Medical Oddities Abound in DDB's First Skittles Ads

New spots star candy-covered outcasts

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[UPDATE: DDB did the "Bleachers" and "Cranky" spots. LatinWorks did "Mentor."] Skittles has a new ad agency, DDB, but the candy brand's obsession with malformed anatomy continues. In the spirit of old TBWA spots like "Stable" and "Plant," DDB's new online spots feature one boy who dispenses Skittles from his stomach and another with "Skittles pox" who spreads it to a girl under the bleachers. A third ad, by LatinWorks, stars a girl with a Skittles monobrow.

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