Cocoa Pebbles

A box of Cocoa Pebbles as of 2021.

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 typically revolve around Barney trying to steal Fred's Cocoa Pebbles, though that doesn't seem to be the case, as they have been replaced with other advertising campaigns since the 2010s.

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.

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." It was also at a shelf of cereals that Jerry and Jeannie checked out in "The Invitations."
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 episodes "Scammed Straight" and "Grape Nuts."
In the Third Watch episode "Firestarter," Cocoa Pebbles appear on a breakfast aisle in front of where Bosco helps patrons escape a grocery store that has just been set on fire.
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.