Well, I never! Naked M&Ms? That’s pornography for chocoholics! And during the obesity epidemic? For shame!
Obviously, I’m kidding. And they’re actually sending a double message, perhaps subliminally, with these commercials with the “sexy” M&Ms: for you see, even with sexy legs and big pouty lips, what shape is the personified M&M? It’s round, isn’t it? So they’re telling you right there what shape you’re going to be (round, that is!) if you eat them! You might feel sexy, but you’ll still be round. (There’s a brand of ice cream sandwich called: “Fat Boy”, and their name does essentially the same thing: it tells you right in the name what you’ll become if you eat them. And they’re really good, too, so they’re right!)
Here’s the charming corpulent candy consumer commercial:
