![]() ![]() the Barefooted Pirate’s Cinnamon Crunch, Wilma the Whale’s Vanilla Crunch-all which have since faded away. On his excursions, the Cap’N would meet a whole cast of characters who then inspired new flavors-Chockle the Blob’s Choco Crunch, Jean LaFoote a.k.a. During Saturday morning cartoon commercials and on the back of cereal boxes, kids could follow the storyline of the Cap’N’s adventures, traversing the Sea of Milk on his S.S. “Easily, Cap’N Crunch has the most elaborate storyline of any cereal character in history,” Gitlin explained.īack in the early 1960s, Jay Ward Productions, the designers of Rocky and Bullwinkle (among other characters), came up with the Cap’N, and Quaker developed the cereal around him in 1963, Gitlin said. But regardless, the next time we eat Cap'n Crunch, we will pour some out for Jean, a deranged, obsessive pirate who died for something we can buy at the supermarket.This year marks the 50th anniversary of Cap’N Crunch cereal, and cereal expert Marty Gitlin, co-author of “The Great American Cereal Book,” says he can’t believe no one’s spotted the snafu before. Who knows why a cereal company decided showing the world the real-time death of a cartoon character was wise. All we know is that he jumped into the seas, rebuffed one final time in his star-crossed quest for breakfast cereal. We'll never know if Jean drowned, or if sharks sniffed out his bleeding leg and ripped him to shreds. He still thought of sweet cereal and delicious milk, even as his lungs filled with salty, briny ocean water. LaFoote leapt into the ocean wounded and almost sure to die - and yet still dreaming of one day attaining Crunch. He jumped into the ocean after getting attacked by a dog, and he was never seen again. You just witnessed a fictional cereal-obsessed pirate die. My leg! Zee Crunch not working on zis I am jumping overboard! Zee Crunch will still be mine! Zis is biting at my leg! I shall geeve him some Crunch to keep heem at bay! How do I steer zis ship? I did not learn zis at zee Crunch Academy! I have taken over zee Guppy! Zee Crunch is mine! Take that, Jean LaFoote June 25, 2012 On June 25, 2012, LaFoote sneaks onto and begins to pilot Cap'n Crunch's ship, the Guppy: However, you'll notice all these tweets are from 2012. I have enough milk to last a lifetime! Now to only get zee Crunch! Today’s zee day for me! Jean LaFoote April 18, 2012 I can’t wait ‘til April! Zee cap-i-tan is going to look like a fool! #HarHarHar Zis month I will get zee Crunch myself, Jean LaFoote March 2, 2012 Jean LaFoote's account is in a French accent - maybe he uses speech-to-text? - and is entirely about ill-fated attempts to outsmart Cap'n Crunch to plunder cereal. Cap'n Crunch, noted Cap'n Crunch fan Chrissy Teigen, and that of Jean LaFoote, the pirate nemesis of Cap'n Crunch. Real Sea Dog only follows three accounts. Every few months, somebody decides it's time for Sea Dog to howl. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhHHHHHoooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooOOOOoooooooooooOOwwwwWWWWwwwWwwwwwwwwwWWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!! HHHHhhhhhhhOOOoOoOoOooooooooowwwwWWWWWLLLL!!!!!! HHHOoooooooOOOOWWWwWwwwwwwwwwwLLLLLLL!!!!!!!! It has only ever tweeted one thing: the word "howl" with varying amounts of letters and capitalization. Sea Dog also has a Twitter account, This account has been operating since April 2011, and has tweeted over 500 times. I thought we were over the "juvenile humor" phase.įirst defeat of winter: beat me in our annual Write Your Name In The Snow contest. ![]() I won't even TELL you what did when I said I wanted to see the #Supermoon. Any challengers? #SpringBreakSaturday /XqhtmD9plI ![]() Undisputed mud-wrestling champion of 2014. Sorry I’m late with your sharks, – wanted to make sure they BOTH could handle your choreography. The weather’s warming up just in time for me to go shoot some hoops! (Of course I know what that means. "Ponies aren’t good at oceans," they said. Like any cereal mascot Twitter account, it has to reference things that happen in the non-cereal world like the Kentucky Derby, NCAA Tournament or Super Bowl. This is an occupational hazard for me.) /Kf3AeVztYp It's a pretty straightforward Twitter account documenting a sea captain obsessed with cereal. This is the Twitter account of Cap'n Crunch. However, we'd like to warn you: This is not a funny tale, like Tony's poorly timed, poorly phrased, out-of-touch references to sports. He is not the only cereal mascot to have a Twitter account. Last year, we wrote about the Twitter account of Tony the Tiger, a tiger who is very bad at tweeting about sports and even worse at fantasy football. ![]()
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