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04/24/2004: The Million Dollar McDonald’s Contest Song.


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does anyone remember the record that came with Ghostbusters Cereal.. it had Egon on there talking about some contest you could win.. I think there was about 4 different versions of the record and it was on a flexi thin plastic..

Ghosted by celery @ 04/26/2004 12:13 PM EDT

Holy crap, my friend had this record. It was the cheap plastic kind of record you had to put pennies on to play. And it was awesome and we listened to it over and over, and even now I remember the lyrics through the "happy meal" part, somehow.

Ghosted by youjik33 @ 04/26/2004 12:25 PM EDT

I totally didn’t remember this promotion until I downloaded the file and listened to the song. Holy crap, I used to be obsessed with trying to memorize the lyrics to this song. Bastard is gonna be in my head for days now…

Ghosted by B-Dawg @ 04/26/2004 1:36 PM EDT

kidneyboy, Freeway is an awesome movie! Reese Witherspoon as a psycho bitch Little Red Riding Hood. She even had a basket and went to grandmas! Hee!
I have the DVD. Dy-no-mite!

How about Time Bandits? "Don’t touch that, mom! It’s EEE-vil!"

kingklash, my kids love those transformer McD’s toys. I swear, there’s a new one at every yard sale.

Hey, I was just thinking – Matt, didn’t you say that awesome haunted house that you reviewed gets dressed up for Xmas, too? Did you ever get any pics?

Ghosted by trajeal @ 04/26/2004 2:05 PM EDT

That record was torture! Everyone had to have it, yet did anyone win? On a record side note, wan’t there a sunday paper record with the Simpsons on it? Possibly around the time the Who shot Mr. Burns episodes were out?

Ghosted by Mugzy. . . @ 04/26/2004 3:26 PM EDT

ug! me am hungry!

Ghosted by sgh @ 04/26/2004 4:22 PM EDT

Screaming tangent…. In that PetsMed ad, does that boy worry you more than the fact that Buddy had fleas? "What’s wrong with Buddy?!" Forget Buddy, what’s wrong with you? Never saw a pooch with fleas before? I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread….

Ghosted by kingklash @ 04/26/2004 5:05 PM EDT

damn that’s not fair, you just had to pick real audio, to play that file, not only is it a horrible program, but it’s blocked on this system….I’ll never be able to hear the mcdonalds menu again…..if only I could remember it.

Ghosted by brandon @ 04/26/2004 5:27 PM EDT

MAATT! Why didn’t you answer my post about pokemon?!

Ghosted by TOM @ 04/26/2004 8:36 PM EDT

Jeee-zus Krumbly! Monday night, stoned again, and jammin’ to this goddamn song again…too many times. Oh God make it stop!!

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 04/27/2004 12:11 PM EDT

I learned this song off of a placemat we got at McD’s with the words on it. My friend and I practiced and practiced until we could do it. That song stuck in my head and I could still sing it with no problem years later. I just recently went to a website to find the words. I wanted to see if I had it right. I was a little off on the egg Mcmuffin bit, but still had it.
I got the record, put it on, and was getting very excited until, sure enough, they screwed up at the very end. I was quite bummed.

Ghosted by Stilewalker @ 04/27/2004 10:39 AM EDT

Holy fuck. I swear the weirdest things happen to me at the weirdest times. On Saturday, I was chillin with some homies and my girl Mara brought this song up and started singing it. She only got to the "tasty golden french fries regular and larger sizes," but I was dying to hear everything. And then today I happen to visit the site and it’s on here! Whoa. What a fucking conincedence.

Ghosted by Emmaaa @ 04/27/2004 11:10 AM EDT

Ahh, the poetry of the streets.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 04/27/2004 11:18 AM EDT

This may be obscure, but one of my most memorable "plastic records" was from the Bloom County collection "Billy and the Boingers: Bootleg". The bulk of it revolves around some of the characters forming a band. The greatest part was that the book came with one of those records, which included songs by the actual band! (or so it claimed…) The songs were "I’m A Boinger", and "U Stink But I Luv U". Anyone else remember this?

Ghosted by Bean @ 04/29/2004 3:02 PM EDT

I used to love this one too… I had it memorized perfectly up until the "hot cakes" part, and I could never get past that.

Every once in a while (about once a year) I would remember that song, and always be able to get to that exact point.

Hearing it again now… same fucking thing. Sang along perfectly, and then fell into mumbling at "hot cakes"

At least now i can make an MP3 of it and have it forever. One day i’ll have the whole song down, i swear it. Good thing the menu hasn’t changed in 10 years…

Ghosted by Chopstick Sensei @ 04/29/2004 10:47 PM EDT

Bloom County is my favorite comic strip of all time, and yes, I do have a mint copy of "Billy and the Boingers Bootleg" with the record still attached inside. There’s no point in taking it out now…

Ghosted by Mars @ 04/30/2004 3:19 AM EDT

When I was a kid I used to race little toy cars on my dad’s record player.

Oh and yes I have played that record and is it just me or does it sound like Ronald McDonald and those evil fry kids are the ones singing?

Ghosted by The Adamantium Elbow @ 04/30/2004 3:38 AM EDT

Mad Magazine really abused the concept, adding the cardboard records in the Super Specials years and years ago. It was either stuff from thier legendary albums (It’s a Gas!), or something making fun of a contemporary pop style (Let’s Make Out). Now that Sony has developed a 50% paper CD, maybe we’ll start having music bound into publications again.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 04/30/2004 2:27 PM EDT

I just have to say that the "Good times, great taste" jingle is heaps and heaps better than the crappy "I’m loving’ it" that is poisoning the youth of America today. I just want to shoot Ronald in the back whenever I hear it.

Ghosted by Mike @ 04/30/2004 9:40 PM EDT

I too despise the "I’m lovin’ it" ad campaign. Whoever came up with it deserves to have his brain removed with a hot poker up his nostril.

On a similair note, I got to thinking the other day about how long the oscar mayer jingle has been around. Can anyone else think of a jingle that has been around longer?

Ghosted by Beerstalker @ 05/04/2004 4:03 PM EDT

Oh gosh! I remember this! I also remember seeing a commercial stating to do not throw the record away. In the commercial a man with the record throws it in the garbage then an announcer says something like "Hey! Don’t throw that record away! you could win up to a million dollars in McDonalds…blah-blah-blah" Of corse the man starts franticly trying to get the record out of the garbage bin. And Comedy ensues.

"does anyone remember the record that came with Ghostbusters Cereal.. it had Egon on there talking about some contest you could win.. I think there was about 4 different versions of the record and it was on a flexi thin plastic.."

yep! I remember opening up a box of cereal, getting the record out and racing over with my brother over to our mom’s turntable, putting the flexi record (technicly called a "sound sheet") on and hearing a message about the new GhostBusters II film we both were eager to see. I can still remember that last spoken line…"see you at the movies!" Ahh, those sweet, sweet 80’s.

I don’t have the McDonalds or the ghostbuster ones anymore…BUT I DO have a cardboard backed ALF record, one from a Sweetpickles thing (YUCK!), one thats an advertisment for a Swing record set, and symphonette thing, and one that came from an old 1977 issue of National Geographic thats about whales. (by the way, I’m a record collector now)

Ghosted by donkey turds @ 05/06/2004 8:06 AM EDT

Oh man, when I caught glimpse of this today I thought, "No! Can it be?" I clicked it. I sang it. I kept that record for the longest time, of course trying to learn the song. I very distinctly remember this promotion — how odd. :)

Ghosted by fieryrogue @ 05/10/2004 3:42 PM EDT

Justin Timberlake came up with the IM LOVING IT crap.. kill him please..

Ghosted by Me @ 06/13/2004 12:19 PM EDT

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