I’m quite late to this party, but Kraft is relaunching Mr. Peanut. He gets a new body, a new wardrobe and, for the first time, a voice (Robert Downey Jr.).

Weirdly enough, he also gets a Facebook page, on which you can see his new commercial. It’s also watchable on YouTube.

I always thought the nice thing about Mr. Peanut was that he was graphically unimpeachable, kind of like the Morton’s Salt girl. He was an abstraction, not some odd little man shaped like a peanut, which would be upsetting, especially without pants.

But now he is. And he sounds like Robert Downey Jr., which is a nice catch but simply wrong. Downey would never look like a peanut.

Oh, and a nutcracker named Richard?

There are not enough drugs in the world …