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Jun 17, 2023ยทedited Jun 17, 2023Liked by Geoffrey Golden

My husband and I did this together over dinner and had a blast. We tried to trick the kids by being the old man, and my husband voiced him perfectly and started ad libbing over and above the written dialogue, which was FANTASTIC. We were so disappointed in the lackluster result that we went back and tried every single other combination to see how to come out on top, giving him a chance to also voice the skateboarder. (Did I mention he's a DM, this is probably practice for his next campaign...) Great fun!

I will admit that the thought of putting chocolate and beef jerky in the same bowl made me throw up in my mouth a little. Such a ghastly combination! I work for a company that makes cereal though, so I could try to sneak it into our next round of concept pitches...maybe some undiscovered genius hiding in there somewhere...

I liked Honey Bunches of Oats growing up, but now I don't eat cereal very often. My vote goes to Cheerios over Lucky Charms. They are more homogenous, and I'd rather take a medicore flavor that I can count on over unpredictable marshmallowless disappointment every other bite. Unless the Lucky Charms was exclusively the marshmallow bits, then maybe it would win out.

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This adventure ended quickly, but with the fresh taste of young blood on my lips, so it was not all a loss. Now I've turned into a feral racoon vampire.

As far as my favorite cereal growing up, that would be a toss up between Captain Crunch and Lucky Charms. However, I wouldn't pass up Cocoa Puffs or a number of others. Nowadays I don't eat sugar cereal. I prefer all of my sugar calories to be loaded up into a single dessert.

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I instinctively chose to trick them with yoga pants. My husband says I have a raccoon heart because of all the times I buy baguettes from the store and they come home with little bites taken out of them on the drive home. Maybe itโ€™s true. ๐Ÿฆ

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I started by trying to trick the children. My roller blader disguise failed despite me thinking it would work, while the yoga pants disguise ultimately worked despite everything. Anyway that boy is a menace. And it seems like the raccoon will strike again.

I'm not too into cereal now in general. I guess it was Lucky Charms when I was a kid, so I'll side with it against Honey Nut Cheerios. And oh boy, if Buzz the Honeybee knows Sonic that gives him a Ryu number of two (meaning degrees of separation from Ryu, because Sonic knows Ryu).

I'm Will the cookie hog, a warthog who likes chocolate chip cookies.

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