Justin Timberlake in the Dick in a Box video.

"Dick in a Box" (also known as "A Special Box"^[1] and "A Special Christmas Box") is an Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live digital short featuring Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg that aired on December 16, 2006. Following its debut on network television, the sketch became an example of viral video after massive exposure on sites such as YouTube.^[2] The song featured was written and produced by Samberg, Timberlake, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island, with associate music director Katreese Barnes.^[3] The video is a parody of R&B sex ballad videos from the early 1990s. The song won a Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.^[4] After being notified of his Emmy win, Timberlake performed the song at his concert at the Tacoma Dome in Washington.^[5] Image File history File links Junkinabox. ... Image File history File links Junkinabox. ... Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981[1]), sometimes known as JT, is an American pop and R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. ... The Primetime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming. ... This article is about the American television series. ... The opening title that appears before most shorts. ... Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981[1]), sometimes known as JT, is an American pop and R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. ... Andy Samberg (born August 18, 1978) is an Emmy-winning American stand-up comic, songwriter, and member of comedy group The Lonely Island. ... is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ... The term viral video refers to video clip content which gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email or IM messages, blogs and other media sharing websites. ... YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... Akiva Schaffer is a writer for Saturday Night Live and a member of The Lonely Island, a sketch comedy group that includes SNL featured player Andy Samberg and SNL writer Jorma Taccone. ... Jorma C. Taccone (born March 19, 1977) is an American writer for Saturday Night Live, Emmy-winning songwriter and member of the Lonely Island, a sketch comedy group that includes SNL featured player Andy Samberg and SNL writer Akiva Schaffer. ... The Lonely Island: Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer. ... R&B redirects here. ... The Creative Arts Emmys are a class of Emmy Awards presented in recognition of technical and other similar achievements in American television programming. ... The Tacoma Dome (constructed by Tacoma Dome Associates, led by McGranahan Messenger Architects a design build enity) is an indoor arena located in Tacoma, Washington, USA. Completed in 1983 for $44 millon and opened on April 21, the arena seats 17,100 for basketball. ...

Plot and style

The music video portrays two Casanova-type men (played by Samberg and Timberlake) singing about giving Christmas gifts to their lovers (played by Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig, respectively). Each man has a gift-wrapped box attached to his waist inside of which he has placed his penis. The lyrics include step-by-step instructions on how to create the gift (1: "Cut a hole in a box", 2: "Put your junk in that box", 3: "Make her open the box... and that's the way you do it!"). They also sing about how a "dick in a box" is better than a diamond ring ("that sort of gift don't mean anything"), a car (because his lover needs something to "let you know you're my shining star"), or "a house in the hills" (because "a girl like you needs something real"). It is also suitable for any holiday or occasion: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and even "over at your parents' house", "midday at the grocery store", and "backstage at the CMAs". At the end of the film, they are both charged for indecent exposure and taken away by the police. Giacomo Casanova (April 5, 1725 - June 4, 1798). ... Maya Khabira Rudolph (born July 27, 1972, in Gainesville, Florida) is an American actress and comedian, currently best known as a cast member of NBCs Saturday Night Live. ... Kristen Carroll Wiig (born August 22, 1973) is an American actress, comedian, and impressionist. ... The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external male sexual organ. ... For other uses, see Christmas (disambiguation). ... Grand Rabbi Israel Abraham Portugal of Skulen Hasidism lighting Hanukkah lights Hanukkah (‎, also spelled Chanukah or Hanukah), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday beginning on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may fall anytime from late November to... Kwanzaa (or Kwaanza) is a week-long Pan-African festival primarily honoring African-American heritage. ... The Country Music Association Awards also known as the CMA Awards, are voted on by business members of the Country Music Association. ...

The style of the video and the musical performance is inspired by early-1990s R&B/new jack swing acts like Color Me Badd, Jodeci and R. Kelly; The Lonely Island and Timberlake were fans of such acts while growing up.^[6] The premise also resembles a scene in the 1982 Barry Levinson film Diner, in which Mickey Rourke places his penis inside a box of popcorn to impress his date at a movie theater.^[7] Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... New Jack Swing, or swingbeat[1], is a hybrid style popular from the late-1980s into the mid-1990s, which fuses hip-hop with rhythms, samples and production techniques with the urban contemporary sound of R&B. The new jack swing style developed as many previous R&B styles did... Color Me Badd were a male R&B vocal group which was formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US. The members are Bryan Abrams (born November 16, 1969), Mark Calderon (born September 27, 1970), Kevin Thornton (born June 17, 1969) and Sam Watters (born July 23, 1970). ... Jodeci is an American musical group, whose repertoire included R&B, soul music, and new jack swing. ... R. Kelly (born Robert Sylvester Kelly on January 8, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American R&B and pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and occasional rapper. ... Barry Levinson Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a Jewish-American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer of film and television. ... Diner (1982) is a film written and directed by Barry Levinson which along with Avalon, Tin Men, and Liberty Heights constitutes his series of Baltimore films. ... Mickey Rourke (born September 16, 1956) is an American actor who has primarily appeared in drama, action, and thriller films. ...

Response

An uncensored version was made available on the Saturday Night Live website after the show was aired.^[8] It features the same audience response track, as the short was aired uncensored to the in-studio audience. No version was released without the audience response.

NBC added the video to YouTube, where it has received more than 28 million views and is ranked as YouTube's sixth-most viewed video of all-time. Over 18 additional copies were also posted to various YouTube and Google Video accounts,^[9] bringing the total views to over 35.3 million, making it the 24th most viewed video on the Internet^[10] (as of September 2007). YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... Google Video logo Google Video is a free video sharing and video search engine service from Google that allows anyone to upload video clips to Googles web servers as well as make their own media available free of charge; some videos are also offered for sale through the Google... September 2007 is the ninth month of that year. ...

On December 22, 2006, the Parents Television Council called on NBC to "rethink its decision to post an uncensored version of a Saturday Night Live sketch on both its own website and YouTube, in which the word 'dick' is used multiple times".^[11] When the sketch aired on SNL, NBC bleeped out the word dick a total of 16 times.^[12] is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Parents Television Council (PTC) is a US-based nonprofit organization run and founded by conservative activist L. Brent Bozell III whose stated goal is to promote and restore responsibility to the entertainment industry. ... YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ...

Some radio stations played the edited version (called "Junk in a Box") as an unofficial single by Timberlake.^{[citation needed]} The version used was recorded from the SNL broadcast.

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Parodies and homages

• When Timberlake appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on January 3, 2007, the next guest was Masi Oka, who came out with a strategically placed box taped to him.
• On January 10, 2007, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ellen was mailed an AQUA2GO water drink box and asked to market it.^[14] She made a jingle to the tune of "Dick in a Box" consisting of step-by-step instructions (including "Step 1: punch a hole in the box").^[15]
• The social networking website Facebook created a virtual gift shop for Valentine's Day that included a box with a bow on top and a hole cut into one of its sides.^[16][17] This box is now sold out.
• The band Incubus covered the song while on their 2006 Light Grenades Tour.^[18]
• The band Umphrey's McGee covered this song, complete with box props, as their first encore of their New Year's Eve show in Chicago, with percussionist Andy Farag contributing rare vocals in the Andy Samberg role, and Brendan Bayliss singing Justin Timberlake's part. The multi-camera video is available on YouTube.^[19]
• On February 1, 2008, the a costume design company created a near-identical parody of the video, replacing the characters with humans in fursuitss.^[20]
• Other parodies include "Bagel with Lox".^[21]

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My Box in a Box

A parody from the female perspective, "My Box in a Box" appeared on YouTube and has since been viewed by millions.^[22] On January 8, 2007, on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Olbermann called "My Box in a Box" the "#1 most viralest video" in the world. The video received press coverage in a wide variety of media, including Rolling Stone^[23] and Cosmopolitan.^[24] YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Countdown with Keith Olbermann is an hour-long nightly newscast on MSNBC which airs live at 8:00 p. ... This article is about the magazine. ... June 1936 issue Cosmopolitan is a magazine for women, sometimes referred to as Cosmo, which has been published for more than a century. ...

The performer of "My Box in a Box" was listed as "Bunny", a 20-year-old from New York City. On the January 12, 2007 episode of Countdown, it was revealed that she is actually two women: Melissa Lamb, a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania (who appears in the video), and Leah Kauffman, a junior at Temple University (the actual vocalist).^[25] (At the time of the video, Kaufman was studying in London, England, and Lamb was serving as the replacement.) The box that was used as a central prop was sold on eBay for US$1,525, of which $1,000 went to Philadelphia charity Philabundance, and the rest to VH1's "Save The Music" campaign.^[26] In 2007, the same production team kicked off the Obama Girl phenomenon with "I Got a Crush... on Obama".^[27] is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... I Got a Crush. ... For the private Christian university in Tennessee, see Tennessee Temple University. ... London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city. With over seven million inhabitants (Londoners) in Greater London area, it is amongst the most densely populated areas in Western Europe. ... This article is about the online auction center. ... USD redirects here. ... For other uses, see Philadelphia (disambiguation) and Philly. ... VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994 and VH1: Music First until 2003) is an American digital television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. VH1 and sister channel MTV are currently... I Got a Crush. ... I Got a Crush. ...

See also

• SNL Digital Shorts
• Lazy Sunday

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