Since the 1920s, breakfast cereal has not only been a major part of a balanced
breakfast… but also the human experience. And with the rise of breakfast cereal came
cereal mascots. From the absolute classics to the modern characters, we’ve met dozens
of unique and intense mascots with a lot of different and unique stories to them.
But some are… well… creepy. And others… They might be downright
evil. There are actually a lot of unsettling characters in the lore of breakfast cereals.
I’m Caleb with WickedBinge and these are Cereal Mascots: Creepy to Evil.
We’ll be starting with the least creepy and working our way down to the downright evil.
First up, we have Buzz the Bee. Buzz is an anthropomorphic bee and the mascot for Honey
Nut Cheerios. Having gone through plenty of design changes, Buzz has been around for quite a while,
where he uses his magical honey rod to spruce up the human’s meals. This could
imply he enjoys spiking the meals of those he is around. Buzz is also shown appearing
to those with bad heart health… Probably as an omen of death and/or change, seemingly this seems
to be for good reasons, but one cannot know what the bee does. In recent ads,
he appears to multiple people and some don’t know he exists, which implies he may be some
sort of tooth fairy like creature that no one believes to be real or even know about.
Buzz, like a lot of other mascots seems to have some sort of magic, and while he seemingly uses
this for humanitarian purposes, it’s worth noting that based on what we see, Buzz does seem like a
good guy for the most part, as he seems to help those with high cholesterol or bad heart health.
While this is a good thing, it’s worth noting that Buzz seems to be a Rouge agent. Some worker-bee
with no connection to a queen. Not trying to be too conspiratorial… but we don’t trust him.
But let’s move onto Toucan Sam. Toucan Sam is a large and colorful toucan that is the mascot
for Froot Loops where he has existed in some shape or form for quite a long time. However,
with his now iconic catchphrase, there’s a lot of interesting things we can deduce about this
big bird. This iconic bird’s catchphrase has been “follow your nose” for quite a while.
We are not the first people to point out that much like a lot of other mascots his
love for the cereal can go a bit far. In fact, people have noted that the way
he acts is similar to someone who “follows their nose” to some white lines or something
that isn’t sugar.. Toucan Sam was around in the eighties if you know what we’re saying.
This puts a lot of what he does into perspective as he even tries to lead
children to what we can only assume is his stash. Toucan Sam also mentions that your
“nose always knows”. Our nose knows that you might have a problem, Sam.
Moving forward we have Cap’n Crunch; the mascot of the eponymous brand. Crunch is
the captain of a ship we rarely see, and when we do see it, it seems to take more
cues from a pirate ship than it does a military ship. The catchphrase of “Crunchatize me Cap’n”
implies that he has some ability to bring someone into his crazy little world and we
do see this in an occasional ad. Older designs of the captain make him look a lot creepier,
and with how often he seems to groom his mustache when it comes to ad material,
it gives off cartoony villain vibes. Even on his own cereal boxes, despite his massive smile, he
doesn’t seem happy as that light never reaches his eyes. Also, despite his captain rank he doesn’t
seem very responsible as he’s constantly crashing through buildings and harming those around him.
But, what really takes the cake for us is the Crunchlings. Thanks to some cross-promotion,
the Cap’n raises some sort of furry creature and trains it by forcing it through intense tests
that require perfection. Cap’n Crunch seems to be a maniac masquerading as an admiral.
Moving on to our next mascot, we have Lucky the Leprechaun. Lucky, is the main mascot for Lucky
Charms; and may or may not have set the Irish back centuries. Also, he’s one of the few mascots
who is actively fighting off children going after his cereal. This is because according to
his catchphrase “they’re after me Lucky Charms”, which implies at best, Lucky is merely a hoarder
who doesn’t want to give up any of his “treasure”. At worst, Lucky is dealing with massive emotional
issues, which is obviously not a good thing to pair with his obvious and continued magic
use. Lucky uses his magic for everything from showing off the powers of his cereal to stopping
children in their tracks. Plus, calling his cereal “magically delicious” may imply, much like Toucan
Sam, that there may be some illicit material in his cereal. Lucky is, pun intended, lucky
that we don’t really know the full extent of his powers or issues otherwise he may fall much lower.
Up next we have the big man on campus, Tony the Tiger. Tony is a giant tiger and
the mascot for Frosted Flakes. There have been plenty of people who have noted that
a tiger is not the best mascot for children as a lot of animals tend to well, you know,
maul little children. Another thing that’s worth noticing is that Tony tries to play
off his grrrrrreat cereal as something used by athletes or something supposedly healthy.
But when you get down to it, Frosted Flakes, like most cereal, is mostly sugar. Maybe Tony
is trying to fatten the children up so he can have a better meal in the end.
Jumping into the next spot on our list we have The Trix Rabbit. As his name implies,
this giant anthropomorphic rabbit is the mascot and spokesperson for Trix cereal. The Rabbit
hops around assaulting and harassing children around him trying to obtain their rightfully
obtained cereal. As others have pointed out, the cereal tagline “Silly rabbit, Trix is
for kids” implies some very dangerous things. He hops around like he’s on some disturbing drug and
steals things from children, really putting to test that old “stealing candy from a baby” turn
of phrase. In fact, when you think about it, the Trix Rabbit may even be trying to hook children on
the things he’s doing since he’s so interested in their cereal reserve. You can’t stalk and harass
children because you want their cereal. Sir, you’re a rabbit and you’re entitled to nothing.
Moving on to the obscure, we have H.T. the Robot. H.T. was the mascot for the Hidden
Treasures brand of cereal, a now defunct and relatively unknown cereal. The idea
behind the cereal was that inside each of the cereal pieces is a surprise for you,
and that’s where H.T. comes in. H.T. is a robot that only appeared in a single commercial,
where they were supposedly built to scan the cereal and find out what may be hiding in
each piece. Being able to scan and see through things could lead to some interesting and very
dark possibilities. Not to mention just how dangerous they look to be made with a drill-like
head and radiation inducing eyes due to what we can only assume is x-ray vision. H.T. is able
to scoot past further inspection because of just how little they appear, but they still land here.
Another more obscure pick for our list, up next is Quisp. Quisp is a sugar cereal made
by Quaker Oats with the mascot sharing the same name as the cereal. Quisp is some sort of weird
anthropomorphic creature that works as a rival to similar cartoon mascot Quake. Quisp was made by
the creator of cartoons like Rocky and Bullwinkle and as such has a lot of cartoon physics behind
them. Quisp can swirl up their ears and spin them like helicopter blades so that they can
fly around, and if this is the case, what else can they do with their cartoon physics? Quisp
is also a little shit, as they continually annoy those around them just because they can. Quisp
also seems to barely interact with those who are not in their cartoon world, but when they interact
with those cartoons, it’s always in a masterfully mischievous way and never really in a fun or even
mascot way. In fact, Quisp is both an alien and a prince, who seems to care so little for their
people that they’d spend most of their time on earth selling cereal. Quisp is actually known for
annoying just one specific dude which implies that there is some sort of intense hatred that Quisp
has for him. Quisp is little more than a flying alien that only cares about disturbing the peace.
Back to more iconic mascots, we have Sonny the Cuckoo Bird. Sonny is the iconic mascot of Cocoa
Puffs, and is one of the most well-known creepy mascots because of his classic cachphrase “Cuckoo
for Cocoa Puffs”. This causes Sonny to seem like a drug-addled maniac who continually tries to obtain
the newest batch of drug-laced cereal products. He is probably the most extreme and well-known
example of a drug addict we can think of and this is exactly why he ranks so low on our list. Sonny
seems like he will do just about anything for a taste of that sweet-sweet cocoa dust. Sonny
even seems to spread this like a disease in some ads and even in situations like court.
Ranking next on our list is the group known as the General Mills Monsters. The General Mills Monsters
are a group of monsters who work as mascots for the General Mills brand and the specialty
cereals that pop up during the halloween season. There are three main ones, Count Alfred Chocula,
a vampire representing a chocolate cereal, Franken Berry a Frankenstein’s Monster-esque creature
representing a strawberry cereal and Boo Berry, a ghost that represents a blueberry cereal. Each of
them seem to have a variety of supernatural abilities like Chocula fitting into boxes,
turning into a bat or levitating objects. They all seem to be at least slightly terrified of
children and small animals, despite constantly trying to sell their cereals to those younger
demographics. Having these supernatural powers and aiming at children is a very
interesting thing for these monsters to do, so it’s no surprise they land here.
Grabbing our bronze medal of evil is Sunny. Sunny is the mascot for the iconic Raisin Bran cereal,
although they only really appear on the brand’s box art. But in all honesty,
the box is more than enough to earn our disdain. Sunny is a living sun that carries around two
massive scoops of raisins to stick in the bowls of unsuspecting bran biters. However,
there’s two massive things about this that make us put him so low on our list,
the first thing is the obvious one, Sunny is a living star and it’s presence so close to
anyone would cause mass death within moments. But the other thing is that damn smile, look at it,
it knows full well what it’s presence will cause and not only does it not care,
it seems to like it. Sunny is at best, a doting fool who doesn’t care for human
life beyond virtue signaling with raisins and at worst, a known mass murderer with raisins.
Taking our silver medal of evil is probably the most iconic creepy cereal mascot, Crazy
Craving. Yeah, this itub of insanity wrapped in a ball of fur and teeth is Crazy Craving,
somehow the mascot for Honeycomb cereal. We’re not the first people to talk about
this monster and we sure won’t be the last, so le’ts talk about why he’s here.
This eldritch abomination knows only to eat and cause others to gain his own cravings. He
has enough power to warp the world around him, including the states of humans just to satisfy
his honey-based cravings. Crazy Craving takes everything the previous mascots have done and
absolutely blows all of them out of the water. Crazy Craving is willing to bend reality and
others to his will just so he can ingest the honey-coated cereal. We didn’t even get
into the possession and transformations he does, because speaking of him too long may summon him.
From one crazed creature to another, taking the gold medal of evil are the
Crazy Squares. The Crazy Squares are the current mascots for Cinnamon Toast Crunch,
where they are literally living incarnations of the cereal itself. We don’t need to spend
too much time on these creatures because they land here for one major reason. Murder and cannibalism,
they continually eat each other, sometimes at random and even at times leaving child
versions orphaned or even eating the smaller child versions. The Crazy Squares are a tribe
of cannabilisitic cinnamon coated confections that care for little more than killing each
other and speaking minimally just to prove a point. They only barely outrank Crazy Craving
and we can see arguments for swapping them. But let us know in the comment section who you
think is the creepiest cereal mascot. And tell us what we should cover next. Make sure to hit
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