About The BFI Welcome to the BFI, a tough-as-nails detective agency that takes only one kind of case: Butterfinger Crime. Detectives Hugh Dunnit and Ali Byes are bringing sweet justice to this candy bar dilemma. And they won't stop until all the Butterfingers come home...to people's mouths.

Butterfinger Investigators Hugh Dunnit and Ali Byes target Butterfinger thieves to ensure no one lays a finger on your Butterfinger.

Chocolate lovers can report a stolen Butterfinger bar or hear from Investigators Hugh and Ali by calling the Butterfinger Investigators Hotline at 833-TELL-BFI.

Timed to the Halloween candy crunch, silly sleuths Hugh Dunnit and Ali Byes return to investigate kooky thefts of Butterfinger bars. Amir Arison and Alexandria Bedford reprise their roles from past campaigns - and they won't need forensics or powers of deduction to figure out whodunit in ads from creative agency Piro.

The name was chosen by a popularity contest. Crispety, crunchety, peanut-buttery!, "better butter finger", "Dig it!" and "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!"

His Curtiss Candy Company, based in Chicago, ran a contest to name the bar. At the time sportscasters began using the term “butterfingers” to describe players who couldn't hold onto the ball. A Chicago man who described himself as a klutz submitted the name “Butterfinger” for the bar and it was a winner.

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

A butterfingers is someone with a clumsy tendency to drop things they're holding. Being a butterfingers is considered a particularly bad trait in baseball, for obvious reasons. The common use of this term by sportscasters in the 1920s inspired the name for the newly-invented candy known as Butterfinger.

the UK We are a cultural charity, a National Lottery distributor, and the UK's lead organisation for film and the moving image. Funded by the UK Government.

The British Film Institute (BFI) is the lead organisation for film in the UK and use Lottery funds to support film production, distribution, education and audience development.

History. Butterfingers were invented by Otto Schnering in 1923. Schnering had founded the Curtiss Candy Company near Chicago, Illinois, in 1922. The company held a public contest to choose the name of this candy.

11 Crispety, Crunchety Facts About Butterfinger

• THE NAME WAS SUBMITTED IN A PUBLIC CONTEST.
• BUTTERFINGER'S INVENTOR ALSO CREATED THE BABY RUTH.
• THE CURRENT RECIPE ISN'T THE SAME ONE SCHNERING CREATED 100 YEARS AGO.
• BUTTERFINGER COMMERCIALS WERE THE FIRST TIME MANY PEOPLE SAW THE CHARACTERS WHO WOULD BECOME THE SIMPSONS.