Peter Sagal
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All right, this is all right.
You've got two more chances.
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?
A, Skittles are actually candied fish roe.
B, all Skittles take exactly the same, they're just in different colors.
Or C, each of them has a microdose of cocaine, which is why they're so addictive.
The rumor was that all Skittles taste exactly the same, they just have different colors.
It's not true, and I am proud to say it was a rumor started by a report on NPR.
There you go.
All right, this is great, Michael.
If you get this last one, you win.
Skittles are known for their very weird commercials.
Which of these was a real Skittles commercial that was broadcast somewhere in the world?
Was it A,
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?
Was it B, a man who milks Skittles from a giraffe which is eating a rainbow?
Or C, a mother who feeds her adult son Skittles through an umbilical cord?
You're going to go with B, the man who milks Skittles from a giraffe that's eating a rainbow.
That's right, but they were all real.
Those were all real Skittles commercials.