In the early 80's the movie E.T. brought the world to it's knees. Everybody thought it was the greatest movie since the invention of photography. Personally, I never really got the movie. E.T.'s cereal was a bit of a let down. They decided to get creative and make the cereal in the shape of the letters "E" & "T". Wow, How fun! But no E.T. tie-in was a bigger disappointment that the Atari 2600 video game, quite possibly the worst video game ever produced!
I know I'll burn in "comedy hell" for this, but I never really got GHOSTBUSTERS either. It's an o.k. film in my book, but once again I was all about the merchandise. This cereal was pretty good with it's ghost shaped marshmallows and fruit flavored buster-logos. A bowl of Ghostbusters cereal went down real smooth a juice glass full of Hi-C Ecto Cooler.
The Muppets entered the cereal market in 1988 with Croonchy Stars, an idea supposedly created by Jim Henson himself. The idea behind the cinnamon-flavored cereal was that cereal boxes were boring and Henson wanted to design boxes they were full of jokes and games. The cereal's spokesmuppet was The Swedish Chef instead of Kermit or Piggy. Jim Henson wanted to call the cereal "Stoopid Flakes" but Post shot that idea down. In the end, Croonchy Stars was off the market in a year.
Ahhh...Smurf Berry Crunch, A legendary cereal! Who didn't want to get their hands on some Smurf Berries for breakfast. This cereal was released in the height of the Smurf-craze and did very well for itself. It was basically another version of Cap'n Crunch Crunch Berries, but it had Smurfs on the box so that made it better. Growing up, we always thought that the local grocery store got a bad shipment of Smurf Berry Crunch once because all the kids in the neighborhood starting having blue and purple poop. Thanks to the internet, the illusion that our neighborhood was special was shattered when I found out that the blue poop ordeal was a national incident and Smurf Berry Crunch was pulled from the shelves for a very short time while they switched the way the cereal was dyed. But at least I'll always have my memories of tecnocolored poopy!
Finally we bring you Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cereal. Actually a pretty good tasting cereal but it was a bit of a let down at first. The cereal was comprised of marshmallows and "Ninja Nets" which were plainly just Rice Chex. You can't just drop another cereal in a box with a cartoon character in it and call it a new cereal...and since when do ninjas use nets!? Anywho, the chex and marshmallow combo was a pretty good idea, quite tasty! Hey, by the way, there's a new Ninja Turtle movie coming out in March. It looks awesome!If you have any cereal memories that you'd like our crack staff of cereal detectives to dig up information on just drop us a line! Thanks for visiting!
Yikes! I had actually never heard of that...um...side-effect from eating SmurfBerry Crunch. It makes sense though, because after eating Ninja Turtle cereal for a few weeks, every kid in my neighborhood started killing people with nunchucks.
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