Damn near one of my favorite things about the entire Halloween season would have to be the time limited release of Count Chocula. Ever since I was young, I was always happy when he made his annual appearance and I know that I'd be soon downing all of his chocolatey goodness and his marshmallows... That are sorta just like pebbles when dry. God forbid you eat one that's stale, by the way.
Count Chocula has been making yearly appearances at your local supermarket since 1971... Regardless of day or night, it seems fluorescent lights aren't enough to burn his flesh. Even though it's enough to burn normal human flesh. Perhaps that's why they use those lights... To appease the grocery vampire gods or something. Or maybe it's to assure that Chocula will come back every year or something.
Back then he was known as Dr. Count Chocula (who in the hell gave him a PhD.?) and debuted alongside Frankenberry.
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| Seen here being way too happy eating his own cereal in a form of cannibalism both delicious and horrendous. |
This is Dr. Frankenstein...
This is also Dr. Frankenstein... ('s grandson, Frederick)
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This is Frankenstein's Monster... NOT Frankenstein.
This is Peter Boyle.
Alrighty... My nerd rage will subside quite a bit with that. Getting back on track.
Count Chocula and Frankenberry were the first two, but in 1973 they were followed by Boo Berry.
Boo Berry, Count Chocula and Frankenberry. This was the trio that I remember for most of my life. I had tried all three and well... Yeah, Count Chocula was the best in my opinion. I mean, he's a bit loony, but at least he's not a cannibal like Frankenberry nor was he higher than a coked out bonobo that just had fifteen balloons pop in its ass.
What I didn't know was that, for many years, there were other monster cereals.
In 1975, Fruit Brute made his debut. This was a multi-fruit flavor cereal on par with Trix or Fruit Loops... But with a rainbow overall wearing brute of a wolf. Though it was around for a few years, sharing the limelight with the Count, Fruit Brute was discontinued in 1984. Though this year, General Mills had re-issued Fruit Brute and you can buy it once more.
To fill that hairy, fruity void in our lives... General Mills released Yummy Mummy in 1987. Yummy Mummy was, essentially, the same as Fruit Brute but with a minor change. Fruit Brute had lime flavored marshmallows, Yummy Mummy had vanilla flavored marshmallows. Yummy Mummy was discontinued in 1993, having a shelf life shorter than Fruit Brute. Again, in 2013, Yummy Mummy was re-issued... So now we have TWO fruit flavored marshmallow monster cereals. Clearly this is a great idea.
I need to point out that, thus far, we have a number of the Universal Monsters in cereal form: Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, Wolf Man and the Mummy. Boo Berry is the only exception, maybe he's like, the Invisible Man or something. I mean, he's wearing a hat and all.
