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Best Cereal Commercials Ever.

By Excellent in Advertising, Food & Drinks, Video Clips on Feb 26, 2007 at 12:47 pm


#1 The C-3PO’s Star Wars cereal. A new force at breakfast.
Click Play or go to Link [YouTube].

#2 The Pink Panther Flakes cereal. Click Play or go to Link [YouTube].

#3 The Crispy Critters cereal. Indubitably delicious.
Click Play or go to Link [YouTube].

#4 The Pac-Man cereal. Watch the Pac-Man dance move.
Click Play or go to Link [YouTube].

#5 The Strawberry Shortcake cereal. It’s Berry Delicious.
Click Play or go to Link [YouTube].

#6 The Ghostbusters cereal. What ya gonna crunch?
Click Play or go to Link [YouTube].

#7 The Nerds cereal. Click Play or go to Link [YouTube].

#8 The Rainbow Brite cereal. Click Play or go to Link [YouTube].

#9 The Nintendo cereal. Click Play or go to Link [YouTube].

#10 The G.I. Joe cereal. For all you action stars!
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  1. travis
    Feb 26th, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    AWESOME!!! i had totally forgotten about pac man cereal and that rad commercial. thanks!

  2. Jacob
    Feb 26th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

    Remember most of those commercials.

    The C3POs cereal, "Two O's fused as one!", was such utter stupidity when you look back at it. WTF did a 8 shape have to do with anything?

  3. Tiffany
    Feb 26th, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    I can't believe you found the Crispy Critters commercial! I've had that song stuck in my head since the 80's! (Maybe now I can finally exorcise it from my brain...)

  4. Alli
    Feb 26th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

    C3POs are the best! I remember them, they were yumm, I would have loved Strawberry shortcake cereal, but a lot of these were US only so that was why the trips to the grocery stores there were so much fun (we are in Canada about 30 mins from border)

  5. Alex
    Feb 26th, 2007 at 7:00 pm

    Hahaha! Indubitably excellent!

  6. Sorcerer Mickey
    Feb 26th, 2007 at 7:05 pm

    RE: #3 Post Crispy Critters
    This isn't a great cereal because of the pseudo-Jimmy Durante spokscreature. It's because they are "the-one-and-only-cereal-that-comes-in-the-shape-of-amimals!

  7. Nihilist
    Feb 26th, 2007 at 9:55 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g7eZfNvMKA

    for something more...modern :-]

  8. wolverinejason
    Feb 26th, 2007 at 10:30 pm

    These are all very good cereal commercials, but I think Donkey Kong cereal is the best cereal commercial ever.

  9. me no smart
    Feb 26th, 2007 at 10:51 pm

    Where's the love for the Smurf Berry Crunch commercial? After all, "Smurf Berry Crunch is fun to eat, a tasty fruity breakfast treat". Thanks for the GI Joe ad, I had completely forgotten about it.

  10. Kathy
    Mar 4th, 2007 at 10:35 am

    I do not think these commercial were very good and there are much better ones....most of these are no longer on the market....if they were that good..the cereals would still be around......

  11. Christopher Estep
    Mar 4th, 2007 at 12:02 pm

    I couldn't disagree more with this list. For starters, every single commercial except one is a non-cereal tie-in. Crispy Critters, yes, that's a classic.

    I can't see how you can have a great cereal commercial from a lame cereal and 9/10 are lame.

    What's amazing to me is that the "mikey" commercials were left out.

  12. Elliot
    Mar 5th, 2007 at 7:43 pm

    Elliot from CerealBlogger here. I agree that the PacMan commercial is pure genius. We have featured that one on our site, which is devoted entirely to our favorite topic...CEREAL. Click here for some of my favorite commercials. Keep up the good work, Neatorama!

  13. Chowpuppy
    Mar 8th, 2007 at 7:24 am

    These commercials make an interesting little time capsule, but there's not a single good or memorable one in the bunch. Many, in fact, were indicative of an 80's trend to create Saturday morning cartoon shows whose characters existed for no other purpose than to sell sugar-filled cereal to impressionable young viewers. As one who has seen a half century of cereal advertising, I can think of only three that made any sort of long-lasting impression on me. The first is the Life cereal commercial that we all know -- the one featuring Mikey. The second was a brilliant 60-second spot featuring Snap, Crackle and Pop singing individually and then singing staggered lyrics all at the same time. The words, "Geese cackle, feathers tickle, belts buckle, beets pickle, but Crackle makes the world go round" still echo in my mind some forty years later. The third, while not quite as brilliant, was no less memorable. It featured a gorgeous woman in a classy white one-piece bathing suit eating cereal on her patio, while a voice-over chimed, "and if you think Quaker cereal is just for babes ... it is!"

  14. Jodie
    Mar 8th, 2007 at 7:29 am

    I remember these and they were cute, but the greatest of all time? The greatest cereal commercial of all time was the "Mikey" life cereal commercial. "He likes it! He really likes it!"

  15. Jayne
    Mar 8th, 2007 at 8:17 am

    I agree with Jodie, lol...those were obviously chosen because they brought back memories of childhood! You couldn't possibly have a list of great cereal commercials without the classic Mikey Life commercial OR the Dancing Raisins Kelloggs Raisin Bran cereal commercial!!

  16. Rick
    Jan 15th, 2008 at 1:00 am

    SMURF BERRY CRUNCH IS THE BEST EVER MADE!!!!!

    Lets all start an email campaign and petition them to bring Smurf Berry Crunch cereal back. It was the #1 cereal of all time I am sure if enough people inquire vial email they would have to, right. Kraft is the parent company of Post cereal and they have a suggestion website to submit requests and ideas.
    http://www.kraftfoods.com/innovatewithkraft/default.aspx

  17. AlexD1331
    Sep 17th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    Cocoa pebbles is the best cereal by far

  18. Ron D
    Apr 22nd, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    Check out a huge photo of Pink Panther Flakes:
    <a href="http://www.tvtoymemories.com/PINK_PANTHER_CEREAL.html"

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