Ad of the Day: Cheerios Brings Back Its Famous Interracial Family for the Super Bowl

And a wonderful sequel it is

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Sorry, knuckle draggers. If you couldn't handle the sight of a—gasp—interracial family in last year's famous Cheerios commercial, here's some bad news. You'll have to sit through a sequel during the Super Bowl.

The General Mills brand on Wednesday unveiled its 2014 Super Bowl spot from Saatchi & Saatchi in New York. And yes, that's the family from "Just Checking," the ad from last May that made headlines when General Mills shut down the comments section on the YouTube version because of racist vitriol.

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