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{{tropeUseful Notes}}
{{quote|"The expression 'Breakfast of Champions' is a registered trademark of General Mills, Inc. for use on a breakfast cereal product. The use of the identical expression as the title for [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s book is not intended to indicate an association with or sponsorship by General Mills, nor is it intended to disparage their fine products." |Preface, ''[[Breakfast of Champions]]''}}
 
'''General Mills''' is a food company based in Minneapolis. Best known for their "Big G" cereals, which include Cheerios, Total, [[Magically Delicious|Lucky Charms]] and the Monster Cereals. Its animated cereal commercials featured characters from ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'', ''[[Underdog (Animationanimation)|Underdog]]'' (the company was the sole sponsor of their series) and ''[[Peanuts (Comic Strip)|Peanuts]]''. Moreover, the "Big G" is perhaps best known for its highly memorable roster of cereal advertising mascots (usually named after the cereal they represent) such as Lucky, Trix (of [[Trix Rabbit (Advertising)|Trix Rabbit]] fame) and Count Chocula. Other characters include the bee mascot of Honey Nut Cheerios, whom [[Hey, ItsIt's That Voice!|you may recognize]] [[Futurama|as another character with a big heart and small brain]]. Also owns the Wheaties brand, best known for its [[Celebrity Endorsement|Celebrity Endorsements]]s.
 
As such, most of their commercials tend to have story-driven narrative and therefore quite a few narrative tropes, though they're also very [[Commercial Tropes]]-laden.
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Fun Fact: they built ''Alvin,'' the mini-sub Dr. Robert Ballard used to discover the ''[[Titanic]]''. Yes, the ''same'' General Mills we've been talking about (built by the division that makes cereal-making machines).
 
They also own a brandthe ''Betty Crocker'' brand, [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|built upon]] in ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]''.
 
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=== Tropes associated with General Mills: ===
* [[Cereal Vice Reward]]
* [[Classical Movie Vampire]]: Count Chocula.
* [[FrankensteinsFrankenstein's Monster]]: Frakenberry.
* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]]: Count Chocula.
* [[Hey, ItsIt's That Voice!]]: Buzzbee, the Honey Nut Cheerios honey bee is voiced by [[Futurama|Billy West]].
** The bee's original voice actor was [[Top Cat|Arnold Stang]].
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: Boo Berry.
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