffin” daily.
“What do you mean, they cut the power? How can they cut the power, they’re animals!”
“Great” Job, Internet
If any of Paxton’s supporting parts deserves a spin-off, it’s Simon the used car salesman from True Lies.
“…like a 10 year old boy!”
Calm down there, Jeffrey Epstein.
How did that line make it into the film? 😀
Bringing us a small dose of Paxton every day is blessed work. NEVER STOP, YOU CRAZY DIAMOND.
I haven’t seen the movie but maybe someone can confirm: did somebody actually ring the Dinkster? Or was he just happening by on a strong breeze?
One can infer from a quick google search that The Dinkster is by far the most widely remembered character from the original Spy Kids filmsUm, excuse me…. but;
Dana White has two identical brothers?
Was gonna say…them or Steve
And Machete?(On second thought, maybe Danny Trejo wasn’t playing Machete. I will not check.)I personally would like more of Steve Buscemi’s scientist character.(Or Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino as a lovely superspy couple.)1 and 2 are some of Rodriguez’s best movies. 3 has that nice Elijah Wood scene. 4 I have never stared into the abyss of.
I saw the three first movies, but I honestly don’t remember number two or three. Well, for the most part. I remember three being based in some video game and after seeing it I decided I never wanted to see a 3d movie again.
Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he’s created?
I almost believe he landed in downtown Reno.
funhaus covered this guy a few years ago for their hard netting section
This is the sort of amusing random nonsense that makes say, “You’re sometimes not a complete nightmare, internet.”
You could say AV Club brought this to my attention.But in reality the Quintessential Gamer in Lawrence Sonntag did.
Spy Kids is not languishing in relative obscurity. Screw you, Internet
C’mon there must be a million better Paxton moments out there, probably about 10 from Aliens alone.
That’s such a horrible green-screen shot. Like they couldn’t afford to use an actual city as a location for Paxton to say his line.
“While your typical Dinkster gets around a thousand views, the first video posted by the account, “Dinkster #1,” has more than 80,000 views”And the one linked to in this article got 11k, confusing the uploader.