Never realized until now that The Cap'n slurred his words like final-days Jessica Savitch (look her up, kids).
I think the pig-tailed girl in the Kool-Aid commercial was in a Five-O episode, "Sing a Song of Suspense", which would have been done about a year before this.
Wow, there was some serious bilge out there! There was actually a 'Bill and Ted's Excellent Cereal"???? Did anyone here eat that stuff? It also seems that there was noxious, sugary garbage for every generation.
I was the kid that loved gumball machine charms, cereal prizes, cracker jack prizes. The stuff we had in the 60's and 70's was very cool, what they have for kids is nothing. In my day we went to the drug store for comic books and trading cards. I'd like to get another glow in the dark pen from super sugar crisp.
I'm still waiting for someone to admit that they wanted, asked for, and actually ate "Bill & Ted's Excellent Cereal."
(Child of the 80s reporting in, despite the fact I'm a bit out of the age demographic here)
I have only the vaguest memory of the Bill & Ted cereal (it came out around the same time as the second film and the cartoon series, right?) but never much appealed to me.
The one I desperately wanted and only got *one time* was
I remember being disappointed it was basically Trix with different shapes. It wasn't bad... just nothing special. Also, one of them tasted better than the other (or at least I convinced myself of that!)
I'm still waiting for someone to admit that they wanted, asked for, and actually ate "Bill & Ted's Excellent Cereal."
(Child of the 80s reporting in, despite the fact I'm a bit out of the age demographic here)
I have only the vaguest memory of the Bill & Ted cereal (it came out around the same time as the second film and the cartoon series, right?) but never much appealed to me.
The one I desperately wanted and only got *one time* was
I remember being disappointed it was basically Trix with different shapes. It wasn't bad... just nothing special. Also, one of them tasted better than the other (or at least I convinced myself of that!)
Child of the '80s? I must have mistakenly thought you were a late '80s-early '90s kid. Well, close enough (mid '70s-to-early '80s kid here). Are you old enough to remember when "Honey Smacks" were still called "Sugar Smacks"?
I've never even seen a Bill & Ted movie and I was just out of high school when the first movie was released and I really *shouldn't* be surprised that there was a cereal, cartoon show, action figures(?) et al.
I don't think any of the old heavily-sugared cereals are as "good" as they once were since they "took out" the gluten. I digress, which is 9/10ths the law in any good topic.
I can't remember begging them to buy certain cereals, but I do remember coveting certain ones that gave out toys.
The only one that comes to mind right now was the one in Pink Panther Cereal, which was an awesome combo of magnifying glass, telescope, whistle, shaped like the PP himself, and would clip in my pocket by way of his arm.
Child of the '80s? I must have mistakenly thought you were a late '80s-early '90s kid. Well, close enough (mid '70s-to-early '80s kid here). Are you old enough to remember when "Honey Smacks" were still called "Sugar Smacks"?
I've never even seen a Bill & Ted movie and I was just out of high school when the first movie was released and I really *shouldn't* be surprised that there was a cereal, cartoon show, action figures(?) et al.
I am, somewhat unfortunately, the same age as the movie Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
The Bill & Ted cereal / cartoon / whatever thing was a marketing event that one can gleam some brief understanding from but not see the whole picture - as later on, they attempted to do the exact same thing for Back To The Future (cartoon series and marketing reboot). Someone, at some point, figured they could make one last windfall of cash on the property (I am reminded of the Salkinds milking the "Super" property one last time with that 80s Superboy TV series...)
But I digress...
My mother wouldn't allow "unhealthy" cereal in the house most of the year - with the sole exception of Christmas Crunch (the seasonal Captain Crunch). I'd have to go to another kid's house or a relative's to gorge myself on such things. I do have distinct memories of certain things - like the 80s Fruity Pebbles Christmas Commercial and how they abruptly changed the sound and voices in the 90s which angered me for reasons I cannot explain - but rarely experienced the cereals first hand. We did get Rice Krispies quite a bit and I do remember a "joke factory" toy (basically a cardboard sleeve that when you pulled on it would show a joke in one window and a punchline in another) and it was around then I realized that cereal toys were getting lame!
I know this is slightly off-topic, but do any of you remember the Oscar Meyer WIENER WHISTLE???
It was a tiny recorder-like whistle that could play five or six notes. My entire eleventh grade music class bought them, and we composed Wiener Whistle fugues for extra credit!
I know this is slightly off-topic, but do any of you remember the Oscar Meyer WIENER WHISTLE???
It was a tiny recorder-like whistle that could play five or six notes. My entire eleventh grade music class bought them, and we composed Wiener Whistle fugues for extra credit!
That's probably before my time, but I do recall a late '70s Burger King promo which was a piccolo shaped like a...wait for it...a dill pickle.
Are you old enough to remember when "Honey Smacks" were still called "Sugar Smacks"?
