A promotional cereal box featuring Count Chocula.

Count Chocula is a member of the line of monster-themed breakfast cereals produced by General Mills. The cereal contains chocolate-flavored corn cereal bits and marshmallows. Count Chocula is the cereal's mascot, whose name is a pun on the vampire Count Dracula. Instead of craving blood like Dracula, Chocula craves Count Chocula breakfast cereal. Shortcut: WP:-( Vandalism is indisputable bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. ... Shortcut: WP:-( Vandalism is indisputable bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Breakfast cereal Breakfast cereal is a food product designed especially to be marketed to consumers as a breakfast food. ... General Mills (NYSE: GIS) is a Fortune 500 corporation, mainly concerned with food products, which is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. ... Chocolate most commonly comes in dark, milk, and white varieties, with cocoa solids contributing to the brown coloration. ... A marshmallow is a type of confection that, in its modern form, consists of sugar or corn syrup, beaten egg whites, gelatin that has been pre-softened in water, gum arabic and flavorings, whipped to a spongy consistency. ... Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ... A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech, or word play which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words within a phrase or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. ... Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings that subsist on human and/or animal lifeforce. ... “Dracula” redirects here. ...

In 1971, the first two cereals in the line, Count Chocula and Franken Berry were created by Laura Levine, a copywriter for the advertising agency Dancer Fitzgerald Sample. Boo Berry, a pun on blueberry, was released in 1973. Fruit Brute came in 1974 and was discontinued in 1983. General Mills tried replacing Fruit Brute with Yummy Mummy in 1988, but that too was a poor seller and was discontinued in 1993. Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Information in this article or section has not been verified against sources and may not be reliable. ... Boo Berry is one of a line of monster-themed breakfast cereals produced by General Mills. ... Species See text. ... Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ... A box of the now discontinued Fruit Brute breakfast cereal. ... A blonde haired, very skilled worker with a 70s look. ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Yummy Mummy was one of a line of five monster-themed breakfast cereals produced by General Mills. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ...

Cultural references

• In Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland, the story of the book starts with a note lying next to an empty Count Chocula box. After reading the note, Wheeler simulates the Count Chocula cereals with Froot Loops and some Nesquik.
• On the TV series Futurama, Count Chocula has been promoted to Archduke and is known as Archduke Chocula, just as Cap'n Crunch is now Admiral Crunch.
• The Simpsons episode Sweets and Sour Marge shows him as being a sugar-holic, who wishes to quit (his teeth have fallen out) but finds himself unable to resist. In Treehouse of Horror IV the credits list Matt "Count Chocula" Groening. The episode The Old Man and the Lisa, has Mr. Burns shopping for cereal, and he sees Krusty with a box of Krusty-O's when he asks, "Can you tell me where they put the Burns-O's?" to which Krusty replied, "They don't put nobodies on cereal boxes!" Then, he notices the Count Chocula cereal and says "Hmm. I suppose this one looks a bit like me."
• An episode of Invader ZIM contains a parody character named Count Cocofang, a mascot for Coco Splodies cereal.
• On the episode "Healthcare" of "The Office (US TV Series)," Jim lists "Count Choculitis" as an illness when Dwight forces the staff to disclose their diseases in order to reduce health benefit costs. Dwight asks "Did you write that because you know I love 'Count Chocula'?"
• In Robot Chicken, Count Chocula is seen as a judge in a American Idol spoof called Zombie Idol.
• A cut-away in the Family Guy episode "Wasted Talent" shows Cap'n Crunch wanting The Godfather to assassinate Chocula because "that son of a bitch has been spreading lies! My cereal does not cut the roof of your mouth! With all respect." [1]
• In Wedding Crashers John Beckwith resists the temptation to go over-board in taking on fake occupations in order to sound fascinating, he says "I'd like to be cowboys from Arizona or pimps from Oakland but it's not Halloween. Grow up; Peter Pan, Count Chocula."
• In Robin Williams Live On Broadway 2002 Robin makes a reference to Count Chocula as part of his performance. He talks about the winner of gold medal in snowboarding (freestyle) at the Winter Olympics. Robin says "Would you like to be on a box of wheaties? -No.Count Chocula."
• In one of the many versions of his song "Your body is a wonderland",John Mayer imitates Bobby Brown singing "And in the morning, girl, I'm gonna pour you a bowl of Count Chocula"
• In Blade: Trinity, Dracula walks into a store that sells vampire souvenirs. He picks up and looks at a box of Count Chocula cereal, then kills everyone in the room.
• In 1999, the satirical newspaper The Onion ran a front-page story about Count Chocula, characterizing him as an actual blood-sucking monster to underscore the humor of his role as mascot for a children's cereal. Franken Berry is also referenced in the article, although not by name.
• In the Halloween editon of Something Awful's Tub Bites series, there is a sketch where Count Chocula, called Chocolate Dracula, is tryng to make kids eat his cereal, along with Frankenberry, called Strawberrystein. The kids are scared by the pair and kill them. Boo Berry looks out of the window and floats away.
• In the movie Tank Girl, a character states he's better in the dark, like Count Chocula. He's angrily corrected by a friend, who tells him that "It's Dracula, fool! Count Chocula is the guy on the detergent box!" which sets off a heated argument until Tank Girl tells them to shut up.
• In the popular webcomic Something Positive, protagonist Davan McIntire and his best friend Aubrey Chorde buy a large supply of the monster cereals, which Davan (who has a culinary bent) transforms into a number of experimental desserts. The odd foodstuffs are then "donated" to a bunch of collegiate potheads.
• In the movie Multiplicity, Doug Kinney #4 (the child-like clone of Michael Keaton's character) finishes off a box of Count Chocula (and all of the rest of the food in the clones' apartment).
• In the HBO Original Series The Sopranos, mobster Johnny Sack is jokingly referred to as Count Chocula.

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Taglines

• I want to eat your cereal! (1971 - 1983)

External links

• Parody article on Count Chocula in The Onion