# Help me decide on the new Fruity Cheerios's Ads **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-decide-on-the-new-fruity-cheerioss-ads/376025 "2006-10-11T04:36:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-decide-on-the-new-fruity-cheerioss-ads/376025/1 "2006-10-11T04:36:16Z")
I can’t decide if they are creepy and weird or cool and creative. The strangely enchanting theme song and the half-animated kids throw me all off kilter every time it’s on TV…yet I can’t look away. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-decide-on-the-new-fruity-cheerioss-ads/376025/2 "2006-10-11T07:17:07Z")
Um, aren’t these just froot loops? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-decide-on-the-new-fruity-cheerioss-ads/376025/3 "2006-10-11T12:16:58Z")
Creepy. The whole damn thing falls straight to the bottom of the Uncanny Valley. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-decide-on-the-new-fruity-cheerioss-ads/376025/4 "2006-10-11T20:24:39Z")
The “strangely enchanting theme song” is _Happiness Runs_ by Donovan. I believe the version which plays during the version of the ad which runs during adult-oriented programming is the original recording, and the kids’ show-version is a new, hard-rock style version. Fruity Cheerios are not just General Mills’s answer to Froot Loops- they’re actually fruit-flavored Cheerios. They actually taste pretty good. A Cheerio is much smaller than a Froot Loop is. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-decide-on-the-new-fruity-cheerioss-ads/376025/5 "2006-10-11T21:56:18Z")
Hold on a second! :eek: Fruit flavored Cheerios? 😕 Ain’t that what we called Fruit Loops? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![aclubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@aclubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aclubs)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-decide-on-the-new-fruity-cheerioss-ads/376025/6 "2006-10-11T23:16:08Z")
I have tried the Fruity Cheerios, so I must weigh in. They don’t seem too good to me. I love Cheerios, and I love Fruit Loops. But this new cereal is neither. Imagine having a bowl of cereal, half of which is ordinary Cheerios, and half of which is Fruit Loops. The sugariness and fruitiness of the Fruit Loops, it seems to me, clashes with the graininess of the Cheerios. For a different view, imagine biting into a strawberry Pop Tart on top of a slice of whole grain bread. Both of them are great by themselves, but together, they don’t really mesh. ---
**Author:** ![aclubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@aclubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aclubs)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-decide-on-the-new-fruity-cheerioss-ads/376025/7 "2006-10-11T23:17:24Z")
I hasten to add two things. 1. If I wasn’t too clear, the new Fruity Cheerios taste like the combo of ordinary Cheerios + Fruit Loops. 2. I haven’t seen the ad yet.