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Peter Sagal

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

Or C, Zootopia Skittles, each designed to taste like each of the star animals in that movie.

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

Penguin flavored.

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

Truly the most beast mode of all Skittles.

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

Truly, truly.

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

No, it was zombie Skittles.

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

Really?

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

It really was.

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

Zombie Skittles flavors included petrifying citrus punch, mummified melon, and every now and then, rotten zombie.

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

Wow.

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

Wow.

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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.