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The Million Dollar McDonald’s Contest Song.

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



Discussion Thread: 74 comments

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."

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/25/2004 12:36 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Death by Stereo @ 04/25/2004 12:45 PM

Dolphin Whale? Is that anything like a http://hotspotshawaii.com/Wolphin.html">Wholphin?

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 04/25/2004 12:55 PM

I wish. :(

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/25/2004 12:56 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by mikey @ 04/25/2004 1:23 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Kristal @ 04/25/2004 2:23 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Number5 @ 04/25/2004 6:37 AM

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

Also, the word "pedometer" disturbs me greatly.

Chestnuts roasted by Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 04/25/2004 9:22 AM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by DeathFrogurt @ 04/25/2004 11:35 AM

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!)

Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 04/25/2004 12:09 PM

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

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

Chestnuts roasted by alisa @ 04/25/2004 5:38 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by spooky @ 04/25/2004 6:17 PM

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

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

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Kaynyne @ 04/25/2004 6:41 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Mike Harris @ 04/25/2004 10:27 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Anita @ 04/25/2004 11:26 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by C-Funk Dizzle @ 04/25/2004 11:40 PM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 04/26/2004 2:06 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Fucko The Clown @ 04/26/2004 3:12 AM

Yan Yan or Nads
What’s worse?

Chestnuts roasted by Fucko The Clown @ 04/26/2004 3:17 AM

"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.

Chestnuts roasted by ChaosMonkey @ 04/26/2004 3:18 AM

"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).

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 04/26/2004 3:56 AM

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 :)

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 04/26/2004 9:08 AM

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….

Chestnuts roasted by -Jen- @ 04/26/2004 10:22 AM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by Tim @ 04/26/2004 10:54 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/26/2004 11:59 AM

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