Here comes something big... (Bubble Gum Weekend)

Here comes something big from the gum people!

It's a bunker blast! Just joking! Actually it's another hilarious installment in regaling you with the influence of bubble gum on modern society:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kA7xV6Yyc4

In that memorable commersh for Extra bubble gum from the early '90s, nobody bubbled - unless you count the person who was just offscreen blowing that gigantic bubble.

Extra of course is part of the sugarless gum wars. In addition to artificial sweeteners being extremely dangerous (you can find evidence of this from countless sources), folks long complained that these Frankenstein-like additives gave gum a medicinal flavor and prevented it from bubbling effectively. Extra did produce bubble gum before this ad: Once in high school, I saw a classmate eat a grime-coated stick of the stuff he found behind the radiator (next to a used Band-Aid). But this zany commersh acted as if Extra bubble gum was a new product with a "classic bubble gum flavor."

As further evidence of the hilarity of gum's mere existence, the colossal bubble that expands from offscreen (actually a pink balloon) is almost exactly like a monster in a Dungeons & Dragons parody that was a huge pink bubble that floated around in caves and engulfed people.

Gum. You know that, everyone? Gum.