Cereal Commercial Archive

Pour the milk over your cereal and listen for Snap, Crackle & Pop. Then point your mouse to MetaFilter to see how these characters fought the evils of sogginess in an early Rice Krispies' commercial. It's one gem in a link list that takes you through cereal commercials from the '50s through the '90s. Watch the Beverly Hillbillies shill for Corn Flakes, the Jackson Five promote Alpha-Bits and Mary Lou Retton "eating what the big boys eat" (Wheaties, for the record). It's a crunchy mix of advertising history, pop culture and vintage animation.

by Michelle Taute