Comments on: Halloween Countdown ‘08: Ghostbusters Cereal!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:35:29 +0000

Some of my best memories as a kid involved scrambling to pour a big bowl of cereal to crunch down on while I watched my Saturday Morning Cartoons. Whatever happened to the networks showing Saturday Morning Cartoons anyway? A few do it here and there, but it’s definitely not the glorious competition that the networks had for the kid-crowd anymore. Remember how they used to have the big preview special right before the next season started?

I’m way off topic, but stuff like this takes me back.

By: BlakeMP

BlakeMP — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:59:36 +0000

True story: I was part of a focus group for the Ghostbusters cereal. Some lady with a clipboard was in the mall picking up children like the witch in the gingerbread house, and for some reason, parents actually let her do this. They took us to a back room, showed us the commercial, and asked us a bunch of questions about its basic level of awesometude. A few months later, I saw the commercial on TV and the cereal on the shelves.

So… you’re welcome.

By: Zilla

Zilla — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:38:58 +0000

Paul,

I TOTALLY remember that record that came with the cereal. I came in here just to post about it myself lol. It was a mini-record about the size of an appetizer plate and it only had one song: Ray Parker Jr.’s legendary “Ghostbusters.” I remember being really really pissed off when I tried to play it and it was all garbled and scratchy. I guess sugary breakfast cereal is not so kind to a cheap record protected by a shoddy paper sleeve. It, however, did little to quell my absolute loyalty and borderline obsession with “Ghostbusters,” “The Real Ghostbusters,” or any other iteration of Venkman and the gang.

By: Casual Jeff

Casual Jeff — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:25:48 +0000

Awesome. Just awesome. This is one of those things that I forgot I remembered. I used to love this cereal.

Does Purina still make cereal? They made the Nintendo Mario/Zelda cereal, as I recall. They had some quality licenses!

By: Special K

Special K — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:00:56 +0000

Fruit and marshmallowy goodness…. *drool* I ate TONS of Ghostbusters cereal as a kid. If I had my way I would have substituted Ecto Cooler for milk, but my mom had to put her foot down somewhere. She already thought there was something satanic about me watching the cartoon.

By: Trisha

Trisha — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:44:52 +0000

I don’t think I could talk about how much I loved that cereal without getting sappy.

By: The Manimal

The Manimal — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:05:18 +0000

Awesome! Totally awesome!