The Eat The Young Festival is going on tonight in North Hollywood and again on April 1st. My toons are playing all together for the first time in this country (Canada!!!)
When I was a kid, my mom would more or less let us get any cereal we wanted. Actually, that’s half true. She let us think that, but she was really getting us any cereal she had a coupon for and lots of awful cereals my friends never got to try had lots of coupons. Normally we stuck to the Pebbles and the Cookie Crisp, but once in awhile we’d get something a little strange. Here are some of my “favorite” memories.
Nerd Cereal
Nerd cereal came in a normal box with two thin bags of cereal inside for each of the different flavors. Nerd cereal was a cruel, cruel mistress. At first It tasted quite good and was very crunchy. Unfortunately, 30 seconds later you were left with a disgusting soup of fruit flavored milk mud. Disgusting.
OJ’s
OJ’s was an orange flavored cereal. In the spirit of the chocolate cereals the exist to this day that leave you with chocolate milk to sip up, OJ’s was awesome enough to leave your milk orange juice flavored. This cereal lasted one year, and I was about 5 when it was out. I remember that EVERY time my brother and I picked out cereal, we pondered a box of OJ’s. The part of my brain that wants to dress up a little dog as Theodor Roosevelt said YES. The part of my brain that remembers to put on pants in the morning said NO.
Nintendo Cereal
It’s a cereal! WOW! That lyric haunts me to this day.
Nintendo (or NIN! TEN! DO!) Cereal was an other split box production like nerds. I think this was made by Ralstons. They were and continue to be the go to people for media tie-in cereals, and if I am not mistaken, they also make pet food. The taste of their cereal should be a dead give away. Most of their stuff is rebranded generics or a weird mix of stuff. Donkey Kong cereal was just Captain Crunch. The Crunches were supposed to be barrels. Spider-man cereal was chex mix “webs” and marshmallow spider-man shapes.
The Mario side was sort of Mario shaped Trix pieces. It wasn’t bad, but nothing to write home about. The Zelda side of the box was a fucking nightmare of horror. It tasted like death, and the only edible bits were the chex mix “nets”. The Zelda series didn’t include a net of any kind until years later, and even then it was a bug net. (NERD RAGE!!!!!!)
Smores Crunch
This is the greatest cereal I or anyone else has ever had. Do not confuse this with Smorz cereal. That crap has nothing on Smores Crunch. It even ends with a Z like a sad parody of itself. Smores Crunch was basically Golden Grahams, but the pieces were drizzled with chocolate junk instead of boring ass nothing, and it was mixed with little marshmallows. OH MY GOD and you could make Smores bars with it! They were like rice crispy bars only FROM HEAVEN!!!! (You can still make these with Golden Grahams, but you’d be fooling yourself.)
I’ve been a little quiet recently. There is some stuff going on about future animations featuring Mistor and yelling and all that weirdness. Right now I’m in the process of looking over the contract, roughing script ideas, and all that fun stuff.
I hope I’ll have some good news soon about what to expect.
Edit: I haven’t forgotten the doodle suggestions, but working through this stuff comes first.
