Count Chocula

[I Love Xenakis]

Rigorously discuss.

[lisztisforkids]

He is a dork. What kind of vampire eats cereal? He supposed to be sucking the blood out of broads and rasing an evil undead army. But no... He has to be a loser and take up a sponosr. Sheesh...  He gives vampires a bad name everywhere.

[I Love Xenakis]

He is a dork. What kind of vampire eats cereal? He supposed to be sucking the blood out of broads and rasing an evil undead army. But no... He has to be a loser and take up a sponosr. Sheesh...  He gives vampires a bad name everywhere.

You don't know the first thing about being a vampire, do you?

[lisztisforkids]

You don't know the first thing about being a vampire, do you?

Actually, I know a lot about vampires. I think that they are fascinating creatures. I say it again. Count Chocula is a LOSER.

[arensky]

I remember when these cereals were introduced to American consumers, the other one being Frankenberry. TV commercials and cereal boxes pitted them against each other. I didn't like chocolate (still don't dig it much) so I was for Frankenberry, but I remember that this upset me. Prior ti this General Mills had two cereals on the market, Quisp ( a weasely little space alien, cereal in the shape of flying saucers)  and Quake (a rugged red haired dude in a green cape and a cowboy hat who smashed things. Cereal was golden boulders He would try to smash weasley little Quisp the ^%%@@   ) but Quisp always flew away, the miserable little high tech $%^& . ) Anyway the company put it to a box top vote... "Should Quake stay? Or should he go?" Well all the little #$%^&^& __________ (fill in political party you hate in blank) who were my peers voted Quake out. It was my first lesson in how while majority rules, it doesn't make them right! (remember Hitler, winning by large margins? Quisp was Hitler) I remember being upset.....

So i was hard for me to take sides in the Count Chocula (skinny brown vampire, weasly again) Frankenberry (big pink amorphus strawberry in the guise of the Frankenstein monster). Wars. Man, war is hell. Good thing Booberry (blue ghost in a straw boater and bow tie; the Horowitz of breakfast cereal creatures) showed up. But around this time I started eating Grape Nuts, wth an occasional deviation back to sugared glop. I still buy the occasional box of Golden Crisps, which used to be Super Sugar Crisps , proffered by the Sugar Bear, a hipster in a turtleneck; why is the cereal renamed why is he gone? He is still on the box, but gone from TV. (At least what I watch) Maybe he was offensive to Black people, a caricature. That happened to the Frito Bandito, a little cartoon Pancho Villa dude, who shot everything up when he didn't get his Fritos, if I recall correctly; always wished I could do that when I didn't get something   . Why was there never a white guy cereal, some dude in a crew cut/striped tie with a pipe (yeah, Bob from the Church of the Subgenius).

Gee I discussed everything but Count Chocula; haven't noticed too much of this sort of advertising out of America...when I was in China I had to buy laundry detergent, there was only one kind..."White Cat". This was really kinda sick, the label was a fluffy white cat face in a circle, like it was looking out of the washer window at you !  

I'm hungry now... I'll have some Quaker Oats Squares...

[elspeth]

I got really confused when I saw this, on this side of the pond there's a popular kids' cartoon starring a character called Count Duckula...

Sounds like you have a different breed of cereal characters! The main one here are the CoCo Pops monkey, Tony the Tiger, and the Ricicles characters... nothing supernatural yet, although I suspect whoever designs these things is taking something a bit stronger than breakfast cereal!

[I Love Xenakis]

I remember when these cereals were introduced to American consumers, the other one being Frankenberry. TV commercials and cereal boxes pitted them against each other. I didn't like chocolate (still don't dig it much) so I was for Frankenberry, but I remember that this upset me. Prior ti this General Mills had two cereals on the market, Quisp ( a weasely little space alien, cereal in the shape of flying saucers)  and Quake (a rugged red haired dude in a green cape and a cowboy hat who smashed things. Cereal was golden boulders He would try to smash weasley little Quisp the ^%%@@  ) but Quisp always flew away, the miserable little high tech $%^& . ) Anyway the company put it to a box top vote... "Should Quake stay? Or should he go?" Well all the little #$%^&^& __________ (fill in political party you hate in blank) who were my peers voted Quake out. It was my first lesson in how while majority rules, it doesn't make them right! (remember Hitler, winning by large margins? Quisp was Hitler) I remember being upset.....

So i was hard for me to take sides in the Count Chocula (skinny brown vampire, weasly again) Frankenberry (big pink amorphus strawberry in the guise of the Frankenstein monster). Wars. Man, war is hell. Good thing Booberry (blue ghost in a straw boater and bow tie; the Horowitz of breakfast cereal creatures) showed up. But around this time I started eating Grape Nuts, wth an occasional deviation back to sugared glop. I still buy the occasional box of Golden Crisps, which used to be Super Sugar Crisps , proffered by the Sugar Bear, a hipster in a turtleneck; why is the cereal renamed why is he gone? He is still on the box, but gone from TV. (At least what I watch) Maybe he was offensive to Black people, a caricature. That happened to the Frito Bandito, a little cartoon Pancho Villa dude, who shot everything up when he didn't get his Fritos, if I recall correctly; always wished I could do that when I didn't get something  . Why was there never a white guy cereal, some dude in a crew cut/striped tie with a pipe (yeah, Bob from the Church of the Subgenius).

Gee I discussed everything but Count Chocula; haven't noticed too much of this sort of advertising out of America...when I was in China I had to buy laundry detergent, there was only one kind..."White Cat". This was really kinda sick, the label was a fluffy white cat face in a circle, like it was looking out of the washer window at you ! 

I'm hungry now... I'll have some Quaker Oats Squares...

that was extensive o.o

[pianorama]

The main reason they cancelled Frankenbarry was because the excessive food colouring actually stained kid's poo pink. Count Chocula probably colours the poo, too, but with it being brown, who would ever notice?

[quantum]

I must be out of date with my cereal boxes.  I don't even know these characters. 

[I Love Xenakis]

I must be out of date with my cereal boxes.  I don't even know these characters. 

Did you stop eating cereal in the 1940's or something?  o.O

[arensky]

The main reason they cancelled Frankenbarry was because the excessive food colouring actually stained kid's poo pink. Count Chocula probably colours the poo, too, but with it being brown, who would ever notice?

barf 

[notturno]

He supposed to be sucking the blood out of broads and rasing an evil undead army. But no... He has to be a loser and take up a sponosr. Sheesh...  He gives vampires a bad name everywhere.

He was raising an army.  A few bowls of Frankenberry and Count Chocula and the toxic soup of sugar and mysterious heavy metal dyes would turn you into a compliant, if twitchy, mindless zombie.  I liked my sugar less dye ridden and stuck with Quisp.

Mmmmm Quisp..............

I'd like to see what would happen if you "rased" an undead army.



Joseph

[alzado]

Being Irish, I have always preferred "Lucky Charms."

[notturno]

Anyway the company put it to a box top vote... "Should Quake stay? Or should he go?" Well all the little #$%^&^& __________ (fill in political party you hate in blank) who were my peers voted Quake out. It was my first lesson in how while majority rules, it doesn't make them right! (remember Hitler, winning by large margins? Quisp was Hitler) I remember being upset.....

I beg to differ.  Hitler and the Nazis won 37% of the vote in July, 1932, the last free election, I think.. So it wasn't a majority, they just had more votes and more seats than the numerous other parties.  It shows that a fanatical but organized faction can change the course of history.  Quake seems more of the brown shirt type to me.  Perhaps Quispy was the compliant technocrat, though.

IGood thing Booberry (blue ghost in a straw boater and bow tie; the Horowitz of breakfast cereal creatures) showed up.

That is hysterically funny.  The next time I watch "Horowitz in Moscow" I'll be expecting him to talk like Peter Lorry ( the voice that Booberry was imitating).  Gee Thanks. 

[musik_man]

Godfather: So you want me to kill this man... this man I do not know... this... Count Chocula?

Captain Crunch: He's been spreading lies!  My cereal does not cut the roof of your mouth!


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