





Remember those glorious days of indoor recess, during which you would while away the half hour playing that most iconic of computer games: Oregon Trail? Well, now you can reclaim them, because new media production group Half Day Today has come out with a (fake) trailer for Oregon Trail, the movie.

Although the vid only has around 300 views right now, it's been popping up on video blogs, Twitter and friends' Facebook profiles all day — so we predict that this parody is ripe to go viral. Why? Well, it adheres to the "Candy Corn" theory coined by College Humor's Ricky Van Veen: It contains a cultural touchstone that everyone knows, but doesn’t actively think about.

Moreover, it's part of recent wave of faux trailers: see, Jane Austen's Fight Club, Java: The Movie!, The Meaning of Rainbows, etc.

Whatever the reason for its appeal, this vid prompted everyone over at Mash HQ to have extremely strong elementary school flashbacks — a return to the days when being a banker from Boston was everyone's most ardent desire, and you created dream families entirely composed of your homeroom crushes. This one's for you, bowl-cut kid whose name I no longer remember, who sadly passed away whilst fording the river. This one's for you...

[via Buzzfeed]