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

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First post! (Like I care)

Ghosted by Dane @ 04/24/2004 9:35 AM EDT

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

Ghosted by zann @ 04/24/2004 10:25 AM EDT

i dunno.

Ghosted by kennef @ 04/24/2004 11:01 AM EDT

?????

Ghosted by Ryan @ 04/24/2004 11:32 AM EDT

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.

Ghosted by chad @ 04/24/2004 11:37 AM EDT

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.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 04/24/2004 11:45 AM EDT

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

Ghosted by Jared @ 04/24/2004 12:43 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Evan @ 04/24/2004 12:49 PM EDT

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!

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 04/24/2004 2:19 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by Advance_Soldier @ 04/24/2004 2:22 PM EDT

Nice!

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

Ghosted by Kristal @ 04/24/2004 3:31 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 04/24/2004 3:31 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by Piscez @ 04/24/2004 4:36 PM EDT

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.

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

RealAudio is retro chic. But, no.

Ghosted by Matt @ 04/24/2004 6:19 PM EDT

"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…"

Ghosted by RU Hungry @ 04/24/2004 7:37 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Death by Stereo @ 04/24/2004 9:01 PM EDT

Does the new adult Happy Meal have free toys?

Ghosted by - @ 04/24/2004 9:08 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by TOM @ 04/24/2004 9:39 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Death by Stereo @ 04/24/2004 9:43 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Rainbowfeet @ 04/24/2004 11:05 PM EDT

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!

Ghosted by Crysstaafur @ 04/24/2004 11:14 PM EDT

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 )

Ghosted by starwenn @ 04/25/2004 12:15 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Nachokhaki @ 04/25/2004 12:29 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by Nachokhaki @ 04/25/2004 12:32 PM EDT

Pointing out the obvious for those having a dense day: click the pic, hear the song.

Have a good weekend, all.

PS — as we speak, I’ve got gross dye in my hair and I’m trying to muster up enough courage to touch the icky worms necessary to feed our latest fish, something Petland called a "Dolphin Whale."

Ghosted by Matt @ 04/25/2004 12:36 PM EDT

Rainbowfeet, you’re right. The new adult meals do also come with pedometers. I forgot about those…

Ghosted by Death by Stereo @ 04/25/2004 12:45 PM EDT

Dolphin Whale? Is that anything like a Wholphin?

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 04/25/2004 12:55 PM EDT

I wish.

Ghosted by Matt @ 04/25/2004 12:56 PM EDT

i remembered like the first 20 seconds of this song to this day

Ghosted by mikey @ 04/25/2004 1:23 AM EDT

Dye you say? Ooh….I am so intrigued What color is Mr. Caracappa’s coif now?

Ghosted by Kristal @ 04/25/2004 2:23 AM EDT

Oh, god. I used to listen to this record over and over on my little fisher price player. Back then, the song was just the coolest for me.

And the "Good Time, great taste" song is something I remember fondly as well. I remember when they first introduced it in a commercial I still have on tape. They went off on a tangent, singing stuff like "rubba rubba burger on the six-top bee-bop" and stuff like that.

Ghosted by Number5 @ 04/25/2004 6:37 AM EDT

Ah the mcdonalds memories. Listening to squiare records, Memorizing whole menues, men with moons for heads.

Also, the word "pedometer" disturbs me greatly.

Ghosted by Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 04/25/2004 9:22 AM EDT

Fun Fact: If you order every food item mentioned in the song and then eat it all in one sitting, you’ll feel bloated, sick, and regretful of all the bad decisions you’ve made in life. Try it for yourself!

Ghosted by DeathFrogurt @ 04/25/2004 11:35 AM EDT

We never had the record promotion here in Canada, but the song did work its way into the Canadian ad campaign just the same. Usless trivia: in Canadian McDonald’s, low fat milk and decaff coffee aren’t available, and happy meals weren’t available at the time, either, so they all got left out of the song. The American version always sounded odd to me for these reasons.

And speaking of shameless McDonald’s promotions, review "Mac and Me" (C’mon, ya had to see that coming!)

Ghosted by A-wel Cruiz @ 04/25/2004 12:09 PM EDT

Mac and Me was one of my favourite movies growing up,hehe

Have any of you seen the Jason Alexander McDonald’s commercial?

Ghosted by alisa @ 04/25/2004 5:38 PM EDT

c’mone matt, you were asked a fair question and I and other mattfans wanna know? Staying with what, red is it now, or doing something different?
We need to know. Hell, post a pic.

Oh, and couldn’t you find a copy of the song file with the WINNING song? Wouldn’t that be something? I bet just listening to it all these years later will turn your hair gold.

Ghosted by spooky @ 04/25/2004 6:17 PM EDT

A Big Mac, Mc DLT, a Quarterpounder with some cheese…

… Mc Nuggets, tasty golden French fries, regular and larger sizes.

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Ghosted by Kaynyne @ 04/25/2004 6:41 PM EDT

Interesting song. Listen to "Life is a Rock" by Reunion sometime, though … the melody and percussion of the lyrics are pretty familiar.

Ghosted by Mike Harris @ 04/25/2004 10:27 PM EDT

I still remember the day we got that thing in our sunday paper. I was five years old and I think it was during the wintertime. I remember knowing that it was going to come out that Sunday, and like the first thing I did before even eating breakfast was going downstairs, tearing through the Sunday paper, finding that square record and running over to my blue and tan Fisher Price record player, and finding out that I lost.

Ghosted by Anita @ 04/25/2004 11:26 PM EDT

Damn, memories. I used to have a friend who’d invite me over, and we’d sit there and listen to that damned record. I didn’t say they were good memories.

Ghosted by C-Funk Dizzle @ 04/25/2004 11:40 PM EDT

Just off the top of my high head and way off topic, I’d like to toss up three movie review suggestions: O.C. & Stiggs, Freeway, and Tetsuo? Any fans?

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 04/26/2004 2:06 AM EDT

I’d rather have Matt review more expiered or other wise disgusting food

Ghosted by Fucko The Clown @ 04/26/2004 3:12 AM EDT

Yan Yan or Nads
What’s worse?

Ghosted by Fucko The Clown @ 04/26/2004 3:17 AM EDT

"Life Is a Rock" is a great song! It’s also in a great, cheap-ass movie called "The Specials," starring everyone’s favorite annoyer-of-Debra-Messing, Thomas Hayden-Church, as the leader of a team of superheroes.

Also, I can’t remember the last time I had fast food. I think maybe it was November.

Ghosted by ChaosMonkey @ 04/26/2004 3:18 AM EDT

"Usless trivia: in Canadian McDonald’s, low fat milk and decaff coffee aren’t available, and happy meals weren’t available at the time, either, so they all got left out of the song."

A-wel Cruiz: I dunno about the decaf coffee or the low-fat milk, but I got plenty of Happy Meals from Montreal-area McDonald’s locations back in the early-80s back in the days before I switched to eating Big Macs (around 1984 or so).

Ghosted by Steve Brandon @ 04/26/2004 3:56 AM EDT

I remember this. I also remember sometimes they’d put records on cereal boxes as premiums. They were made of light plastic and said if the record sounded funny to put a quarter on them. Amusing

Ghosted by Killer Duck @ 04/26/2004 9:08 AM EDT

I remember this song but it was in french on tv here in quebec, canada.

"Big Mac, McDLT, un quart de livre avec fromage, un hamburger un cheeseburger…"

ok i don’t remember the whole thing, but i can’t help humming it when i peruse the McD’s menu….

Ghosted by -Jen- @ 04/26/2004 10:22 AM EDT

I can’t remember much of this record stuff but what I do remember was the frenzy of buying happy meals when some cool set of toys came out. The McDonalds food transformers ripoffs and the hotwheels cars stick out in my mind for some odd reason. Does anyone else remember any of the old awesome happymeal crap that they liked or am I alone?

Ghosted by Tim @ 04/26/2004 10:54 AM EDT

The Happy Meal transforming food robots are a staple of flea market grab bags. Along with a couple of chewed-up army men, three Legos, a Spider-Man with a missing limb, and some toy from a vending machine. Speaking of the flea, went to Old Paris Flea Market up in OKC yesserday, saw a set of SPADER-MAN figures. Yes, SPADER-MAN. Was he bit by James Spader? Don’t know, don’t care. Ol’ Spadey even had a mototrcycle to ride. Same folk even put out a set of Batman figures. Didn’t call him BETman or any thing, though. Rats. Continued my search for cheap NES clones.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 04/26/2004 11:59 AM EDT

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