Species Gnomes | Gender Male | |
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Voiced by Snap:
Daws Butler
Chris Evans
Andy Hirsch (currently)
Crackle:
Paul Winchell
Keith Chegwin
Chad Doreck
Danny Cooksey (currently)
Pop:
Don Messick
Eddie Deezen
Dino Andrade
Mark Ballou (currently) Occupation Mascots of Rice Krispies Voices Daws Butler, Paul Winchell, Keith Chegwin, Chad Doreck Similar Tony the Tiger, Toucan Sam, Mr Peanut, Chester Cheetah, Sugar Bear | ||
Higher order derivatives of acceleration jerk snap crackle and pop
Snap, Crackle, and Pop are the cartoon mascots of Kellogg's crisped-rice breakfast cereal Rice Krispies, known in Australia as Rice Bubbles.
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History
The gnomic elves characters were originally designed by illustrator Vernon Grant in the early 1930s. The names are an onomatopoeia and were derived from a Rice Krispies radio ad:
The first character appeared on the product's packaging in 1933, Grant added two more and named the trio Snap, Crackle and Pop. Snap is usually portrayed with a chef's toque on his head; Crackle often is shown wearing a red (or striped) tomte's tuque or "sleeping cap," and Pop often wears a drum major's shako (sometimes Pop is seen also with a chef's toque, or an odd combination of both a shako and a toque). Corporate promotional material describes their personalities as resembling brothers. Snap is the oldest, and known as a problem solver Crackle is an unsure "middle child" and known as a jokester and Pop is a mischievous youngster and the center of attention.
From their original design as elderly gnomes with large noses, ears and hats, Snap, Crackle, and Pop were reimagined with younger and more proportional features in 1949. Some time after 1955, their gnome-ish oversized ears became more proportional yet pointed, as seen in common portrayals of elves. They first appeared as animated characters in the 1960s, targeted toward such children's shows as The Howdy Doody Show. The voices of the original gnomes were provided by Daws Butler, Paul Winchell and Don Messick. More recent voices have included Chris Evans, Keith Chegwin, Chad Doreck, Eddie Deezen, Thom Adcox-Hernandez and Dino Andrade. As of 2009, the three gnomes are voiced by Andy Hirsch (Snap), Danny Cooksey (Crackle) and Mark Ballou (Pop).
The trio were used in conservation messages during World War II and briefly re-imagined as superheroes in the early 1990s, but later returned to their original elf-like form. Likewise, there was briefly a fourth gnome in the 1950s named Pow who represented the claimed explosive nutritional value of Rice Krispies.
Leo Burnett Worldwide assigned Chicago-based cartoonist Don Margolis to do Snap, Crackle and Pop for the Rice Krispies boxes as well as other applications. Davidson Marketing also used him for their Rice Krispies assignments. Don did the three gnomes until the end of 1998.
Physics
"Snap", "crackle", and "pop" are terms used for the fourth, fifth and sixth time derivatives of position. The first through third derivatives are well known. The first derivative of position with respect to time is velocity, the second is acceleration and the third is jerk. The fourth derivative of position is more formally known as jounce. There is no formal designation for the seventh and eighth derivatives of position, although some authors use the convention "lock" and "drop".