Cocoa Pebbles
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 aforementioned live-action film The Flintstones (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 the film Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, Harley Quinn and Cassie Cain pass through the cereal aisles which has Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles side by side.
- In the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness a box of Cocoa Pebbles is seen in 838 universe's Wanda Maximoff's kitchen.
Jerry has Cocoa Pebbles.
Harley passes Cocoa Pebbles.
The Maximoffs have Cocoa Pebbles.
