I used to love these! I remember the commercials: a doofy looking actor popped a candy in their mouth and were crushed by giant fruit falling from the sky. Good stuff, those 80's commericals...

When I was a little kid, my pediatrician used to give me Bonkers after every visit. He actually used to drop pieces of candy on my head, and I always used to wonder why. (I don't remember the commercial, apparently. LOL.)

I remember these being incredibly good... of all the things in the 80's, I probably miss these and Giggles cookies the most. However, I recently found something very similar. Hi-Chew candies seem to be a lot like Bonkers- fruit-flavored, shaped like little chewy bricks with a pale outer layer and a darker center. You can find them at oriental food stores sometimes, or, failing that, buy them online from Japanese snack sites.

I remember that crazy skinny lady that ran around going "bonkers"

In school we invented a game called Bonker Ball, using the candy as a ball and these little art class carving tools as sticks. I remember the rules would change a lot like Calvin & Hobbes' sports. Didn't get much work done in that class.

It's a bit strange. I never once tried the candy itself. But the ads with the crazy "Bonkers Lady" and the giant fruit falling on the kids was very memorable!

The commercials are all over You Tube!