The History of the Monster Cereals

[@waldo8791]

Fruit Brute is back.

[@Getwright-]

I had i back and forth with a friend of mine because I remembered these being available all year round when we were kids (count chocola was literally the only cereal i ate for a while) this video proved me right (i was born before 2006) thanks guys

[@Jeradcooks]

I’m on lunch break in my car watching this whole eating the monster mash . This all feels right!

[@chaliceohearts4658]

Frute Brute returns to the shelves. I just got my box and I’ll be enjoying the cherry flavor.

[@atticbear5098]

Yesssss. Let the seasonal Booberry hording begin!

[@atrain818]

Damn!! I thought I was the only one

[@l.a.gothro3999]

The late 1960s and early 1970s were great times to be a kid and bear witness to all these marketing ploys - they were all in COLOR! (my dob is 11/15/1964, btw)

[@GoneFishingAmalgam]

Great video. I laughed every time the Creature with the Black Macaroons showed up

[@TroyPacelli]

Just saw these cereals again in the store and was talking with my wife about it. Looks like they have some new flavors this year (particularly a mix of all of them).

[@TroyPacelli]

That's it: Monster Mash!

[@bruisedhelmet8819]

I love the editing and cuts, it's hilarious! I wanna try Fruit Brute and Fruity Yummy Mummy! And the Creature from the Black Lagoon is still my favorite monster.

[@TrentOrTreat]

Fun to come to this 2 years after you made it and they did make a new monster

[@SerpentNight]

Ah yes, the days when cereal commercials were done in.... serials.

[@orinanime]

I've always seen these cereals on shelves my entire life. I've always thought about trying them but never have. I think this year is the year I do.

[@dragonmaster613]

Yes! Do it! They don't cost that much compared to others.

[@LaurensTravels]

Going to have to get some monster cereal next grocery trip. This was such a fun history video!

[@BasementDweller_]

Boo Berry is the best.

[@dragonmaster613]

How did you know I'd just bought 2 boxes of Count Chocula (family size) today?? Did the Spirits tell you?

[@BlackTungsten]

50th anniversary? All the flavors in one box? I'll take ten!

[@raeschulmeister4742]

Don’t, it’s not good.

[@noman6041]

I was raised on eating the monster cereals!! Back then, all the flavors were real an not artificial..the Franken Berry's tasted like Strawberry and MY FAVORITE Boo-Berry tasted like blueberries. But ever since their 'seasonal' return in 2013, they are all artificial flavored now and taste like chemicals, so my fond remembrance of a childhood pleasure has been ruined. Perhaps for their anniversary, they should go back to the real flavors and, but i'm betting they won't.

[@kazman_6899]

I had no idea Fruit Brute wasn't cherry, and Yummy Mummy wasn't orange. It wasn't right to bring them back like that.

[@tremorsfan]

No mention of the live action Count Chocula commercial I see.

[@Alex-ir4bm]

I totally forgot about records we could peel off the back of cereal boxes. I want a Time Machine. 70’s were way more fun. 😅

[@Carterhd-gx4et]

The year that I was born was the year that all 5 monster cereals with frute brute and yummmy mummy

[@princebloodgrave8097]

I hope that they bring back Scarios this year. :D

[@neeceecole9496]

I love franken berry 😭✋ why did franken berry make a poor boy in the hospital 😭

[@bbodinefan11]

I never had original Frute Brute. But I had yummy mummy in its original form. Very underwhelming. Boo Berry is the best of the bunch.

[@DangerDave-e7u]

Please investigate the whole razor blades in apples thing for Halloween.

[@johnnierock1090]

The cereal was originally made with Oats.

[@TrashCanComputerChris]

I don’t know why but I have a idea for a new monster cereal like what if we had a skeleton or a devil? Like for the devil will be delicious devils raspberry flavored cereal or. For the skeleton gravely grapes bone shape cereal idk

[@soramembrino82]

Count Chocula: Count Chocula cereal is coming your way, how about a monster for breakfast today. Franken Berry: Franken Berry cereal is coming your way, how about a monster for breakfast today. Boo Berry: Boo Berry cereal is coming your way, how about a monster for breakfast today. Fruit Brute: Fruit Brute cereal is coming your way, how about a monster for breakfast today. Fruity Yummy Mummy: Fruity Yummy Mummy is coming your way, how about a monster for breakfast today. Count Chocula and Franken Berry: Count Chocula and Franken Berry are coming your way, how about a monster for breakfast today. all: The Monster cereals are coming your way, how about a monster for breakfast today.

[@Xenunnaki]

Still waiting to see a little green alien toting around a bowl of Mars-Mallows

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Ok, but I too like count chocula Dwight. 😂

[@Rockhound6165]

No mention of the green one? Crispy Creature Crunch?

[@rowshambow]

Okay but will it only be the monster mash mix coming out this year? Or will you be able to buy count chocula on its own?! I NEED TO KNOW!

[@ChannelingSpirits]

Count Chocula, Frankenberry, and Boo Berry are all available this year with retro boxes.

[@rowshambow]

@@ChannelingSpirits trying to find in canada :(

[@chadwichterman7572]

I thought the shaped cereals where a fat letter M for Monsters.

[@Zuuker23]

I would've come up with watermelinvaders with an alien.

[@Demolitiondude]

Still need to get a box.

[@ChannelingSpirits]

Same, I keep looking for any of them all over.

[@Dargonhuman]

I'm pretty sure Stephen King took ... inspiration? from the FrankenBerry stool discoloration fiasco for the cereal company sideplot in Cujo. Now, _why_ he put that side plot in a book about a rabid dog terrorizing a junkyard is beyond me, but Stephen King's gonna Stephen King.

[@themysteriousunknownrevealed]

They're not mixed, it's it's own cereal

[@ChannelingSpirits]

From Walmart’s website: MASH-UP OF ALL “MONSTERS CEREALS: For the first time ever, pieces from all Monster Cereals are together in one bowl.” The cereal is Boo and Frankenberry, the variously hued marbits represent Chocula (swirled ghosts and bats), Brute (orange monster heads), and Mummy (yellow monster heads)-there are also Frank and Boo marbits.

[@l.a.gothro3999]

King Kong was RKO, not Universal.

[@Magicghost23]

Moon

[@ChannelingSpirits]

Yes Moon. MOOOOOON.

[@atrain818]

@@ChannelingSpirits Moondog spot

[@horrorhabit8421]

Great topic and well done! Vampire iconography has always had a problem with perceived anti-semitism. It's been an innocent coincidence in every case I've ever seen, but the silent movie Nosferatu (1922) took the worst of it.

[@orinanime]

"Innocent coincidence"? Many historians would have something to say about that. There's a hefty amount of xenophobic subtext and actual text going on in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu and plenty of others.

[@horrorhabit8421]

@@orinanime Well, the director of Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau, was no Nazi. I'm quick to point this out because a lot of people mis-represent him. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1926, when the Weimar Republic was still on. Anyway, the actor who played the vampire in Nosferatu, Conrad Veidt, was also no Nazi. He left Germany in 1933 strictly because he was worried for his Jewish wife. The plague themes in Nosferatu were probably based on the flu pandemic of 1918. In Dracula (1931) the portrayal of Dracula as an eastern European boogeyman/invader was probably a relic of WWI. I suppose there is some xenophobia there, but it wasn't directed at Jewish people in particular. Also, notice that by the 60's, in Hammer's remake, Dracula was about as English as you can get! There is very little xenophobia evident in Hammer's version.

[@orinanime]

@@horrorhabit8421 i never once accused anyone, especially Murnau of being a Nazi. And it doesn't matter that Christopher Lee's Dracula was English. His CHARACTER was still a European foreigner who moved to England to prey upon English people. Just go look it up. There are countless books, scholarly articles and video essays and more detailing this aspect of Dracula/Nosferatu/etc.

[@horrorhabit8421]

@@orinanime Of course, I know you didn't accuse anyone of being a Nazi. I was the one who brought that into the conversation. I think that the semiotics of Christopher Lee's character may be more important than his stated biography. I realize that there are plenty of accusations about horror movies from film critics who wish to God they were writing about Fellini or Bergman films instead. But frankly, those people live in academic echo chambers and get further from base reality all the time.

[@orinanime]

@@horrorhabit8421 so.... you're just going to dismiss decades of analysis from people who have studied this stuff for years if not their lives... on the presumption that they resent having to analyze one thing over another.... ? Okay. You do you booboo. You do you.

[@bbodinefan11]

I miss it being oat based.

[@lindablueconejita]

WOW! Great video!♥️

[@AndrewB221]

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