I don’t know how many times I’ve imitated Mr. Owl when I eat a Tootsie Pop. Something about his eager “One. Two-hoo! A-three.” piqued my interest from a very young age, which meant that the original animated commercial was extremely effective.

Cartoon Brew, an animation blog, recently discovered that this classic commercial received a 3D makeover. Instead of plain ink drawings on a stark background, everything in the new commercial is extremely detailed, from the ground underneath Mr. Turtle’s feet to the leaves on the trees behind Mr. Owl. Unfortunately, the little boy now looks like a mutated Hobbit.

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Someone decided to make a movie trailer for a scary movie version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and they posted the results on YouTube. You can see the results above. That boat scene always did give me the creeps.

If you’ve ever wondered how those scrumptious Kisses are created at the Hershey’s factory, you are in luck! The gang over at coolstuffbeingmade.com have released another great video showing how candy is made. Previously, they showed how chocolate is made, and holiday candy being made. This time, they have a great 45 minute video from 2001 showing how Hershey’s Kisses are made. From silos of milk to bagged Kisses packed in shipping boxes and stacked on pallets – you get the whole story from start to finish.

• How Hershey’s Kisses Are Made

Have you ever wondered just what exactly would happen to a gummy bear if you added it to a test tube containing heated potassium chlorate? I know I’ve been dying to know.

What, you don’t believe me? Ok, ok, you caught me. The truth is, I had no idea what the hell this was all about. Turns out, there’s a high school chemistry demonstration that shows how the sugars in a gummy bear interact with liquefied potassium chlorate to create a really cool flame-y jet looking thing.

I’m the first to admit that I’m not exactly a math and science type person. However, I’m fairly sure I would have remembered an experiment like this in either my high school or college classes, if only due to the scary fire it produces. I’m generally not a big fan of fire, but watching it online isn’t too bad!

Above you see a video of this chemical reaction using a gummi bear (poor bear!). Who’d have thought one little gummi bear could produce that much fire? Just remember kids, don’t try this at home!

I could barely stay on the couch when I first saw the Skittles rabbit commercial on TV, and now I can play it over and over again on YouTube. I have two rabbits—Cletus and Abner—but neither of them sing, unlike the Skittles rabbit, who makes an oddly pleasant, incessant, howl-like opera sound. I liked the clucking Cadbury bunny, but the Skittles critter is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time.

Add this to the list of other weird Skittles commercials and you have some seriously entertaining (but seriously odd) candy commercials.

• Skittles Opera Rabbit on YouTube
• Other Weird Skittles Commercials
• Skittles website

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