This jingle popped into my head out of nowhere this morning. I haven’t thought of that cereal or this commercial in over fifty years. Now it’s stuck in my brain. 😵💫😩
Every time they play that Tchaikovsky nutcracker song I sing “The one and only cereal that comes in shape of animals… etc etc (silently so my family doesn’t think that their weird papa went off the deep end this time lol).
Paul Frees is the "giraffe" in this 1964 ad that appeared before Linus starred in his own Saturday morning cartoon series {"LINUS THE LIONHEARTED"}, created specifically to promote sponsor General Foods' Post cereals (Crispy Critters, Sugar Crisp, Alpha Bits, Rice Krinkles, etc.), featuring Linus and his friends, direct from Post cereal boxes...and featuring Sheldon Leonard as "Linus".
That is correct. Sheldon Leonard not only made a career of portraying gangsters and bookies...but also was responsible for such shows as The Dick Van Dyke Show, Make Room For Daddy, The Mothers-In-Laws, I Spy, Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle USMC, and a few others. He lent his voice to the animated pitchlion for the cereal which spawned a cartoon series which also featured Carl Reiner as one of the characters.
R. Hi-Hat Carter I remember seeing Sheldon Leonard as a gangster in a film called "'G'-Men" (Warner Brothers, 1935), in which James Cagney played a lawyer who was put through law school by a mobster who was a friend of his family or something. He later decides to join the F.B.I. after a friend of his, a G-Man, is murdered by criminals. I think Leonard appeared on Jack Benny's radio and television show as a racetrack tout who always tries to talk Jack Benny out of everything except what horse to bet on. He would usually come up to Benny and say "Hey bub. Come here. What are you doing?" When Benny tells him what he's doing, the tout says "Uh uh," and talks Benny into doing something else. It was a constant running gag on the show.
I'm afraid I made a mistake. I just finished looking up that " 'G'-Men" film in my "Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide," and it didn't list Sheldon Leonard as being among the cast. I believe I may have confused him with Barton MacLane, who, in fact, did play a gangster in the movie. Sorry, my bad (as they say nowadays).
Leonard played the bartender Nick in "It's A Wonderful Life". He only speaks when he's the owner of the bar in the "George-less" version of Bedford Falls/Pottersville. And yes, he was on Jack Benny's radio and TV show as the racetrack "tout", always talking Jack out of betting on a horse or dog considered to be the "favorite" or having good odds (like 4:1 or 6:1), instead convincing him to bet on a horse or dog with odds like 20:1. There was a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon titled "Fox-Terror" where a fox impersonates Leonard by convincing Foghorn to go hunting instead of fishing, and to take the dog with him so he'd be away from the chickens.
"They're putting pink elephants, pink, pink elephants. Count the pink elephants put them on your spoon get a bowl of pink elephants real real soon in Post Crispy Critters....." Exactly, where is the pink elephants commercial???????????
P-3 heard the discussion of doctors. One of them said that some people were burnt like f**kin' pies (original quote) (I think that's good comparison with pies baked in owen). I heard firemen use one of the words from meal's name
ChiKhal227 Actually, the Three Stooges didn't invent the "Slowly I Turned" routine. It was an old burlesque/vaudeville standby dating back to the early Twentieth Century. Other comedians performed variations on the skit. For example, Abbott And Costello did it in a film called "Lost In A Harem" (M.G.M., 1944), in which the word that causes the trouble is "Pokomoko," and again on an episode of their television sitcom from the early 1950s, where the offending word is switched back to "Niagara Falls." Lucille Ball performed the routine on an episode of "I Love Lucy"; here, the deranged hobo flies into a rage whenever he hears the name of his runaway wife, Martha. Later on in the story, Lucy misinterprets a phone call from her husband, Ricky, and thinks he wants her to do the skit at his nightclub. She rushes out on to the stage just as Ricky is singing a song that happens to be called "Martha." I think you can guess what happens next. I once even saw Julie Andrews doing this sketch on a TV musical-variety special; in this version, Julie is an Arabian lady who tells a psychiatrist about how she finally got even with her former lover after he had run off with another woman.
That was, indeed, Sheldon Leonard. They also had a 30 minute show featuring Linus, Sugar Bear, and other Post cereal characters. If I recall, it was a Sunday morning show as opposed to appearing in the usual Saturday monring kiddie show block.
"The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals."
**Random Cereal Animals start to brutally trample on the lion, leaving him on the ground with severe broken bones.**
I forgot how funny this commercial was. I truly wish they'd bring these back. I loved them as a kid.
I loved the cereal then; STILL love the jingle~in 2021!
I love how the animals ran through
Same here - my go-to cereal when I was a kid. Man, was I upset when they got pulled from the shelf!
This jingle popped into my head out of nowhere this morning. I haven’t thought of that cereal or this commercial in over fifty years. Now it’s stuck in my brain. 😵💫😩
THE ONE AND ONLY CEREAL THAT COMES IN THE SHAPE OF ANIMALS
7 months after you made this post, the same thing happened to me...out of nowhere and I have heard this in nearly 60 years.
lol. I was there when this commercial was first aired. After Beanie and Cecil, Linus the Lionhearted Tv show was an early favorite.
Every time they play that Tchaikovsky nutcracker song I sing “The one and only cereal that comes in shape of animals… etc etc
(silently so my family doesn’t think that their weird papa went off the deep end this time lol).
It's 7 years later, and I'm STILL waiting for the pink elephants.
That's why I'm here
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Paul Frees is the "giraffe" in this 1964 ad that appeared before Linus starred in his own Saturday morning cartoon series {"LINUS THE LIONHEARTED"}, created specifically to promote sponsor General Foods' Post cereals (Crispy Critters, Sugar Crisp, Alpha Bits, Rice Krinkles, etc.), featuring Linus and his friends, direct from Post cereal boxes...and featuring Sheldon Leonard as "Linus".
I'm pretty sure that King Linus was voiced by Sheldon Leonard.
A lot of people do not know that there was more to Paul Frees' resume than Boris Badenov.
Linus the king...Linus the star...Linus the Lionhearted!!!!
I remember when they introduced pink elephants in the cereal. We HAD to have it!!!
That is correct. Sheldon Leonard not only made a career of portraying gangsters and bookies...but also was responsible for such shows as The Dick Van Dyke Show, Make Room For Daddy, The Mothers-In-Laws, I Spy, Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle USMC, and a few others.
He lent his voice to the animated pitchlion for the cereal which spawned a cartoon series which also featured Carl Reiner as one of the characters.
R. Hi-Hat Carter I remember seeing Sheldon Leonard as a gangster in a film called "'G'-Men" (Warner Brothers, 1935), in which James Cagney played a lawyer who was put through law school by a mobster who was a friend of his family or something. He later decides to join the F.B.I. after a friend of his, a G-Man, is murdered by criminals.
I think Leonard appeared on Jack Benny's radio and television show as a racetrack tout who always tries to talk Jack Benny out of everything except what horse to bet on. He would usually come up to Benny and say "Hey bub. Come here. What are you doing?" When Benny tells him what he's doing, the tout says "Uh uh," and talks Benny into doing something else. It was a constant running gag on the show.
I'm afraid I made a mistake. I just finished looking up that " 'G'-Men" film in my "Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide," and it didn't list Sheldon Leonard as being among the cast. I believe I may have confused him with Barton MacLane, who, in fact, did play a gangster in the movie.
Sorry, my bad (as they say nowadays).
Leonard played the bartender Nick in "It's A Wonderful Life". He only speaks when he's the owner of the bar in the "George-less" version of Bedford Falls/Pottersville.
And yes, he was on Jack Benny's radio and TV show as the racetrack "tout", always talking Jack out of betting on a horse or dog considered to be the "favorite" or having good odds (like 4:1 or 6:1), instead convincing him to bet on a horse or dog with odds like 20:1.
There was a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon titled "Fox-Terror" where a fox impersonates Leonard by convincing Foghorn to go hunting instead of fishing, and to take the dog with him so he'd be away from the chickens.
IT'S SHABBOS MINCHA.
My favourite!
They even had a Saturday morning cartoon based on this cereal. The first of the "thirty-minute commercials". It was good cereal but too damned sweet.
Haven't seen that commercial in almost 50 years.
Sugar Bear was always my favorite on the cartoon...
As a child in the 1960's Crispy Critters was one of my nicknames.
I wish I could have ate that cereal
"They're putting pink elephants, pink, pink elephants. Count the pink elephants put them on your spoon get a bowl of pink elephants real real soon in Post Crispy Critters....." Exactly, where is the pink elephants commercial???????????
Hello you from 10 years ago
Call for orange moose.
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Wow! Do I ever remember this one!!!! Is that Sheldon Leonard doing the voice of Linus?
*****Thank you***** for posting this!!!!!!
Yes. It's Sheldon Leonard. And yes Sheldon and Leonard on the Big Bang Theory was named in his honor.
@oldgapgoil What?????????? They were my fave... I no longer eat suggared cereal, but, if I could get some CCs, I might start again!!!
It wouldn’t taste the same. 🤔We’d all probably protest & ask for the original recipe 💁🏽♀️
Where are the pink elephants?
I can barely remember they did a childrens album with Linus the Lion Hearted, Granny Goodwich, and Sohi (Rice Crinkles cereal).
Yeah I remember those back in day. Exclusive with two post cereal box tops. ;)
And Sugar Bear and Lovable Truly...
I came here looking for answers but now have more questions.. Atomic Heart wtf
P-3 heard the discussion of doctors. One of them said that some people were burnt like f**kin' pies (original quote) (I think that's good comparison with pies baked in owen). I heard firemen use one of the words from meal's name
Loved my crispy Critters
My sister and I would sing " the one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals " as we ran to jump in our kiddy pool.
Lion voiced by Sheldon Leonard!
Are you sure? It kinda sounds like Mel Blanc.
@@marywealth6475 It was Sheldon Leonard, all right.
The One that only cereal that come to shape of animals
There is a crispy critters?? I didn't know!
Shelton Leonard is the voice of Linus!
Here from atomic heart
You love post crispy critters commercial
wow! it really is the tune for shabbos minkha!
I remember that cerial
I remember the cereal. I remember eating the cereal. But I don't remember this specific commercial.
I grew up on the sugar cereals back in the 60's and 70's but, Crispy Critters is NO LONGER AROUND.
More's the pity.
It's like Shabbos Mincha, but ANIMATED!
Poor Linus.
PETA must hate this commercial
Are you all right linus?
Shuggah.
I think they got this concept from the Three Stooges' "Niagra Falls, Slowly I Turn..." routine.
ChiKhal227 Actually, the Three Stooges didn't invent the "Slowly I Turned" routine. It was an old burlesque/vaudeville standby dating back to the early Twentieth Century. Other comedians performed variations on the skit. For example, Abbott And Costello did it in a film called "Lost In A Harem" (M.G.M., 1944), in which the word that causes the trouble is "Pokomoko," and again on an episode of their television sitcom from the early 1950s, where the offending word is switched back to "Niagara Falls."
Lucille Ball performed the routine on an episode of "I Love Lucy"; here, the deranged hobo flies into a rage whenever he hears the name of his runaway wife, Martha. Later on in the story, Lucy misinterprets a phone call from her husband, Ricky, and thinks he wants her to do the skit at his nightclub. She rushes out on to the stage just as Ricky is singing a song that happens to be called "Martha." I think you can guess what happens next.
I once even saw Julie Andrews doing this sketch on a TV musical-variety special; in this version, Julie is an Arabian lady who tells a psychiatrist about how she finally got even with her former lover after he had run off with another woman.
davening shabbes mincha
NOBODY SAY THE NAME IF THE CEREAL
You mean Post Crispy Critters?
Ok then
That was, indeed, Sheldon Leonard. They also had a 30 minute show featuring Linus, Sugar Bear, and other Post cereal characters. If I recall, it was a Sunday morning show as opposed to appearing in the usual Saturday monring kiddie show block.
Saturdays 11am ET CBS
@@ks2xgaks2xga is correct, it was later rerun on ABC on Sunday mornings.
Seems so strange after all these years, to hear that they're coated with "sugar".
Back in the '60s, sugar was not regarded so terribly as it is today.
so the Lion King was not original...getting stampeded by animals
29psalm Nothing is original. Someone sees or is reminded of something else and the "new" idea begins.
shabbas mincha ftw.
Clicked on the link, and it says the domain is for sale.