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The Million Dollar McDonald’s Contest Song.

Posted by Matt on 04/24/2004. E-mail me!

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First post! (Like I care)

Chestnuts roasted by Dane @ 04/24/2004 9:35 AM

i didn’t win a million, but now i want a Happy Meal. you win, McDonalds Man.

Chestnuts roasted by zann @ 04/24/2004 10:25 AM

i dunno.

Chestnuts roasted by kennef @ 04/24/2004 11:01 AM

?????

Chestnuts roasted by Ryan @ 04/24/2004 11:32 AM

eh, I hated that damn record…through it accross the room when I didn’t win.. my friends all didn’t have record players, and wanted to come over and listen to it at my house, but I wouldn’t let them in fear that theywould win and it would be on my record player.

Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 04/24/2004 11:37 AM

I remember when you would find records like this in all sorts of places. Bound in magazines, backs of cereal boxes, that sort of thing. Now, I got two episodes of Barney Miller on DVD from a box of Total. I miss the Jumpin’ Jarvis I got out of Cookie Crisp.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/24/2004 11:45 AM

What happend you found one that had the whole song on it?

Chestnuts roasted by Jared @ 04/24/2004 12:43 PM

I can only imagine Matt trying to get a the $1,000,000 out of McDonald’s 20 years after the contest expired. The look on that cashier’s face…heh.

Chestnuts roasted by Evan @ 04/24/2004 12:49 PM

i remember getting this record when I was little and we could never afford to buy new needles for our record player, so I never got to hear my record at all. oh well, bet I didn’t win!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 04/24/2004 2:19 PM

HI-larious! Where do you find this crazy stuff? Keep driving on and reviewing.

Chestnuts roasted by Advance_Soldier @ 04/24/2004 2:22 PM

Nice!

I remember when that song became poetry of the playground with all the bad-ass paddycake moves.

Chestnuts roasted by Kristal @ 04/24/2004 3:31 PM

Oh my gosh, I remember the hell out of this stupid promotion, unless I’m engineering childhood memories again. What a goofy idea.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 04/24/2004 3:31 PM

Did the Krang in the menu just change to a fake one with french-fry-bag eyes? Or has it always been that way?

Chestnuts roasted by Piscez @ 04/24/2004 4:36 PM

The "make-your-own" Krang was always on this version of X-E. Say less about the yellow, though.

1. RealAudio? PLEASE tell me you aren’t reverting back to your old ways.

2. I had one of those. Lost it.

Chestnuts roasted by "MR. GAME & WATCH" @ 04/24/2004 6:17 PM

RealAudio is retro chic. But, no.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/24/2004 6:19 PM

"I’d like an order of fries, a quarter pounder with cheese, I love the light in your eyes, will you go out with me please? …I am in love with a McDonald’s girl…"

Chestnuts roasted by RU Hungry @ 04/24/2004 7:37 PM

80s McDonald’s stuff rules. Happy Meals, tv commercials, etc. I think I remember Matt C. posting that audio file awhile back on X-E, and that’s why its RA? We had that record when I was a kid, didn’t win. Heh, I can see Matt C. tracking the winning record down today in 2004. But I wonder, did anyone actually WIN this? And if not, did they even make a winning record? O_o

Hey, Matt C., how ’bout those new adult Happy Meals? New healthy meals that come in a cardboard package, with a salad and bottled water. (Dasani). I can’t see these things catching on…people go to McDonald’s to eat yummy(?) junk food, not water and vegetables. I applaud McDonald’s for the effort, but I don’t see these meals becoming very popular. Would you consider reviewing the adult Happy Meal? It might not be substantial enough for a full article, but it would make a good blog entry if anything.

Chestnuts roasted by Death by Stereo @ 04/24/2004 9:01 PM

Does the new adult Happy Meal have free toys?

Chestnuts roasted by - @ 04/24/2004 9:08 PM

Matt, can you please do an article on Pokemon Colluseum for gamecube? I wanna see what you think of the new pokemon games. Do they swim or drown?
PS. DIE EVIL SONY FOR TRYING TO KILL NINTENDO WITH PS2.

Chestnuts roasted by TOM @ 04/24/2004 9:39 PM

No free toys, but they come with pamphlets promoting nutrition and excersize…what a crock. No toys, puzzles, jokes etc. I also heard that McDonald’s will offer fruit in the place of french fries in the regular kiddie Happy Meals. Again, I don’t see this going over well.

Chestnuts roasted by Death by Stereo @ 04/24/2004 9:43 PM

I heard in a news story that the Adult Happy Meals are supposed to come with pedometers, too. But that could have changed. I dunno.
Not a bad idea, but yeah, if I want a salad, I’ll eat at home, you know? I’ll live on the edge, too- drink tap water.
Yeah, I heard about the fruit, too. Isn’t that what the pies are for? Just kidding.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 04/24/2004 11:05 PM

Heh, I remember those! I didn’t have a record player, but I learned a way around it. Take a sheet of paper, wrap it into a cone. Tape the cone together.Then
take a small needle tape it to the bottom (re:skiny) end of the cone point downward. Now for the tricky part. Insert a pencil into the center hole of the record until it is firm. Have someone hold the cone above the record with the needle where a player’s needle would go. rotate the pencil. This is not something you would want to do to a precious 45, but for something like this it worked in a pinch!

Chestnuts roasted by Crysstaafur @ 04/24/2004 11:14 PM

I also remember this promotion – don’t know if we ever got the record, because I sure know we didn’t win.

Um…does anyone have a record player to hear Matt’s record? ; 0 )

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 04/25/2004 12:15 PM

I loved those square records you’d get from promotions. It was more fun watching it rotate on the turntable than listening to whatever crap was on it.

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 04/25/2004 12:29 PM

But there was one guy I went to elementary school with that had this song down to a T. Flawless execution every time.

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 04/25/2004 12:32 PM

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