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Cereal does not fly?

Trijhaos

22:45 / 11.04.02

So I was watching TV earlier and an advertisement for some Buzz Lightyear cereal came on. Now in the commercial the little bits of cereal are flying around and at the end a message flashes saying "This cereal does not fly" or something to that effect.

Are people really stupid enough to believe that this cereal could fly? Is the collective intelligence of America really so low that we have to be told that cereal does not fly. What's next? Are we going to see warnings flash on the commercials using animals that, "the animals do not actually speak"

netbanshee

23:12 / 11.04.02

..it doesn't fly? Man without such remarks, I was thinking Johnny Cochrane (sp?) and I could have had a battle with these evildoers...next someone's gonna tell me that cereal characters are racist...

wembley can change in 28 days

01:28 / 12.04.02

Ah, one of my favourite bits of book to reach publisher:

CAP'N CRUNCH
Reason this cereal is decadent:
a) Colonialist exploiter pursues naive Crunchberry cultures to plunder. b) Drunkenness, torture, and debauchery implicit in long ocean cruises.
LUCKY CHARMS
Reason this cereal is decadent:
Man with no known adult friends lures children into forest for purpose of nutritional (ideological) seduction. Sprightly twinkle motif on packaging (putatively an allusion to "flavor") are, in fact, metaphors for soul-deadening sucrose.
COUNT CHOCULA - FRANKENBERRY
Reason this cereal is NOT decadent:
Gay relationship offers an exellent role model for this new era of diversity. Witty vampire motif plays on never-ending struggle of the oppressed to topple the ruling class.

(Douglas Coupland, Microserfs)

So, Buzz Lightyear cereal: decadent or no?

Turk

01:51 / 12.04.02

But corn flakes.

DaveBCooper

12:39 / 12.04.02

Sorry to spoil things, but isn’t this a reference to the bit in Toy Story where they advertise the Lightyear toy, show it flying through space etc, and then a message pops up onscreen saying ‘WARNING : TOY DOES NOT FLY’ ?

I’m thinking it might be a... well, y’know, gag thing ?

DBC

Lionheart

15:54 / 12.04.02

Waitaminute.. The leperclown from Lucky Charms doesn't lure children into the forest. They usually chase him as he runs for his life.

Utopia

23:25 / 12.04.02

we irish are tricky that way...

Margin Walker

07:38 / 14.04.02

According to a Colonial Life Insurance commercial, Alex's title reads "Alex Trebek, Compensated Endorser". Huh? People in commercials <*gasp!*> get paid?! And here I thought he loved phantasmically colorful world of life insurance so much that he bought thte company.....

grant

19:37 / 15.04.02

I seem to recall an actual glow-in-the-dark cereal.
If they can make cereal glow in the dark, why can't they make a cereal that flies?

Mourne Kransky

19:43 / 15.04.02

Genetically modified cereal can fly, hover and dance on the head of a pin but it can't read the signs that demarcate the boundaries of Govt. test planting sites. To infinity and beyond....

—| x |—

19:59 / 15.04.02

There should be warning like:

This (sports, film, television, etc.) star was paid millions to endorse this product and does not really have an opinion about it beyond the scripted one we have given them.

Utopia

20:13 / 15.04.02

warning: this biological unit cannot form rational thoughts. batteries sold seperately.

13:33 / 16.04.02

Well, I haven't seen the ad, not living in the US and all, but weird disclaimers seem to have become a standard feature on all kinds of stuff. I believe it's now routine for children's superhero-style capes to come with -WARNING:Cape does not allow wearer to fly- printed on them somewhere, lest the parent/s of some foolish youngster sue the manufacturer on the grounds that it's perfectly reasonable to assume that a cape grants the wearer the power of flight if no warning states otherwise. I,m pretty sure this even happens on Batman capes, and that bastard can't even fly.

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