Urban Legend
A few years after the commercial appeared, a false urban legend spread that the actor who had played Little Mikey had died after eating an unexpectedly lethal combination of Pop Rocks (a type of carbonated hard candy) and soda, causing his stomach to inflate with carbon dioxide. However, as Pop Rocks contain less carbon dioxide than half a can of soda, the legend is false.
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