Raspberry red! Lemon yellow! Orange orange!

Cereal mascots were a staple of the Gen X Saturday morning cartoon scene. From the Lucky Charms Leprechaun to Dig 'Em, I think I was just as attached to cereal stars as I was to Scooby and Shaggy.

Even more interesting, I thought the characters knew each other IRL (in real life) or had connections to other elements of pop culture. For example, the little blue and pink people in the Life board game ate Life cereal. Quisp was related to the Jetson's and Super Sugar Crisp's Sugar Bear was related to Starsky and Hutch's Huggy Bear.

I know how weird all this sounds now, but this is how the mind of a child works. I thought Fat Albert knew J.J. from the Good Times. And, weirdest of all, I thought Trix's Silly Rabbit and the Easter Bunny were cousins - one a trickster, the other kind and benevolent.

What about you? Did you mix up or explain away your pop icons?

The following are three different Trix commercials from three different decades. In each one, Silly Rabbit disguises himself as a different character so he can run away with the cereal. I don't think he ever disguised himself as the Easter bunny though. Hippity Hop, folks. Easter's on its way!