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Let's talk about cereal commercials (again).

I thought of all of the cereal commercials we've had over the years after seeing the latest ads for Fiber One. Yes, to answer your question, that is Kate and Allie's Fred Koehler playing the store clerk who calls the manager over after the customer has a question about the lack of twigs in his cereal (that's Koehler with Johnathon Schaech). At first I thought to myself, "why is he doing cereal commercials instead of TV shows and movies?," but then I figured, hey, we all have to pay the bills, and Fiber One cereal is good! I just saw a sequel to the ad that features new Fiber One/Yoplait Yogurt and in it you see Kathryn Joosten, a great actress who played Mrs. Landingham on The West Wing and Mrs. McCluskey on Desperate Housewives and...well, a million other roles. So it's actually very cool to see them doing this stuff along with their many other roles.

This got me thinking about cereal commercials in general. The most famous cereal commercial, of course, is this one, featuring Mikey and his brothers (as a bonus, a snippet of a classic Oscar Mayer ad!):

Mikey, as you know, died from eating Pop Rocks and Coke. OK, that's only an urban legend. He actually did a commercial years later, telling his niece and nephew about the joys of Life cereal:

Those two kids look really familiar.

Of course, there were a ton of Flintstones commercials for Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles. Note the ingenious disguise by Barney that completely fools Fred:

Older readers will remember eating Quisp cereal (you can actually still buy it). In this one he battles a mad ball of yarn, which Star Trek: TNG would later use in the classic "The Yarn of Space" episode:

Anyone remember Freakies? I had all of the figures, which are probably worth thousands now:

We all ate Cap'N Crunch when we were kids. I never realized how drunk the Cap'N sounded:

Here's an early 60s commercial for Grape Nuts, featuring Andy and Barney. Complete with laugh track!:

And finally, a commercial for HoneyCombs cereal, which was obviously written by people smoking weed. It features a motorcycle gang member (dressed like a Viking?), a robot, and kids in a clubhouse: