Finally proof this cereal existed!! No one ever believed me when I mentioned Freakies cereal! I even remember what it tasted like! Thanks for the post!
Freakies was my favorite cereal as a kid..I ate many of boxes while watching Saturday morning cartoons..The 70's were good and I'd give anything to be able to go back in time and relive those wonderful years..LONG LIVE THE FREAKIES..
We baby boomers had the best life! Go to Google newspaper archives and find a newspaper near your city. Look in the TV section, and you'll find the cartoons, that we saw as kids. I live in Southern California, so the Press Courier (Oxnard, California) had the same TV programs that played in Los Angeles, county, Orange County and San Bernardino , County. I showed my son the Saturday morning cartoons, we watched as kids. Also, I went to RUclips and showed my son the cartoons that we got up early to watch on Saturdays. We didn't have the internet, but we were satisfied with a bowl of cereal and our cartoons. After the cartoons ended, we went outside and played. We rode our bikes,and skateboards. We played baseball or football. We built go-carts, and treehouses. We had Judo classes. In short we did things. We were not chained to a computer and smart phone all day. My son wasn't impressed,and I told him, "One day you'll have kids, and you'll tell them about your life in the 2010s". "So you need to put down your gadgets and do things"!
Growing up in the 70's, I vividly remember this cereal. My dad worked for the sanitation dept. in Lancaster, Oh. and we also had a Ralston Purina plant were the cereal was made. On one occasion, when my dad had to go there, they had lots of Freakies Cereal that they were throwing away because of damaged boxes. There was nothing wrong with the cereal just damaged boxes that they can't sell. Needless to say, Mom didn't have to buy cereal for awhile and we had lots of those prizes.
Why would 7 people not like this commercial??? I practically lived on Freakies cereal when I was a kid. I had all of the Freakies toys too. Ah, the good old days when you could get a toy in a cereal box!!
I was in junior high in 1974 and I remember this commercial. A lot of people ate Freakies Cereal because of this commercial and we sang parts of this song in the gym , lol!
Because he's so handsome and pretty...I've always had that part of the song bouncing around my mind too!..I had a kazoo and drove everyone nuts at home.
Flashback! I came across the cereal in an article about cancelled cereals. I remember staring at the box as a kid not because it was fun looking but because it was so weird it was mesmerizing! Totally forgot about them until today. Very freaky indeed.
Wow, this is wild! I remember this, I was a teenager, loved this, recently remembered the song! Thank you for posting! Now my kids won't think I'm craycray! ok, maybe, maybe not. 😂
1974's Ralston Freakies cereal commercial tells a story about a colorful group of fictional monsters known as the Freakies including a tough and fearless dark green egg-type monster with a John Wayne-esque voice and a buck teeth named Boss-Moss who happens to be a leader of the Freakies, a confident and vain blue elephant-type monster named Snorkledorf who blow his trunk like a horn, a shy and childlike light brown octopus-like monster with a human face and a pair of human ears named Ham-hose who prefers to eat alone, a cranky and grumpy orange frog-like monster with a lack of two little arms named Grumble who speaks with an elderly voice at which it was voiced like an old man and has a sore feet, a positive, demure, breathily soft-spoken light green egg-like monster named Cow-mumble who enjoys taking some peace and quiet, an intelligent, snooty, know-it-all mouse-like monster with a upside-down rabbit-like front teeth named Gargle who speaks with a British accent and looks a somewhat curious, and a pushy and bossy pink domestic hen-like monster named Goody-Goody who kisses up to Boss-Moss and happens to be a bit hotheaded who all went on a search for a home in the dark wood where they came across a wonderful Freakies tree where they officially lives and represents a box of Freakies cereal which, hence its title, contains crunchy and sugary sweet golden cereal circles made from oats that's all frosted with loads of fortified 8% vitamins plus iron and sparkled in the sunshine which they knew they've found their new home after that. And so, they began to go on many unusual adventures from that day on once they wake up together every morning.
Trivia: - This commercial was created by former MGM "Tom and Jerry" animators (the original 1940s series). It was done in colored pencil, which would probably require an expensive budget if done more recently. - The characters were based on coworkers at the ad agency who came up with the concept.
Freakies! They were almost the Pokemon of the '70s. I was seriously jealous of kids who had Freakies T-shirts. Somebody's older sibling said they looked like turds covered with M&Ms. Another boring teen or adult said Bossmoss looked like a walking heap of peas. lol.
Does anyone else remember KABOOM cereal? From what I can recall, there was a clown on the box (not a creepy clown), and the cereal was multi-colored smiling faces. Fruit flavored?? Not sure if there were marshmallow bits.
From a blog on "Group of Four" advocate Frank Stamm's myspace page: "What set Freakies apart was that first set of prizes. In the first boxes of the cereal, the prize was one of the seven plastic Freakies characters. What made that special was the box itself. On the box they explained to you who the Freakies were, what their names were, that they lived together in a tree, what their personalities were like. It's like you were buying into a whole other world."
Yes thank you!! I tell people about Freakies cereal but very few remember it. Does anyone remember Kaboom, Fruit Brute (a pilot of the monster cereals) and King Vitamin (also tasted like Captain Crunch)?
Also Yummy Mummy another Monster cereal, Pink Panther Flakes..Grins, Smiles, Giggles And Laughs cereal, Baron Von Redberry and Sir Grape Fellow were all also great cereals from the 70's..
My cousin went to Windsor School in Imperial Missouri, her school mate's Father invented this cereal 🥣 we loved it. I still remember most of the words to the commercial 😉
I remember collecting the Freakies that came in the box..I remember on the box it said something about playing with your freakies or talk to them about the stock market and I vividly remember asking my mom what the stock market was so I could talk to my freakie about it...lol
I don't like to show my age either, but I too loved this cereal as a kid, and it was pretty tasty. So surreal and weird, but I never thought of that at age 5. I miss this cereal, and would buy an old box of it if i knew it was still good. Any up on EBay?
Quake, Freakies, and Quisp. Greatest cereals of all time! I cut the "Freakies" label off of the box, along with the monsters. Still have them in an old box. Made by Purina. A company known for Dog Food. Funny 😃
I remember getting the freakies magnets and sticking them on the fridge. Those where the good old days when you would get up on saturday morning watch cartoons wrapped in a blanket with bowl of your favorite cereal and watch until the last cartoon .
lol- ohh the memories. My dad worked as a manager at the Key Markets back them- and brought them home along with the display. He was always bringing home displays after they advertised. The Campbells Soup house was a blast.
I remember watching Jimmy Carter being sworn in eating a big bowl of Freakies cereal that morning. No point. Just a memory with my mom. Also got a Boss Moss figure in the box that morning I recall .
Animated by Preston Blair, legendary Disney animator! Hey... This artist is selling these really cool little tiles on etsy.com (they have the whole set!). You just type in 'freakies cereal'
I can’t believe I ran into this I thought it was a dream I knew I wasn’t dreaming because subconsciously it was always in the back of my mind. I was only five years old at that time.
I was 8-years old in 1974, Freakies was one of my absolute favorite cereals... fast forward to the summer of 2018, and it is 2:42am, I'm sitting at my computer, alone and in the dark, eating Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream drenched with Hershey's chocolate syrup, straight out of the ice cream container... MGTOW, FTW. :)
I have to laugh nowadays. When we have new friends/family members over at dad's place they see the magnets on the frig. They're conversation items, on the faded side. LOL!
I loved these commercials when I was a kid!! I looked forward to seeing them between saturday morning cartoons! I made my mother buy it all the time so I could get the Freakie inside- who knew you could order them all at once? My cousin did and I was so jealous. My mother stopped getting me the cereal because I refused to eat it. It was so disgusting. I can taste it to this day! LOL But I loved the commercials then and love them now!
we had a wall clock of the Freakies shaped like a giant wrist watch. It was so cool, my sister had it for years in her room and of course we threw it out, who knew all these things would be worth money?
@robdagun yes I remember "Vanilly Crunch", that cereal was AWESOME!!! Also Cinnamon Crunch (with Jean LaFoote the pirate) was awesome too. Quaker should bring those two cereals back!!!
Can't recall the Snick Snack candy bar. Heck I can't even remember what the Freakies cereal look like. Just the song stuck in my head. Oh, and your question...VERY DIFFERENT than today. I'm totally jealous that your generation will probably get to see cars fly. Oh and another thing...when they came out with the American Doll Julie, it nearly crushed me...I'm vintage! :smile:
was a FREAK for Freakies! still have a few magnets on my fridge from back in the day! i belive they came back somtime in the 80s, updated, they had a cardbord record on the back of the box...
My best friend, who lived across the street, gave me his Freakies magnets about ten years ago. They are now on my old gumball machine. Its like the only real connection he had to his boyhood home and he gave them to me. I should be honored. I have a Boss Moss , 2 different Grumbles, a hamhose and Goody Goody. This cereal kicked ass and my Mom worked at Ralston Purina in St. Louis at the time this cereal was out.
I swear, I was about the only person that remembers this cereal, And to see Chris Pratt wearing this shirt in Guardians of the Galaxy 3, I flat out lost my mind... 😮😅😅😅😅😅
You and me both. My wife hated watching that movie with me because I was calling out all of the songs and titles, and then the Freakies shirt appeared and I remembered the jingle immediately!
OMG!-havent seen/heard or thought about this in YEARS!,...43 here and NOW feel so MUCH older!-LOL! I remember the lil plastic freakies figures that came in the box,...
@Gwendolyn Bien- Aime that merely means they were too young or have bad memories. I was singing the old song "Hello my baby hello my honey hello my sugar doooll" then I said hold up that Freakies cereal had a commercial singing that song so I came here. I believe this is the first song…
How can something so wrong have been so right? Holy flashback. And, as mentioned by others, I can still taste those crazy things. And i can even remember the odd smell of those magnet guys. 44 YEARS LATER!!! (Probably before they cracked down on the lead paint and such.)
I forgot all about that cereal until I saw that! Wow! Really don't remember it that well...but I had at least one of those toys, so I know that I ate it. Miss those commercials from the 70s....I can't tell if they were better because they were better, or because its my childhood...but I love the hokiness of them.
I remember this cereal from my 70's childhood as well as Crazy Cow (a little later in the decade). Thing is I still LOVE all the "kids" cereals - my favorites being Lucky Charms, Captain Crunch PB, Cocoa Puffs, Trix, Cocoa Crispies/Pebbles etc - and I'm in my mid 40's.. Fuck Kashi and the "7 grains on a Mission" whose cereals contains MORE sugar & fat than ANY of the ":kids" cereals.
It's been 39 years and I still remembered every word to this fucking song. I am an ad man's dream.
Finally proof this cereal existed!! No one ever believed me when I mentioned Freakies cereal! I even remember what it tasted like! Thanks for the post!
Gwendolyn Bien-Aime you've been w. the wrong people. ;)
Do you remember when potato oles had meat in them?
Everything thinks I'm nuts
potato oles?
Potato oles had meat in them?? Not sure if I believe this crazy talk...
i ste it when i was a kid
My mom would sing this jingle out loud, telling me how she remembered it vividly but no one believed her. She's going to love this.
I sang the jingle 50 years later too. I was 12 like the kid in the commercial and still remember most commercials from back then.
Freakies was my favorite cereal as a kid..I ate many of boxes while watching Saturday morning cartoons..The 70's were good and I'd give anything to be able to go back in time and relive those wonderful years..LONG LIVE THE FREAKIES..
WOW!!!! Memories. I used to love this cereal. I've spoken about it for years. Thanks for posting this on RUclips.
We baby boomers had the best life! Go to Google newspaper archives and find a newspaper near your city. Look in the TV section, and you'll find the cartoons, that we saw as kids. I live in Southern California, so the Press Courier (Oxnard, California) had the same TV programs that played in Los Angeles, county, Orange County and San Bernardino , County. I showed my son the Saturday morning cartoons, we watched as kids. Also, I went to RUclips and showed my son the cartoons that we got up early to watch on Saturdays. We didn't have the internet, but we were satisfied with a bowl of cereal and our cartoons. After the cartoons ended, we went outside and played. We rode our bikes,and skateboards. We played baseball or football. We built go-carts, and treehouses. We had Judo classes. In short we did things. We were not chained to a computer and smart phone all day. My son wasn't impressed,and I told him, "One day you'll have kids, and you'll tell them about your life in the 2010s". "So you need to put down your gadgets and do things"!
Totally agree with you and remember eating Freakiest watching Sat. Morning cartoons as well… good times…. Good memories….
my favorite was Quisp but I loved these too and did the same thing! 🥳
That song has been engrained in my brain since I was a kid.
Growing up in the 70's, I vividly remember this cereal. My dad worked for the sanitation dept. in Lancaster, Oh. and we also had a Ralston Purina plant were the cereal was made. On one occasion, when my dad had to go there, they had lots of Freakies Cereal that they were throwing away because of damaged boxes. There was nothing wrong with the cereal just damaged boxes that they can't sell. Needless to say, Mom didn't have to buy cereal for awhile and we had lots of those prizes.
Awesome!! especially the prizes..
Lucky!!! 🤣
Did you get the figurines, or the balloon cars, or the fridge magnets?
@@ambulocetusnatans I think everything that you just mentioned.
I think I love you!!
2019 anyone?
To be a kid in the 70's wow!!!
It was amazing
Why would 7 people not like this commercial??? I practically lived on Freakies cereal when I was a kid. I had all of the Freakies toys too. Ah, the good old days when you could get a toy in a cereal box!!
And dinner ware at the gas station, steak knives in boxes of laundry detergent...
We used to dig the prize out of the box.
My daughter finally believes me that this cereal exists!!!:) thank you, Freakies Cereal!!!!
I still have the magnets. Bring back Freakies cereal!
They did in the late eighties
The Magnets were cute...and They're worth something.
Oh man I totally forgot about the magnets until I just read this. Great memory , I put them on our fridge
Remember the balloon cars?
I was in junior high in 1974 and I remember this commercial. A lot of people ate Freakies Cereal because of this commercial and we sang parts of this song in the gym , lol!
My mother still has my Freakie magnet on her fridge to this day! I couldn't remember the name of the cereal until I saw this. Thank you!!!
That magnet might be worth money
I remember the hilarious Seuss-like hook. This was pure fun in those days. Children need this kind of fun today.
makes me feel young again hearing these old commercials. I loved Freakies cereal and Baron Von Redberry Cereal.
we used to sing this at school cutting up in class....thanks for the memories...
Finding my old childhood "Freakies" magnet brought me here . . .
Snorkledorf was always my favorite!
Sheryl O me too. I have no idea why
Because he's so handsome and pretty...I've always had that part of the song bouncing around my mind too!..I had a kazoo and drove everyone nuts at home.
@@richcar3434 Just going to paste what I wrote above. My father was the voice of Snorkeldorf, Grumble, and the announcer. Len Maxwell.
@@elysehfm8797 too cool!...geat memories!
@@richcar3434, thanks! Such a weird walk down memory lane.
I knew this song was legit! I kept humming it four years, and I remembered the first two lines!
I've always had the Snorkledorf part grafted in my head!
@@richcar3434 Snorkeldorf my fave😁
@@frankenz66, my father was the voice of Snorkeldorf, Grumble, and the announcer. Len Maxwell.
@@elysehfm8797 Well that is really cool! I always like that character best. You speak as if he has passed sorry to hear :-(
@@frankenz66, thanks! Yes, he passed away in 2008. But there's a lot of material I can look back on, and he seems to be well remembered.
Flashback! I came across the cereal in an article about cancelled cereals. I remember staring at the box as a kid not because it was fun looking but because it was so weird it was mesmerizing! Totally forgot about them until today. Very freaky indeed.
The memory of this song has haunted me for half a century, and now I have found it here. Lucky me!
Wow, this is wild! I remember this, I was a teenager, loved this, recently remembered the song! Thank you for posting! Now my kids won't think I'm craycray! ok, maybe, maybe not. 😂
Man this really lets you know how old you really are!! I still remember eating this cereal on saturday mornings.. During the 70's
I had the whole collection of the free freakies that came in the box
Man, this was a blast from the past... I remember it was like it was ywaterday.... great cereal. .. have my magnets still.
I still have my Snorkledorf magnet!
My dad was Snorkeldorf.
Well, if your grandfather is still with us, please pass on my thanks for making my childhood that much better! Long Live the Freakies!!
1974's Ralston Freakies cereal commercial tells a story about a colorful group of fictional monsters known as the Freakies including a tough and fearless dark green egg-type monster with a John Wayne-esque voice and a buck teeth named Boss-Moss who happens to be a leader of the Freakies, a confident and vain blue elephant-type monster named Snorkledorf who blow his trunk like a horn, a shy and childlike light brown octopus-like monster with a human face and a pair of human ears named Ham-hose who prefers to eat alone, a cranky and grumpy orange frog-like monster with a lack of two little arms named Grumble who speaks with an elderly voice at which it was voiced like an old man and has a sore feet, a positive, demure, breathily soft-spoken light green egg-like monster named Cow-mumble who enjoys taking some peace and quiet, an intelligent, snooty, know-it-all mouse-like monster with a upside-down rabbit-like front teeth named Gargle who speaks with a British accent and looks a somewhat curious, and a pushy and bossy pink domestic hen-like monster named Goody-Goody who kisses up to Boss-Moss and happens to be a bit hotheaded who all went on a search for a home in the dark wood where they came across a wonderful Freakies tree where they officially lives and represents a box of Freakies cereal which, hence its title, contains crunchy and sugary sweet golden cereal circles made from oats that's all frosted with loads of fortified 8% vitamins plus iron and sparkled in the sunshine which they knew they've found their new home after that. And so, they began to go on many unusual adventures from that day on once they wake up together every morning.
Excellent summary of the characters. Thank you.
When I was a kid I sent away for the whole collection of characters and I remember they were only .35 cents!!
(still have 'em packed away too! :o)
my neighbors had all the magnets of these guys! they were so lucky!
Trivia: - This commercial was created by former MGM "Tom and Jerry" animators (the original 1940s series). It was done in colored pencil, which would probably require an expensive budget if done more recently. - The characters were based on coworkers at the ad agency who came up with the concept.
I feel so left out bc everyone was here from so long ago 😂😂😂 I think I’m the only new person. I came fromJessii Vee
I did too
Same though
Freakies! They were almost the Pokemon of the '70s. I was seriously jealous of kids who had Freakies T-shirts. Somebody's older sibling said they looked like turds covered with M&Ms. Another boring teen or adult said Bossmoss looked like a walking heap of peas. lol.
The commercial is cheesy and surreal, but then, this was 1974.
I loved this. I could only recite
'We never miss a meal, because we like our Cer-e-a-l....
I have a special place in my flavor-heart for the various Ralston/Purina brand cereals from throughout the 80s.
they remind me of my family
Does anyone else remember KABOOM cereal? From what I can recall, there was a clown on the box (not a creepy clown), and the cereal was multi-colored smiling faces. Fruit flavored?? Not sure if there were marshmallow bits.
Lol as I read that I c a clown labeled weird cereal commercials from the sixty's..also kaboom was seen in the film kill bill
i remember kaboom
I liked Kaboom because it came in blue, which only Boo Berry did otherwise
Yes, it was sold in Southern California, 1970-1972. Kabooooooommmmm!
@@shawnmalone9711 Had a Clown firing a cannon on the cover.
i still have my green freakie magnet
From a blog on "Group of Four" advocate Frank Stamm's myspace page:
"What set Freakies apart was that first set of prizes. In the first boxes of the cereal, the prize was one of the seven plastic Freakies characters. What made that special was the box itself. On the box they explained to you who the Freakies were, what their names were, that they lived together in a tree, what their personalities were like. It's like you were buying into a whole other world."
I loved Freakies. we had the figures and magnets.
Yessssss!
+fluffanatorXD yea, i think th figures were rubber...
I grew up with the cereal wiuld like to enjoy them once again:-)
ate this delicious stuff in our Brady Bunch kitchen.
Loved this commercial!
I had a plastic Snorkledorf toy that I got from my Freakies cereal box. My childhood was so weird.
My father was the voice of Snorkeldorf, Grumble, and the announcer. Len Maxwell.
Yes thank you!! I tell people about Freakies cereal but very few remember it. Does anyone remember Kaboom, Fruit Brute (a pilot of the monster cereals) and King Vitamin (also tasted like Captain Crunch)?
Also Yummy Mummy another Monster cereal, Pink Panther Flakes..Grins, Smiles, Giggles And Laughs cereal, Baron Von Redberry and Sir Grape Fellow were all also great cereals from the 70's..
My cousin went to Windsor School in Imperial Missouri, her school mate's Father invented this cereal 🥣 we loved it. I still remember most of the words to the commercial 😉
I remember collecting the Freakies that came in the box..I remember on the box it said something about playing with your freakies or talk to them about the stock market and I vividly remember asking my mom what the stock market was so I could talk to my freakie about it...lol
That actually rings a bell. You have a good memory. I never would have remembered that if you didn;t say it.
LOL. I'm terrified that just before I die, I'll either hear this song in my mind, or the Menards commercial.
I was there when this commercial aired on television. I was eight years old, but I still remember it. Thanks capnskull for puttin' this on the 'Tube.
I don't like to show my age either, but I too loved this cereal as a kid, and it was pretty tasty. So surreal and weird, but I never thought of that at age 5. I miss this cereal, and would buy an old box of it if i knew it was still good. Any up on EBay?
Yup, there is a sealed original box on ebay. You might change your mind when you see the price.
This was posted a month and 13 days before i was born 😲😲😲😂😂😂
I never ate it. But I remember that song to this day. 45 yrs later. Golly!
I was in 4th grade and remember this clearly… wow, what a trip down memory lane….
For some of us this is more like an acid flashback than a commercial.
wow. none of my older friends remember the Freakies. now I can show them 420 Party On :}
My uncle Carey loved these guys. I still have a set of freakies. For just 35 cents the freakies will come live with you.
Quake, Freakies, and Quisp. Greatest cereals of all time! I cut the "Freakies" label off of the box, along with the monsters. Still have them in an old box.
Made by Purina. A company known for Dog Food. Funny 😃
I belonged to the Freakies fan club and my mother sent away for the tree and the characters came in the cereal box. Wish I still had them.
I remember getting the freakies magnets and sticking them on the fridge.
Those where the good old days when you would get up on saturday morning watch cartoons wrapped in a blanket with bowl of your favorite cereal and watch until the last cartoon .
lol- ohh the memories. My dad worked as a manager at the Key Markets back them- and brought them home along with the display. He was always bringing home displays after they advertised. The Campbells Soup house was a blast.
I remember watching Jimmy Carter being sworn in eating a big bowl of Freakies cereal that morning. No point. Just a memory with my mom. Also got a Boss Moss figure in the box that morning I recall .
Animated by Preston Blair, legendary Disney animator!
Hey...
This artist is selling these really cool little tiles on etsy.com (they have the whole set!). You just type in 'freakies cereal'
Who else came here from jessii vii?
sly shadow Me
Meee
Meh!
I just got done watching the creepy cereal
I can’t believe I ran into this I thought it was a dream I knew I wasn’t dreaming because subconsciously it was always in the back of my mind. I was only five years old at that time.
loved this stuff
Loved that cereal growing up. They should bring it back!
I was 8-years old in 1974, Freakies was one of my absolute favorite cereals... fast forward to the summer of 2018, and it is 2:42am, I'm sitting at my computer, alone and in the dark, eating Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream drenched with Hershey's chocolate syrup, straight out of the ice cream container... MGTOW, FTW. :)
OregonOnTwoWheels Be careful! We don't want you to have an "accident"! Lol,😅
I have to laugh nowadays. When we have new friends/family members over at dad's place they see the magnets on the frig. They're conversation items, on the faded side. LOL!
This is the gateway cereal that led me to a life of the pots
I *so* remember this. I got 'Goody Goody' in a box once… long ago😊🤣
That is a huge bucket of awesome packed into 1:02. Thanks for posting!
I loved these commercials when I was a kid!! I looked forward to seeing them between saturday morning cartoons!
I made my mother buy it all the time so I could get the Freakie inside- who knew you could order them all at once? My cousin did and I was so jealous. My mother stopped getting me the cereal because I refused to eat it. It was so disgusting. I can taste it to this day! LOL
But I loved the commercials then and love them now!
Me too.
Makes me feel old. I remember this so well. I recognize the voice of Paul Winchell (Tigger).
This cereal was so good🤗 Freakies, Banana Frosted Flakes & Vanilla Crunch by Captain crunch....... some of the best cereals ever🏅👊🏽
That was some good ass cereal....my brothers would buy a box and eat it right out of the box
Oh my gosh. Blast from the past here. I used to love the toys in Freakies. Hadn't thought about that cereal in years.
I LOVED Freakies.
we had a wall clock of the Freakies shaped like a giant wrist watch. It was so cool, my sister had it for years in her room and of course we threw it out, who knew all these things would be worth money?
Yeah, me too. I had a ton of those toys.
I just noticed that Bossmoss looks like Don Rickles
@robdagun yes I remember "Vanilly Crunch", that cereal was AWESOME!!! Also Cinnamon Crunch (with Jean LaFoote the pirate) was awesome too. Quaker should bring those two cereals back!!!
hell yeahh, they were also some of the best..
Can't recall the Snick Snack candy bar. Heck I can't even remember what the Freakies cereal look like. Just the song stuck in my head.
Oh, and your question...VERY DIFFERENT than today. I'm totally jealous that your generation will probably get to see cars fly.
Oh and another thing...when they came out with the American Doll Julie, it nearly crushed me...I'm vintage! :smile:
was a FREAK for Freakies! still have a few magnets on my fridge from back in the day! i belive they came back somtime in the 80s, updated, they had a cardbord record on the back of the box...
I love this cereal
My best friend, who lived across the street, gave me his Freakies magnets about ten years ago. They are now on my old gumball machine. Its like the only real connection he had to his boyhood home and he gave them to me. I should be honored. I have a Boss Moss , 2 different Grumbles, a hamhose and Goody Goody. This cereal kicked ass and my Mom worked at Ralston Purina in St. Louis at the time this cereal was out.
My father voiced Grumble.
70s, 80s, and 90s were so great. God, life fuckin sucks now.
The best cereal of all times.
My all time favorite
I loved this cearal!
Oh yeah!!! I remember this cereal!!
was my favorite cereal when I was in 4th grade lolzzzzzz
I can't believe I've never even HEARD of this!
Lol I remember every word to this song
I swear, I was about the only person that remembers this cereal, And to see Chris Pratt wearing this shirt in Guardians of the Galaxy 3, I flat out lost my mind... 😮😅😅😅😅😅
You and me both. My wife hated watching that movie with me because I was calling out all of the songs and titles, and then the Freakies shirt appeared and I remembered the jingle immediately!
OMG!-havent seen/heard or thought about this in YEARS!,...43 here and NOW feel so MUCH older!-LOL!
I remember the lil plastic freakies figures that came in the box,...
RIP Freakies 1972-1976
@Gwendolyn Bien- Aime that merely means they were too young or have bad memories. I was singing the old song "Hello my baby hello my honey hello my sugar doooll" then I said hold up that Freakies cereal had a commercial singing that song so I came here. I believe this is the first song…
How can something so wrong have been so right? Holy flashback. And, as mentioned by others, I can still taste those crazy things. And i can even remember the odd smell of those magnet guys. 44 YEARS LATER!!! (Probably before they cracked down on the lead paint and such.)
I forgot all about that cereal until I saw that! Wow! Really don't remember it that well...but I had at least one of those toys, so I know that I ate it. Miss those commercials from the 70s....I can't tell if they were better because they were better, or because its my childhood...but I love the hokiness of them.
I remember this cereal from my 70's childhood as well as Crazy Cow (a little later in the decade).
Thing is I still LOVE all the "kids" cereals - my favorites being Lucky Charms, Captain Crunch PB, Cocoa Puffs, Trix, Cocoa Crispies/Pebbles etc - and I'm in my mid 40's..
Fuck Kashi and the "7 grains on a Mission" whose cereals contains MORE sugar & fat than ANY of the ":kids" cereals.