Now, I know in the past, many denizens of the boards have hated some Skittles commercials, most notably the prehensile beard one, but how can you not laugh at this?
I mean honestly, that is pure, unadulterated, genius.
See, the guy looks like a pinata. And so the other guy hit him with a stick, hoping that candy would come out of the first guy. Only candy didn’t come out of the first guy, because he wasn’t ACTUALLY a pinata. Because, see, the thing with pinatas is, see, they’re these paper creations that people fill with candy so that other people can hit them with sticks, break them open, and thus collect all the candy that spills out. It’s a fun game. Only, see, the thing that’s not so fun here is that the guy only LOOKS like a pinata and is not ACTUALLY a pinata, so he’s mad at the guy who hit him.
Or, it could be a commentary on race (beat the guy who looks different and be rewarded) or sexual orientation (beat the flamboyantly-attired person and be rewarded). But you’d probably have to have no sense of humor whatsoever to think either one of those things.
Is it funny? Well, not terribly. But you’d have to torture the hell out of the commercial to get it to mean “beat the different.” This does it so much better.
These ads are brilliant, in a way. My question is – what’s the difference between chocolate Skittles and M&Ms? Chocolate is a specialty – are the Skittles people up for it?
Chocolate Skittles are “chocolate flavored” and not chocolate themselves. M&Ms and Chocolate Skittles have as much in common as regular Skittles and a bag of fruit.
**Edit: **In researching that, I just discovered Licorice Skittles used to be produced (in Europe) but were discontinued the year I was born. God hates me.