Clackers cereal Clackers cereal Clackers was the name of a breakfast cereal that the General Mills Corporation manufactured and marketed from 1968 to 1973. Noted primarily for being promoted through TV commercials in which a box of the cereal would suddenly appear and interrupt some other activity, Clackers was a wheat-based breakfast cereal whose flavor was intended to be similar to that of graham crackers. Each individual piece of the cereal was almost large enough to fit onto a teaspoon, and the shape of a typical piece resembled a small gear with a hole in the center. Pre-sweetened, promoted as being nutritious,
Mr. T Cereal of a packet of Mr. T. stickers, which were packaged inside boxes of the cereal. Some collectors have collected Mr. T. Cereal, and some collectors have retained unopened boxes of it with the cereal still in the box. Mr. T Cereal appeared in the film "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", in which Pee Wee Herman held a box of the cereal and stated "I pity the poor fool that don't eat my cereal." After this, Pee-wee opened the box and poured the cereal over a dish of eggs and pancakes. It is part of the "I pity the fool" catchphrase that