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*** Later on they noticed the campaign was wearing thin and have dropped the theft; now Fred cheerfully shares his cereal and describes how 64 Pebbles pieces can "rock your whole mouth", while Barney experiments and discovers that not eating 64 pieces results in [[ForcedTransformation wild and unpredictable transformations]].

* ''Webcomic/BreakfastOfTheGods'' revels in this trope. Sonny is a pathetic, psychotic junkie and the Trix Rabbit and Sugar Bear have both kicked their habits and are desperately trying to stay clean and sober. Count Chocula and Franken Berry are leading the forces of darkness, and Tony The Tiger and Cap'n Crunch are the pillars of good.

** In the episode "Let's Go To The Hop", about a drug craze running through the kids' school, in what is also a parody of Film/TheBreakfastClub, a group of cereal mascots with real addictions was used, such as Tony the Tiger:
---> '''Tony The Tiger:''' "You know what I got for Christmas? It was a banner freakin' year at the Tiger house; I got a carton of cigarettes! Old man grabbed me and said 'Ey, Smoke up Tony, they're GRRRREAT!'... bastard."
* Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim,'' when Dib encounters Turkey Neck, who complains about those darn kids who are always after his "lucky neck meats".

** A ''brilliant'' BaitAndSwitch {{commercial|Switcheroo}} has a man (Harland Williams) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N54rfkksxBo buy a few boxes of cereal]] (including Trix) from a convenience store late at night, with the cashier chiding him that "Trix are for kids!" before returning home. He [[LatexPerfection removes his disguise]] to reveal the Trix Rabbit, bragging about how he can finally get a bowl of delicious Trix! [[spoiler: Cue him pouring the milk, which has only a mouthful left. Rabbit does a subdued wild take, complete with whimper, then a black screen: ''Advertising/GotMilk]]''

* Barney and Fred of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' fame hawk their various "Pebbles" brand cereals. Typically Barney steals Fred's cereal through deceptive means, and Fred chases Barney and screams threats. Barney, apparently, is meant to be the one you root for. Barney gets his annual bowl of the stuff [[ChristmasEpisode at Christmas]] when Fred is scolded by Santa.

** A straighter example was Op. MUNCHIES. The kids and their villains spend the episode at the supermarket fighting over the last box of Rainbow Munchies cereal. [[spoiler:They end up in an EnemyMine situation when Nightbrace buys the box and intends to destroy the cereal because it's bad for one's teeth.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Powerpuff Girls|1998}}'': Parodied in "Jewel of the Aisle". A random, no-name crook escapes by hiding out in a cereal factory, but loses the giant diamond he stole in a box of cereal that ends up at the Powerpuff household. He dresses up as the mascot "Lucky Captain Rabbit King" and tries to get the box, but the girls insist he has to trick them as per the commercials. The crook ends up BecomingTheMask in short order and forgets all about his original goal. After one failed attempt too many, he breaks down and sobs that all he ever wanted was some cereal. Bubbles, being the sweet girl that she is, offers him a box. The overjoyed rabbit gleefully enjoys it... taking off his mask and revealing that he was really the crook that the girls were looking for. Cue NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.

* Honeycomb cereal apparently transforms the child into a small, feral, hairy dog-like creature with stubby limbs and wide, manic eyes (and of course an insatiable craving for Honeycombs). He's called "The Craver", or something like that, and he comes out when the kid ''wants'' Honeycomb (complete with CatchPhrase...wait for it..."ME WANT HONEYCOMB!"). So it's not desirable...it's inevitable.

* The above Apple Jacks ad is parodied in [[http://xkcd.com/38/ this]] Webcomic/{{xkcd}}, where the entire strip was a goofy commercial dad exclaiming, [[CatchPhrase "Hey, these don't taste like apples!"]] and his son not even taking his eyes off a video game to answer, "Fuck off, Dad."

*** Later on they noticed the campaign was wearing thin and have dropped the theft; now Fred cheerfully shares his cereal and describes the proper consumption technique, while Barney experiments and discovers that not eating the stuff in exactly the right way results in [[ForcedTransformation wild and unpredictable transformations]].

* Later commercials for Kraft Macaroni 'n Cheese have the kids acting ''super'' possessive of "their" Kraft Macaroni. One commercial had a kid call the cops on his father for [[DisproportionateRetribution taking a little scoop of his macaroni off his plate]]. And when his father looks at him in shock, ''the kid smiles''. Another shows a parent being unable to get their kid to eat their vegetables, so they give the kid Kraft Macaroni 'n Cheese instead.

* "No one's gonna lay a finger on my Butterfinger!"

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EXxKe368Go This commercial for Yoplait yogurt]] shows two kids who are apparently best friends high-fiving each other, when a hawk picks up one of them and carries him away. For some reason, the other kid just shrugs it off before declaring a yogurt cup his new best friend.