Good Will Hunting<\/em> and other ’90s TV memes (“We were on a break,” etc.) before Jennifer Aniston shows up with her new man, Tom Brady. An underrated aspect of the ad is that Dunkin’ temporarily returns to its old name Dunkin’ Donuts, faithfully replicating a time before the chain rebranded in 2019. <\/p>\nThe sitcom legends in the spot all have combined credits that include Friends<\/em>, Cheers<\/em>, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air<\/em>, A Different World<\/em>, and Family Matters<\/em>. Alexander recalls “an assumed collegiate feeling” on the set, given their shared experiences as stars of a bygone era. Never mind that none of them have actually worked together before. “It was as if we all knew the drill and had done it before, when in fact we had not.”<\/p>\n\n“It was comfortable,” Alexander adds. “The minute we got together, there was that familiarity. I wondered [going in], ‘Is there a pecking order? Is it going to be weird?’ Not at all. It’s like the Little Rascals showed up. I kind of clocked that shared experiences, even though [they’re] not the same experiences, can be bonding.”<\/p>\n
The de-aging process was less technical than it might look. The Seinfeld<\/em> star says he wasn’t scanned by “a thousand cameras.” Instead, it was a combination of old-fashioned hair and makeup with a touch of CGI. “They added hair pieces that resemble, I’ll laughably say, my hairline in the ’90s. It was close [enough], and I figured they’ll nail it when they CGI it. That was never my hair. But I look younger. God bless them, they got me back to my thirties.”<\/p>\nWhile Affleck and his go-to coffee chain affectionately parody television that have all but vanished on streaming, Jason Alexander thinks there’s something deeper at play. For him, sitcoms were the last times “we we’re watching the same things at the same time.” <\/p>\n
“Once we tripped into the 21st century, our viewing habits began to splinter. None of us were experiencing the same thing. I know people who love Breaking Bad<\/em> who saw it five years after it left the air. They missed the period everyone was talking about it. This ’90s thing, there’s enough people who carry that with them that there’s a nostalgia for that. Wasn’t it just cool when we were hanging out together watching the same stuff?“<\/em><\/p>\nIt helps that shows like Seinfeld<\/em> still hold up. “They’re still good. They’re still funny,” Alexander says. “The humor hasn’t diminished with time. They change eventually, but right now they’re rock solid. Why these shows continue to resonate, I wish I knew. I guess people are still recognizing themselves. The humor is still tickling them.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.esquire.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the Super Bowl, Dunkin’ and Ben Affleck threw audiences back to the 1990s to witness the greatest sitcom cast that never was. In “Good Will Dunkin’,” TV icons Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, Jaleel White, Alfonso Ribeiro, Jasmine Guy, Ted Danson, and Jason Alexander\u2014and Tom Brady, for some reason\u2014all unite to play out a far […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2273423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[274717,440064,285977,285684,440063,440065],"class_list":["post-2273422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-9043d244-4286-4603-a647-859dea21c73d","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-shorttitle-jason-alexander-on-his-dunkin-super-bowl-ad","tag-subsection-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jason-Alexander-Told-Us-How-Dunkin-Pulled-Off-Its-90s-Charged.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273424,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273422\/revisions\/2273424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}