Sunday, October 6, 2024

Flopcast 648: Your Job Is To Freak Everybody Out

It's Halloween season, which means it's Monster Cereal season! And while we rarely eat the stuff anymore, we do welcome the return of Count Chocula, Franken Berry, Boo Berry, and the new girl, zombie DJ Carmella Creeper. (Sorry, Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy fans. Those weirdos aren't around this year.) The big news is that the monsters have pets now! Meet the Frightful Friends: Benny the Bat, Igor the Spider, Scratch the Snake, and Meow Berry. (What, no chicken?! Send your letters of complaint to General Mills...) Several Flopcast listeners have even provided photos of this year's cereal boxes, saving us a trip to the grocery store, where we'd just blow all our podcasting profits on Doritos. Also: Happy Birthday to Scott Bakula! He's probably out there Quantum-leaping and Enterprise-splaining right now.

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Show Notes

Happy Birthday to Scott Bakula, seen here continuing the tradition of actors playing themselves on Only Murders in the Building.

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Check out this blog post from General Mills, introducing the new animal companions to our favorite monsters!

Our listeners have already spotted them in the wild: