Wouldn't It Be Fun

if cereal companies sponsored cartoons again?

IN MY DREAMS

Roughing Up The Lucky Charms Demon

I love these commercials because the kids act just the way real kids did back when I was eating Lucky Charms.
It's funny that the demon character is the witless innocent.
The Christian youths leap upon the pagan apparition.

Look how much attention the animator paid to manhandling the sugar imp.

The kid on the left is a funny design. The one on the right looks like the Cheerios Kid! Maybe his secret identity is a bully.
I think it's funny how many cartoons portray kids as sweet and cute little innocent things when in reality they are diminutive monsters full of the common evils of larger humanity, yet in more distilled and direct form.
Old cereal commercials tell it like it is.

http://www.cartoonthrills.org/blog/commercialsClassic/GeneralMills/LuckyCharms-desktop.mov

Trix Rabbit Dreams

TRIX RABBIT DREAMS

General Mills Cereal Ads in Comics

Hey, these are drawn pretty good for comic ads. I wonder if they were done by an animator. It's someone named Williams.

Here's the Lucky Charms Demon. I have a funny commercial where some roughneck kids manhandle him and debase him bodily.




This Rocky and Bullwinkle one is really nice.

The Cheerios Kid Beats Up A Train

Here's some fun design from a 50s Cheerios Kid commercial.
I love the clever use of values. It's amazing how good black and white can look when it's done with control and know-how.
Besides the design, the other thing I like about old animated commercials is that they tell a story.












I like how the real kid accepts the magic of a little super elf that inhabits his cereal.
An adult probably wouldn't buy it.
Man, look at him shove that stuff into his maw.

"Thank Heaven for little animated imps who tell me what to eat!"
"I can hardly wait to stand in front of a train, now that I've eaten my wholesome breakfast grains!"





Grow extra faces with Cheerios!



It's ready to eat, unlike other cereals that you have to mill and grind to a powder first.
This is a perfect commercial. In a lot of modern cereal commercials the tasteless airbrushed graphics just throw themselves at random at the screen and you have no idea what the commercial is about. These old ones tell us the message both logically and in a fun way. It made kids like the characters and want to savor every sugary morsel of the cereal.

The Cheerios Kid Destroys A Train Full Of Passengers