![]() ![]() This is probably one of the more frightening 90s cereal characters, if for nothing other than the sheer voracity of his need. In elementary school, a friend and I fed some Trix to her pet rabbit, Munchers. It's always the same old schtick: he'd try to trick the kids into sharing their cereal, but they'd continually admonish him with the ultimate brush-off: "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!" Jokes on the Trix rabbit, though. The Trix rabbit has been up to his, well, tricks for over 50 years. They promised to bring out the tiger in us or to put the tiger on our team, but perhaps none were as resigned and half-hearted as "The Taste Adults Have Grown to Love." You know, you used to hate it, but over the years the virulence of your hatred has lessened. The "They're Grrrreat!" slogan has been around for ages, but in the 80s and 90s they tried incorporating some hipper phrases. Tony the Tiger may have been born decades earlier, but he probably started his amateur frisbee career in the above 90s ad. He did, however, get Joseph Gordon Levitt on the cuckoo train. At least he wasn't trying to pull his Gramps into it anymore. Sonny worked his way up from user to dealer. Not exactly the stuff cool kids are made of.Īd writers wised up in the 80s and 90s, making Sonny go cuckoo with kids and eventually pressure other kids into going cuckoo themselves. He still went cuckoo, sure, but with his grandpa. In the original 50s and 60s ads, Sonny was chilling with his grandpa. Sometimes time really does bring progress. That name still sounds pretty suspicious. The only thing I'm not so clear on is what Dino Pebbles are made of. Barney attempts elaborate and ill-thought-out scheme to obtain Pebbles. Throughout the years, the story lines have been fairly one-dimensional: Fred Flintstone eats Fruity or cocoa Pebbles. When the Flinstones debuted as Post Cereal's Pebbles-brand spokescartoons in the 70s, no one could have known they'd still be out hawking cereal decades later. Blink and they'll be replaced by cooler, hipper characters.įruity/Cocoa/Dino Pebbles: Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble You'd better hurry up and get your reminiscing in before the remaining mascots go the way of Cookie Crook and Officer Crumb. Many of these characters have been around since before our time, though they often been through more reinventions than Cher. There were plenty of live-action commercials directed at older children, but few of them managed to equal the intensity and desperation encapsulated by these sugar-starved animated critters. These cartoon characters were by no means the only cereal advertising stars. I'm not a professional, but even I can see that guy needs some seriuos help. You'd almost expect for them to airlift Honeycomb Crazy Craving to the nearest treatment facility and run a glucose IV through his furry little arm. ![]() They're not only incredibly desperate for their fix but also seem to be going through some sort of physical withdrawal symptoms. At the time, it seemed like a fairly viable quandary what's one expected to do if denied their sugary fuel? Looking at them now, though, I wouldn't be surprised if one of these cartoons showed up on A&E's Intervention. The aim of these characters was to convince a demographic of hungry, sugar-crazed children that these cereals were so desirable that fictional characters would go to extreme lengths to get their hands on them. For those of us whose parents refused to buy us sugary breakfast cereal, we could relate to their plight. These guys are constantly battling the forces of cereal-related tyranny and oppression in an eternal struggle to get their hands on the much-coveted cereal. They never can just pick up a box of their favorite sugar cereal at the local supermarket like the rest of us. They're arguably among the most dedicated, single-minded characters in modern media. Cereal mascots are the hardest working guys in show biz. ![]()
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