Serial...er, CEREAL thieves

If there's one running theme in a good portion of commercials for kids' cereal, its thievery. Think about it.. they center around one character or characters wanting to take cereal that is not theirs away from another character. They seem to fall in one of two categories:

1. Character(s) A tries to steal cereal from Character(s) B using disguises or tricks. The commercials for Fruity & Cocoa Pebbles fall in this category, as well as Trix.
2. Character(s) A tries to defend his cereal by being stolen from Character(s) B by using various schemes. Lucky Charms is a prime example of this.

If this kind of thing were happening in real life, the Trix Rabbit would be in jail for harassing children, Fred Flintstone would have a restraining order against Barney Rubble (100 rocks at all times?), and Lucky the Leprechaun would be in therapy for his paranoid delusions of children everywhere wanting his Lucky Charms.

But what really gets me is that these characters go to all this trouble to commit larceny when they could just as simply buy it from a store. With all the time, effort, and probably money that the Rabbit and that weasel Barney put into their schemes, you'd think they could just buy a large crate of their respective cereals. And Lucky.. when those kids are chasing you, why not use your magic to say, put up a 7-11 inbetween you and the kids? A 7-11 full of Lucky Charms? And hey, shouldn't you be more worried about your pot of gold than some silly cereal?

Even cereals like Fruit Loops have commercials mostly dealing with theft of the cereal. And let's not forget the drug addict that is the Cocoa Puffs bird.

But they are only commercials. I'm quite certain that little Timmy isn't going to dress up as Sally's long-lost Uncle, knock on her door, and say "Wow, Trix! I've been lost on a desert island for years and have been dying for some Trix, may I have some?"

Oh, and on a side note, about how many friggin' different kinds of marshmallows can they possibly put into Lucky Charms??! Honestly!