M&M's

M&M’s are a candy made by Mars, Incorporated. They are primarily a small chocolate with multi-colored candy coatings, but a number of flavor variants also exist.
The candies have been anthropomorphized in marketing since the 1950s, but really took off in 1994 when the characters were rendered as 3D computer generated images, and even appeared as puppets for the company's millennium wrapper campaign in 1998.
==References==
* During one of his stories in Episode 1622 of Sesame Street, Zero paraphrases the M&M's slogan while describing ice cube soup: "It melts in your mouth and not in your flippers!"
* A "Trivial But True" question in The Muppet CD-ROM: Muppets Inside asks, "What do the letters M and M in M&Ms candies stand for?" The choice answers include a) Melts in your Mouth, b) Minneapolis and Minnesota, or c) Mars and Murray.
* In It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie Miss Piggy gets upset with Kermit when she finds Pastel M&M's in her dressing room, going so far as to chuck them back at the frog.
==Connections==
* David Bizzaro puppeteered in an M&Ms social media campaign in the UK
* Michael Earl provided the singing voice for an animated M&M in a late 1980s commercial
* John Goodman voiced the yellow M&M in the 90s
* Phil Hartman voiced a chocolate bar in a 1996 commercial
* Maurice LaMarche voices the Pretzel Guy
* Jon Lovitz voiced the red M&M in the 90s
* Martin P. Robinson provided the singing voice for an animated M&M in a late 1980s commercial
* J. K. Simmons voices the yellow M&M
* Cree Summer voices the green M&M
* Allen Swift voiced a peanut in 1950s/60s M&Ms commercials and played Santa Claus in a 1956 spot
* Vanessa Williams voices the brown M&M
==See also==
* Sprint Chocolate Wafers, another Mars Inc product
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