Ad of the Day: Pretzel M&M's

Are you small and tasty? Best to avoid the guy with 'hungry eyes'

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Is there any halfway-popular '80s song left that hasn't been used, sarcastically or otherwise, in a TV commercial?

Eric Carmen's "Hungry Eyes," that unsettling ode to leering, stalker-ish types everywhere, from the movie Dirty Dancing, gets trotted out in this latest ad for Pretzel M&M's from BBDO, New York. And sure enough, the plot revolves around the Orange M&M and Pretzel Guy trying to avoid the gaze of a creepy dude at a bar—while making eyes themselves at an attractive lady across the room.

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