“Animal Crackers”
Category:California got milk? advertising
Collections:Ads without mustaches
Type:Television commercial
Printed tagline:got milk?
Notes
Computer-animated animal crackers, led by Elephant, tip over a girl’s glass of milk to save Monkey; she drops him because her milk is spilled.
Made by: California Milk Processor Board; agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.
Got Milk? The Book (1999) prints the script (pp. 117–120): made with Digital Domain, live action with computer animation; the closing line is “Who’s the monkey now?” and the legal super reads “CALIFORNIA FLUID MILK PROCESSOR BOARD”. The book gives no air date.
The upload is by a member of the crew (bradroseberry). Internet Archive recordings of 1999 television breaks contain the spot, so the year is given as c.1999; fan uploads date it between 1998 and 2000.
Video found in the site’s catalogue of public copies of the got milk? commercials (October 16, 2026).
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Video posted on Vimeo by bradroseberry. It is shown here from Vimeo; this site does not host it.
About this entry
“Animal Crackers” is an entry filed under California got milk? advertising dated c.1999, filed in the collection “Ads without mustaches” of the Milk Mustache Database, which lists 2,296 entries from the got milk? and Milk Mustache campaigns. Type: Television commercial. Printed line: “got milk?”.
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