#243 – Bran
Posted on May 10, 2007 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I admit that when I was a kid I based my cereal purchasing decisions based on the toy that came free in the box. Sometimes the cereal that I liked the best had no free toy! Just some puzzle game printed on the back of the box! I’m not going to buy your cereal for a word search puzzle. You need to dazzle me with something a little more exciting. One of my favorite cereal memories was when Cap’n Crunch came with a free window sticker of one of their characters. It was one of those “Collect all 8 designs!” kind of promotions. There was some sort of packaging error with my box and I got all 8 design plus a few duplicates. It was very exciting.
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mmm…. “Let’s play war! I’ll bring the missile!”
Also: First!
And here I got eight boxes with no window stickers in them at all. I presume my lawyer-type person will be having some words with you shortly, sir. Wait a minute, web-comic artists aren’t wealthy….Drat!
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(srry Vgcats..)
The best cereal prize ever made was the Chex Quest game…
Sweet,Now will Biff ever uses the rocket?
once i got a plane in a cereal box, but no rocket
I used to get that cereal, but I only ever got the crappy Hummers.
LavaBall: He will, but he will be crushed by it when he gets an ice cream headache while levatating it with his mind.
the only toy I ever got was a superball. wasn’t a very good one.
don’t know why I eat cheerios, as they will expand lifeness.
I wish I had a free rocket with my cereal. 😀
I dont think they put toys in cereal anymore, its a shame, that I grew up in the 90s where all the fun stuff was being ripped out of everything…
By the way which comic is the mind levitation one?
I cant wait till the rocket falls on him.
i too like the toys i n super noodle bran,i always got the f-1 phantom
lol whitespace
That has to be the best cereal toy ever…….
biff is so damn lucky >.>
I want a cereal rocket >.
they don’t put toys in cereal anymore, some sort of “choking hazard” crap.
bah! the generation of children who played with lawn darts are fine. and do you know why they’re fine? because their parents WATCHED THEM. there is no risk of you child choking on a toy that came in a cereal box if you pour the bowl of cereal yourself. you don’t need parental locks on your TV if you watch it with your children–TV is not a babysitter! you don’t need to ban porn on the Internet if you monitor the sites your child visits. you don’t need ratings on video games if you read the back of the package before buying a game for your child. if you’re involved in your child’s life, you won’t wake up one day to find that your 5 year old is already an adult and your 10 year old is pregnant.
even as a child i knew parents should be involved in their children’s lives. i watched parents try to reason their children out of bad behavior instead of spanking them–i was spanked, it hurts your ego more then anything else and it WORKS. and i watched neglectful parents pick their children up, set them on a counter, then walk away so they could fall and break their necks. and i wanted to bend those parents over my eight year old knee and SPANK SOME SENSE INTO THEM. and of course, you know those poorly raise kids grew up to raise their children even more poorly. and that’s why you can’t get toys in cereal boxes anymore and Cracker Jack only comes with stickers.
okay, rant over.
LUCKY!!!!!!! alls i ever got in that cereal was a stinken battleship. not fair :[
Wow, that box must be huge on the inside, Biff could have an adventure just in that box, let alone pull out the rocket. But where does he find this stuff, I mean come on I just can’t go down to the general store and buy me some ceral stocked with rockets.
@ Blargen-Vargen #106, but its green, not yellow.
would this be the spaceship that Biff crashed into the moon in #133 whilst on his moblie? It looks the same.
5 points to Dr Glenn!
Heh, good eye.
So I guess this means that the comics aren’t in chronological order?
Either that, or he’s got a lot of ‘Super Noodle Bran’ boxes. I wonder how much the cost?
let me guess, this is how he got his last rocket?
Super Noodle bran? Bran with Super Noodles? Cool.
Wannabeelf: Yeah, I agree on some of your views, however spanking is not nessessarily the answer. I was never spanked but I’ve grown into a respectful and mature young adult. However your point about actually looking after and being there for your child is extremely important. Parents do need to be there to look after their children, it’s why they become parents! Not to dump them at a nursery and walk off to do their own thing, it’s to look after and care for them themselves, otherwise why bother with children?
you got a HUMMER! all I got was a pinto.
Hey Chris,
I don’t say much, but I visit every day and very much appreciate both your humor and art. You’re providing some of my best laugh these days.
Thanks,
Brian
nice…uh..colorful…statement wannabeelf ( i u know what your saying) ohh and lay off the sugar
Well.. That explains more than it doesn’t.
Vladimir Draconovitch,
no, spanking isn’t necessarily the answer, but it is a valid disciplinary measure. I’m of the opinion that behavior is half nature and half nurture. for some kids, time outs and temporary loss of privileges are enough; for others, spanking is necessary. i don’t believe that spanking is the only valid form of punishment, but it shouldn’t be dismissed off hand as cruel either. my parents used spanking as a last resort after other disciplinary measures failed and that’s how i intend to use it when i have children. when i said i was spanked, i should have also mentioned that it was only three times in my entire life (as a disiplenary measure anyway).
ken: Sure, the Hummer may sound great, but it produces enough exhaust to kill a forest or two, and it costs way too much to fill up the gas.
Trade?
🙁 but.. I’m noodles *sniff*
oh well, I’d have to agree with him on that one,
The ones with the best promotional gift were always the ones I’d want, although it doesn’t bother me too much now
Too early in teh morning to write loads and so I shall leave it at that,
Keep up the uber-ness 🙂
Noodles x
Hah! I got a better prize than a stinking rocket.
I got NORAD!
In high school I would constantly draw on my desk in english class and they were usually of a humorously disturbing nature. One of the things I drew was a Zodiac killer themed cereal, “Zodi-Os”. It had marshmallow guns, ropes, knifes, and flre. The cereal part of it were like the alphabets cereal, but were the symbols the Zodiac used in his cryptographs. On the back of the box I put a real cryptograph and when you solved it, it spelled out “Main ingredient: Fiber Glass”. The “toy” inside was just a sealed empty plastic bag that said on it “fun if swallowed”. I could tell that it shook up the teachers a bit, but I was not serious.
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I noticed that alot of your comics are based off of food… But that’s okay. I like food anyways. Keep it up!
Hey Dragon, that kinda reminds me of the pepsi stuff back in the late 90’s. On one of the commercials for pepsi it had listed, as a joke of course, a harrier jet as one of the prizes for saving up a ridiculous amount of points. One guy managed to do it, but pepsi didn’t give him the jet and I think he tried to sue pepsi.
We should be careful what we put in our cereal as toys. Otherwise, Iran would easily be able to acquire nuclear arms.
i want one!!
I must be the only one who had to eat the cheap cereal that came in the plastic bag. Now that I’m old enough to afford whatever I want, there are no good prizes. Typical.
does anyone remember the robot looking bicycle spoke holding things with li’l reflector gems in their chests? there were some of those in cap’n crunch one time… about 20 years ago. that was the coolest thing for its time.
The Man – Yes! I remember those. 🙂
lol
Here in Sweden, all cereal comes in plastic bags inside paper boxes. And the toys are in the bottom outside of the bag. This means two things: You can easily grab the toy as soon as you open the box so you don’t have to eat all the cereal too, and no one has yet managed to choke on the toy so we still have toys in cereal boxes. 🙂
Chris, am I supposed to be reminded of The Young Ones? I’m sure they must have had that cereal when they ended up with the missile in the kitchen….
We only get bags of cereal, and they don’t put toys in those.
As a side….These comics are not in chronilogical order….anybody remember 133? (Cell-Phone)
anyone? EH?
and how bout those other times he got into space! like #155 Space Walk!
Earth to Biff – you don’t HAVE to eat the cereal (tho I hate wasting food)
I personally never had toys in my cereal. It makes me angry and sad at the same time. To monoXide : I personally swear that my cereal is made with cardboard and wood shavings.
So THATS where Biff got his rocket!
I was the same way with just about everything when i was a kid.
I remember when i was 7 i begged my dad to get me some shoes with laces – despite the fact that i didnt know how to tie my shoes – cause they came with a toy.It was not a wise purchase.
@ The Man:
I used to collect the Cap n’ Crunch figures that came in the boxes too. They had one of the Captain himself and then all the Soggies. Does anyone remember the Soggies? They were the Captain’s nemesis and had some kind of water cannon on them with a backpack and they could make anything they shot with it all soggy, but if you ate the cereal at them it would counter it and they couldn’t defeat it.
Why does biff never smile even when the rare good things happen to him?
@patrick:
in this case at least it’s because, OK, awesome, rocket, But he REALLY DOESN’T LIKE THE CEREAL!
Sorry for shouting 🙂
on a completely unrelated note, why do we bother commenting on comics this old?
I remember getting a one-sided record on a box of cereal, once. I had to eat the all cereal before my mom would let me cut the box to play the thing. I was too young to really appreciate the song, and it was by some British group called the Beetles.
God, I wish I still had that piece of cardboard!
That’s as close to a smile as I’ve ever seen Biff…
I remember when Hasbro made video games out of their tabletop ones, and packaged them with Post’s cereals. I did collect them all. Clue, Operationj, Battleship…