Cocoa Pebbles
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 cereal contains chocolate-flavored crisp rice cereal bits, and contain 10 grams of sugar per serving.[1] Television commercials from the 1980s to the 2000s typically revolve around Barney trying to steal Fred's Cocoa Pebbles, though that doesn't seem to be the case since.
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
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?," "Teacher," "I Know What You Did in the Third Grade," "The Crush," "Had to Be You," "Girls' Night In," and "The Prom," there is a box of Cocoa Pebbles in the cabinet of the Mitchell kitchen.
- The Parkers have a box in their kitchen in The Parkers episode "Scammed Straight."
- 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 in Wanda Maximoff's kitchen on Earth-838.
Seinfeld.
Moesha.
The Parkers.
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
