In this episode, the Murphys embark on a delightful exploration of monster-themed cereals, engaging in a playful yet earnest debate over which cereal reigns supreme. The siblings take turns to unveil their top five selections, weaving in personal stories and vibrant descriptions of each cereal's character and flavor. The discussions are enriched by humorous anecdotes, such as the unexpected backstories of the mascots and their relevance to the siblings' childhoods. Moreover, the episode serves as a nostalgic reminder of how these cereals have evolved over time, prompting reflections on their flavors and branding. As each sibling presents their rankings, they not only share their preferences but also invite listeners to reminisce about their own experiences with these whimsical cereals, fostering a sense of community and nostalgia that resonates long after the episode concludes.

Takeaways:

• In this episode, we thoroughly discuss the merits of various monster-themed cereals, emphasizing the importance of nostalgia in our rankings.
• The playful banter among the Murphy siblings allows for an engaging exploration of the unique flavors and mascots associated with each cereal.
• We delve into the cultural significance of monster cereals, highlighting how they reflect childhood memories and societal trends in breakfast foods.
• The episode showcases a lively debate, demonstrating our differing tastes while maintaining a lighthearted atmosphere around the topic of cereals.

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Hello, and welcome all to a new episode of Murphy's Rank the World, a podcast where us Murphy siblings get together and pretend to focus on drunk and unfair assessments of all sorts of things, but instead, most likely go off on more than a few tangents and generally get silly.

I'm your host today.

I am the Tim sibling known as Tim.

There are some that call me Tim or also known, AKA Practical Sorcerer.

For you magic the Gathering fans out there.

Yeah, we're already starting with the deep nerd cuts.

Anyways, let me introduce you to my siblings, who will also be joining us on this podcast.

So go ahead and introduce yourself.

Hello, I am Megan.

I am the eldest, but right for this episode, Tim's the host, so blame him.

Fun fact, she once put a dart in my shoulder.

Oh, okay, I have to edit it.

I can edit this.

I can edit this.

It's gone.

No one will ever know.

Unless I forget.

Gosh, I hope I didn't forget to edit that out.

And now my other sibling who is here.

I mean, technically, there's another other sibling.

But, yeah, he's out of state.

So what are you gonna do?

He doesn't get to be part of a podcast anyway.

Yeah, another sibling that is part of the podcast.

Hello.

Hello.

My name is Sky.

You say them pronouns.

I like cheese and crackers.

I also like these cookies from Wegmans.

Those like, shortbread ones.

So you're just talking about the thing in front of you right now.

I am.

I'm Kaiser.

So.

So.

So.

So say, are you trying to turn into a verb?

Are you trying to say you're Kaiser?

So saying.

Yeah, Kobayashi.

Yeah, I got you.

I got Kobayashi Maru.

All right.

Oh, boy.

We're starting strong and focused today.

Fun fact about Sky.

Sky probably knows more about drag than you ever will in your life.

Yeah, throw that out there.

Yeah, I know a lot about drag.

Unless I mean less than a drag queen, but more than your average drag aficionado.

And also, if it was up to sky, the musical would be called Seven, and they would be the seventh.

I don't know if we should let Tim host again.

Yes.

So, Tim, what is the theme for this episode of Murphy's Rank?

The world.

So today's theme.

Because we're hungry and food topics generally go well for both opinions and tangents, we're gonna go with top five.

I was gonna say cereals, but no, no, let's get even more esoteric with it.

I want to know your top five monster cereals.

And by monster cereals, I mean the General Mills Family of cereals that generally have the monster on the front of the box and the variety of flavors that they come under.

I know what most of you are thinking.

Wait, there's not more than like what, three?

You're wrong.

And that's the other thing we do here at Murphy's Rank the world is we educate as well as debate.

So yeah, we can do a top five because there's six of them.

Okay.

Pardon me.

There was not.

I'm not saying that I'm diverging in any way.

What I'm saying is that definition was not shared with me Prior.

Look up that.

All right, you can go.

Last monster cereal.

Okay.

And I feel like I have a.

What's that called?

Controversial take on a cereal that isn't.

You know, I'm not gonna say.

I'm serious.

You can just be wrong.

Don't worry.

Don't worry.

You can just be wrong.

We'll tell you that you're wrong.

We are just continuing the theme of at least every episode having this one answer where everyone goes.

Wait, what?

Hold on.

You know, panini.

Panini as a.

As a kind of sandwich that's a family of sandwiches.

You know what?

We can't.

Hey, listen to some of our older episodes.

We can't re litigate that.

Not tonight.

I mean, lake monsters also very, very, very controversial.

No, I think that was the right choice though.

So anyways, I guess it then we'll see if we can once again dip into those waters as we go through our list.

But again, it's open to interpretation.

I might have said monster serial, meaning the General Mills line.

You might come up with a monster cereal that's just going to blow our minds.

So just dramatize.

Blow your minds, whatever.

Exactly.

So let's little fun fact I'd like to bring up here because we.

I brought up a fun fact about one sibling.

Fun fact about another sibling.

Now, fun fact about this topic.

There was an art show based off of some of these monster characters that was held back at Pop Rocks when it was on East Ave.

Which was a video game and serial based bar which I believe has moved in here in Rochester, but I can't tell you to where.

But that was actually the first official date I had with my current partner was going to that art show where Megan.

I had art in that show.

I'm part of a love story, everybody.

You're welcome.

You're welcome.

Shut the up.

Really?

Yeah.

That was our first.

Like that was our official.

Why don't we know this already, brother?

We have to Create a podcast to figure this out.

Now, here's.

Here's the best part.

You know what date that art show was on?

June 9th.

You know what's nice about June 9th?

It's a prime number.

No, when you write it out, it's six.

Nice.

Yeah, exactly.

So anniversary.

Really easy to remember.

Yeah.

See, this is where the British get it wrong because that joke wouldn't work.

Yeah, they'd be like 96.

What is that?

Ah.

Okay, so let's do it like the regular.

We'll start with our fives.

Yep, let's start with our fives.

All right, so since I'm the host, I'll go first.

Monster cereal.

And we're starting with number five.

Five.

Five.

Five, five, five.

All right.

My number five cereal.

Now, here's the thing.

I.

I had to come up with the criteria because I haven't eaten all of them.

So it can't just be, you know, based on taste.

I had to come up with some other criteria.

Other things, you know.

You know what.

What in these cereal sparked joy in me.

Yeah.

So vibes.

Yeah, we're going all on vibes.

So number five for me is the Fruit Brute.

The Fruit Brute, which I believe is a werewolf, if I'm looking.

A werewolf who's wearing colorful striped overalls.

Very stylish.

Yeah, very stylish.

I mean, right off the bat, love the style.

I'm getting, like, Margaritaville vibes.

Like, this werewolf definitely feels like he's a parrot head, you know?

Yeah, definitely.

Probably drank a pina colada at Trader Vic's.

Exactly, exactly.

His hair.

Perfect.

That's nothing.

Well, speak.

Speaking of which, also, I feel like that song has one of the great alliteration lines of all time.

I mean, you really can't beat a little old lady.

Got mutilated late last night.

I mean, that just roll.

It doesn't roll off the tongue.

It is a snowball.

Like, it starts at the top of the hill.

And as you are speaking the line, like the L's just gain momentum and you end up saying the end parts faster than the beginning part.

And you didn't even plan to do that.

It is like the language.

Momentum has become so great that you no longer can control how these words are going to come out of your mouth, and it's just going to come out real fast.

Thanks, Warren Zevon.

Should I have a smile on my face as I'm talking about this mutilated little old lady?

No.

And yet I'm enjoying saying it.

My mouth is happy.

Exactly.

But, yeah, I You know, I.

I dig his vibe.

You know, I like how he's a little more wolf than werewolf, you know?

Yeah.

And, you know, the.

The flavor profile sounds intriguing, though, with a lot of these.

Remember, there.

There are original versions and there's relaunched versions.

Yeah.

So this relaunched one.

Now.

Now what's amazing is it was launched, then discontinued, then relaunched, then discontinued, then relaunched again.

So.

Yeah, right now the current cold with Fruit Brute.

Exactly.

So the current flavor profile is cherry.

And I'm a big cherry fan.

Except you got to be careful.

Some cherries end up tasting like cough syrup.

I'm talking about talking directly to you, Alani.

Cherry Slush energy drink.

Oh, wow, that's very specific.

Oh, yeah, no, that stuff, it's like.

I thought it was going to be nice and refreshing.

It's.

It's as if Robitussin had caffeine.

Hey, sponsor us.

Yeah, so don't even.

For once, Robotussen has caffeine, don't sponsor us.

I mean, it doesn't naturally have caffeine, but this is an energy drink that tastes like Robitussin.

So I'm saying it's.

It's two great flavors that.

No, two shitty.

Two crap flavors that never should have come together to begin with.

So anyways, Fruit Brute.

That's my number five.

All right, who's next?

Tim, I am going to go with this guy.

Just want to put a cracker in my mouth.

To be fair, I had my eyes closed when I was moving my finger, so I did not see you put a cracker in your mouth.

You're trying to be so neutral that visuals did not influence you.

Yeah, exactly.

I was trying to play it straight.

Gayly forward.

As I like to say.

Bicuriously bipedaling.

I have never heard that one.

It's perfect.

We're just gonna pan it up.

I don't know.

I don't have time to think about other stuff.

Hold on, let me see if I can pull an ace out on this one.

Oh, boy.

Wow.

We got super distracted, but I think we're being productive.

That's the most important thing.

What was I doing?

Oh, same one number.

You were shooting an arrow.

Okay.

Oh, we gotta stop Tim.

We gotta stop.

Stop Tim's guy.

Number five.

Five.

Five.

Five.

Five.

Count Chocula.

Okay.

At five.

Damn.

Okay.

I love it.

Okay.

Okay, but the.

Also the remake that they came out with when they remade them is very different than the original Frank Count Jocula.

Is this like the same way how all those old school banana candies taste different than Bananas nowadays because they're based on a banana that no longer exists.

Is that why?

Oh, damn.

Oh, yeah, I believe.

Look it up.

I believe it's called the Cavendish Banana.

Yeah, the Cabinet.

Oh, yes.

No, I have heard of this, I must say.

Didn't you go to SUNY esf, since you just know everything about everything that deals with nature?

First of all, let's not put my entire resume out here into the unknown world.

But I do.

I know some things, okay.

I got some Ds for degrees because it's hard.

It was hard.

Ds for degrees.

But, yeah, I did know random facts.

I don't know Twitter.

20 years ago when I graduated, what was I saying?

Oh, Frank.

No, no.

Count Chocula.

Count Chocula, we got you.

It was just.

It's too much chocolate.

And it's.

And it's also.

So.

Okay, hear me out.

Count Chocula, when we were young, tasted like.

So I did not take communion.

Okay.

Jesus wafers, okay.

Are yummy.

Specifically Catholic ones, right?

I'm not talking about.

Because, you know, Lutherans do the bread.

They, like, break it up.

It's like big chunks of bread and they have grape juice.

I'm talking about, like, trans configuration.

Transubstantiation.

That's what I meant to say.

And like hard wine, right?

Those wafers that have the little cross on it, those.

All I wanted to ever do was put them in a bowl with some milk and eat them like cereal.

So, Frank.

And no, Count chocolate tasted like Jesus wafers and chocolate, okay.

And that's kind of like.

So listen, it's kind of why I like wafers, period.

But specifically, there's a specific flavor.

Did you know you can buy them in bulk anytime you want?

So I could just have a bag of wafers?

You could.

And just eat them?

Where do you think churches get them from?

I figured you had to have, like, I don't know, some sort of like, registration number in order to buy Jesus in wafer form.

Well, until they're blessed, they're.

Yeah, yeah.

Remember, they got to go through the transubstantiation before that.

Trans Configuration.

Yeah, before that, they're just wafers.

Like the same way.

Like Nilla wafers.

Chocolate wafers.

Why didn't we ever use, like a Nutter Butter or something?

And we could have made that Jesus.

Anyway, sorry, it's.

It's like if you gave blood and you got a Lorna.

Dune.

Jesus Dunes.

Jesus dunes.

Anyways, so it just.

It's not wafery enough for me now.

So that's why it's number five.

Wait, did you write them a letter?

Wait.

Jesus.

Jesus.

Dunes.

Isn't that just Paul Atreides?

Oh, God, no.

Hey, so my number five.

My number five.

I.

I'm going, I'm going with the newbie.

I'm.

I'm going with the new monster, Carmella Creeper.

Yeah, last year, too.

That's the new cereal mascot.

It is a caramel apple flavor with marshmallows.

She's.

She's like a bride of Frankenstein slash zombie dj.

That's a hell of a combination.

I like her look.

She's rocking it out.

I don't even like green.

Yeah.

I don't even like caramel, but I'm like, I'm so happy for the rookie.

Like, this is the.

It's been a while since we got a, A new monster doing their thing.

It.

It's green.

Like, the cereal's green cheese green.

That's a color combo they haven't had in these yet.

So I appreciate that.

And yeah, I just feel like, you know, gotta give it up for the new blood, you know, gotta support.

Support the new person, you know, so she can find her, her monster feet.

I dig that.

You know, interesting looking at Carmella Creeper on the box.

For all you wrestling fans out there, she's giving heavy, uh, Steph Delander vibes, who also could be described as a bride, as a zombie dj, especially right now with her current storyline in TNA Wrestling where she has just recently married, uh, pco, the, uh, French Canadian Frankenstein.

Oh, it sounds like the exact same story.

Like maybe, maybe they've inspired each other.

Yeah, yeah, I, you know, I like to think so.

And also, everything about that statement is factually correct.

I know you might be thinking to yourself, some of those words really don't make sense.

French Canadian Frankenstein.

No, it's the world of professional wrestling.

So, yeah, I feel like wrestling has both changed a lot.

And then not.

Because if you would have said that sentence when in my middle school days when I was watching wrestling, I would have been like, yeah, no, that makes total sense.

Yeah, I mean, I mean, you can easily draw a through line from, you know, the modern day French Canadian Frankenstein, pco, back to, you know, guys like Mantar, who legitimately wore like a bull head.

Yeah.

To the ring and his theme music was literally just like a drum and some bulls going.

It's not.

Did have.

You see, so this dropout, that was formerly college humor and it's now Dropout, it does stuff like Dimension 20, TTR, TT, RPG.

Yes.

Those are all the Letters.

Yes.

They also do a lot of improv shows and it's one of the streaming services, it's like 5.99 that I will subscribe to.

They do a show called Smarty Pants and it's people coming up and presenting.

It's a really nerdy show because not only improv, but they're also presenting on topics on whatever they want.

Right.

And in the front they go.

They cannot confirm any of the actual details of whatever someone's presenting.

Right.

One person went up there and presented on why wrestling is drag.

Oh, it is, yeah.

And she's like, I love wrestling and I love drag and I watch both of them an insane amount and I can tell you why wrestling is drag.

It's.

It was a phenomenal presentation.

Right?

And then there's other people that are that present about being like, why they should be given a mech suit and nobody else.

Other things like why the WNBA is better than the NBA and why it's that they don't, they don't get as much hype.

So like fun stuff like that, but then also absurd stuff that obviously can't be fact checked and it's just funny.

So anyways, shout out to that.

But anytime I see that, I'm like, ass wrestling is drag.

Also, speaking of the NBA, yes, I do appreciate everything Caitlin Clark has done for that lead to get eyes on it.

But man, when I think about other players like Asia Wilson and Brittany Grenier and then further back, like Lisa Leslie, even Diana Tausi, Sue Bird, like, they've always had amazing players in that league.

I don't know if it was just a timing thing that made it explode when Caitlin Clark went pro, but you know, I'm just saying, like, as much, you know, publicity as she's getting, like, they've always had amazing, great, talented players.

So we have to watch this.

Tim is always going to be threatening to change this into a sports podcast.

I can sense it.

I can, I can.

So we just have to be on the lookout for.

Because anytime there's an opening, he's gonna slide in there.

Like he used wrestling, if you notice, he used wrestling, as I know.

And then I started talking and then I can.

I've been watching the, the WNBA now.

So I was ready to start talking about the WNBA and my hot take.

On this will be our sec.

This will be our second podcast.

Murphy ranked the sports.

So.

So you know how in, you know, TV shows and comedies, how there's the backdoor pilot.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

You know what?

I've Been working number four?

No, no, no, we're not yet number four.

I'll say my number four.

Okay, number four for my favorite number.

Number four is Booberry.

Blueberry.

I do appreciate the mascot, but it's also the most boringest of mascots, in my opinion.

Oh, my God.

Wow.

Wow.

He's dead and you're kicking, you're kicking a ghost down when he's dead.

Yeah.

Wow.

But also the boringest flavor.

Not a blueberry fan?

I, I, no, not a blueberry fan.

Well, I know I love blueberry.

I love blueberry baby blueberry bagels and blueberry flavoring and like coffees and teas and stuff.

But whatever this Booberry is, I do like it more than the non Jesus way for excessive chocolate.

Yeah, that's why it's four, not five.

That's why it's four and then not five.

But I just feel like we could do better with the redesign.

Booberry.

Do better.

Wow.

Listen, I, I will have the positive turn comes at 3, 2, 1.

Okay.

Okay.

I feel like, like this one sucks slightly less than the other one.

All the way down.

One sucks less.

It's just, it's just, you know, decrease in suckitude 5 to 1.

So yeah, yeah, this is a tough one.

All right, Mag, what's your number four?

It's, it's weird because here's the thing.

My number four is also Booberry, but for positive reasons.

I love this little dude.

He wears a little straw hat.

Why?

He's a ghost.

What did he do in his life?

Was he like a farmer?

Did he have like a little, like a stall at the public market?

Who's to say?

He's also got like a little bow tie.

How dapper.

He was obviously cut down too early in life, so now he's trying to do the best.

You know what?

I bet he was a farmer because of blueberries he brought.

Okay, so here's the thing.

He had a little farm that his family left him.

And all it was was blueberries.

And it was just him gathering them up, putting them on a little wagon, going down to the public market and selling these blueberries.

How did he die?

How did he die?

Okay, well, here's the thing, okay?

So Big can and make canon.

No, Big Blueberry was buying up all the little companies.

So there's only one company, but said, no, this is my parents and my grandparents farm and blueberries are in my blood.

They said, you want blueberries in your blood?

And they threw them into the machine and they squeezed him and squished him that's why he's bluish, because he became.

One with the blueberry.

But he had unfinished business and revenge in his heart.

So now every night, as he tries to sell the seal and remind people of the goodness of blueberries, he also plots against Big Blueberry.

And someday, he will bring them down.

Tastes like blueberries.

See, I thought he was blue because of the Casper ghosts.

Oh, that upsets him the most.

He's like, hey, hey, I'm not Casper.

Do all ghosts look the same to you?

Is that what you're saying?

I'm not Casper, okay?

I'm not cast.

Also, some of the monsters have pets because they have a monster's frightful friend cereal mix.

And his pet is a little cat that also has a straw hat and a little bow tie named Meowberry.

Wow.

Not even aware.

Wow.

Meow Berry.

Yeah.

Carmela Creeper is a snake called Scratch, which is fine.

I just feel like they just try to get, like, an S name.

I don't know why a snake would be called Scratch, but Meowberry.

Fantastic.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I gotta say, that's.

I do like Meow Berry.

That's definitely a good one.

All right.

My number four is Blueberry.

Oh, my God.

How did we do this?

We are the champions, my friend.

Like, I liked it.

I mean, blueberries, not one of my favorite flavors, but, like, there's a time and a place for it, you know?

And I just feel like there was.

There's not as much with some of the other flavors.

There's a little more, like, you know, functionality in regards to, like, flavor and blueberries.

Useless.

I'm just saying.

Died.

It's kind of one note.

Kind of one note, you know?

So, you know, and I'm not gonna lie.

I just feel like some of the other monsters had a little more PR behind them, you know?

I feel like their name gets out there a little more.

Yeah.

Because.

Because they bowed to, you know, big fruit cereals.

What happened?

Wow.

Don't get me wrong.

Like, I'm.

I.

I appreciate the.

The fight against the machine, but, you know, the machine is a powerful force, and I.

I can simultaneously root for Blueberry to overthrow Big Blueberry while still only having Blueberry ranked as number four on my list.

So I am deeply invested in this lore I just invented, like, five minutes ago.

@ this point now I'm, like, emotionally like, oh, I just put them at four.

What's my problem?

I know.

I mean, I.

I feel like, you know, this is just Dole and the state of Hawaii all over Again, you know, I mean, I feel like there's a lot of even additional backstory there that we haven't even touched on in regards to poor Booberry.

My.

Because my 3, 2, 1 are way better than blueberry.

Yeah, so sometimes in the pocket of big Blueberry.

What?

I'm just saying, sometimes the.

The.

The sad sob story isn't always what's going to take you to number one.

Wow.

Wow.

It's actual monsters.

Let's do number three now that we're moving on.

Number three.

All right, so for me, number three, I decided to go with the yummy mummy.

I.

I dig the idea because his tagline is yummy mummy makes your tummy go yummy.

Incredibly stupid.

And yet somehow resonates like.

Yeah, I feel like if I was some guy in like, like.

So here's my thought process.

What?

When did this come out?

All right, so it's 87.

All right, so I'm in a writer's room and General Mills with a bunch of coked up 20 year olds who are all just, you know, machine gunning out slogans for what they believe this new serial should be.

And I am both drug free and completely unaware that I'm going to be involved in the process at all.

And then suddenly, some guy, the head of tables, like you, Murphy, give me your best slogan.

And I'm just like, I don't know, man.

Like the yummy mummy makes my tummy go yummy.

And everybody, like, record scratch, everybody turns and looks at me and.

And he goes, what did you just say?

And I go, yummy mummy makes your tummy go yummy.

And you know, he marinates on it for a few seconds, slams his fist on the desk and goes, God damn it, Murphy, you're a genius.

Perfect lore, you know?

And, you know, and then that same room of coked up people who are trying to come up with the yummy mummy slogan were the same people that inevitably came up with all the gremlins for gremlins, too.

So it goes right into that p.

Instrument key and feels good.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

I love it.

It's in it.

Wait, wait, I thought we were just.

I thought we were just brainstorming.

Nope.

You say whichever you want right now.

We put it in the movie.

Okay.

All right.

I like that we're creating lore for this.

I can buy that.

And I mean, orange cream flavored.

I mean, I'm usually a fan of it can go wrong.

It is again, one of those flavor combinations where when you get it right.

It's great when you get it wrong.

Yeah.

Creamsicle line.

Real thin.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like.

Like, your.

Your landing zone is very narrow.

So if you don't hit that landing, everybody's gonna know.

But, yeah, I just.

I can appreciate any cereal that essentially, the tagline really feels like something somebody made up in five seconds and just really sold the hell out of it.

So, yeah, that's me.

Yummy mummy number three.

All right.

I cannot make Laura as epically as them, so I'm just gonna say my number three, which is Fruit Boot.

Fruit Boot.

Fruit Brute.

Okay, okay.

Because he's a homosexual.

Explain.

Have you seen the.

Is it just the name?

It's not just the name.

Okay.

Okay.

It's.

He's rainbow.

He's the overalls and no shirt.

Are you Overall to no shirt?

He's definitely.

I don't think he's a bear.

I think maybe he's an otter.

He's a little slim.

He's a little slim.

Yeah.

I got you.

And I feel like he's just living his best life.

Life.

He owns.

He owns the name Fruit Brute.

He's like, I call myself Fruit.

Yep.

I love it.

Correct.

Okay.

And, Al, I'm not like, the biggest fan of the flavor of the cereal, but literally the design.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

That's my number three.

And I'm prepared to blow your minds with number two and one.

Okay.

Oh, okay.

So help me out here.

Fruit Brute.

And once.

Now that sky has brought that up, what I get is vibes from.

Not Charles Nelson Riley, but he was also a celebrity.

Paul Lynn.

Yes, Paul Lynn.

Of a Paul Lynn Halloween special that I watch every year at least once because it has Florence Henderson and Kiss and.

And Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch of the West.

Do you know Donnie and Marie Osmond are also in this.

Anyway, Kiss does three, four numbers full enough.

One of them is Beth.

You know why I know.

Can you do.

Because I have seen this multiple times with you.

Yes.

And the best part is.

Okay, so it's a Halloween special, right?

Do you know what the full first, like, skit is?

The full first skit is about truckers, and it stars Pinky Tuscadero from.

From Happy Days, whatever the actress's name.

It was, like, something Pinky Duscadaro, her last name.

This is how she is, like, presented in this special.

Anyway, it's about truckers trying to win over a waitress in a Halloween special.

And one of those truckers is Paul Lynn.

Anyway, it's a work of art everyone has seen at least once.

You can't even start the season without just fully embracing.

If you want to talk about coke, if we're talking about cocaine's influence on popular culture in the 70s, watch the Paul Lynde Halloween special.

Let it wash over you.

I know it's a watershed moment when they started switching from quaaludes to cocaine.

Oh, yeah.

The energy switched.

I know these are two different pieces of art, but I believed.

I believe this Halloween special is better than the Star Wars Christmas Christmas special.

Oh, yeah.

Listen, there's some slow moments in.

In the slow motion where the.

The Paul Lynn one just, like.

Just gasps.

Yeah, the.

The truck.

The truck is always coming at you and it'll never stop.

Yes, but never.

But the Poland special doesn't have a wink machine.

And it doesn't have br.

It does have witchy poo from the HR Puff.

It does.

It has the sister of Margaret Hamilton, who, as a character is playing Pauline's housekeeper, but who also is the Wicked Witch of the West.

Tim, Tim, Tim.

I'm not even.

I'm not even halfway through the insanity of this.

Everyone, if there's one thing you do after listening to this podcast, go find.

It's usually on YouTube.

Sometimes it's on Amazon Prime.

Do what you have to do to watch this and just enjoy your life after.

Hey.

Hey, sky, do you have a feeling Meg's turning this into, like, a movie pop culture podcast?

That's crazy.

Danny agrees.

Look, I'm just saying we all have our areas of strength that will be brought up multiple times during this podcast, which will all inevitably get their own spin off podcast.

So I'm just saying we don't need to call each other out on it.

I see.

Tim, you ready to call out sky when the next.

When it comes?

Absolutely.

You got nothing on me.

Oh, my number three.

My number three.

I went classic.

I went with my boy Frankenberry.

He's a classic for a reason.

There's been three that have always been the core, who are always there.

Frankenberries there holding it down for the strawberries.

Look at this.

Look, he's all pink.

He pulls it off.

And I appreciate that.

He just seems, like, satisfied with his life, you know?

Like, he's just like, hey, this is what I do.

I've got some steam stuff coming out of my head.

I make this cereal.

You're welcome.

And I appreciate that he feels like of.

Of all six, he's the calming presence.

I actually agree with that.

Yeah.

That's what I'm Saying, like, number three, he'd be like, fantastic.

I will take number three.

Thank you.

It's the rock.

The.

Frank Berry is the rock.

The foundation.

He's the found.

Yeah.

He's that calming center.

Okay.

And that's why he's three in the middle.

He's the perfectly balanced.

All Frank.

Frank and Barry should be.

Yes.

Excellent.

I hope you all can hear me because Danny's in between me and the microphone.

Yes.

Right now, visually, Tim and I are seeing Danny, the orange tabby, just walking across sky.

Danny does not care.

If.

If this abruptly ends, it's because Danny ended it.

That's right.

I'm done.

I'm shutting this down.

This is a.

Oh, my God, she can hear you.

I am like, you know, she's staring right at us.

I'm terrified.

Okay.

Oh, boy.

We can't go back over to skies.

All right, number two.

We're moving on to number two.

I guess I'll.

I'll kick it off.

See?

Yeah, you might as well do a sandwich and then go me and then Meg.

All right, all right.

We're going to sandwich this one.

All right, so for number two, I.

I'm going with Count Chocula.

All right, so the reason I have Count Chocolate number two is.

It is a.

What I like about it is, is it's a.

It's a cereal you can throw in with other cereals, and it almost always will complement or enhance the cereal you add it to.

And I think that's big.

A team player, you're saying?

Yeah, team player.

Big, big team player.

I mean, you know, fruity or.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, Fruity Pebbles with Count Chocula.

Oh, so good.

So good.

You know.

Okay.

Lucky Charms with Count Chocula.

I mean, you can just throw it in with anything and you're like, oh.

You can invite him to any party.

It's.

It's the catalyst of cereals, you know, not saying that it's completely inert by itself, but it definitely takes on different features and makes things happen when you add it to others.

So, you know, plus, like, I mean, it's.

It's.

It's classic Dracula, you know, not like Nosferatu Dracula, but, you know, it's, you know, very, very much like the Bela.

Lugosi, you know, you say people wouldn't eat Nosferatos.

Okay, first of all.

First of all, you said Nosferatos.

Yeah.

Yeah, I did, didn't I?

I really hit the toe.

Yeah.

I mean, his Nosferatu, his.

His head does kind of look like a big toe.

So I Mean big toe with fangs and ear.

I'm just saying we're thankful that it's not that exactly advocating for it.

I'm saying I'm thankful it's not that I am the good guy here, you.

Know, it's more of a.

Of a.

Of a cross between, you know, the Bela Lugosi Christopher Lee vampire, you know, with a side of.

Whoever played that.

The vampire.

And what was it?

Love Bites.

Oh, Cage White.

No, no, not Nick Cage.

Not Vampire's Kiss.

No, that's Nick Cage.

Oh, no, we're talking about Jim Carrey.

No, no, that's not the first bite.

No, Meg was on it.

It's the tan guy.

There's a lot you know.

Here we go.

Wait, wait, what movie did you say?

Okay, so let's see.

Love it.

First bite.

That's the George Hamilton one.

George Hamilton.

Carrie 1.

I meant love.

Yeah.

What's the Jim Carrey one?

It's.

I know what to fight Lauren Hutton.

Lauren and Cleavon Little.

Which is wild.

That is wild.

See, here's the thing.

I didn't introduce the movies, and yet here we are.

I'm here again.

It's a movie podcast with Megan.

So, anyways, my number two.

So.

Yeah, so.

So that's why I say.

All right, Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Falling apart.

Okay.

Telling me that those little Cinnamon Toast Crunch dudes with hands and face and legs aren't monsters because they eat each other.

Okay.

My little buddies I love.

They're little monsters and they're cannibals.

They're monster cannibals.

Okay, so we're saying they're like the, the, the critters of.

They're critters.

I was gonna say they're the critters of cereal.

And with that one sentence, I'm on board.

I love critters.

I love those little bastards.

If I say Cinnamon Toast Crunch are the critters of Breakfast cere, like, this is apparently the best breakfast cereal ever, because then they can create a little cinnamon toast ball like the critters they can do.

Yeah.

And then they strip the flesh off a dude.

They went across, like, instantly.

All it was was a skeleton and clothes.

Goodbye, buddy.

Oh, my God.

I went too far.

I flew too close.

No, no, you're right.

I'm celebrating how right you are.

These little things would cause so much damage.

Yeah, I, I.

You know what?

I.

When you first said it, I was like, I don't know, but I'm sold.

I'm like, oh, my God, you're right.

I'm in These are.

These are little.

They're local.

Imagine them rocking out at the bar.

Like, they're.

They're shooting each other, they're pouring drinks.

They were all at a theater watching Snow White together.

And then I was thinking they were also, like, the coconuts from Moana, which.

Are also little bastards.

And I love.

Yeah, like, imagine.

Imagine getting taken out by a little coconut.

That's a nightmare.

And I love it.

I'm like, you know what?

Yep.

Here comes, and here's the thing.

Like, it's out of nowhere.

You wouldn't be expecting it.

You just buy your box cereal, you put it away in the cabinet, you figure, oh, it's going to be delicious for breakfast.

And the next thing you know, you walk down the kitchen, and there's all these little anthropomorphic squares with arms and legs just walking around.

Like, some.

Some.

Like, they've already planned out like they've built rudimentary electrical circuits.

Yeah.

They always have a little town built.

Yeah, yeah.

There's some that are just, like, literally walking around in circles that have no clue.

And then there are others that are just cursing their existence.

And you take the ser.

To that bag, they had no consciousness.

Of the box, and you pour it into the container and you watch them.

But like this.

I do not advocate watching critters 4.

It's a horrible film, but it does have a great kill.

We have little baby critters, and one of them jumps into this dude's mouth, and he just have little critter feet kicking out, and he's eating the guy from the inside out.

That's what Cinnamon Coast Toast Crunch would do.

Oh, that is a monster cereal.

That's David Jones.

Don't take this away from me.

The cat one.

Yes.

You're so right.

You were so right, Sky.

Thank you for interviewing Ghost Crunch in your mouth.

You're just asking for them.

Yeah.

To eat you from the inside out.

I feel like we're being ignored when we are agreeing.

Sky has brought out the emotional support Grogu, so.

Yeah.

Oh, God.

Wait, wait.

No, no, no.

A special guest star Grogu, which, by.

By the way, I don't think we're gonna have those sounds play on this podcast unless we want Papa Mouse coming at us with a DNC or a cnd.

So.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What g.

Ah.

That's terrifying.

We keep this up, the force will no longer be in our bank accounts, so.

Oh, God.

So where are we?

Are we on?

You all have to do.

You have to do your number two.

You have to do number two.

That is where we left off.

Number two.

Number two, hit.

Yeah.

Oh, God.

Is this.

Okay, so it's me to poop jokes.

I'll go over to more.

This is specific, okay.

Because I'm talking about the relaunched Fruit Brute.

That's the cherry flavored marshmallows.

Not the original, which was general fruit flavored with lime marshmallows, which is a lot going on.

Whereas Fruit Brute.

Besides, we've talked about his fashion sense, and I appreciate he's a werewolf.

And many folks know I am an avowed woofer smoocher.

I love werewolves.

They're hot.

But I'm not talking about a hot werewolf.

I'm just talking about a delicious cherry flavored with marshmallow cereal.

It's got that bright deliciousness.

I love cherry stuff.

I'm all about Fruit Brute.

I'm like, I'm glad that they brought them back and rethought it, because also, you have to stand out from Yummy Mummy, which is so weird.

That is like creamsicle flavored.

When you think Yummy Mummy would be the random fruit one.

So I understand.

I think Fruit Brute was like, if we're gonna relaunch, I gotta rethink about what?

Who am I?

Who am I really at heart?

And he was like, you know what I am?

I'm cherry.

I'm Cherry.

Just cherry.

I'm gay and I'm Cherry and lime.

Yeah.

You know, he had.

He did a lot of thinking and he found out who he was.

I know we said we weren't going to talk about hot werewolves, but, you know, since.

Since Meg brought up the topic.

Sorry.

Not sorry.

No, not, not sorry.

I just feel like, overall, actors that play werewolves just are more handsome than actors that play vampires.

You know, Like.

Like, you can go through the list of.

Of werewolf people, which always starts with Joe, man.

Hello.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

For True Blood.

Can't help that.

No.

That dude's just naturally hot.

What are you gonna do?

Yeah.

I would like to say, though, the hottest vampire.

Okay.

Wesley Snipes.

Okay.

I am the one and only.

I am Blade.

And there's only one of me.

Technically, he's a half vampire.

He's a day walker, but we'll count it.

Yeah, yeah.

As the Vampire Council said, it's like he's a day walker.

Oh, look, look, look.

He.

He's.

He's rubbing it in her face.

Eating lunch.

You're breaking up.

You're breaking.

Yeah.

Y.

That.

Dude.

That.

What we do in the shadows.

Vampire Council What?

The idea that all the vampires like their.

Their names are their names, like, the actor's name are the vampires names.

And of course, Tilda Swinton's a vampire.

Appreciate.

You can't.

You can't.

I'm like, who's gonna go first for number one?

Because I really want to get in the meat and bones of my number one.

Oh, you, like, you need ties.

Did I say meat and bones?

I meant meat.

Yeah, I thought it was way more intense.

I was like, oh, crap.

Sky is serious about this guy's inner.

Ogre just came out.

Yeah, I mean, I'll go.

I'll go first for number one.

Here we go.

Number one.

One, one, one.

Because I'm not.

I'm not doing anything different.

I'm not being controversial.

I'm going.

Count Chocula.

He's a classic for a reason.

It's a chocolate cereal.

I know, Skye.

Sky, you've already had your say on this.

I think a chocolate cereal is a solid choice.

It's basically like, oh, look, dessert for breakfast.

You feel like you're getting away with something.

His.

His pet is a spider named Igor that looks like him.

Like, it has his hair and his, like, eyebrows and his little.

His little, like, buck vampire teeth.

That sounds a little narcissistic.

I mean, yeah, but he's a vampire, so of course I, like, I wish for my familiar.

My pet will look exactly like me.

I mean, eight of my legs.

Yeah.

They can't see themselves in a mirror, so I guess this is the closest he couldn't.

Or do you think Count Chocolate looks at that pet and goes, wait, that's.

What.

Is that what I look like?

Because, you know, it's like that thing where, like, you can have a mirror, show what you actually look like, not the reflection.

And it just throws everybody off because you're so used to.

You're like, oh, what?

No.

No.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I have not.

Not much to say about it.

It's not a.

It's not a wild number one because it just always bet since.

Since Count Chocula has come out and first came off the.

The line, it has continued production.

I think most of the serials are seasonal now.

But at any point where there was a monster cereal being made, Count Chocula is one of them.

Yeah.

Like, the story doesn't always have to have an M.

Night Shyamalan twist or swerve.

Like, sometimes you can just tell a story and people are satisfied because it gave the ending that they were expecting.

And Count Chocolate being number one.

Plus for my vampire, the masquerade folks like Absolute Venture.

The man has a business, and that business is serial.

Oh.

I want somebody in Vampire the Masquerade to play a vampire who runs a serial business.

Yeah.

Who's basically Count Chocolate.

Yeah.

Baron Chocula.

Thank you.

Thank you.

But he has the voice of.

Of Count Chocula.

I'm sorry.

Of Count Dooku.

The Count.

The Count.

The Count.

All right, so that.

That's it.

I.

Not nothing deep, just chocolate.

All right, I'll go next because I know sky wants to hit him with wandering to end this.

So anyway.

Toothpaste commercial.

Yeah.

So my number one is Frankenberry.

And I'm gonna explain simply.

I am generally not an artificial strawberry fan.

Like fresh strawberries.

Love it.

Pick them from the field, you know, wash them off, you know, slice them up, eat them whole.

Delicious.

Love it.

When it comes to non fresh strawberries, like strawberry ice cream.

Hate it.

You know, Frankenberry is the only fake strawberry flavored thing that I actually go, you know what?

I see it.

I see it.

I think this is what they're all.

All the other strawberry candies and cookies and whatnot are trying to achieve.

Frankenberry is the only thing that I know that actually hits the mark for me.

So because of that surprise factor, I had to go give it number one because I think this is the only time in my life that I might give something strawberry number one.

So.

Oh, wow.

I was.

I.

I feel.

I feel honored.

I feel honored.

So.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, sky, the floor is yours.

Yeah.

Let's see.

Let.

I am ready for your TED Talk.

What is your number one?

Imagine the time.

All right, I am that all you.

Want is a bowl of.

A bowl of cereal.

And you know, you.

You have cereal when you're a child and you enjoy it, but now you're an adult and you still want cereal.

And I think as someone who is an adult and enjoys cereal, I should be able to enjoy it whenever I want.

But say in this world, when you try to enjoy your goddamn cereal, some comes out of nowhere and says these words, tricks are for kids, and it's a giant rabbit in your goddamn business that's a monster.

Okay, I love rabbits.

But if you're trying to tell me that I'm trying to eat my favorite cereal, which happens to be tricks which I didn't touch.

So subconsciously marketing got to me because I was like, oh, I can't eat tricks anymore.

Tricks are for kids.

So first of all, their marketing team are monsters.

Honestly.

Allegedly.

But honestly, it's the human siiz rabbit.

Who's the monster?

The tricks rabbit is your number one.

All right, let's hold on.

Thank you for your opening statement, Sky.

We'll now turn it over to Megan for her rebuttal time.

The kids.

The kids are the monster.

Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.

I messed up.

The kids are the monster.

The bunny just wants to have the trick.

Sorry.

I'm on board.

I'm on board.

I got.

This is why I'm bad at long stories.

Kids are the monsters.

The bunny.

I was like, I don't want to have to argue with my own.

My own sibling.

No, no.

Okay.

We're on the same page.

Yet.

Those kids can go to hell.

Those kids can go to hell.

Yeah, because all that bunny wants to do is enjoy that cereal.

And then here are these kids coming out of these.

They don't know.

They don't know.

And yet they're telling this rabbit what.

And they're telling this rabbit what he cannot.

With his mouth.

With his mouth.

And that is to put buckets and, ooh, gobs of cereal in it.

And you know what?

I finally was, like, literally in college, like, my.

My first masters, and I was like, I can have tricks.

Why can't I have tricks?

I don't give a.

If I'm not a kid.

That.

And now I've been.

And I love tricks.

Yeah.

Anyways.

Yeah.

You know who the trick rabbit is?

Us.

It's us.

It's us.

Yeah, you just.

You.

You look in the mirror, and you are the tricks rabbit.

Yep.

So anyways, tricks.

Specifically the children.

Monsters.

Okay.

All right.

Okay.

All right.

You know what?

Thank you.

Thank you for allowing me a second try at this meet.

Oh, no.

I got you.

I was like, I, I.

I sense where this is going.

I sense the true anger and the anger's true target.

Yeah.

Children are the.

Are the same kids that.

That mess with the Trix rabbit.

The same ones that, like, never give Lucky the Lucky Charms.

Lucky Charms.

They are monsters.

So.

So is there a place we can bring these serial mascots that, like.

Yeah.

Is this some, like, suburb in Arizona that they just keep going to where a bunch of, like, you know, snow out to, and they brought their, you know, demon spawn with them into the land of, you know, c.

The Saxon hoas.

And no wonder the kids are just monsters because they're in a monstrous environment as well, and they are simply just, you know, the products of the.

The way.

That way where they live now, and the people who are in it and.

And it's the poor, you know, Lucky charm leprechaun.

And the Trix Rabbit that bear the brunt of this frustration and anger that they just don't know where else to go with.

That's a thes.

And then those kids grow up and they're on your school board vote.

Yeah, vote, for gosh sakes, please.

Or they become your HOA president who writes letters to you talking about how, you know, the pool that you got the waiver for because your relative is wheelchair bound should only be used by that person and no one else in the family.

And if other people in the family use it, the people in the HOA get, you know, upset and jealous because they don't get the option either.

Or my personal favorite, when they write letters to non HOA members about things.

You have no power over me.

Yeah.

Dear, dear non HOA member, sorry you wasted your postage on that one, buddy.

In that situation, I'm Blade and you're the vampire.

Yeah.

And, you know, some always trying to skate uphill.

That's lying in cinema.

Actually, the best thing you can do if you are in an HOA is make you do the work, get voted to the board, hopefully become president, and then dissolve it.

Yeah, that's real.

That's real hero right there.

Yeah.

All you got to do is divest all the things that the HOA owns under its own name and then just make it go.

Bye.

Bye.

Wow.

You have knowledge on this.

As if you thought about this.

You're like, yo, this is one of my retirement plan ideas.

Get out an HOA and destroy it.

So you know how Kane at the end of Kung Fu just wandered the world.

So my plan, when I retires, do the same thing.

I'm just gonna wander to, you know, you know, sub development to sub development.