The Patron Saint Of Saturday Mornings

Blessed be our sugar-fuelled, cartoon-watching, weekend mornings.
(By Elliot Mechanism for Ltd. Art Gallery)

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The Breakfastables
The Last Breakfast
Cereal Killers

The Breakfastables

There is nothing I don't love about this image. Nothing. These breakfast cereal mascots were as much a part of my childhood mornings as many of the Expendables actors were part of my teenaged evenings. Are they as washed up? Hard to say, but they don't have the hold on that they once did.

Breakfast today. Legends Forever. (The Breakfastables by Andy MacDonald, via Comics Alliance)

Previously on Popped Culture...
The Last Breakfast
The Breakfast Cereal Club
Cereal Mascots In Real Life

The Milky End Of Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch

Looks like the Soggies finally got to the Cap'n. (soggies may rule by Dann Matthews)

Previously on Popped Culture...

The Last Breakfast

The Breakfast Cereal Club

Cereal Killers

The Last Breakfast

Sculptor Brian Stuckey's The Last Breakfast finally gives Cap'n Crunch the Christ position after so many portrayals as Judas, a role now filled by Rice Krispies Snap. What is is with breakfast cereal mascots? Their either fighting or wasting their lives together — don't they have any other friends? (Via Cultural Compulsive Disorder)

Previously on Popped Culture...

Suddenly Last Supper

Pop Culture Last Supper

Konami Code Last Supper

There Can Be Only One

Seems the Cap'n must have won, banishing the Count to his sugar crypt, only allowing him brief distribution around Halloween. (Classic Cereal Confrontation by Matt Needham)

Previously on Popped Culture...

The Breakfast Cereal Club

Cereal Mascot Reunion

Cereal Killer, Qu'est-ce Que C'est?

And God Created Sugar

He made them a sugary offering they couldn't refuse. Breakfast with artist Dave MacDowell means sex, drugs and rock and roll as well as major sugar addictions and twisted mascots. Yup, it's the best meal of the day!

Previously on Popped Culture...
Cereal Killer, Qu'est-ce Que C'est?
The Breakfast Cereal Club
Cereal Mascot Reunion

Cereal Killers

Late at night, outside the Kellogg's factory and all hopped up on sugar, the cereal mascots are in the mood for trouble. Well, maybe not Sonny, who looks as blissed-out as usual. But the Trix Rabbit looks like he's looking for a different kind of trick and Lucky is just a drunk, but Cap'n Crunch, Tony and Sugar Bear look mean. Cereal Killers from pop artist Sam Carter.

Previously on Popped Culture...
Cereal Killer, Qu'est-ce Que C'est?
The Breakfast Cereal Club
I'm Coo Coo For Killing Stuff
Cereal Mascot Reunion

The Breakfast Cereal Club

“You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a leprechaun, a monster, a cap’n, a tiger, and a rabbit. Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Cereal Club.”

Wow, I don't know how I missed this one when it came out. Bravo, Ironic Sans. Reminds me of Rob Sheridan's Cereal Mascot Reunion. Let's just say it doesn't really work out for them.

And, of course, there is the Family Guy version. "Oh, it was a banner freaking year at the old Tiger house. I got a carton of cigarettes. Old man grabs me and says, 'Hey, smoke up, Tony, they're grrreat!'"

Cereal Mascot Reunion

Ever wonder where old cereal mascots go once they are no longer in demand? Of course you do. Seems they don't disappear, but slowly fade away in the wood-paneled, shag-carpeted rec room of artist Rob Sheridan's mind.

So long Franken Berry, Trix Rabbit, Count Chocula, Cap'n Crunch and Tony the Tiger, sugary breakfasts just aren't the same without you.