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Tribute to Stay Puft, and Roy Rogers’ Happy Meals.

I had a dream that I ate a giant marshmallow, and when I woke up, my pillow had transformed into an all-too-long tribute to The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. One love, Stay Puft. We tight.

Fast food chains are more successful in some areas than other areas, and in NYC, the once-great Roy Rogers' scope has dwindled down to just a few remaining restaurants. I don't know when Roy stopped being fashionable, but I'd like to kill the person who started that movement because God damn, his chicken was serious business. The breast pieces always came with this little knob of fried fat attached to the edge, and popping those busters is certainly what led to every fried chicken place on the planet coming up with their version of "chicken poppers." If you live in a city that still pays Roy his due respect, consider yourself lucky and eat some crunchy skin for me.

Roy's inability to connect with children may have played a part in his slow decline. McDonald's had Happy Meals and Burger King had constant Happy Meal rip-offs, and Wendy's had a pretty little red-haired girl on the marquee, but what did Roy Rogers have? Nothing. Roy Rogers had chicken. Roy Rogers has roast beef. But Roy Rogers had no Happy Meal.

Eh, that's not entirely true. Once in a blue moon, Roy would put aside his convictions about chicken restaurants needing to serve chicken and not pander to the lowbrow crowd who wanted toys with their chicken. I assume this to be the work of his advisors, always in Roy's ear with more lies about the necessity of a Happy Meal element. I kind of want to spend the next paragraph writing "buckaw" over and over again, but I won't. One of Roy's Rare Rappy Reals was called "Power Pullers," including small action figures that...pulled power.

Essentially superhero-shaped Wacky Wall Walkers, the figures came in four different colors, stuffed in text-ridden picture boxes that went to great lengths to make the toys seem more interesting than McDonald's Fast Macs. Click here to download the commercial, and note how the song number doesn't really gel with save-the-world superhero toys. Buckaw buckaw buckaw buckaw buckaw buckaw buckaw buckaw buckaw buckaw buckaw buckaw.

Posted by Matt on 04/30/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 134 comments

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I just found a man with an equal respect and fascination for Stay Puft. I loved that movie so hard (because of Stay Puft actually), that I got my parents to buy me the soundtrack in a LP record and then had them record it into a cassete, so that i could go breakdance the ghostbuster’s song in my kindergarten… True story, I still have the LP.

Chestnuts roasted by alfonso alba @ 05/17/2006 10:33 PM


hey matt if you still want the stay puft marshmallow man figure from the ghostbusters toy collection then you’ll thank me for this.

I hope it helps.

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Chestnuts roasted by cj @ 08/24/2006 10:19 PM


Dude, another kick-ass article.

Stay-Puft for Prez.

Chestnuts roasted by Texican @ 08/31/2006 2:36 PM


Dude, I was fucking obsessed, OBSESSED, with Stay Puft. I drew him at least 5 or 6 times a day there for a while. That movie is still hi-larious. I showed it to my girlfriend, who had somehow missed it in the 80s because she thought it looked stupid or something(!), and she promptly fell in love with it. Anyway, I’m glad to see that I am not the only one who was warped by Gozer the Destructor (“He will appear in one of the chosen forms…that of a very large and moving TORB!” – classic dialogue sequence…)

Also, to give ’nuff respect due, your writing style is really great, very funny. This was the first article I’ve read on this site (I linked here through wikipedia) and I look forward to reading more.

Nicely done!

Chestnuts roasted by Rockasaurus Nex @ 09/22/2006 12:33 PM


damn I think I’v seen that stay puft figure at a pawn type shop it was 13 bucks damn I should have bought it sorry matt

Chestnuts roasted by abor @ 10/23/2006 8:55 PM


i loved stay-puft as a kid. he was my sole reason for liking ghostbusters. he was like….my favorite character at a time when it was absurd for a GB the movie character to be your favorite celebrity but….he was. thanks for the stroll down memory lane. all those beers couldn’t block out the Stay-Puft marshmallow man. my favorite “big monster” of all time. yes, even ahead of the classics. i loved that he showed up on the cartoon. it was like a surprise christmas or something. good shit indeed. i’ve been reading this site for a few years but that was really something to comment on. or i’m just not AS wasted as i usua;;y am when reading. either way, good job dude.

Chestnuts roasted by jaypah @ 11/13/2006 2:21 PM


I feel like a total n00b posting this stay puft comment for one reason. i bet you have that 1984 marshmallow man already but… if not i thought i would supply this link from ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/GHOSTBUSTERS-ACTION-FIGURE-STAY-PUFT_W0QQitemZ180083771139QQihZ008QQcategoryZ16463QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item180083771139#ebayphotohosting

Chestnuts roasted by Pad_Of_Butter @ 02/12/2007 10:20 PM


I am also a fan of the staypuft guy.I have 47 staypuft figures in my collection.One of them is autographed by the guy who designed the costume and was the staypuft guy in the movie.The story of why I have so many is long and I don,t have time to tell it right now.Half of my collection is on display at a restaurant in vancouver called the revelroom, where the boys are having a great time giving the patrons a smile.

Chestnuts roasted by peter smith @ 11/24/2008 10:54 AM


Loved the Stay Puft article. Just thought I’d let you know that in the new Ghost Busters game, you get to fight Stay Puft while dangling off a building he tries to climb.

Loved that boss fight to death, but I was still sorry to be shooting Stay Puft in the face with a proton pack. Who would know that movie monsters could be so huggable?

Chestnuts roasted by Rob @ 06/17/2009 6:10 PM


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