This Ad From Hong Kong is Just Plain Weird

Since everyone knows candy tastes good, manufacturers of such products have long been freed from the burden of explaining their product attributes in ads and instead have let their freak flag fly

Though Skittles arguably pioneered bizarre, stream-of-conscious marketing for the category, the approach has also caught on in Hong Kong

Here, a seemingly normal young couple share some Rio Mints. What might have been a tender moment in another ad here becomes an exercise in random titillation. (Warning: Contains puppet-based nipple-licking.) Read more...