It feels like this man is one single bad day away from becoming one of the most genuinely terrifying villains in all of fiction.

I love how he's telling the kid his depressing life story and the kid and the lady are just looking at him eating skittles with no emotional reaction whatsoever

What if someone were to make a set of gloves out of Skittles? Obviously, there would need to be extensive testing done, but it could work. We can give this man his life back.

SCPs now: *world ending overly dramatic 10,000 pages of nuance* SCPs then:

I like how he admits to basically killing a man before he got to work

Never thought a skittles commercial would create one of the most powerful characters in all of fiction

“I met a man on the bus today. I shook his hand. He’ll never see his family again.” That’s the most metal thing I’ve ever heard from a mainstream commercial ever.

This, along with many other Skittles commercials, are masterpieces.

My full respect to the actor playing that old man. Like, his performance was genuinely moving, despite the advert being the silliest thing ever.

Skittles really made a more tragic version of King Midas for an ad

You usually don't want negative emotions to be associated with your product, but the sheer ridiculousness of the concept executed to absolute perfection makes this one of the greatest commercials of all time.

The delivery of "He'll never see his family again" really sounded like a villain

"Any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one." Glad to see someone at Skittles trusted the creatives who pitched this.

In a strange way he has endless destructive powers, he could just level a building if he would so desire.

This has to be one of the most brutal curses to ever exist

Forget the infinity stones, this dude is more powerful than anyone else.

I like how he’s still in shock over turning a man into skittles that he’s still holding him.

President: “We need someone to defuse the bomb ASAP” Secretary: “I know just the guy”

The way he hit the desk and the loud sound of skittles falling made me laugh The louder the better

This man’s problems could be solved by creating high tech skittle gloves

In 30 seconds Skittles told a darker story than most existential horror writers could in 700 pages

I love how the woman just casually approaches him with a stapler…like she’s not 2 inches away from being sent into eternity forever.

Who ever came up with this idea needs a big fat raise. This and the Starburst berries and cream guy are my all time favorite commercials from back in the day.

He could start the craziest game of tag ever

I can see this guy as a movie villain in a big dramatic scene where he’s slowly walking towards the protagonist menacingly and running his hand along the wall as it slowly turns into skittles

This was honestly one of the most underrated commercials. Especially for candy.

The whole table collapsing into skittles still cracks me up to this day 😂😂😂

What makes this confusing but some how at the same time more entertaining is the fact that he is at work. No one would every employ him if he couldn’t touch anything 😂

The fact that he still has instincts to touch things and do things like a normal person clearly implies that he wasn't born with these abilities. Someone or something must have cursed him with this power, perhaps as some form of punishment. Scary, uf.

This might've been the strongest superpower that could kill Thanos easily.

all the new villians better watch out for, *One Touch Man*

Everybody's making jokes and all, but can we talk about how smooth the turning the stapler into skittles was? Like, that was SLICK.

Yes, psychological body horror. That's how we get more people to buy Skittles.

I genuinely feel bad for him, but I also wonder what his limits are

MIDAS TOUCH BUT SKITTLES

I've only ever seen the short version of this commercial. I've never heard that "he'll never see his family again" line until now. I feel like my entire life has just been changed.

The desk changing to skittles and everything on the desk falls is still an impressive visual effect.

Imagine you had this and you had to take a piss?! I would just piss in my pants at that point.😂

But the question is, could he potentially turn a skittle in a skittle?

If he claps his hands he creates a skittles black hole.

As much as it's depressing I couldn't help but laugh at him just slamming his hands on the desk in frustration only for it to also turn into skittles.

10 years and I still feel bad for the man on the bus :(

This is the darkest advert ever, I can't believe they actually had the guts to have it made, i can't stop laughing

We're lucky he isn't abusing his powers.

Things you can infer from this powerset: -he has a newborn son. So, he likely got this power less than 9 months ago. -he still reflexively touches things. So, it's likely very recently acquired -it seems to only emit from his hands -the power doesn't affect gases and possibly objects less dense than Skittles, since the moisture on his hands doesn't turn into Skittles -the power only relates to the size, but not the density or mass of objects -it categorically affects things. A stapler and it's staples count as a single item.

if modern ads were like this and not scams youtube wouldnt need to fight adblockers

I can't even begin to imagine how long it took them to film this ad perfectly!

"this world shall know the rainbow!" *Turns the air into skittles*

The man who’s hand he shook was my father. My dad was just going to the store real quick to go grocery shopping and said he’ll be back in a hour or so. Hours turned to days. Days to years. Mom went crazy. My sister hasn’t spoken since. All the police said at the time we reported him missing was that they found a whole bunch skittles…but now I know the truth. What once was a happy family, is now non existent. All because of Tim. I’ll find you Tim and I’ll make you pay for what you’ve done. I’ll show you how the rainbow truly taste like.

Would love to be a fly on the wall when the creative got pitched and one of the execs surely said, "NO ONE IS HAPPY OR SMILING IN THE COMMERCIAL AND ITS ABOUT CANDY" lol

Looks like the curse of king Midas in a rainbow way!

0:22 “I met a man on a bus today. I shook his hand... He’ll never see his family again..” 😭😭

“I shook his hand, he’ll never see his family again. I guess it’s pretty awesome” That went from depressing to horror movie real quick

our english teacher this year showed us this ad when we were going over the mrs midas poem for our textual analysis. couldn’t be any better

I love how his boss still clearly made him come to work…despite having the ability to kill staff with one touch.

If If was him, I would get a job at a Skittle's factory, imagine having him turn the factory's waste products into Skittles. spend less on waste removal, spend less on production while having a increase in it, he could name his salary.

In his complete anguish and misery of killing countless innocent, dismantling the things he once could have the simple power to manuplate. All he could and would eventually become was a weapon of annihilation, the bringer of death. He decided he could no longer live with this curse. So with one final movement of his hand, he touched himself.

this takes me back

If he touches Skittles do they turn into more Skittles? What about conservation of mass?

He has such an OP ability, surprised he didn’t make it into “Candy Flurry”

That guy is the modern day Midas

if this were real, i wouldn’t mind risking being turned into skittles to give him a hug… i’m genuinely crying right now..

“I can’t take it anymore… tell my wife I love her.” **Touches own head**

The sad reality

Not him becoming a villain and the victims are like stay away from me instead of like doing self defense

That got dark so fast 😂

Seeing as how he can hold Skittles, just make him a Skittle-glove.

When I was a kid and I saw this, I never understood how deep his statements of his existential crisis actually were.

the sheer amount of theories, speculation and character lore from this one commercial is astounding

Touches himself and ends the game.

If he’s like Midas, pouring water over the skittles will turn them back into a bunch of chunks of human meat

This is LITERALLY the peak of all advertising possibly ever

These super old videos are taking over my feed and i love it

The fact that this is Angry Man from "Martin" makes this even better.

I love the fact he’s got this life changing, absolutely horrifying power and yet he’s still working an office job every day

0:34 His drink has a straw in it, so he wouldn't have to pick it up in order to drink it. Skittles really paid attention to detail with this ad.

This man can single handedly beat every villain with one finger to the shoulder

He just loses it and starts walking around touching skyscrapers and bridges.

Very important things to consider with Tim’s skittles power 1. Everything he touches turns into skittles. These skittles are roughly the same size as the factory produced skittles, and the object that gets touched gets turned into as many skittles as needed to reproduce the shape and size of the object touched. 2. This power only works with Tim’s hands. The rest of his body can touch whatever he wants without it turning into skittles. We can see this as his feet are touching the ground and it’s not turning into skittles. 3 (speculation). This man has a family. This likely means that these powers did not come from birth, and have only likely been manifested recently. He has been hired by an employer too which further supports this theory that this man has not had these powers all the time, as it would seem weird that they’ve only just been discovered by the workplace now if he’s been trying to hide it. 4. This is the most important part of Tim’s powers. What he considers an object is likely based on how me mentally sees the object. For example, when the man touches the stapler, the entire stapler turns into skittles. The universe has no rules on what counts as an object, if it was based on any physics than only the atoms he touched should turn into skittles, not the entire stapler. This is likely because he considers the entire staple one object, rather than separate parts of 1 whole. This also happens with the desk AND the man he touches. The entire person turns into skittles, likely because Tim does not perceive this man as separate organs, muscles, etc, but rather as a person. It is unclear if his clothes turned to skittles with him. Further research must be conducted. Edit: Why is this comment blowing up now of all times. Was it featured on a stream or something??? Edit 2: I love everyone making references to SCP, I’m glad everyone has enjoyed this random comment I made while over thinking a skittles advert. If I ever go all the way and try to turn this into an SCP, I’ll end up posting it as a google doc link even if it doesn’t get accepted, unfortunately I don’t have that much knowledge on SCP nor how to write an entry

This is one of the few 2000s Skittle commercials I liked. It was unique, tragic and funny at the same time, and the man’s acting was very believable. His dead-seriousness made me feel sorry for him. lol

I have seen this so many times and i still find it funny

Mida's touch turns everything to gold. Tim's touch turns everything to Skittles.

I remember this. What a terrifying but delicious reality.

As we saw, he could hold and touch skittles without them turning into even smaller skittles. With this logic applied, if you'd make a glove out of crushed skittles. He could hold things normally

Behold, a man who could 3v1 Kratos, Goku, and the Doomslayer

One of the best ad campaigns ever

Skittles really decided to make the most depressing and powerful character in all fiction for a commercial

It takes real talent to write such an emotionally tragic and heartbreaking story within a commercial about a colorful candy

This commercial is special. It made me feel sad for a few seconds in. The it all of a sudden made me laugh at the end. My first time ⏲️ having a mix of emotions pile together so instantly.

Bro, I remember this ad. It was right up there with the "I turned your _ into Fruit by the Foot" Ads really used to be wild

Imagine this was a commercial paid for by m&m’s and they were trying to tell you _“If you eat skittles you will be cursed to always touch the rainbow.”_

Haha, I remember this commercial. I miss back when companies made ads that were actually entertaining. A boring commercial you're forced to watch should be considered a torture device.

I think the funniest part of this commercial is how this guy seemingly has a job in this office despite not being able to do anything, what are they paying him to do?

This man: Trips and catches his fall with his hands. The continent: ....

This guy would make a fortune getting rid of nuclear waste.

The Skittles commercials are among the most funny and creative commercials ever. Love it

i love how this is just a mere skittles commercial and instead of playing this power as something wacky they don't even hesitate to get into the deep shit at the very start

Was always super impressed by the vfx in this ad.

This guy could be the most powerful villian

This man is an SCP and no one can tell me otherwise