The Bones Coffee Company is a Florida-based coffee company that produces instant coffee in a range of interesting flavors. The company is best known for its mascot, Bones the Skeleton, who stars on every label in a different costume, setting or story of its very own.
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Provides examples of the following tropes:
- Alien Invasion: "Mint Invasion" features a race of green skeletons in Flying Saucers abducting living humans.
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: One of the campers in "S'morey Time" is bigfoot partaking in smores.
- Dada Ad: Invoked and Played for Laughs with "S'morey Time Made Us Call The Cops". An old cowboy regales the viewer of a story about him as a child (played by an adult), only to reveal that he's talking to no one, isn't wearing any pants and is doing it in a random person's pool. The homeowner calls the cops on him, the video ends on the man turning to the audience and clarifying that this is supposed to be an ad for smores-flavored coffee.
- Dem Bones: As the brand's name would imply, every label has a depiction of at least one human skeleton on it. Apparently, they are all the same skeleton, aptly named "Bones."
- Elemental Motifs: "High Voltage" is a coffee marketed for its incredibly high caffeine count and has an electricity theme to it.
- Frankenstein's Monster: "Frankenbones" is a chocolate hazelnut flavored coffee with a skeletal Frankenstein on the cover.
- G-Rated Drug: In "The Ultimate Coffee That Will Heighten Productivity", "High Voltage" is portrayed as something akin to cocaine.
- Homage: The 2022 Nightmare Before Christmas bundle are all coffee flavors based off of characters from the movie of the same name.
- Mad Scientist: Bones in "High Voltage" is dressed in a Labcoat of Science and Medicine and is surrounded by Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks in a Mad Scientist Laboratory.
- Man in a Kilt:
- "Highland Grog" features a Scottish skeleton dressed in a kilt playing the bagpipes on the label.
- In "Bones Coffee CO | Stop Drinking Boring Coffee!", a stereotypical Scottish man in a kilt (and yes, his lack of underwear is apparent) appears to sample some coffee.
- "Highland Grog
- Non-Malicious Monster: The Peach Monster from "Peaches and Scream" is big and scary, but all it wants is to share its peach-flavored coffee with people.
- Pirate: Bones in "Coconut Rum" is dressed in a pirate costume on a tropical island with a trasure chest full of "bootleg rum, fresh coconuts and the finest coffee beans in the world."
- Pumpkin Person: The horserider from "Jacked O Lantern" wears a helm that resembles a jack o' lantern.
- Shout-Out:
- "Holy Cannoli" has a skeleton that resembles Don Vito Corleone from The Godfather
- The cover of "Army of Dark Chocolate" is made to look like the cover of Army of Darkness, with the skeleton a clear homage to Ash Williams.
- "From Dusk Till Donuts" is an obvious parody of From Dusk Till Dawn.
- Bones in "White Russian" is dressed like The Dude from The Big Lebowski. It's especially telling because the rug in the background looks like The Dude's rug (the one that was peed on by the Chinama—Asian American), and the flavor is based off of The Dude's favorite drink.
- The skeletons in "Chocolate Orange" are based off of Willy Wonka and the Oompa Loompas from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
- "Bluesberry" is based off of The Blues Brothers.
- Bones in "Oh Fuuudge!" is dressed in the same pink bunny footie-pajamas and damaged glasses Ralphie wore in A Christmas Story. There's even a skeletal version of the iconic leg-lamp and a skeleton with its tongue stuck to a pole.
- "Holy Cannoli
- Sirens Are Mermaids: "Salty Siren" features a mermaid in the arms of a skeletal sailor, a sunken ship (presumably the sailor's) in the background.
- That Poor Plant: In "Bones Coffee CO | Stop Drinking Boring Coffee!", one guy demonstrates Bones Coffee's superiority to more mediocre brands by giving the other coffee to a plant, killing it instantly.
- Unicorn: "Electric Unicorn" is a cereal-flavored coffee with the front label showing a skeleton riding a unicorn with a rainbow in the background. In the coffee's lore (yes, really), the Electric Unicorn has Shock and Awe powers, can talk, can conjure fruity breakfast cereals out of nowhere and lets Bones ride him out of appreciation for how "bodacious" he is.It was the Summer of 1983. Bones was traversing the treacherous and totally rad mountains of Coffeeland in search of the most righteous coffee known to man. In the distance, he spotted a creature only believed to exist in myth. The Electric Unicorn was a magnificent beast, harnessing the power of electricity, friggin' laser-beam eyes, and the ability to conjure fruity cereal from the heavens. Bones approached the bodacious beast and asked where he might find the treasure he was so desperately seeking. The Unicorn replied with, "Hop on, dude". They raced through the mountains and Bones was brought to the creature's home. There were coffee plants as far as the eye could see and the beans looked like no other in existence. They had a magical aura, seemingly shifting through the entire color spectrum. The Unicorn offered a cup to Bones. It blew his freakin' mind. Smooth, balanced, and a delicious fruity cereal finish; this was the coffee Bones had been searching for. Bones and the Electric Unicorn totally remained best friends forever.
- Wolf Man: One of the campers in "S'morey Time" is a werewolf relaxing against the campfire.
