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🎄 Ho-ho-ho, I’m hu-hu-hungry! Fill your soul with season’s greetings and another batch of cereal commercials from Christmas past. 

🎙️ Uh-oh, here comes Joey O. to revisit a collection of seasonal ads for Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles, starring Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

The main attraction: This Fruity Pebbles Christmas commercial, circa 1986, and a redubbed version with Jim Cummings as Santa from the early ’90s. 

An older Fruity Pebbles Christmas commercial, dated 1980. 

A Newer Cocoa Pebbles “Christmas Carol” commercial. 

“I’m the Master Rapper and I’m here to say, I love Fruity Pebbles in a major way!” 

The theory I’m going with: Fred and Barney know about Christmas because they live in a post-apocalyptic future. 

The Rock’s Fruity Pebbles promo on John Cena, 2011. 

WWE’s Christmas in Baghdad opening from 2003, featuring “Stone Cold” Steve Austin disguised as Santa Claus. 

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Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles cereal commercials © Post Consumer Brands / Warner Bros. 

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