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==Marketing and promotion== | ==Marketing and promotion== | ||
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Television commercials from around the [[1980s]] to the early [[2000s]] usually revolve around [[Barney Rubble|Barney]] trying to steal [[Fred Flintstone|Fred]]'s Cocoa Pebbles. | Television commercials from around the [[1980s]] to the early [[2000s]] usually revolve around [[Barney Rubble|Barney]] trying to steal [[Fred Flintstone|Fred]]'s Cocoa Pebbles. | ||
===[[1970s]]=== | ====[[1970s]]==== | ||
===[[1980s]]=== | ====[[1980s]]==== | ||
===[[1990s]]=== | ====[[1990s]]==== | ||
===[[2000s]]=== | ====[[2000s]]==== | ||
===[[2010s]]=== | ====[[2010s]]==== | ||
==In popular culture== | ==In popular culture== | ||
* In ''Seinfeld'', Cocoa Pebbles appeared in Jerry's kitchen in the episodes "The Fusilli Jerry," "The Diplomat's Club," and "The Face Painter." | * In ''Seinfeld'', Cocoa Pebbles appeared in Jerry's kitchen in the episodes "The Fusilli Jerry," "The Diplomat's Club," and "The Face Painter." | ||
Revision as of 06:44, 8 February 2023
Cocoa Pebbles is part of the Pebbles brand of breakfast cereal manufactured by Post Consumer Brands, featuring characters from the TV series The Flintstones as spokestoons. It was first sold on the West Coast in 1969, and went nationwide in October 1971 after strong consumer demand.
The ceareal contains chocolate-flavored crisp rice cereal bits, and contain 10 grams of sugar per serving.[1]
It had an in-universe "Stone Age" cameo in the 1994 live-action film The Flintstones.
History
In 2010, Hulk Hogan sued Post for defamation and exploiting his name without his permission, after including a character named Hulk Boulder in its "Cocoa Smackdown" commercial.
Fictionlized version
The Flintstones owned Cocoa Pebbles in the kitchen of their house in the aforementioned live-action film, The Flintstones.
Marketing and promotion
Commercials
Television commercials from around the 1980s to the early 2000s usually revolve around Barney trying to steal Fred's Cocoa Pebbles.
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
In popular culture
- In Seinfeld, Cocoa Pebbles appeared in Jerry's kitchen in the episodes "The Fusilli Jerry," "The Diplomat's Club," and "The Face Painter."
- In the Moesha episodes "Hello, What's This?" and "Teacher," there is a box of Cocoa Pebbles in the cabinet of the Mitchell kitchen.
- In the film Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), Harley Quinn and Cassie Cain pass through a cereal aisle containing Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles.
- In the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, a box of Cocoa Pebbles is seen in Wanda Maximoff's kitchen on Earth-838.
Seinfeld.
Moesha.
Birds of Prey.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
See also
References
- ^ "Cocoa Pebbles Nutrition | Post Foods". Archived from the original on 2014-02-01
