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• 1 Johnny B on Dec 14, 2007 at 11:17 am

  I dunno… what child wouldn’t be delighted to find the top of Ronald’s head inside their Happy Meal?

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• 2 Adam on Dec 14, 2007 at 11:59 am

  “Hamburger-eatingest” is simultaneously the best and worst superlative I’ve ever heard.

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• 3 Onil on Dec 14, 2007 at 12:16 pm

  That’s not a clown. I’m pretty sure that’s a homeless person I used to see on the subway who would use cardboard as outerwear during the winter.

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• 4 Courtney on Dec 14, 2007 at 12:19 pm

  I watched it with the sound off. Are we certain this isn’t a snuff film?

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• 5 Tim on Dec 14, 2007 at 1:04 pm

  I’m pretty sure national crime rates began to rise once the children of the 1970’s grew up and became adults. The same people who grew up during the rise of Ronald McDonald commercials.

  Coincidence?

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• 6 Justin on Dec 14, 2007 at 1:43 pm

  Didn’t it raise any red flags when they described him as “hamburger-happy?” Is that a trait the American public was demanding of clowns at the time?

  “Go hug the clown with garbage on his head, honey!”

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• 7 Merat on Dec 14, 2007 at 2:28 pm

  Better than Chuckles the Taco-Happy clown…

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• 8 MB on Dec 14, 2007 at 6:13 pm

  I invite my fellow commentors to judge the appropriateness of these clips for Lumpy’s Love Thyself Machine.

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• 9 Josh P on Dec 15, 2007 at 5:03 am

  “…I like to do everything boys and girls like to do.” Least convincing line-read I’ve ever heard.

  Oh! And I totally had that McMoonHead guy in my happy meal.

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  Reply from Thom_Serveaux on December 16, 2007:

  Though this post of mine could easily fit in the catagory of ’share your secret shame’ I still have a ‘man in the moon’ mask that looks a lot like ‘mac tonite’ sans the shades….

• 10 killeroo on Dec 15, 2007 at 9:51 am

  “Please, children, take an item from my magic lap tray!” ::maniacal clown laugh::

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  Reply from Thom_Serveaux on December 18, 2007:

  I don’t know how you guys missed this, it’s a japanese McDonald’s commercial titled “Ronald McDonald’s Daughter… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMUb0aQCaz8&feature=related

• 11 QuackersnCheese on Dec 15, 2007 at 11:09 am

  Yea see that’s why we have youtube, bravo you managed to find Jay Leno’s original opening theme for the Tonight Show. This of course was before his talk with Johnny Carson just before he left the show.
  Thank goodness he changed it and thank goodness he had that plastic surgery to reduce the size of his chin.

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  Reply from QuackersnCheese on December 15, 2007:

  Oh and Mike this is for you hope you like it
  

• 12 QuackersnCheese on Dec 15, 2007 at 11:39 am

  Woops didn’t put the addy down LOL

  http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9594/supermikeag1.png

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• 13 eegah on Dec 15, 2007 at 3:02 pm

  That’s Willard Scott, by the way.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McDonald

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  Reply from Queen Bee on December 15, 2007:

  That’s almost as upsetting as the announcement that Ronald was also played by a person named, quote, “Squire Fridell.”

• 14 Nanner on Dec 15, 2007 at 8:24 pm

  If McDonalds helped start obesity in America with that commercial, they could surely scare kids away from it now by reshowing it. I for one will never go near another McDonalds again.

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  Reply from Onil on December 16, 2007:

  Forget fighting obesity, that commercial would make a good contraceptive. It needs to be shown in health classes throughout America.

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