There are a few flag-worthy points here...
Number 1: seriously, who is eating this cereal? Are you a overweight twenty-something that is desperately trying to hold onto or re-create your childhood because your dad told you "You're a man now" after making you shoot your pet beagle, Biscuit, at the age of six? No? Me neither... Well, are you a mom who thinks to herself: "Well I have no control over my kids, and since they just eat around the wheat-balls in normal Captain Crunch, I may as well give them what they want for breakfast - MORE SUGAR!"? Well if you are, the fine people at General Millz have answered your prayers and given you just want you want - escape in a cardboard box. Congratulations for you, Flagmeister-Flex.
Number 2: what sort of marketing is this? I mean are we supposed to believe that the guy who controls the crunch-berry-to-wheat-ball-ratio just fell asleep at the wheel and totally botched the mixture? And then, the marketing geniuses over at the Millz were just like "Well, we've got way too many berries, so we may as well just chuck them all in a box and sell them to awaiting consumers? [see point 1 above...] If this was in fact the case, why would the marketing department point out the company's mistake? Shouldn't they have labeled the box "Yay! More Berries! ON PURPOSE!!!!" The "OOPS" just points out the fact that Captain Crunch's father was right - he is, and always will be a failure. Marketing flag ahoy.
Number 3: what sort of example is Captain Crunch setting for his adoring child consumers? This box just tells the kids that perfection isn't worth striving for - (once again reaffirming Captain Crunch Sr.'s (aka "Barry Crunch" - pun extremely intended...) belief that his son wasn't fit for the high seas. Kids these days need strong role models, not old men who wear the same clothes everyday and exhibit a frightening enthusiasm for children and balls. Roll. Model. Flag.
OOPS! ALL INSULTS!
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