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I remember Mayor McCheese from my childhood.. so probably very few of the rest of you were even around to remember. (Exceptng Baloo, of course).
You see, McDonald's used to have a LOT more characters than you see nowadays. Mayor McCheese was one of them. (He represented a Quarter-pounder w/cheese, obviously) You don't see the Fry Guys much anymore, either. Or Grimace, for that matter.
Even harder to remember were the abortive Burger King characters.
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Many, many years ago there was once a Der Wienerschnitzel (a hot dog fast-food franchise) advertisement with a clown eating a hotdog. The announcer's voice said "Everyone want's a hot dog once in a while. Everyone!" The clown, looking up and acting guilty, tried to turn his back to the camera and hide the hot dog under his tie.
I thought it was hilarious. The clown looked vaguely like Ronald McDonald but could've been any generic clown. McDonalds sued and was awarded vast sums of money and got an injunction preventing the offending commercial from ever seeing air time again.
I refused to eat at McDonalds for several months, but apparently they never missed the business. Der Wienerschnitzel is only now beginning to recover from this setback, at long last rising to the position of near-obscurity which it shares with Sonics, Hardees and A&W (the restaurant chain, not the root beer which is far more famous).
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How can Hardee's be obscure, especially w/ all those commercials w/ the little guy in the star suit? (Which are starting to get a little annoying, despite a couple good one-liners they've used. "It didn't have your name on it." "It had my face on it!")
The McDonald's Fry Guys were those little hairballs on legs, right?
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I remember the Mayor McCheese - wonder if he was anything like the Mayor from Buffy - maybe he attempted an accension too!?!
What about the burger that was a policeman or something!?!
I remember
Ronald Grimace Hamburgler the fries guys Mayor Policeman those juniour burger heads and of late there has been a female 'Birdie' no doubt for either the McNuggets or the McChicken.
Andrew
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And that bird's been around for as long as I can remember...
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Saiyanman Benjita
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Mayor McCheese was in the playgrounds of my youth. (About the only reason for going to McDonalds-the food sucks) As for Burger King, I only remember the Badly dressed King. They still have the crowns, you know. So next time you're on lunch break from work, go to Burger King and get yourself a crown (They definitely fit adult heads, too) Make sure you have the ones with the jewels, not the latest movie ones (ala Toy Story, or Pocohantas, or Wild Wild West). Now wear it back to work and count the laughs or rave reviews about your stylish new headwear.
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