Kelloggs Cocoa Krispies with Snagglepuss (Balancing on Finger).mpg

Talk about waste!! I LOVE me some Cocoa Krispies, but Snagglepuss would rather use them for a balancing act, ruining the cereal AND enough glass bowls to feed a family of eight!! Heavens to Murgatroid!!

[@windbeamproductions]

I love Snagglepuss, but he really needed to come out of his closet.

[@yosoyringodesanantonio8405]

Me too even.

[@filipecerqueira5937]

Many people confuse Snagglepuss for the Pink Panther. Because he's also pink. Except that he's a mountain lion and the Pink Panther is a panther.

[@yosefdemby8792]

Same thing.

[@fromthesidelines]

Shortly after Snagglepuss became a prominent member of Yogi Bear's TV show (sponsored by Kellogg's, in syndication) in early 1961, it was decided to replace "Coco the Elephant" on the Cocoa Krispies box with Snag's picture on it. Naturally, sales increased considerably, and he remained their "icon" through 1966. This is a 1962 pitch...

[@fromthesidelines]

Incidentally, Daws Butler was the only voice-over talent ever identified on screen for doing a character's voice in a commercial, because Bert Lahr accused Kellogg's of capitalizing on his "Cowardly Lion" voice, threatening to sue them and Hanna-Barbera for "unauthorized use". To placate Lahr, Kellogg's agreed to give Butler screen credit, so viewers would KNOW it wasn't him. Eventually, Lahr went into commercials himself, selling Lay's Potato Chips in the mid-'60s.

[@SuperMarioJustin4]

But, you're balancing it with your pointer finger, not your pinky.

[@garfieldandfriends1]

Freddie : BAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH

[@eddynunez96]

Fantastic

[@haileyshannon7548]

The Bert Lahr lawsuit wasn't the only lawsuit they got back than, Jackie Gleason also threatened to sue them because the Flintstones were basically The Honeymooners as cavemen

[@yosefdemby8792]

Yeah, but his lawyers asked him "Do you want to go down in history as the man who pulled "Fred Flintstone" from the air?"

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

No doubt that's enough "guilty conscience" for anyone!

[@ansumanahargett6227]

@@yosefdemby8792 True

[@ansumanahargett6227]

@@ChristopherSobieniak You weren’t kidding about the consequences part

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@ansumanahargett6227 Yep, Fred Flintstone got to live another day!

[@fromthesidelines]

If you look on the bottom of the screen at :58, 'bostero', you can see the disclaimer, "Snagglepuss voice by DAWS BUTLER" [try a "freeze frame" at 1:00 to see it better].

[@osito1177]

Wow, when television was invented the whole food industry boomed, and one of those industries was the cereal companies. There's a Book out there called the Great American Cereal Book. It is a detailed book about how the industry began from a simple bowl of dry and bland granola to a multi-billion dollar industry. It also has all the cereals trhat ever came out since 1886. how do you like them apples :D

[@bobbybickert]

@osito1177 There's also the book Cerealizing America (which has a foreword by Chuck McCann, the longtime voice of Sonny in Cocoa Puffs commercials). Among other things it covers how the early Hanna-Barbera TV shows, the early Jay Ward TV shows (Rocky And His Friends/The Bullwinkle Show) and other early made-for-TV cartoons like The Underdog Show were sponsored by cereal companies. It also covers how live action TV shows like The Adventures of Superman, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched and Gomer Pyle USMC were sponsored (or co-sponsored) by cereal companies.

[@ansumanahargett6227]

That lion, needs to do his own therapy

[@keithj73]

worked Kellogg's Wheelabrator jets London On . cool place nice city except the murders