Posted on 09/20/2019 2:09:10 PM PDT by Eddie01
I remember the day that McDonalds came to McMinnville, Oregon and filled the lives of reasonably fit children with enough fat, sugar and salt to turn us all into addicted fatties. I remember the smell of lard boiling, the weird brown and orange uniforms topped off with a paper hat and that $.10 could get you a baby cone filled with a vanilla custard-like ice cream that would send you into a sugar-high.
But most of all, I remember McDonaldland, a place that ripped off Sid and Marty Kroft and was inhabited by characters like Ronald McDonald, Grimace (whatever the fuck he was), Mayor McCheese, the Hamburglar, the Fry Guys, Captain Crook, the Professor and Officer Big Mac, whose visage made for some entertaining times on the McDonalds outdoor playground (you could actually climb inside and sit in his skull FOR FUN).
Yep, those were some good times.
But then something happened, one-by-one the core characters of McDonaldland disappeared, without warning, without explanation and those of us who grew up with these weird advertising concepts were left to ponder their exit out of popular consciousness during those long nights when we drank way too much and ached for a pink slime cheese burger wrapped up in greasy yellow paper.
What the hell happened to Mayor McCheese?
Was he run out of office? Was he murdered? Did Grimace do it? Seriously, I totally believe that Grimace could kill another living being the guy was made out of discarded McDonalds food and had no soul:
But what happened to the rest?
Did McDonaldland have some kind of nuclear meltdown and kill everyone but Ronald?
Nope.
What appears to have occurred was something even more terrible than we could even imagine they became a Black Sabbath cover band:
Well, at least some of them did Im pretty sure the Fry Guys were shot for sport then stuffed into mop-haired couch pillows, the Professor is probably holed up at Michigan State teaching Bio 101 and Captain Crook and Officer Big Mac are more than likely living in Vermont together and running a successful goat farm specializing in artisanal cheeses.
But for Ronald McDonald (who is still shilling for the corporation), Grimace, the Hamburglar and yes, Mayor McCheese, they are busy making music at small venues under the moniker Mac Sabbath:
And somehow this makes perfect sense (especially when youre drunk).
When former popular celebrities find themselves on a downward slope, the only thing left for them to do to regain some level of recognition is to A) Make a sex tape and leak it on the interwebs B) Stab someone in a bar fight and get charged with murder (A.K.A Doing the Dustin Diamond) or C) Start a band.
Thank Uncle OGrimacey that they chose the band option, because I dont think I could handle a Hamburglar gang bang video to be completely honest with you (a Birdie the Early Bird one however, absolutely).
So here they are your former childhood heroes singing about McDonalds just like you might have imagined while under the influence of Jägermeister.
May the McNugget Buddies save us all.
Memory lane. 12 in 78.
I was just waiting for some brave soul to go there, LOL!
That’s the spirit!! LOL
Oh my god the pictures of Mac Sabbath are killin’ me... That’s totally Ozzy!
Speaking of whom ...
I remember watching these commercials and being so chagrined that my parents wouldn’t take us to McDonald’s.
Now I can go anytime I want and won’t touch the stuff.
Adulthood.
Back and to the left... Back and to the left...
McDonald's has done more to allow low-income people access to eating out than arguably any other company in world history.
Reminds me of the Eddie Murphy routine, where his Mom made him a "green-pepper welfare burger" instead of McDonald's like all the other kids.
Remember, Grimace was actually called ‘The Evil Grimace’, so of course he was capable of doing evil.
I heard he found 30,000 previously undisclosed Hillary Clinton emails and, shortly after that, he just disappeared.
What appears to have occurred was something even more terrible than we could even imagine they became a Black Sabbath cover band:
Those videos were kind of hilarious!
I thought he was still doing time for I think it was accepting bribes.
Right out of the Mayor Quimby school of mayoralty.
We need somebody to get the evil grimace shot with Trump out all over to get the whistleblower news off the front page.
Still like McDs at least for low
cost breakfast.You still have kids
enjoying burgers but there also
young adults enjoying a “McCafe”
with XM’s folk singer-songwriter channel Coffeehouse piped in, and oldtimers enjoying $1 coffees and everyone using the free wifi.
Chic outdoor seating replacing McDonald’s Playplace.
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