Skittles really wants to gross you out with its disgusting Mother's Day ad

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Christine Wang
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Skittles really wants to gross you out with its disgusting Mother's Day ad
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A great way to celebrate Mother's Day is spending time with your mom, reminiscing together about the great times you shared when you were still a child.

A not great way to celebrate Mother's Day is to think about what life would be like if you were still attached to your mother via an umbilical cord. And yet that's exactly what Skittles' Mother's Day ad is forcing us to do by actually showing us what it would be like.

This ad does not succeed in making us want to buy Skittles and it also doesn't succeed in making mothers feel appreciated, so we're not exactly sure what they were hoping to achieve with it. Unless it was grossing all of us out, which it does very well.

We just came up with another great way to celebrate your mom on Mother's Day. Do not let her see this ad.

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Christine Wang

Christine is a Web Culture Intern at Mashable. She has previously written for FanSided and Saturday Down South. She has a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego and an M.S. from Hunter College. Before she started writing, she worked in education as a teacher and school leader for four years. Her special talents include being able to quote The Office on command, playing non-stop Overwatch for hours, and composing only the wittiest of Tweets (her own opinion).


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