These commercials have stuck in my brain all these years, for some reason yet unknown. Commercials fascinated me so much at the time that I thought I’d grow up to be in advertising. When the first version came out, my brothers and I were baffled because if Mikey “eats everything,” that wouldn’t say much about the cereal. The Chex people must have felt the same way because, as I mentioned before, they quickly shelved that version and seamlessly put out the revised, finicky Mikey version. I remember my family and I commenting that it was much more sensible than the previous edition. That is the one that ran forever and that most people remember. I bet most people who misquote the more popular one and substitute the earlier version’s quote don’t even realize or remember that there were two. The weird things I find interesting…lol.

Where did you hear this? I can’t find that original version anywhere.

Thanks Mindi!