Why Quisp Conspiracy?

I don’t know what made me think of it. I hadn’t thought of it in years. But a couple of summers ago, I thought of Quisp. My mom used to buy it for me. It was my favorite cereal when I was a really small kid. Okay, I wasn’t so crazy about the actual product, but I was crazy for the cute little alien mascot. Quaker had taken it off the market in the late 70’s, and I never saw my purply-pink pal again.
I asked my sweetie, Scott, if he remembered the cereal. I figured he would. Not only is he the same age as I am, but I figured if my mom could buy it in our podunk grocery store, he would have at least seen a box of it on his hometown shelves. However, not only had he not heard of Quisp, but he thought it sounded phony. Until he found the website.
Not more than a couple of weeks after that, we were watching tv, and they showed Quisp! They not only showed the box of cereal, but also a stuffed Quisp.
“See,” I said, pointing triumphantly at the television, “I’m not making this up.”
“I think you’re behind this. It’s all part of a conspiracy,” Scott poked fun at me.
“Yeah,” I said, “not only did I go back in time to get Jay Ward to draw him, but I also had him invent Quake too.”
Since then, it’s become sort of an injoke between us. He says now that he can’t admit the cereal exists, because then he’ll enter some sort of crazy Matrix-like world. We’ve seen it on a couple different programs since (including as a prominent backdrop on a sitcom). He even made the snazzy box of Quisp for my Sims 2 game. Nice, eh?