Fruity Pebbles

A box of Fruity Pebbles as of 2021.

Fruity Pebbles is part of a brand of breakfast cereal manufactured by Post Consumer Brands, based on the TV series The Flintstones. It contains crisp rice cereal bits with a variety of fruit flavors and sugar. It was first sold on the West Coast in 1969 as Pebbles, and went nationwide as Fruity Pebbles in October 1971. Commercials usually revolve around Barney trying to steal Fred's Fruity Pebbles.

For the 50th anniversary in 2021, Post produced Fruity Pebbles-flavored cake and ice cream.

In 1993, Green Jellÿ released the song "Anarchy in Bedrock," which was featured a year later in the 1994 live-action film The Flintstones, and the accompanying album, The Flintstones: Songs from Bedrock.

It had an in-universe "Stone Age" cameo in the 2000 live-action film The Flintstones in Viva Las Vegas.

In popular culture

• In the unaired pilot of Clerks, produced in 1995, Fruity Pebbles is on the shelves of Rose Market.
• In the That 80s Show episode "Corey's Remix," Katie takes Fruity Pebbles out for breakfast, and then when Corey talks about his sad song, he perks up after seeing the box and proceeds to eat from it with his hand.
• In the Robot Chicken episode "Easter Basket," one sketch had a parody of the Fruity Pebbles commercials, where things take a dark turn when Barney steals Fred's cereal.
• In the 2012 film The Magic of Belle Isle (also known as Once More), Monte buys a box of Fruity Pebbles at the groceries.
• In the The Goldbergs episode "The Ring," Adam says that Dana, his crush, smells like Fruity Pebbles.
• In the Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life episode "Fall," Doose's Market is selling Fruity Pebbles. Notably, Rory and Dean have a reunion between boxes of Fruity Pebbles.
• In the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode "The Mini Bar," Jeff suddenly has a box of Fruity Pebbles while he's at the supermarket with Larry.

Seinfeld

• Fruity Pebbles appear several times in Jerry's apartment:
  • "The Hot Tub"
  • "The Soup Nazi"
  • "The Secret Code"
  • "The Caddy"
  • "The Seven"
  • "The Cadillac" (part 1)
  • "The Showerhead"
  • "The Doll"
  • "The Friars Club:" Kramer opens the box.
  • "The Calzone:" Both Jerry and Newman have a box.
  • "The Bottle Deposit"
  • "The Wait Out"
  • "The Invitations"
  • "The Fountain"
  • "The Soul Mate"
  • "The Bizarro Jerry"
  • "The Little Kicks"
  • "The Package"
  • "The Fatigues"
  • "The Checks"
  • "The Chicken Roaster"
  • "The Abstinence"
  • "The Andrea Dora"
  • "The Little Jerry"
  • "The Comeback"
  • "The Money"
  • "The Van Buren Boys"
  • "The Susie"
  • "The Pothole"
  • "The English Patient"

See also

• Cocoa Pebbles