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?
The worst bit of the ad is the idea that can make up your own combination of cereal from the four seperate components, but the kid just whacks all four boxes into his bowl at once.
Well done kid, your mum has just spent twice as much on the creation cereal as she would have normal on coco pops and you just mix them up anyway.
As for monkey warfare….
Well that’s what I’d do!!
Mum: “You can have any combination of these 4 cereals – isn’t that great?”
Me: “Can I have all 4 at once??”
Mum: “Ummm well I guess so…but..”
Me: msdmfsdmfsmhmvmbmvmdsmsmgsm – the sound of eating 4 coco pops based cereals at one time.
I’d like to point out that I’m not encouraging monkey warfare in any form. I’m just ‘reading between the lines’ to the subliminal undertones of the coco pops ad.
Safety in numbers kids
That’s the message
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