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Coo-Coo for Cocoa Puffs
by jerry
March 11, 2007 12:05 am


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A few weeks ago I posted about Chuck McCann and mentioned his memorable voice work as Sonny and Gramps in the original 1960s Cocoa Puffs cereal commercials. At the time, I couldn’t find any on the internet to link to, but thanks to our pal J.J. Sedelmaier we were able to place several on You Tube ourselves. These spots were animated by the great Jan Svochak (1926-2006), who was best known for some of the early Hawaiian Punch commercials.

It looks like he had a lot of fun animating these.

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    • 12 comments   posted in Advertising

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    03/11/07  12:43am
    Joel says:

    “Are we rich yet?”

    “Not exactly, boy, but thanks to Cocoa Puffs, we did get a free trip to Japan.”

    I love it. Thanks for posting this.
    03/11/07  7:17am
    uncle wayne says:

    that was truly a fun treat to revert back to going “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!” Thank YOU for a very fond memory!!
    03/11/07  9:17am
    Hulk says:

    NOW I understand why his name is “Sonny” and he has a high voice. Gramps wasn’t in the commercials anymore by the time I was born. They must have put him in the Cartoon retirement home. Interesting.
    03/11/07  3:59pm
    tom says:

    God, that Sonny voice is such a perfectly weird piece of VO acting. It’s almost Mickey Mouse, but waaay more weird.

    Thanks for the post.
    03/11/07  7:41pm
    ManekiNeko says:

    Wow, I never knew the aliens from Quisp liked Cocoa Puffs too!
    03/11/07  9:12pm
    Coo-coo voiceovers at The Voiceover Boblog says:

    [...] thanks to my friend Mary McKitrick for posting a link at the VO-BB, and to Jerry Beck at the Cartoon Brew blog, enjoy this classic animated television commercials for Cocoa Puffs [...]
    03/12/07  8:45am
    Scott Shaw! says:

    Jan Svochak may have had fun animating the Cocoa Puffs spots, but I never had any fun watching ‘em. Even as a kid, I always dreaded seeing these commercials; they looked waaay cheesier than other animated spots. Now I see the fun and energy of the animation, but when they originally aired, I couldn’t wait for them to be over.

    Then there were Jay Ward’s wonderful Quisp and Quake cereal commercials; now, THOSE I cherished…and still do!

    All the same, thanks for the peek, Jerry.
    03/12/07  4:52pm
    Mike Fontanelli says:

    “How ya gonna get it up, Gramps?”
    How, indeed?
    03/13/07  1:14pm
    Inkan1969 says:

    Oh, wow. So I wasn’t imagining the Grandfather. :-D I was five in 1974. I do remember seeing Cocoa Puffs commercials starring Sonny and his Grandfather, though not these ones in particular. This really takes me back. Then all of the sudden Grandpa just disappeared. I always wondered why.
    03/14/07  1:13pm
    Trevor DeChane says:

    Cucoo for Cocoa Puffs. Chuck McCann must have done Sonny into the ’80s because I remember his voice sounding like that when I was 4 or 5.
    06/17/07  6:44am
    DMAC says:

    Hey thanks for uploading those :) I was searching online for a while and your post couldn’t have been more perfect!

    Thanks!
    12/18/08  6:17pm
    Mark Worden says:

    these were way fun–but am I the only one who thinks Gramps sounds a bit like Lionel Barrymore in “It’s a Wonderful Life?” Probably just me…
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