What’s not to love about a cereal whose mascots are a bunch of “freaks”? Absolutely nothing. Bring back the Freakies I say! Thanks to Jim for the memory jog.
It has been like 35 years, but I remember a variant of this spot where the “big finish” lyrics went, “Freakies have vitamins, and Freakies are good for you, and this is our Freakies treeeeee…”
I had a whole set of the Freakies figures, too, but those didn’t make it out of my childhood.
Good golly! I did remember most of the lyrics. So sad, so sad … makes you wonder what sorts of things I could have stored in that spot in my gray matter.
Tonight temperature will be in the mid-50. Autumn is in the air people! Which means Halloween is not be far away. I am excited. This is my first Halloween season outside of California in nearly a decade, so I am looking forward to the falling leaves and cold air.
I am hoping to do some fun stuff on the site, I even started writing a few things. I am not sure I will get carried away like last year, but who knows. Get some miniature Milky Ways in me and I can type for days.
I have been listening to OTR the last few days. Especially a lot of Suspense and the Whistler. Great shows that really set a spooky mood. I have also been listening to my friend, Jonathan's podcast, "Rotting Flesh Radio". Its the best hauntcast on the interweb so check it out.
I get a few emails a week who want to swap links in my blogroll, which I am very happy to do, but please add me to your site before e-mailing me. I want to know their is a human on the other end. Not a reciprocal linkbot.
Besides that I am just working a lot and trying to blog at least once a day. Hope everyone has a great end of summer. I am going to cap mine off with a swim in Lake Michigan and a mad awesome BBQ.
Kevin Church
July 5th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
What. The. Hell.
The Retroist
July 5th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
What I really enjoy about the Freakies is the headcount. Its like the Dirty Dozen of mascots.
jim
July 5th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
It has been like 35 years, but I remember a variant of this spot where the “big finish” lyrics went, “Freakies have vitamins, and Freakies are good for you, and this is our Freakies treeeeee…”
I had a whole set of the Freakies figures, too, but those didn’t make it out of my childhood.
cybele
July 5th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Good golly! I did remember most of the lyrics. So sad, so sad … makes you wonder what sorts of things I could have stored in that spot in my gray matter.