The maths of CoCo Pops adverts

So I’m sure we’ve all seen the new [CoCo Pops] advert for their new cereal. If you haven’t it’s basically the four other types of CoCo Pop based cereals (Coco Pops, Coco Pops Coco Rocks, Coco Pops Crunchers and Coco Pops Mega Muncher’s) into a new cereal called [Coco Pops Creations] – what do you mean you can’t keep up! This is important!

Anyways, in all the previous adverts for CoCo Pops (and derivatives) the croc steals the CoCo pops from CoCo the monkey, then CoCo and some of his jungle peeps go after the croc to get the cereal back.

Removing all the marketing from this the following facts can be derived:

  • Croc vs Monkey – Croc wins (well duh!)
  • Croc vs Monkey + Friends – Croc looses

Even in other adverts where the croc has some gorilla friends he still looses!

Okay, so in the new advert, the kid is eating the new cereal and CoCo is there too (watching him like some kind of monkey paedophile). Then the croc wanders in and grabs the cereal off the table. So we know what happens now: the croc wins.

Ahhh but something weird happens: CoCo blurs into 4 monkeys, and the croc puts the cereal back. So what have we learnt from this:

  • Croc vs Monkey + 3 Clones – Croc looses

Who would have thought it! 4 monkeys can take out a croc! Hmm well there we go. Anyone care to test this theory?