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Title: We're looking for a cereal ad from 1987 and we'll go mad if we can't find it
Post by: bandit957 on July 05, 2018, 07:53:53 PM
For the past couple months now, my comrade has been searching desperately for a TV commercial for cereal that she claims aired in 1987. She says the commersh included a free bubble gum offer, but she doesn't remember what brand of cereal or bubble gum.

The main thing she remembers about the commersh is that it showed a youngster blowing a bubble in slow motion - accompanied by electronic tones that sounded like the old PBS bumper of the '70s and '80s.

YouTube searches have proven fruitless.
Title: Re: We're looking for a cereal ad from 1987 and we'll go mad if we can't find it
Post by: lepidopteran on July 05, 2018, 10:17:57 PM
I thought I remembered there being a pack of Bubble Yum inside boxes of Cheerios, but I can't say for sure.

However, I think Flickr might be a better bet at finding it.  Try looking through this album (https://flic.kr/s/aHsiN9iMSU) as a starting point, and maybe some of the cross-referenced cereal-related albums as well.
Title: Re: We're looking for a cereal ad from 1987 and we'll go mad if we can't find it
Post by: Mapmikey on July 05, 2018, 11:01:43 PM
Scroll down a little at https://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_detail.asp?id=165

Unable to find a commercial for that particular giveaway however...
Title: Re: We're looking for a cereal ad from 1987 and we'll go mad if we can't find it
Post by: 1995hoo on July 06, 2018, 07:50:28 AM
Bing turned up some images of a lot of different cereals that included gum giveaways. Don't know whether any of this might help:

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cereal+bubble+gum+giveaway&qpvt=cereal+bubble+gum+guveaway&FORM=IQFRML&PC=APPL
Title: Re: We're looking for a cereal ad from 1987 and we'll go mad if we can't find it
Post by: bandit957 on July 06, 2018, 08:57:40 AM
I remember the "monster cereals" having a Super Bubble offer, and having a funny drawing on the back of the box showing Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry blowing bubbles. This was around 1983.