Ahhh breakfast cereal commercials of the 90s. They were cartoons in themselves with terrifyingly catchy jingles, strange not-quite-british accents, and ZING-y one-liners. I couldn't even have told you the difference between "That's all folks" and "Part of a well-balanced breakfast"...I just thought either one was said as a cartoon was ending.
Anyway, for real...Toucan Sam, Cocoa the Monkey, the Cookie Cop - what the hell was up with their accents? Did they have to lure us with pseudo British accents because American English isn't cool enough? (It isn't) Lucky had an excuse to be Irish but the rest of it is just very suspect. WELL, here is a nice little mashup of my Top 9 favorite throwback cereal commercials of the 90s - assembled using Searchles TV and so can you!! Click here for more info.
1. Fruit Loops, Rapping Rhino. "Totally fresh" about sums up this fruit loop episode with Toucan Sam and the Rapping Rhino. To me, Fruit Loops were like Cheerios on awesome steroids. For great taste, just follow your nose.
2. Cocoa and his Cocoa Krispies. I love a good monkey outsmarting other jungle animals storyline and Cocoa always delivered. Even the milk turns chocolate! Is that natural?
3. Corn Pops. Gotta have my pops. This one I never really understood because corn pops weren't all that good...but I did enjoy the tension that mounted with jaws-like background music until they found that extra box of Corn Pops.
4. Lucky Charms. Everybody's after me Lucky Charms. The marshmallow mountain is like finding gold at the end of the rainbow! I always separated out my Lucky Charms by each color of marshmallow and ate them bit by bit always keeping the piles even. Come to think of it my morning routine may have been a bit more OCD than originally anticipated.
5. Frosted Flakes. Vitamin packed! Anybody could score on a Tony the Tiger assist. This one must've come out around the first Mighty Ducks to take advantage of our hockey buzz.
6. Apple Jacks. If they named it Apple Jacks, shouldn't it taste like Apples? THEY NEVER ANSWERED THIS QUESTION. But they did usually have nice middle school flirting action in their commercials which I ate up as a 5th grader...dreaming of middle school.
7. Cap'n Crunch. Peanut Butter. The Soggies. Pirates. Inspector Gadget-style chopper. This commercial has all the makings of something great.
8. Trix. Silly rabbit...Trix are for kids. This was not a stellar lesson in sharing and/or animal cruelty awareness.
9. Cookie Crisps. It still strikes me as a little ridiculous that some children you could only get to eat a 'balanced' breakfast by making part of it look like cookies. Then again my mother never got me Cookie Crisps so perhaps I'm just bitter.
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