Kellogg's Bizarre Voice Assistants for Windows

[@duckrinium]

Management meeting Quality Assurance team: - So does it work correctly? - uh... No. - Splendid!

[@daddygroudon]

literally, it cracked me so long xD

[@commentarysheep]

>Every AAA video game since 2014 ever

[@homuraakemi103]

Better reaction than, “You’re fired.”

[@raab837]

best part of the video. "Splendid!"

[@FintanMoloney]

Splendid comment !

[@stephanieiwaniuk6088]

My siblings and I got roller coaster tycoon from a cereal box! So many hours spent on that series...

[@claudiodiaz9752]

This game is awesome, still enjoyable to this day. Great prize.

[@keiganthetennessean1796]

Nice! Someone burned me a copy when the first one came out and I could spend hours on that game. I still play it through Steam.

[@thany3]

@@keiganthetennessean1796 There's actually an opensource version of it, that adds a bunch of stuff on top of the original game. It's called OpenRCT2.

[@jubayerandmikuofficial]

Michael mjd windows XP pc

[@ejakaegypt]

Omg same

[@theblubus]

The floating "TM" is cracking me up. Kellogg's REALLY wants you to know that these characters trademarked 🤣

[@SeamanLord]

“You would never have 2 of these running at the same time” My brother in Christ, I was a child with unmonitored PC access. This would’ve been the first thing i did

[@NJdaniels96]

Summon them all and make them fight.

[@deftcoleman0552]

Toucan: Did the program open? Michael: No! >:( Toucan: Splendid! :D

[@someonestuff_]

lmao

[@TheOnlyName]

loll

[@iskrassupercoolchannel]

@@someonestuff_ xd

[@Slicer7903]

ah yes, putting a copyright watermark on a screen saver is a great idea, and the entire point of a screen saver was to save your screen from burns. great idea Kelloggs and Microsoft.

[@RadicalBlur]

Froot Loops will be burned into your screen, FOREVER!

[@xXBlueSheepXx]

11:39 I busted out laughing at the unexpected 3D CGI door opening animation. Reminds me of that SpongeBob episode where he goes through the metal wall.

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

The door was just too complex for 2D.

[@simonlathwell]

For those interested and have a retro PC these are all available on the web archive.

[@RadicalBlur]

Thanks!

[@branhicks]

In heindsight, it was a ballsy move installing random software from a box of cereal.

[@eagle-eyes777]

When you put it like that, yeah lmao

[@kloroformd]

It was from a time where just having a brand in a user's face was what gave software value, not harvesting every datapoint for resale.

[@renakunisaki]

PC version of pills from a truck stop bathroom

[@gianni_schicchi]

Back in my day, we used to install software that came on random floppies in the mail

[@Aileil]

But the world would be a poorer place without cereal box computer games of Candyland and stuff, XD.

[@sharko_tv_be]

You can tell how corporate it is by the fact they ALL have a (TM) on the desktop

[@reallypurpled]

Yooooooo what? Youo still don't have a @?

[@Pwnz0rServer2009]

@@reallypurpled the heck do you mean here

[@Banom7a]

™

[@NovabitsYT]

​@@Pwnz0rServer2009😂

[@exyvt]

Greed™️

[@shubh1dillpickle]

The Froot Loops version is why Image Line had to rename Fruity Loops to FL Studio because they were sued by Kellogg's

[@ShadowGD_OfficialYT]

Oh! Now I see why it has "FL" in the name! "FL" means "Fruity Loops"! Pretty interesting, huh?

[@KH0LRA]

Makes sense why its a mango now 🥭

[@cutralefan1996]

I always thought it was “Florida Studio.”

[@AnotherAustin-z7b]

​@@cutralefan1996no way LMAO

[@ExaltedUriel]

MY MOM HAD THE TONY ONE OF THESE! Speech recognition and crappy digital assistants are on every cell phone now but back in the day it was considered pretty nifty, even if it barely worked lol

[@RadeonVega64]

yep

[@Cornllama]

That's so funny, because up until the latest LLM-powered AI programs, every time a company would release some "revolutionary" AI you could talk to, my reaction would be "Oh, they just made Talking Toucan Sam."

[@02LeSabre]

Loved this. I didn't even know this was a thing. I actually met Thurl Ravenscroft back in the early 80's (Voice of Tony The Tiger). he really did sound like that in person. Just the nicest person you could ever meet. It was sad when he passed away after these programs were made. I think he passed away about 2005 or so.

[@MickeyMousePark]

and his connection to Disneyland Mark Twain Riverboat The Enchanted Tiki Room Pirates of the Caribbean Adventures Thru Inner Space The Haunted Mansion Country Bear Jamboree Country Bear Christmas Special Country Bear Vacation Hoedown Splash Mountain Disneyland Railroad

[@MadameSomnambule]

@@MickeyMousePark Not to mention his connection to Dr. Seuss's tv specials, even singing some lines in specials other than The Grinch, like in one of the songs from The Lorax.

[@greenstorytime]

"select the program you would like- MMMMM RICE CRISPIES " made me laugh so hard

[@wolf1438]

Over 20 years old cereal company software is able to do what Microsoft AI copilot is trying to achieve now.

[@shadowopsairman1583]

Copilot is a spy

[@jordanl5444]

​@shadowopsairman1583 so were a lot of these old virtual assistants lmfao

[@thatoneuser5066]

@@jordanl5444bonzi buddy lol

[@sarcasticmcspastic]

@@jordanl5444 you got a good point lmfao

[@midorifox]

​@@jordanl5444 they weren't made by the same company that made the os, nor such a high profile company.

[@joshuahowell6827]

There's so much cereal related stuff for old PC's. The one cereal related thing I can remember the most is Capn' Crunch's Crunchling Adventure.

[@yamigekusu]

Chex Quest?

[@surfingthechaos]

That one was amazing. You could play it as a cd and it was a Captain Crunch radio drama.

[@generallyunimportant]

@@yamigekusu chex quest is hilarious as fuck tho

[@MadameSomnambule]

I remember getting some games from cereal boxes as a kid when they did a promo for Hasbro. Got Monopoly and Operation and my grandma ended up getting Scrabble (I already had an older pc version of that one from the 90s, that didn't come with a cereal box lol).

[@thediscof24]

Does it work? “No.” SPLENDID!

[@renakunisaki]

I love these old corporate screensavers that always had a bunch of static elements. It's like every company wanted to make one and none of them understood what their purpose was. I had a Pokémon one with a logo in the corner at all times... thankfully I realized that defeated the point of a screensaver and didn't use it.

[@trevorhaddox6884]

"Play the Gotcha Game!"...that did not age well. The Rice Krispie kids are now gambling on lootboxes.

[@syahminorizan8064]

Toucan predicting mobile games in 2005

[@stevef6392]

Clippy: It looks like some annoyingly characterful Toucan has followed his nose a little to close to...Windows. Would you like me to ELIMINATE HIM?

[@SUCHMISH]

🤣

[@renakunisaki]

With that schnoz he'd break right through a window.

[@RadicalBlur]

Imagining a thunderbolt comes out of Clippy and brutally shocks him

[@EricE549]

[ elimination is imminent ]

[@RampantLeaf]

I would have loved this so much as a kid. Surprising how much effort was put into these discs.

[@drygnfyre]

These still aren't as cool as Chex Quest, a full-on Doom clone given away for free in the mid-90s. It has such a cult following that a sequel was made about a decade ago, and the source code for the original game was released.

[@benjiwon]

"to unlock your computer, go to the store and buy some kelloggs frosted flakes then read me the barcode number on the box"

[@squiddyte4552]

It is honestly really impressive how well these work for the time

[@Suko120]

I just love how it looks like Toucan Sam is standing on the Windows XP background hill like he's a giant xD

[@ArcadeAssaultSrb]

Did program opened:"No" The bird:Oh no,anyways

[@mmllmmll22]

SPLENDID!

[@gabrielv.4358]

lol

[@koltindriver5935]

Hey Michael! I found a rare Microsoft product online called the Surface PixelSense. It was a tablet embedded into a table and ran Windows Vista and was introduced in 2008. Apparently 2012 was not the first time MS incorporated the Surface brand. It would be really cool if you find one but they are pretty rare!

[@jctotboiofficial]

Never knew these existed. I honestly had no idea that Kellogg's would make those.

[@drygnfyre]

There's probably a whole video that could be made on the subject of "things companies made you had no idea about." Like during the world wars, Ford built both planes and tanks. At one point, Coca-Cola was producing television shows and had an entire movie studio. And tons of other examples.

[@jctotboiofficial]

@@drygnfyre Well that explains the Coca-Cola Telecommunications Logo

[@gabrielv.4358]

same, living outside USA is insane

[@nateromanowski793]

Kellogs will make anything lol

[@Yarumasi]

What I learned: Tony the Tiger's voice actor better be paid a LOT of money because that boy has a golden voice. Like he was destined for this life

[@RemyJustice97]

I had the Snap Crackle and Pop one of these as a kid, but I could never get it to work. Thank you for covering these! So neat to see them actually functioning Hm. I wonder if I still have it...

[@travputer3971]

If you don’t you can use the dl link in the video description which has all three of the ones mod covered in this video!

[@sodapopz2932]

Laughing myself half to death at the idea of somebody with the Rice Krispies program installed on their computer getting burgled, they yell at the home intruder and say "WHO ARE YOU?!" and the Rice Krispies trio pop up on the screen and start talking 😭 LMAO

[@Eyetrauma]

3:14 * clears throat * “Hey Toucan Sam that be what you say whenever you need my help.” Weird activation phrase but you’re the boss.

[@KingNikolai]

the games on these discs feel like they'd be found on some awful shareware collection. I guess it's not too far off

[@SUCHMISH]

I remember my grandma getting the one with Tony the Tiger, but I also remember playing a demo of Spider-man and Extremely Goofy Skateboarding from these... Ha, shareware, I miss those days...

[@tomnook5108]

I like this Floppy background

[@awethebird]

Same!

[@擢]

wait I'm gonna do this for my office I think. super cool idea :D (ofc I'm gonna look for dead ones)

[@awethebird]

@@擢 would be hard but a cool thing. If you ever do it, post it somewhere and share the link here :D

[@擢]

@@awethebird for sure :)

[@arnox4554]

Splendid!

[@slimes1319]

I love the uncomfortable static pose

[@gamerzlog6963]

Sam's random twitching fingers just add to it.

[@NW-IC]

Can we get a speedrun category for the Froot Loops one?

[@austinthedvdking9817]

For a long time, I had a DVD that came with some Kellogg's Cereal boxes here in Canada back in 2003.

[@ax14pz107]

I'm so glad that surfing the web stayed the preferred vernacular.

[@renakunisaki]

I still think cruising the information superhighway was cooler.

[@craftersshaft]

15:36 The intricate mechanism focused on the mortal's words like the cosmic force of one million savvy ears. A treasure only sent to the select few who chose to give it life, primed to grant any wish The Cerealholder asked for. "Speak, Toucan Sam." The being rapidly processed the mortal's request. It began to speak the knowledge that resonates the past and the future, the close and the unreachable, and everywhere and everything in between, a truth only the worthy would ever get to observe. "I love lemons."

[@CEO100able]

Wow, that is very interesting! Just as fun as Microsoft Agent characters of the late 1990s and the early 2000s.

[@The_Wandering_Nerd]

I'd rather have the voice of Toucan Sam for my AI virtual assistant than the voice of "similar but legally distinct from Scarlett Johanssen"

[@Plasticshavings]

if viavoice and bonzibuddy had a cursed lovechild

[@shadowopsairman1583]

Webpals i think was another

[@RadicalBlur]

They ate too much Froot Loops

[@andythedishwasher1117]

It would be a sick flex to use Toucan Sam to run cheat macros in an FPS or something.

[@RadeonVega64]

yep

[@diablow1411]

I still have the CD from Kellogg's cereal box about a Vikings' animated documentary! This is seriously nostalgic looking at these now.

[@DarkestVampire92]

I cant believe they gave Tony the worst game out of all of them. You'd think he would be the priority. But still, something fun to download and play around with from the Internet Archive. Definitely safer than Bonzi Buddy, too.

[@TheUndertaker6198]

I miss when cereals used to give away CDs. I remember getting Microsoft Flight Simulator and some of the DK's 'my first interactive' series programs from Nesquik boxes.

[@gojohnniegogo]

Quick nosy on wikipedia suggests Kellogg's released a game that played (and I quote from the article) "similar to Donkey Kong Country" and you could play as Snap, Crackle, Pop, Tony or Coco Monkey. It was called Mission Nutrition.

[@NielsonLucas]

These discs should be digitized and sent to the Internet Archive.

[@Lethaltail]

I’ve had the Talking Tony CD since i was a kid, the craziest thing to me is that it runs on Flash :p

[@SethPiperHere]

thank you for giving me the recovered memory. i loved these so much as a kid.

[@Ky_Grey95]

I had the toucan Sam desk, probably still is somewhere around today. I remember when The disc would crash, some generic guy's voice (Not tucan sam) would start repeating the same thing over and over until you closed the program

[@lukchem]

Who needs gpt4o when you can have Toucan Sam.

[@Choochinc]

You get ads shoved in your face. We used to willingly put the ads in our own faces. We are not the same.

[@MickeyMousePark]

facebook and tiktok??

[@andrewmolloy5095]

Hey MJD, recently came across your channel, some awesome content. I love your variation on old school stuff like server 2003, XP, 2000 etc... this is an awesome video and every kid would have loved this 20 years ago, shame if they didn't have a microphone back then though.

[@TheSuitedEngineer]

I know this software has it's issues, but it's honestly pretty impressive for software that bundled free with cereal. Especially in an era where software like Dragon Naturally Speaking was several hundred dollars

[@MSPaintOfficial]

a cereal company decides to make a bonzi buddy ripoff

[@prayagsuthar9856]

This is a really well-made cereal box pack-in. That is a sentence! No, but the animations and full voice acting are _so_ cute. But it's also creepy, gives me Buy 'n' Large vibes....

[@tomysshadow]

The way they open the same agent again if you try and chain them makes me wonder if the reason some stuff won't open - like Internet Explorer at first - is they forgot to set the current directory to the folder the program is in when they open it, which would be a very easy mistake to make and not catch

[@smyry]

I saw Kelloggs and Windows and my mind immediately went to windows cereal 💀

[@TheSUPERWIND2023]

Love that ram marshmallows!

[@domestica_rosaceae]

Well, it’s the only plausible move after ice cream and tacos…

[@SidewaysCytlan]

Gosh, I remember the CDs in the cereal boxes! There was that Kellogg's platformer game that was pretty intense, and another one that gave me nightmares as a child where some kid's dog gets abducted by aliens who'll swallow you alive if you get too close.

[@MondySpartan]

Kelloggs Copilot.

[@andyk192]

I got a copy of the original roller coaster tycoon in a cereal box like 20 years ago and I still have the disc. It was literally inside the box, none of that needing to mail away for things stuff would just fall out of the box. I miss that time.

[@ct1660]

I had the Rice Krispies one when we had our first PC back in 2004!

[@FoxMan_FF]

These are awesome. That's definitely Maurice LaMarche playing Toucan Sam, but I can't tell if that's the original voice of Tony the Tiger or his understudy, who would have been voicing him around the same time. No idea about Snap, Crackle and Pop- they had SEVERAL different voices throughout the years!

[@KeatonGraves]

I knew that sounded like Maurice. I thought Crackle kind of sounded like Danny Cooksey(Jack Spicer from Xiolan, Brad from Kick Buttowski, and Montana Max from Tiny Toons).

[@karastears]

Since Snap, Crackle, and Pop were voiced by Thom Adcox, Chad Doreck, and Dino Andrade from 2000-2009. And considering that these were from 2004, they most likely voiced them here.

[@nunyabiness181]

I just watched a half hour about these 3 cds…which was way more time than I gave them as a kid

[@jdsretrogames]

19:50 I didn't even hear what he sa- Wow! That's amazing

[@infinitytec]

So now someone needs to mod these to connect to ChatGPT

[@jorymo4964]

I like how Tony the Tiger does the same weird limb thing as Stan from Monkey Island

[@baseddoggie]

wow you're absolutely right

[@colinstu]

timestamp? which weird limb thing?

[@ricksandstorm]

I was reminded of the old Mario DVD video on Cinemassacre because of the voice of the toucan. Turns out that Toucan Sam has the same voice actor as Inspector Gadget.

[@jakepellegrino954]

Me: Mom, I want Siri Mom: We have Siri at home

[@NormanF62]

Before Microsoft Copilot, we had Bonzi Buddy and Toucan Sam as our virtual assistants! 😊

[@berkpwn]

Wow this video just unlocked a very DEEP memory of these assistants...

[@Elieesia]

Wow, what a flashback! I had the Tony the tiger one.

[@ilovepandas1246]

They also did the same thing with spiderman and poptarts. I remember the promotion requiring codes from 3 unique flavors so you had to buy three different kinds to get the barely functional system. I also remember it popping into games like Humongous Entertainment games and the internal GPU glitching out and rendering all the wrong colors for the pop-up.

[@Anonymouthful]

I feel like these would be a fun littl addition with how much more advanced we could make them.

[@omegahaxors9-11]

"Hey Toucan Sam. Bonzi Buddy." "... I don't know what you mean >_>"

[@pollyisagoodbird]

I had the Rice Krispies one. I quickly realized that it took way less time to open IE than to open a program, wait for it to load, tell it a voice command, wait like 5 seconds, and then hope that it worked. That disc soon went right in the garbage.

[@9a3eedi]

I'm actually impressed by how well the voice recognition is working. I remember it being pretty bad in the 90s and early 2000s

[@DjBasA38]

I used to have a ''DJ program'' from Kelloggs. I believe it came with honey pops a long time ago.

[@THEACTUALLDL123]

Can I put milk on this?

[@Vibri_but_Paranoid]

LOL

[@Daniel636-j7l]

Think so

[@ClaireDoesMC]

MJD: No. Sam: Splendid! :D

[@SodaMazing64]

3:20 I like how you say "hey Toucan Sam" like you're in a alcoholics anonymous meeting

[@NovabitsYT]

19:52 Tony being sarcastic

[@gizmowizard352]

4:11 lol yourself, and the voice sounds a lot like the voice in Lego Island

[@pseudonymousgarbage8]

A screensaver that burns Kellogg's copyright on your screen. Brilliant!

[@matiastripaldi406]

This is a splendid video

[@mrgrumpy888]

More accurate and useful than Siri, ngl.

[@sonic2000gr]

Brilliant! Splendid! See you soon!

[@Ultranova537MC]

Ahh windows XP the most beloved windows operating system

[@Jolimations]

Why does Tony the Tiger sound like morshu from the Zelda CDi??

[@renakunisaki]

Come back when you'rrrrrrrrre grrrrrrreat!

[@Big_Tex]

Who needs Alexa when you have this?

[@claudiobizama5603]

Man, I miss these desktop toys. I remember having the Bionicle ones, you could play with them and drag them with the mouse.

[@hugosimoes5119]

The late 90's until mid 2000's, cereal packages came with some sort of CD with games (sometimes full games) and/or software.

[@ShoalFox]

I had the Tony the Tiger one when I was a kid but our PC didn’t have a microphone so I couldn’t do much LOL

[@i.m.evilhomer5084]

As interesting as this is, kid me would've just prefered a game. Even if it was a CD with flash games or an "activity centre". Probably the best game that I got with cereal was Rollercoaster Tycoon. Although I do remember KFC re-releasing some of Hasbro's CD-Rom board games here in Australia. Though that pales in compares to Beyond Good & Evil, infamously being given out with cheese in Canada.

[@Code7Unltd]

I have a cereal-box copy of Monopoly. I'm guessing that was from the time where the first Hasbro Interactive was in dire straits since they were fiscally drowning due to housing one too many Nintendo 64 cartridges of Glover.

[@thomasgebert6119]

I had a Capn Crunch game that came for free in a box I think. It was like a really crappy tomagachi game, where you could feed your "crunchling" endless amounts of cereal to make them grow bigger and stronger, and then occasionally race a tortoise on a skateboard. Of course eating endless amounts of Capn Crunch in real life will make you sad and diabetic, so the game wasn't realistic at all. The even better part was that you could put the CD into a CD player and get an "audio adventure" of the crunchling simulator. It was insanely goofy and stupid and I absolutely love it.

[@Mrshoujo]

Diabeetus doesn't work that way.

[@thomasgebert6119]

@@Mrshoujo Probably not, but I thought it had to do with too much sugar intake over a long time, causing the pancreas to be unable to send out enough insulin? I could be way off on that. Point is, cereal has a ton of sugar, that's really what I was getting at.

[@arkadiusz6688]

Its funny that a program from a box of cereal is better than many commercially sold softwares today.

[@zedtronic]

5:40 lmao when you mocked his “brilliant”, you came off sounding like vailskibum 😭

[@sanekibeko]

I had one of these as a kid but the mic my mom had never worked rip

[@ChrisSpartan]

I realize while testing the voice assistants, I put the commands as open the browser like supermium or mypal, but while the browser does open the data doesn’t get loaded, is like I’m opening supermium or mypal for the first time, little weird