Kellogg's has a new cereal that is apparently marketed to apes, emus, and giraffes. Specifically, the ones that really liked the movie Chicken Run.
The commercial features a bunch of animal mothers talking about how hard it is to get their freakish animal children to eat things they don't particularly need to. This apparently ignores the fact that non-human animals typically survive in a given environment specifically because that environment provides the basic resources requisite for their survival. And that most animals have completely different dietary needs than humans.
It's all done in the same claymation approach as Chicken Run, and appears to have the exact same voice talent (sans Mel Gibson, who was probably too busy making movies about how the evil Jews are apparently doing something evil). So if you loved Chicken Run, well, you'll probably still hate this crap.
The product on tap is "Tiger Power" cereal: a crude attempt to capitalise on the popularity of Tony the Tiger for a non-frosted, non-flake cereal. And to that end, the commercial also features a corruption of the "They're Grr-eat!" slogan: "Grr-eat for Growth!" I would estimate the odds that this abomination was created by a committe of soulless marketroids high on methamphetamine at 98%.
The reasoning of incorporating Tony and his well-known slogan in promotions for this boxed garbage is deeply flawed. Nobody buys Frosted Flakes for their health. After all, it's a well known fact that Frosted Flakes are just Kellogg's Corn Flakes with sugar glued to them.
I must say, I love the irony of a company founded to sell healthy cereal (original Corn Flakes) using the cartoon shill it created to sell its incredibly unhealthy cereal (Frosted Flakes) as a tool to market a healthy cereal to kids' parents (this new crap). |