Cereal Killers

Tony the Tiger use to be a black and white scrawny, singing, silly cat. As it turns out, "back in the day" has turned into today and tomorrow and skinny mini Tony just does not cut it. Nowadays you will see Tony pumping iron and destroying young children as miscellaneous sports. Call it a self-esteem problem, or an overactive ego, but either way you slice it, Tony the Tiger is full of himself. This doesn't really bother me, however the messages in his commercials seem to raise interest.





Well that's interesting. Frosted Flakes make you better at riding a horse? Not so much the point in horse riding however the underlying point is made in ALL the commercials from the 70's up to the 90's for Frosted Flakes. The scenario plays out like such, Tony and a child are just hanging out minding their own business, 2 older and exceptionally rude punks approach and insult the child and occasionally the tiger in relation to some physical activity. Tony replies with something related to Frosted Flakes and the punks retort sarcastically with, "Oh yeah right, that would be good! HA!" At which point of course Tony and the child exclaim, "Good? Their GRRREAT!" Then they eat their frosted flakes and proceed to dominate the competition at whatever sport they partake in as they are then admired by the punks. Way to go Tony, shove that ideology of "winning is everything" right down our children's throats! And with the help of Frosted Flakes you will be a winner and no doubt accepted by all that you wish to be accepted by. This ideology instill the idea of competition into a lot of things our children do, even things that don't necessarily need to be competitive.



Oh well now that is just grrreat Tony, not only have you already buffed up by about a thousand times instilling another ideology on young boys that being big and strong is the way to be, because everyone loves Tony, and if they could they would be you, at least that is what the song says, but you flood another ideology of quick fixes. Don't practice and train hard to get better just ingest something that gives you an immediate result. Well now Tony has "Supercharged" frost flakes making you even bigger, stronger and ferocious. Watching Tony hulk out in his roid rage is all fine and dandy yet it seems to push the idea that now being muscular isn't enough, now you have to be insanely lightning attractingly humongous. And with the help of Frosted Flakes you can in fact do so. Enforcing the ideology and creating the desire for the cereal all in one fell swoop.