#Captin crunch icon serial

Kellogs did it as well with Frosted Flakes commercials. Having breakfast cereal commercials (marketed to kids), be mini-cartoon shows in their own right was common in those days. Ward also produced the Quisp and Quake commercials for Quaker Oats and was heavily involved in the creation and development of all the characters. Dudley Do-Right did not get his own show until 1961. Crusader Rabbit, along with Dudley Do-Right, was one the of the characters featured in Comic Strips of Television.

#Captin crunch icon serial

He also produced the first animated serial for television, Comic Strips of Television, a limited series aired in 1948, and the first full series for television, Crusader Rabbit, a year later. Ward was a legend in the animation industry, Ward’s company also created Dudley Do-Right and George of the Jungle. These animated spots were produced by Jay Ward Productions, also responsible for such awesomeness as Rocky and Bullwinkle. Guppy and his first mate, the dog named, aptly, Seadog. These were full-blown spots that featured the Cap’n, his ship, the S.S. I can’t deny the influence, however, of the early television ads.

And of course, that is not meant to take anything away from regular Cap’n Crunch, I’m just a peanut butter man.

I love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, but give me Cap’n Crunch for peanut butter cereal. I have a particular love for Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch and no other peanut butter imitators, no matter how good, can replace it. Cap’n Crunch, to me, is the iconic childhood breakfast cereal.