147:. The character has been featured in advertising since 1963. He exhibits the ability to smell Froot Loops from great distances and invariably locates a concealed bowl of the cereal while intoning, "Follow your nose! It always knows!", sometimes followed by "The flavour of fruit! Wherever it grows!" Another version of this phrase in a string of commercials in the late 2000s presents the character at the end of the commercials saying "Just follow your nose!", followed by his nephews retorting, "For the fruity taste that shows!"
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881:Famous Amos
841:Cruncheroos
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693:Froot Loops
688:Crunchy Nut
663:Corn Flakes
638:Apple Jacks
449:. Gannett.
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123:Froot Loops
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1277:Toucan Sam
1153:Bear Naked
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943:Wheatables
913:Product 19
876:E.L. Fudge
718:Just Right
612:and brands
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258:References
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131:Toucan Sam
121:Mascot of
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801:Pop-Tarts
748:Special K
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509:21 May
355:"Home"
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138:mascot
135:toucan
110:Gender
104:Toucan
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1206:Krave
1188:Kashi
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