Bonkers Candy

Bonkers was a candy offering from Nabisco in the mid 1980s. It consisted of chewable bubblegum-shaped candies with a fruity outside and an even fruitier filling. The candy came in a large rectangular package with several of them individually wrapped. Common flavors included grape, orange, strawberry, and shockingly at the time, watermelon, and chocolate.

The commercials showed people getting struck down by overgrown fruit with the catchy phrase "Bonkers really bonks you out!" There were people in an elevator and when ever one of them would eat a peice of Bonkers candy a large peice of fruit would fall from the sky and land on them. The end would show people buried in a big pile of fruit when the elevator door opened.

Giant fruit falls from the sky and lands on people (usually the same lady got hit in all the commercials). They were struck down by giant pieces of fruit because they thought bonkers was gum. The announcer would intone: "Some people think Bonkers is gum.' Then a giant fruit would come crashing down on them and knock them silly. The announcer continues "They know it's candy now!"

It was pretty funny when a person would eat a piece of candy a giant piece fruit would land on them. Then they would say : Bonkers! Dumb candy ! The candy was taffy like and had a fruit center of taffy that was darker in color. These commercials aired around 1984-1986.