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Starburst's "Unexplainably Juicy" ad series explores the mythology of how the chewy candy packs in so much juiciness. And the answers are quite a bit more adrenaline-fueled than you might expect.
The first explanation is that Starburst is imported from the Land of Intensity, where everyone is on a raging caffeine/steroids bender. It's the kind of place where President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is reelected in a landslide every four years.
The second explanation is that a tiny fighter jet (complete with a custom '80s-esque theme song from composer Andrew Sherman at Butter Music and Sound) shoots juicy flavor into every individual Starburst candy before getting eaten by the family dog.
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