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Peter Sagal

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

All right, this is all right.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

You've got two more chances.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

In 2018, a spokesman for Mars, the company that makes Skittles, had to issue an official statement to shut down a conspiracy theory that was spreading like wildfire, alleging what?

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

A, Skittles are actually candied fish roe.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

B, all Skittles take exactly the same, they're just in different colors.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Or C, each of them has a microdose of cocaine, which is why they're so addictive.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

The rumor was that all Skittles taste exactly the same, they just have different colors.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

It's not true, and I am proud to say it was a rumor started by a report on NPR.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

There you go.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

All right, this is great, Michael.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

If you get this last one, you win.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Skittles are known for their very weird commercials.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Which of these was a real Skittles commercial that was broadcast somewhere in the world?

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Was it A,

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

a commercial with a huge anthropomorphic tube sock that generated static electricity by rubbing on the carpet and shocks an old man on the tongue?

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Was it B, a man who milks Skittles from a giraffe which is eating a rainbow?

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Or C, a mother who feeds her adult son Skittles through an umbilical cord?

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

You're going to go with B, the man who milks Skittles from a giraffe that's eating a rainbow.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

That's right, but they were all real.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Those were all real Skittles commercials.