Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:38:25 -0400
Subject: Re: Logos That Make You Go "Huh?" (paging Joe Manfre)
Status: R

In alt.religion.kibology, kibo@world.std.com wrote:

I just wrote:
>
>  Brian 'Jarai' Chase (bdc@world.std.com) wrote:
>  >
>  >  [...] does anyone else remember when Kellogg's switched the
>  >  Coco mascot for Cocoa Krispies a few years ago from a cartoon
>  >  monkey to a picture of a real live stinky chimp?
>  
>  Heck, I remember when they first put him on a starvation diet until
>  he changed from a spherical elephant to a cartoon monkey.

I just did a little research, and the history of Cocoa Krispies is
even weirder than I imagined.

First they had a monkey in a straw hat ("Jose") who was sometimes
accompanied by a gray elephant sidekick ("Melvin").

Next there was that period where Kellogg's licensed various
Hanna-Barbera characters (as "Kellogg's Stars") and Snagglepuss
(a pink lion) was on the box.

Then they had a caveman ("Ogg") who looked like he was made of
Play-Doh, not unlike the tiny cavemen in the videogame "Trog",
which was unrelated to the sensitive romantic comedy film of
the same name where Joan Crawford fell in love with a caveman.

Ogg was followed by an extremely fat chocolate-brown elephant
("Tusk Tusk") who sprayed chocolate on you with his trunk.
He seems to have worn spectacles in his early days, but I don't
think he did later on.

Tusk Tusk got replaced by monkey number two, another cartoon one.

The cartoon one was replaced by a scary, filthy real chimpanzee
wearing a hat marked "Coco".

So the sequence is:

MONKEY ELEPHANT LION CAVEMAN ELEPHANT MONKEY CHIMP.

Translated into Morse code, that's the new secret knock to gain
admission to our clubhouse, The Honeykibo Hideout.

And how come nobody's yet mentioned in this thread that Honeycomb
commercials have featured a truly terrifying shrieking blob of
fur with evil eyes for the last two or three years?  What would
have been wrong with, say, a happy bee or a talking comb?

                                            -- K.

                                               I think Kellogg's OJ's
                                               had the scariest mascot.
                                               He was a big-jawed guy
                                               doing a split... in chaps...
                                               while holding a hot
                                               branding iron.  That was
                                               too kinky even for an
                                               adult cereal!