Cocoa Pebbles

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A box of Cocoa Pebbles as of 2021.

Cocoa Pebbles is part of a brand of breakfast cereal manufactured by Post Consumer Brands, based on the TV series The Flintstones. It was first sold on the West Coast in 1970, and went nationwide in October 1971.

It contains chocolate-flavored crisp rice cereal bits with sugar.

Commercials usually revolve around Barney trying to steal Fred's Cocoa Pebbles.

It had an in-universe "Stone Age" cameo in the 1994 live-action film The Flintstones.

In 2010, Hulk Hogan sued Post for defamation and exploiting his name without his permission after including a character called Hulk Boulder in its "Cocoa Smackdown" commercial.

Hisytory

Fictionlized version

The Flintstones owned Cocoa Pebbles in the kitchen of their house in the live-action film The Flintstones.

Commercials

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 2022's Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness a box of Cocoa Pebbles is seen in the 838 universe of Wanda Maximoff's kitchen.

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