Saturday, January 22, 2022

M & M's are making changes, and certain people don't like it already (2022)

 M & M's and their growing roster of mascots are undergoing some changes.

Specifically, the female mascots, Ms. Brown & Ms. Green, are swapping high heels & knee boots for sneakers in a new advertising campaign that already has gotten some blowback from Fox Shmooze garbage dispenser Tucker Carlson, who might've admitted a secret crush on the two women by whining Friday that the loss of the heels makes them, in his words, "less sexy".

Ok, Tucker, own up. Who was your cartoon crush when you were a kid? Betty or Veronica? (Because I seriously doubt he was a Wonder Woman fan growing up)

Also, Mars Wrigley (formerly M & M Mars; the company merged with Wrigley Gum some time back) is doing their part for social inclusiveness. To wit:


The above is from Mars Wrigley's own YouTube channel.

It must've been a slow news day on Friday for conservative gasbags like Carlson, otherwise there wouldn't be any comment until, oh, I don't know, the Super Bowl (February 13).

The new slogan, "All for one, fun for all", is a riff on Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers, which wouldn't be the first time Mars Wrigley has mined that literary classic, having built an ad campaign for the 3 Musketeers candy around Dumas' heroes years ago. It's nothing to lose sleep over, unless you are a conservative.

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