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Ad Nausea: Chexmates
silverstar ♦ March 23, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment
Howdy, y’all. Before we start with the usual merriment, a little house cleaning: I know we haven’t posted anything new in the past 13 days, but there’s no cause for alarm; we haven’t quit or gotten sick or joined a biker gang without telling you, and we certainly haven’t been smuggling unicorn manes across the …
Ad Nausea: General Mills Breakfast Cereal Makeover
silverstar ♦ February 13, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment
If you’ve been watching kid-vid networks like Nickelodeon lately, you’ve undoubtedly noticed some new commercials for General Mills cereals such as Cocoa Puffs, Trix, Lucky Charms, Reese’s Puffs and Cookie Crisp. Apparently after nearly a century of these mascots acting out their own individual shticks in their own respective commercials, lately General Mills has opted …
Ad Nausea: Cereal Killers
silverstar ♦ October 1, 2015 ♦ 3 Comments
Today Ad Nausea takes a walk down the murky depths of the breakfast cereal aisle, chronicling breakfast’s Hall of Lame; some of the most infamous and shortest-lived kid-vid breakfast cereals and their mascots. First up, we have OJs, no, not an O.J. Simpson themed cereal (“use the map on the back of the box to …
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