Referenced By / Snap, Crackle and Pop

Comic Strips

• Adam@home: Katy namedrops Snap and Pop while making Rice Krispies jokes about crackling records.
• The Argyle Sweater: Several unusual characters line up in front of Snap and Pop for Rice Krispies mascot auditions. They include a witch (Cackle), a football player (Tackle), a woman with cankles, a crackhead, a crocodile (Croc) and a grackle.
• Arnold: In one comic◊, Arnold presents a short story for a school project in front of his class. The story starts off seeming like a typical Rice Krispies ad with Snap, Crackle, and Pop popping out of a cereal box and announcing to a guy named Ed that they're going to help start off his day...by waterboarding Ed in his cereal bowl, dumping his orange juice down his back, and going upstairs to use Ed's toothbrush. Arnold's teacher is not amused.
• Big Nate: After Nate introduces himself, Francis and Teddy as POW, Gina says they look more like Snap, Crackle and Pop.
• Moon Mullins: The booze-guzzling Willie pours beer instead of milk on his Rice Krispies, then his cereal's sound is, "Snap. Crackle. Hic!"
• Off the Mark: Rice Krispies Goes Postal: Snap, holding a machine gun, has just committed double fratricide and doesn't remember what happened.
  • Homeless Rice Krispies Elf: Thud is the trio's unsuccessful brother.
  • "The Later Years": When the brothers get old, their joints make their namesake sounds.
  • "Rice Krispies Squares" shows the trio as old-fashioned and complaining about modern music.
  • Pop Layoff: A man eats Rice Krispies that just snaps and crackles, as Pop has been laid off during the recession.
  • The trio attend a party with other cereal mascots.
  • Rudolph Battles Toucan Sam: Pop is shown among the cereal mascots rooting for Toucan Sam in his fight against Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
  • Snapchat Jealousy: Crackle and Pop are annoyed that their wives spend so much time on Snapchat.
• Pearls Before Swine: One story arc shows Pig having nightmares about the trio after he ate cereal right before bed.
• Reality Check: Snap drowns in a bowl of Rice Krispies.

Toys

• Wacky Packages has featured a variety of Rice Krispies parodies, each featuring versions of the trio:
  • All New Series 5 has the parody "Mice Krispies", featuring the trio as mice named "Sniff", "Hack", and "Phew".
  • All New Series 8 has the parody "Rice Kreepies", featuring the trio as green-skinned gnomes named "Snarl", "Cackle", and "Chomp".
  • The 2014 series has the parody "Vice Krispies", featuring the trio as gangsters named "Scamp", "Knuckles", and "Pirate".
  • The 2015 series has the parody "Rice Krisbees", featuring the trio looking like themselves, albeit bee-swarmed and named "Gulp", "Yow", and "@#!$".
  • The February 2022 monthly set has the parody "Rise Krispies", featuring the trio as zombies named "Snapped", "Creaky", and "Rot".
  • The June 2022 monthly set has the parody "Slice Krispies", featuring the trio as themselves, albeit being terrified by the Grim Reaper.

Western Animation

• Bonkers: "Cereal Surreal" features Slap, Sniffle and Flop, the mascots of Wheat Crunchies. Frank Welker ironically voiced Crackle in commercials between 1984 and 1987.
• Family Guy: In "Blind Ambition", Peter looks in to see what's inside the ball returner at the bowling alley, and he sees Judd Hirsch working on a nuclear warhead. A little later, Stewie gets his head stuck in a tree and sees the Keebler elves talking about attack "the Rice Krispy guys" as soon as Hirsch delivers the goods. And finally, later still, Crackle and Pop are seen at the Drinken Clam mourning their fallen comrade Snap.
• Robot Chicken: In a sketch from "The Sack", three elves named Crack, Crinkle, and Plop are seen making cocaine for the Stix Rabbit to sell. When interrogated by the police, the elves say "I'll crack!" "I'll crinkle!" and "I'll plop!" and confess that they were working for the Stix Rabbit, but the agent tells them that he only wanted to talk to them because someone turned in Plop's wallet.
• The Simpsons: In "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore", Mr. Burns calls Homer, Carl and Lenny "Snap", "Crackle" and "Pop", respectively.
  • Parodies of the trio are seen at the Corporate Spokesperson Fan Convention in "From Beer to Paternity".
  • In "Papa Don't Leech", Lurleen gets depressed after father abandons her a second time, to the point where she snips out all references to fathers, dads, pops, etc. from the Simpsons' food boxes. On a box of Rice Krispies, Pop has been cut out.