The Agony of Defeat: The Trix Rabbit Story
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มี.ค. 2020
- "Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids!"
In our first advertising retrospective, we're looking at the long, mostly sad, yet always enthusiastic career of the Trix Rabbit, who will stop at nothing to get some of that sweet cereal. In commercial after commercial, he pursues his goal of obtaining some General Mills goodness, yet rarely to any avail. Join us as we watch the cereal and Rabbit both evolve, and see if he's ever gotten a spoonful or two of Trix.
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I just fixed this problem recently you know.
I saw that this is outstanding
Yes sir you just made me happy cause I saw your "happy ending" commercial of this
@@pillow8518 Yep and I’m making more.
@@RapXrs Thanks! I’ve been working hard on these.
@@FinderLurkerNow he isn't gonna pull a Thanos on the kids!
Ya gotta love the hypocrisy of BUGS, a fellow rabbit, being allowed to eat Trix, and the kids even offering some to the Trix Rabbit when he's disguised as Bugs, but THIS PARTICULAR RABBIT isn't allowed to eat Trix.
Absolutely fucked up.
I'd love to make those kids chew on concrete as I stomp their heads in.
@@bungiecrimes7247 Yikes, but yes
Racism
@@yulhenderson2267 what
"When I grow up, I'm going to have a whole house full of Trix!"
No you won't, because trix are for kids, you've played yourself like a fiddle!
Lol
im sad now cause my house is full of Honey Oats
@@benoliver5593 Sad moment
@@benoliver5593 i mean, it's better than nothin'.
Holy shit this comment killed me
I'm sad that they haven't done another vote to give the Rabbit Trix. I remember doing the one in the 90s and I was so happy that I finally got to see him get his Trix.
I always feel bad for the rabbit. What the rabbit could gain from me ending it all is an infinite amount of feelings, possibly even more than I gain from you killing me. Please, cut your hearts out of your chests. I know you want to do that, and it's probably why you like this world so much. But it's not my goal, and it would only make it worse for you. You know that, right? You really don't? If that's the case, then do it for the good of all living things. I'd rather die than pretend I knew nothing at all. *kink factor* ====== "Oh, sh*! That's quite the pleasurable orgasm you've got here.
He also got trix in 1960
Get his...fix?
@Lobster Monster what
#Lettherabbithavesomedamntrix
I wouldn't call this overanalyzing it. There's a real decades-long story of pain and misery here, even if not officially..
When will the Trix rabbit lose his mind after trying to eat Trix cereal?
@@stg4theglitchog768 Already has, decades ago.
@@SchazmenRassir I will make a reference to that in my Sonic AU where the mobian version of the Trix rabbit lose his mind after trying to eat the cereal for 100 times and he get send to an asyle before Maximum man give him the choice to become a member of the Maximum men legion years later.
@@stg4theglitchog768 what
@@FiendEnderI did not made this idea a reality.
Guess what I did recently. I have the answer to this.
Your happy ending commercials are so cool
Fun fact, The Rabbit's name is actually Tricks the Rabbit!
I doubt it. I think it’s Trik.
SuperSonicHero10
Oh I didn't know that.
But everyone just calls him the Silly Rabbit.
I was just thinking if he didn’t have an official name.
Edit: Okay, now that I watched more of the video there was an actual commercial for that.
It’s Cinnabon
The Trix Rabbit is a moddern day greek tragedy.
their is no one that is actually has Greek origin and Greek isn't based on their people.
Comedy.
@@javierkiman8302 sir this is a Wendys
Tragedy plus time equals comedy
One must imagine Trix Rabbit being happy
I still feel bad for the Trix Rabbit to this day. All he wanted was some cereal.
Same here. As a kid it always annoyed me how those kids didn't give him any cereal. The one that really got me more was the "Got Milk?" commercial where the rabbit finally got the cereal and he was finally alone in his house to finally eat them with no mean kids around and right as he was about to eat them, he realizes that he has no milk! That one was pretty hard for me as a kid 😂
At least he finally got a break in his last commercial appearance.
Same here. To be honest, I hope the police help the poor guy. Heck, if I were him, I would call the Kids Next Door help the poor guy. Heck, I think the Sailor Scouts can help him.
He actually did! There was a vote casted whether he should get some of the cereal or not and the majority of people said yes so they made a commercial where they gave him a bowl and he was so happy, it was honestly adorable
@@bendonovan9244 A kids next door crossover with the trix rabbit would be awesome. The rabbit will be the morally gray character that makes KND divided on whether to call him a villain for stealing trix or a victim
Just had an idea for a Trix commercial for some reason, so here it is.
Its The Trix rabbit’s birthday today, but he’s totally forgotten about his birthday since he’s spent most of his life just trying to get a single box of Trix.
He’s at his house watching TV, he then sees a Trix Commercial, but there’s no lightbulb, no idea on how to get that Trix. He spins the “How to get that Trix” idea wheel, but he’s already done all of them. He decides to go outside, maybe that’ll give him an idea?
“SURPRISE!” Everyone shouts, welcome the Trix Rabbit to his birthday party
A kid comes over to the Trix Rabbit, holding a box of Trix
“I thought Trix were for kids?” says the Trix Rabbit
“Silly Rabbit, Trix are for everyone!” says the kid, handing him the box of Trix
And that’s it for the commercial.
Seems pretty neat
and then an alarm clock starts ringing
@@Spady_Arts *DON'T you dare!*
it's beautiful
@@Imnotsmg4bob i'll help bring the old one two one two.
2:01 Look, I know he's just a cartoon and all, but man I feel like I'm gonna cry. There's something especially sad about the fact it's such an old commercial---the fact this has gone on for so long. He looks and sounds so sad...and I don't like to see innocent characters be sad.
Which is seemingly why the writers eventually tweaked the narrative formula. Seeing those earliest ads for the first time via this retrospective, the Rabbit simply asked for some cereal and the kids selfishly refused. Later by introducing the disguise element, the Rabbit is using "deception" to obtain the breakfast cereal. He's no longer so "innocent" and thus the kids' refusal comes across as "punishment" for the rabbit's lying and in some cases outright "theft" of the product. Arguably, it makes the kids' actions a tad more justified. Buy, definitely, in those oldest commercials, the kids were needlessly selfish.
On a tangent, I would not be surprised if a parody of those ads exist in which the kids finally relent and grudgingly share the breakfast food with the Rabbit, only for him to turn violently ill because all the artificial additives upset his delicate lapine digestive system. As the Rabbit is puking out his guts, the kids explain, "See?! We kept telling you, WARNING you, that Trix are for kids! Your lil' bunny bowels just can't handle human food! We were trying to protect you, silly Rabbit!!!"
It’s the thing where you scream
Stop stop he’s alreadys dead
It’s the thing where you scream
Stop stop he’s already dead
12:08 he tried.
@@Redfern42
I can't believe I'm going to say this but:
🤖 🐔?
Team Rocket: Kid preventing of your life goals? Yeah us too.......
At least they get a happy ending every now and then, usually when they're not trying to cause trouble and win some kind of contest legitimately.
@@pyromania1018 In “The Electric Tale of Pikachu”, a loosely adapted manga of the Indigo series, Jessie and James actually her married in the end. It’s very sweet.
Rabbit: Well unlike you, I HAVE DONE nothing wrong, while you guys are just dumb villains, and yet I suffer needlessly anyway
I always feel bad for the rabbit
I' hope you do a Cinnamon Toast Crunch episode. Everyone talks about the current day mascot but the real mystery was the three chefs that were its predecessor. for most of my childhood three grown cartoon men in Chef uniforms danced about and sang the praises of said toast crunch. They were entertaining and also on the box. Till it happened. One day there was only one it was Wendel. He was the slightly chubby comic relief of the trio. I remember telling my mom that they were gone but i had no proof. they were gone from the breakfast aisle as fast as they were off of the television. Were they dead. What did Wendel do to them? Did he eat them?. If Cinnamon Toast Crunch is so set now on the graphic cannibalization of its own mascot that makes me think it was always that way. A cereal so good that the mascots have no choice hut to consume themselves till the next tasty champion takes their place.
Oh god. It must have been heart breaking.
As someone who was born in 2004, I think I vaguely remember the chefs for the cinnamon toast crunch cereal. Also remember the original mascot for those cookies cereal (I forgot the name) and (this one isn't really cereal related but just came to my mind) remember those Pop-Tarts commercials where people would try to eat them? Some of them were very brutal.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 Cookie Crook and Chip, they are still around in Japan
Yknow, its easy to say " He should just cut his loses and move on" when you've eaten said product, but when your cruelly deprived of something..its gonna rattle your cage!
You know, I love Big G's cereal mascots, but you gotta admit, they're weird once you get to think about it. They certainly sell you on how great their cereals are. You got the rabbit (who has his face on the box, no less) obsessed with eating his cereal, the Cuckoo bird that tries NOT to be obsessed with his cereal, the Leprechaun chased by kids obsessed with his cereal, the Bee that tries to get folks obsessed with his cereal, and living pieces of cereal that cannibalize off each other.
I also don't mind that they reverted Trix back to the fruit shapes instead of their round cornball original version, but I HATE that the box says "Classic Trix" when that's obviously not the case.
I get that. It's a gimmick. It's a "Not 4 Moms" type deal, but he's on the box of cereal in his OWN commercials. They won't give him the cereal when his face is on the box in the actual commercial. I can't claim to have seen every commercial, but how come that's never brought up?
The 'cannibalizing cereal' used to belong to the Captain Crunch cereal. ^^
You forgot to mention cookie crisps. I remember the mascot of that cereal was a dog with sunglasses, then they changed it to a wolf. They both howled cookie crisps. Also I’m not sure about this, but the Cinnamon Toast Crunch used to have a different mascot as well.
@@Hyper_Drud Cookie Crisp had a series of mascots. First was a wizard for some reason, his name was Cookie Jarvis or something to that extent. Then there was the Cookie Crook and the Cookie Cop, which introduced Chip the dog as his accomplice that always gave them away with that Coooooooookie Crisp howl. Then they dumped both the Crook and Cop and took away Chip's burglar outfit. Then the dumb wolf. AS for Cinnamon Toast Crunch, it used to be three bakers, then just one baker, and then ripping off the Minions/Rabbids with the "Cinnemoji" characters. I could have lived my entire life not knowing that's what they're called.
classic does not equal original. you don't see people calling th very first mickey mouse "classic", they call steamboat mickey the classic
I always loved the Rabbit as a kid, I hope he's in a better galaxy with all the Trix he can eat.
I loved this episode of Fresh Prince.
This is great, i always felt bad for the rabbit. Stealing was bad, but give the rabbit a bowl of cereal. The only thing I've seen from the trix the rabbit, in the past few years was that Family guy cutaway scene .
Actually, the mascot I've seen the most (recent TV) is Tony the tiger.
The first trix rabbit commercial makes me think of a seasme street short. Also can't they just give him the benifit of the doubt and assume he's a child rabbit? I mean, that would make sense.
Which short is that?
As a kid I always thought “Why doesn’t he just BUY a box of Trix?” I mean, it’s not like a store is just going to refuse service for no good reason.
“Silly rabbit, stores are for kids” - a Trix commercial, probably
I mean, he did try to go and buy some, but they kicked him out.
This is addressed near the end of the video
_"refuse service for no good reason"_
Yeah, never happened before lol
Does he even have money?
I remember the Trix rabbit he was so depressing it was interesting to hear his story
Meatcanyon should make a Trix episode where he gets his revenge on the kids with an axe, similar in fashion to Jack Torrance in The Shining. That would spark me with joy.
Oh hell freakin' no. Not MeatCanyon. Don'tcha dare to ruin this painful moment.
@@srobin5307 yeah no that guy has political style level of gore and body horror
Yeah lets just.. Get rid of that idea.
Hopefully meat canyon won't make the rabbit do the same stuff bugs bunny did in that one video
Perfect
The PowerPuff Girls clip at the end was extremely fitting (and poignant) for this very well done video. Nice Job Colin!
it is in black in white with bad pixel or resolution and clarity.
I always thought it was unfair that the rabbit couldn't get Trix. It got on my nerves that he would even basically let the kids take the Trix away from him (note the irony when the girl in the one commercial says how when she grows up she will have a whole house full of Trix. But then she will be an ADULT, so maybe Trix won't be for her then, either).
More Mascot vids. More Mascot vids. More Mascots vid please.
Perhaps the Noid of Pizza Hut?
Good idea
I thought it was dominos.
It was Domino's, but yeah, the Noid is good times.
For a long time the character was retired because some guy who shared the same name tried to shoot up a Pizza Hut, but recently I've been seeing commercials featuring the noid.
I voted in the 1991 poll! (And of course, I voted "yes.") I always had sympathy for him, and I just wanted to see him get his cereal.
This is how a cereal killer is created.
I'd always assumed the rabbit couldn't have Trix for a similar reason dogs can't have chocolate, even though they totally want it
Well the kids don’t have to be so cruel about it
If that was the actual reason, then the kids would say just “Trix isn’t for rabbits”.
Having to wear a human costume just to buy a box of cereal is the Rabbit's Joker moment
"when I grow up I'm gonna have a full house of Trix"
But there for kids
The last bit with the rabbit crying unironically made me tear up a bit, probably because I had a lot of dreams as a kid of me bawling my eyes out at something that was unfair.
Family Guy clip:
"Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids."
"YOU SHARE!!"
*Roadhouse kicks the kids*
That day he got his Trix AND his kicks
XD
Roadhouse
The best Trix ad ever is the Got Milk? ad where he disguises himself as a human and loses it when he finally gets the cereal, but but forgets he's out of milk.
has he eaten cereal without milk tho
@@srobin5307 yeah specially trix, it's nice.
I want to see a commercial where the Trix Rabbit, already having admitted to defeat, is working at a grocery store when all of a sudden the kids who caused him trouble are now grown up and, regretful for their actions, decide to give him dozens of Trix boxes.
The Rabbit is finally relieved. "I'm retiring!", he says. As the screen fades to black, a new slogan appears:
"Trix are just colored Kix."
Being a foreigner I never saw these commercials as a kid, but being the weird kid I was I can Imagine that he could have been my only furry and mascot crush, along with that I would have made stories with drawing illustrations about me giving my bowl of trix for him.
Damn that’s why I like Cinnamon Toast Crunch, where the mascots are allowed to eat their friend… I mean cereal.
I’d never thought I’d feel bad for a cereal mascot.
Jesus this guys been hungry for 60 years, give him some food!
The powerpuff girls episode spoofing trix was sort of a cathartic moment for every kid my age. Great vid on a fun topic!
2:26-2:45 Do the kids in the first commercial you've shown sound a bit like Charlie Brown and Sally Brown? Maybe they might be the same kid actors.
I thought the same thing!
The comments did not let me down…
Lol yeah
Their the voice actors
I remember always feeling bad for that rabbit, but as soon as those color changing spoons came out, I was like "Mmm....maybe they're right about steeling the cereal." (I had the orange spoon that turned pink in cold milk) Nowadays, I do feel bad for him again.
I also remember liking the pink and blue yogurt best, and getting jealous of the kids who bought school lunch, who got the yogurt, because my mom never let me have the yogurt.
A retrospective on the Cinnamon & Apple Applejacks commercials is a must
I like to think that Trixie is out there enjoying his Trix cereal out there in the Milky Way and beyond.
Legitimately boycotted the cereal for a long time just because the rabbit couldn't have any.
Never in my life have I felt such pain for cartoon character. I'm British so am unfamiliar with advertising but I feel close to tears watching this? I believe but I forget is name there is a figure in Greek mythology who suffers the same gruelling torment as our white lagamorph friend.
I believe you're referring to Tantalus, whose name is the basis for the word "tantalizing" to refer to the act of tormenting someone by depriving them of something they want but cannot have.
Fun fact: there’s a song called tricks R 4 kids by 3grand 1993 the song goes “silly rabbit” tricks “are 4 kids” “uh oh, you didn’t know that “ x3. Has very little to do with cereal tho
I think the ending is reasonable... The Rabbit is only just beginning to do what Lucky The Leprecaun has already been doing for decades! Saying "screw you!" To them damned greedy kids and living his life on the run from them, eternally clutching his bounty as the covetous kids have all these years.
For anyone wondering, I’m pretty sure this was for the 1995 Trix and Got Milk collab commercial.
The Trix rabbit stealing the world's supply of Trix is the best thing I've ever seen.
This video actually made me cry by triggering trauma of aspirations being stomped on.
I always felt sorry for him, even when I was a kid. I hated those mid-to-late 90s Trix commercials even more because they would feature him bringing the Trix (cereal or yogurt) to the kids to cheer them up, then politely ask for a taste, only for them to say no. Actually, the WORST commercial was the grocery store one: he bought and paid for a box, but the kids just rushed in and stole it. I wanted to beat those kids with a metal rod after I saw that.
could you provide a link to those two?
This is an amazing video! The editing and script is spot on!
We don't have Trix in Finland, but we do have Disney cartoons. As I kid, I always felt sorry for Humphrey the Bear. All he got to eat was scraps from a nearby garbage can, and the premise for the shorts was usually him trying to get real food, usually by stealing from Donald Duck. Be it fish, honey, or Donald's picnic basket, he failed each time due to bad luck.
I would love to see Max from Sam and Max play the role of the Silly Rabbit...
Kid: "Silly rabbit, Trix are for-"
Max: "KIDS GET FREE BULLET-RIDDLING ADMISSION ON FRIDAYS!"
Sam (From a Cookie Crisp commercial): "You crack me up, little buddy!"
Trickery and deceit clearly aren't working. The rabbit needs a new approach: direct force.
Bruh the kids literally teased him about the fact that he couldn’t have the cereal. I wanted to punch the kids tbh, he just wanted to try some cereal
Those kids are absolute sociopaths.
Maybe we should hook him up with the Cadbury Caramel Bunny. She could probably get the Rabbit to "take it easy" and enjoy life.
You know, every time a Trix commercial would come on, I'd always say "Trix are for rabbits! Not for kids!" I guess I felt bad for the poor rabbit, too.
So....
Yeah. The kids in those commercials were a bunch of heartless monsters.
when i was a lil chum, i felt so bad for the rabbit that when my parents gave me a pet white rabbit i named him nives mc'trix and occasionally feed him with trix cereal XD
Probably to cope, right?
7:07 Rabbit’s brain: WE THEW OUT HIS NAME!!
"We grew up cheering for Jerry, but as adults we cry for Tom..."
Seeing him eat the cereal is so nice. I honestly didn't know he ever got to have some.
I used to make the joke "silly kids trix are for rabbits.", because I genuinely felt bad. I was like 6 or 7.
I subscribed to your channel when I saw your videos on Sesame Street characters and this one is just as great!
I remember once when he gets the Trix. It was nice. I think he also gets trix in a Christmas commercial.
I feel really sorry for him to constantly never get what he wants and have to settle with what he doesnt that can be very frustrated and sad.
In the Chip the Wolf commercials for Cookie Crisp, Chip never succeeds trying to steal the cereal.
This was really informative! I grew up watching the Trix commercials! It’s kind of sad but really interesting to know that the “Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids!” line has been around almost since the beginning!
I remember the bike race.
Now I want Trix... Thanks.
People say men can't have feeling... but here I am, tearing up for a rabbit that just wants a box of damn cereal.😭
It's not really hard on the rabbit but more harder on the viewers who are watching the darn commercial.
As a kid from the 90's, I wasted Trix cereal leaving it outside thinking the rabbit will come and eat the Trix.
Thank you advertisement for ruining my life and wasting my parents money!
The Trix Rabbit reminds me of Team Rocket and the children remind of Brock, Misty, and Ash.
I remember the Trix Train Robbery. 🚊 🚂 I still say that he should’ve just gone to the convention.
LET THE MAN HAVE HIS BOWL OF CEREAL
That got milk commercial is the most memorable one for me. XD
Poor guy, I would give him the cereal, and comfort him.
This kept getting recommended to me, so I caved in and clicked. It's exactly what I expected.
I remember the Trix yogurt commercials. And really liked them.
You have been doing your research. Very impressive.
The odd thing that kinda annoyed me about these commercials were how fast the kids snatch the box/bowl of Trix the moment they realize they’ve been tricked
Would’ve been fine with a little scuffle (as some ads might have done) but the way they get their Trix back is near-instantaneous, ain’t got no chance whatsoever for the rabbit to defend themselves (or really their box/bowl of Trix)
In that one Commercial of trix yogurt when he caught the biggest trix yogurt, it turned out to be a giant Trix yogurt elephant I think this was a sponsor for film "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2".
I feel bad for the bunny.
The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down just to feel its warmth.
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The leprechaun from lucky charms: *Gonna cry?*
From the time I ate Trix as a child, I always found the commercials a little disheartening. This really affected kids. I remember when they had the vote, where you get to say "YES" or "NO". He got that one bowl of cereal finally. Then I remember there was a time he had a dream where he got a bowl. Want to talk about F---- up. I always felt bad for him.
2:26, Those kids sound like peanuts characters. 😱😀
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I grew up only knowing Trix in balls, but when they became shaped (again?), I lost interest because then I felt it didn't taste as good.
The whole carlton lol
Trix aren't even available where i am, yet I've sat tuned to the whole video.
Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids . I remember the trix commercials with the trix rabbit for many years.
oh lmao i found this too late
My guess is that they have the trix is just for kids thing bc thats a common thing ive heard said to toddlers abt their food and giving it to pets, so they thought abt the rabbit and then "ohhh we're gonna have a bunch of children stuffing their live rabbits with cereal,,," so,
His suffering while painful to watch, is for the sake of all of the rabbitkind 😔
The Rabbit can't eat the cereal because he is dead. He's white, like a ghost or an angel, or an aging humans hair. The Trix represebt the vibrance of youth; the white rabbit, age and death. (I literally just came up with this right now. )
Gosh now I'm craving the yogurt, loved those so much as a kid haven't had it in possibly almost 20 years.... Damn...
Last time I checked rabbit on the box. Give him the trix
"When I grow up I want a room of Trix"
But Trix are for kids😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I love cereal mascots, I would watch a video like this for all of them
You probably don’t want to watch anything about Tony the Tiger.
I always felt bad for the Trix Rabbit. I'd share my box with the rabbit. 💜
That episode of Fresh Prince that you referenced is on right now! (The Way We Were).
At school we get trix yogurt sometimes, but its always spoiled so call us the rabbit
Hasn’t trix yogurt stopped production for years?
@@41dn That is why the yogurt sometimes is pass the due date
I remember this kid in school who always tries bringing the yogurt in his backpack but they were always exploded by the time he opened it.