Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Capn'Crunch - Collection of Ads





Trivia Courtesy Wikipedia
Cap'n Crunch was featured in the song, "Today 4 U" in the Broadway musical "Rent" (see Rent (musical)).
Cap'n Crunch is featured in the lyrics of the 1974 Ronnie Milsap song, "Pure Love."
In the beginning of the "Weird Al" Yankovic song "Eat It," Cap'n Crunch is mentioned, along with Raisin Bran.
Thrash metal band M.O.D. have a song about the character, "Cap'n Crunch" which appears on their "Gross Misconduct" album.
Neal Stephenson's book Cryptonomicon contains several pages about the procedure of eating Cap'n Crunch
In the VeggieTales Silly Song "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything", Mr. Lunt tells Pa Grape "I think you look like Cap'n Crunch!" In the cover version by Relient K, this gag is referenced by the line "we don't wake up before lunch, but we all eat Cap'n Crunch"
In "There's Something About Paulie", a Season 2 episode of Family Guy, The Cap'n appears in a scene where he asks a Mafia Don to kill Count Chocula. When the Don asks why, The Cap'n responds "Because that son of a bitch has been spreading lies about me! My cereal does NOT cut the roof of your mouth!".
The Cap'n also appears in season 2 of Family Guy in "Let's Go To The Hop", as a member of The Breakfast Club
In season 1 of Robot Chicken, episode 18, "The Sack" a parody of The Cap'n (along with Tony the Tiger) defends a drug dealer's mansion from the authorities, proclaiming, "Their bones will stay crunchy, even when soaked in blood!"
Cap'n Crunch appears in an episode of Futurama where he was promoted to "Admiral Crunch", along with the promotion of Count Chocula to Archduke.
Early Cap'n Crunch cartoons were brought to us by Jay Ward Studios, best known as the makers of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
In 2006, as part of a promotion for Superman Returns, Quaker sold a Superman Cap'n Crunch cereal that turns milk blue.
In one episode of The Powerpuff Girls, there was a cereal called "Lucky Cap'n Rabbit King Nuggets". The cereal and mascot are parodies of Cap'n Crunch, Lucky Charms, Trix, and King Vitaman.
The Primus song "Frizzle Fry" contains the lyric, "I do believe in Captain Crunch."
Cap'n Crunch plays a prominent role in a piece of the theatrical shows of Blue Man Group. In the piece, the "Blue Men" make music by crunching the cereal in their mouths.
In season 2 of Friends, episode 16, "The One Where Joey Moves Out," Joey offhandedly comments to Chandler, "Man, this is weird. Did you ever notice Cap'n Crunch's eyebrows are actually on his hat?"
In the movie 100 Girls, Emmanuelle Chriqui's character states that she eats Cap'n Crunch to get her in "the mood".
In Ugly Betty, Wilhelmina Slater's daughter's favourite cereal is Cap'n Crunch.

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