My Favorite Sugary Breakfast Cereal

My Favorite
Sugary Breakfast Cereal

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I’ve been finishing lots of screenplays lately. 

Four within the last nine weeks. 

Two of which were started from scratch!

The other two I had worked on for years. 

Including one from last century. 

What does that have to do with My Favorite Sugary Breakfast Cereal? 

For all four of those screenplays, my “reward” for finishing their first drafts was: Cocoa Puffs! 

What other food or product in the world has a catchier catchphrase than?: “Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs! Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!”

Uploaded by cartoonbrew on Mar 10, 2007

Classic 1960s General Mills Cocoa Puffs commercials animated by Jan Svochak, 

featuring the voice of Chuck McCann.

If you’re going to go cuckoo for something, why not let it be for Cocoa Puffs? 

Insanity will let you get away with a lot of things too. 

“Hey! Why is Henry stuffing waffles into his wallet?”

You twirl your right index finger alongside your head and imitate a hand-carved quartz cuckoo clock sounding the two o’clock hour as you say: “He’s cuckoo! Cuckoo!”

I’m not a big cereal-eater like when I was a kid, but as I neared completion of the first of those four screenplays and pondered what “reward” should await me, a TV commercial touted the Whole Grain qualities of Cocoa Puffs! 

What a great idea! How could I refuse? 

Whole Grain! What could better than Whole Grain?

Except for a free prize inside every delicious box!

And the thrill of being the first on your block to collect all five!

Actually, some of my recent boxes of Cocoa Puffs didn’t have a prize inside.

But I didn’t mind, because A, I don’t need tiny toys. 

(I need big toys like paramotors and jetpacks.) 

(A Bat-Plane would be nice too.) 

(As indeed would be the Bat-Mobile.) 

(Just a grappling hook might be fun.) 

(I really don’t need toys at all, big or small, I just need love.)

(The Bible and the Beatles told me so.)

And B, as any true Cocoa Puffs aficionado will tell you, the true prize inside each and every box is the Cocoa Puffs themselves! 

Besides Whole Grain goodness and chocolaty delight, which may or may not include a free toy, such as a silly straw that twirls your beverage as you drink, so you don’t need to stir, another terrific feature of Cocoa Puffs is that, along with Cocoa Krispies, these two popular, cocoa-flavored, breakfast cereals provide the best way for an adult to enjoy chocolate milk without appearing childish. 

That is, until you drink it out of the bowl. 

Because that looks somewhat childish. 

Some food critics might even deem such an endeavor as immature. 

While others, such as myself, praise the effort for ensuring the full use and enjoyment of each and every drop! 

Blessings & Joy,

Dean

P.S. For those interested in screenwriting, please check out my previous post: My Favorite Screenwriting Books