Lately, we've been thinking back over the litany of McDonald's commercials that won their way into our hearts through constant repetition during our Saturday morning cartoons, and we've stumbled upon something that previously escaped our notice: Is McDonald's obsessed with the moon?
Mac Tonight! That's clever -- and sad that we're just now getting it. We weren't really on top of a pun when we were five or six in the same way we might be now. Here's another one from our childhood years in the UK...
Astro-naughty! Yay, puns! It's like the world is new this time around! Here's one designed to sell one of the grossest items to terrorize the McDonald's menu (not counting our complicated relationship with the McGriddle)...
We bet that thing tastes even worse once it's been freeze dried into a colorless wafer. Here's one we find confusing...
So many questions: Why is the astronaut the only one speaking English? Couldn't they have gotten an Israeli astronaut? Or at least dubbed the voice? Why are the coke and burger only floating during their close up?
Conclusion: The McDonald's corporation is helmed by werewolves. We're think we might be onto something here.
Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.
Olivia Purnell left Ohio for sunny Los Angeles; then found that she couldn’t ignore New York City’s call, and brought herself to Brooklyn where she has worked with GenArt, BlackBook, the School of American Ballet, and finished an M.A. in Creative Writing from N.Y.U. She loves one-liners with sting and hates the stench of the subway in the summer. That said, she can’t get enough of either.
Jake Kalish is a freelance journalist and humorist whose work has appeared in Details, Maxim, Stuff, New York Press, Spin, Blender, Men's Fitness, Poets and Writers, and Playboy, among other publications. He is also the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights.
Ben Kallen is an entertainment, health and humor writer who's been lectured to by Sidney Poitier, argued with by Lea Thompson and smiled at by Jennifer Connelly. He's the coauthor of The No S Diet and author of The Year in Weird, along with hundreds of magazine articles. He lives near the beach in Los Angeles, just like the gang from Three's Company.
Nicole Ankowski has lived in Ohio, Oakland, and on the high plains of South Dakota, but is now proud to call Brooklyn home. She wrote for alternative weekly papers in the first two states, and tried to learn Lakota in the last. (The vowels can be tricky.) She just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal. She is unable to resist good writing or bad TV.
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