Finally proof this cereal existed!! No one ever believed me when I mentioned Freakies cereal! I even remember what it tasted like! Thanks for the post!
Freakies was my favorite cereal as a kid..I ate many of boxes while watching Saturday morning cartoons..The 70's were good and I'd give anything to be able to go back in time and relive those wonderful years..LONG LIVE THE FREAKIES..
We baby boomers had the best life! Go to Google newspaper archives and find a newspaper near your city. Look in the TV section, and you'll find the cartoons, that we saw as kids. I live in Southern California, so the Press Courier (Oxnard, California) had the same TV programs that played in Los Angeles, county, Orange County and San Bernardino , County. I showed my son the Saturday morning cartoons, we watched as kids. Also, I went to RU-vid and showed my son the cartoons that we got up early to watch on Saturdays. We didn't have the internet, but we were satisfied with a bowl of cereal and our cartoons. After the cartoons ended, we went outside and played. We rode our bikes,and skateboards. We played baseball or football. We built go-carts, and treehouses. We had Judo classes. In short we did things. We were not chained to a computer and smart phone all day. My son wasn't impressed,and I told him, "One day you'll have kids, and you'll tell them about your life in the 2010s". "So you need to put down your gadgets and do things"!
Growing up in the 70's, I vividly remember this cereal. My dad worked for the sanitation dept. in Lancaster, Oh. and we also had a Ralston Purina plant were the cereal was made. On one occasion, when my dad had to go there, they had lots of Freakies Cereal that they were throwing away because of damaged boxes. There was nothing wrong with the cereal just damaged boxes that they can't sell. Needless to say, Mom didn't have to buy cereal for awhile and we had lots of those prizes.
I was in junior high in 1974 and I remember this commercial. A lot of people ate Freakies Cereal because of this commercial and we sang parts of this song in the gym , lol!
From a blog on "Group of Four" advocate Frank Stamm's myspace page: "What set Freakies apart was that first set of prizes. In the first boxes of the cereal, the prize was one of the seven plastic Freakies characters. What made that special was the box itself. On the box they explained to you who the Freakies were, what their names were, that they lived together in a tree, what their personalities were like. It's like you were buying into a whole other world."
My cousin went to Windsor School in Imperial Missouri, her school mate's Father invented this cereal 🥣 we loved it. I still remember most of the words to the commercial 😉
Wow, this is wild! I remember this, I was a teenager, loved this, recently remembered the song! Thank you for posting! Now my kids won't think I'm craycray! ok, maybe, maybe not. 😂
Because he's so handsome and pretty...I've always had that part of the song bouncing around my mind too!..I had a kazoo and drove everyone nuts at home.
Flashback! I came across the cereal in an article about cancelled cereals. I remember staring at the box as a kid not because it was fun looking but because it was so weird it was mesmerizing! Totally forgot about them until today. Very freaky indeed.
Quake, Freakies, and Quisp. Greatest cereals of all time! I cut the "Freakies" label off of the box, along with the monsters. Still have them in an old box. Made by Purina. A company known for Dog Food. Funny 😃
Why would 7 people not like this commercial??? I practically lived on Freakies cereal when I was a kid. I had all of the Freakies toys too. Ah, the good old days when you could get a toy in a cereal box!!
Freakies! They were almost the Pokemon of the '70s. I was seriously jealous of kids who had Freakies T-shirts. Somebody's older sibling said they looked like turds covered with M&Ms. Another boring teen or adult said Bossmoss looked like a walking heap of peas. lol.
Trivia: - This commercial was created by former MGM "Tom and Jerry" animators (the original 1940s series). It was done in colored pencil, which would probably require an expensive budget if done more recently. - The characters were based on coworkers at the ad agency who came up with the concept.
I remember watching Jimmy Carter being sworn in eating a big bowl of Freakies cereal that morning. No point. Just a memory with my mom. Also got a Boss Moss figure in the box that morning I recall .
Animated by Preston Blair, legendary Disney animator! Hey... This artist is selling these really cool little tiles on etsy.com (they have the whole set!). You just type in 'freakies cereal'
I can’t believe I ran into this I thought it was a dream I knew I wasn’t dreaming because subconsciously it was always in the back of my mind. I was only five years old at that time.
Can't recall the Snick Snack candy bar. Heck I can't even remember what the Freakies cereal look like. Just the song stuck in my head. Oh, and your question...VERY DIFFERENT than today. I'm totally jealous that your generation will probably get to see cars fly. Oh and another thing...when they came out with the American Doll Julie, it nearly crushed me...I'm vintage! :smile:
Does anyone else remember KABOOM cereal? From what I can recall, there was a clown on the box (not a creepy clown), and the cereal was multi-colored smiling faces. Fruit flavored?? Not sure if there were marshmallow bits.
lol- ohh the memories. My dad worked as a manager at the Key Markets back them- and brought them home along with the display. He was always bringing home displays after they advertised. The Campbells Soup house was a blast.
was a FREAK for Freakies! still have a few magnets on my fridge from back in the day! i belive they came back somtime in the 80s, updated, they had a cardbord record on the back of the box...
I remember getting the freakies magnets and sticking them on the fridge. Those where the good old days when you would get up on saturday morning watch cartoons wrapped in a blanket with bowl of your favorite cereal and watch until the last cartoon .
I don't like to show my age either, but I too loved this cereal as a kid, and it was pretty tasty. So surreal and weird, but I never thought of that at age 5. I miss this cereal, and would buy an old box of it if i knew it was still good. Any up on EBay?
we had a wall clock of the Freakies shaped like a giant wrist watch. It was so cool, my sister had it for years in her room and of course we threw it out, who knew all these things would be worth money?
@Gwendolyn Bien- Aime that merely means they were too young or have bad memories. I was singing the old song "Hello my baby hello my honey hello my sugar doooll" then I said hold up that Freakies cereal had a commercial singing that song so I came here. I believe this is the first song…
Yes thank you!! I tell people about Freakies cereal but very few remember it. Does anyone remember Kaboom, Fruit Brute (a pilot of the monster cereals) and King Vitamin (also tasted like Captain Crunch)?
Also Yummy Mummy another Monster cereal, Pink Panther Flakes..Grins, Smiles, Giggles And Laughs cereal, Baron Von Redberry and Sir Grape Fellow were all also great cereals from the 70's..
I remember collecting the Freakies that came in the box..I remember on the box it said something about playing with your freakies or talk to them about the stock market and I vividly remember asking my mom what the stock market was so I could talk to my freakie about it...lol
I loved these commercials when I was a kid!! I looked forward to seeing them between saturday morning cartoons! I made my mother buy it all the time so I could get the Freakie inside- who knew you could order them all at once? My cousin did and I was so jealous. My mother stopped getting me the cereal because I refused to eat it. It was so disgusting. I can taste it to this day! LOL But I loved the commercials then and love them now!
1974 Ralston Freakies cereal commercial tells a story about a colorful group of fictional monsters known as the Freakies including a tough and fearless dark green egg-type monster with a John Wayne-esque voice and a buck teeth named Boss-Moss who happens to be a leader of the Freakies, a confident and vain blue elephant-type monster named Snorkledorf who blow his trunk like a horn, a shy and childlike light brown octopus-like monster with a human face and a pair of human ears named Ham-hose who prefers to eat alone, a cranky and grumpy orange frog-like monster with a lack of two little arms named Grumble who speaks with an elderly voice at which it was voiced like an old man and has a sore feet, a positive, demure, breathily soft-spoken light green egg-like monster named Cow-mumble who enjoys taking some peace and quiet, an intelligent, snooty, know-it-all mouse-like monster with a upside-down rabbit-like front teeth named Gargle who speaks with a British accent and looks a somewhat curious, and a pushy and bossy pink domestic hen-like monster named Goody-Goody who kisses up to Boss-Moss and happens to be a bit hotheaded who all went on a search for a home in the dark wood where they came across a wonderful Freakies tree where they officially lives and represents a box of Freakies cereal which, hence its title, contains crunchy and sugary sweet golden cereal circles made from oats that's all frosted with loads of fortified 8% vitamins plus iron and sparkled in the sunshine which they knew they've found their new home after that. And so, they began to go on many unusual adventures from that day on once they wake up together every morning.
1974 Ralston Fruity Freakies cereal commercial tells a story about Boss-Moss and Grumble who, takes on a spotlight for himself, tries to figure out and come up with an idea to name their fruit-flavored Freakies cereal. So, they decide to get some help from Goody-Goody, who wears a fruit basket on her head, suggest that they'd call it Fruity Freakies by singing her song which is joined by Grumble: 🎵Ay-yi-yi-yi! I've got a name for our cereal! 🎵We'll call it Fruity Freakies that I peel for a fruity feel🎵🎵Ay-yi-yi-yi! Ay-yi-yi!🎵And that's just what it is. From now on, they officially represent a box of Fruity Freakies cereal which contains crunchy artificial fruit-flavored sugary sweet cereal circles made from oats that's all filled with vitamins, splashed with all the fruity flavors such as orange, lemon, cherry, banana, pineapple, grape, lime, raspberry, blueberry, blackcurrant, pear, plum, strawberry and black cherry, frosted with loads of fortified 8% vitamins plus iron and sparkled in the sunshine wherever they go.
1975 Ralston Cocoa Freakies cereal commercial tells a story about Boss-Moss, Snorkeldorf, Ham-hose who, takes on a spotlight for himself, and Grumble tries to figure out and come up with an idea to bring in a different flavor for their Freakies cereal. So, Ham-hose decides to come up with chocolate which he loves very much and sings a song about it; 🎵Chocolate, oh how I wish I had chocolate🎵🎵Ooh, I love the creamy chocolate.🎵 While Grumble sings a song of his own with spoken lyrics:🎵Oh! Somebody do something before he put our Freakies and chocolate in all together!🎵 And that's what he did. From now on, they officially represent a box of Cocoa Freakies cereal which contains crunchy and sugary sweet chocolate-flavored cereal circles made from oats that's all made with delicious Hershey's cocoa, frosted with loads of fortified 8% vitamins plus iron and sparkled in the sunshine wherever they go.
OMG!-havent seen/heard or thought about this in YEARS!,...43 here and NOW feel so MUCH older!-LOL! I remember the lil plastic freakies figures that came in the box,...
I forgot all about that cereal until I saw that! Wow! Really don't remember it that well...but I had at least one of those toys, so I know that I ate it. Miss those commercials from the 70s....I can't tell if they were better because they were better, or because its my childhood...but I love the hokiness of them.
I have to laugh nowadays. When we have new friends/family members over at dad's place they see the magnets on the frig. They're conversation items, on the faded side. LOL!
I was 8-years old in 1974, Freakies was one of my absolute favorite cereals... fast forward to the summer of 2018, and it is 2:42am, I'm sitting at my computer, alone and in the dark, eating Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream drenched with Hershey's chocolate syrup, straight out of the ice cream container... MGTOW, FTW. :)
Thanks for posting this video! I know the song by heart and sing it to my kids...who know my personality but insist on looking at me weird. Also, my brother-in-law (who was bit of a freak / stoner) had a shirt with them on it. It was classic 70's.
@robdagun yes I remember "Vanilly Crunch", that cereal was AWESOME!!! Also Cinnamon Crunch (with Jean LaFoote the pirate) was awesome too. Quaker should bring those two cereals back!!!
