McDonalds, the Musical

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Posted By: Alex - Fri May 30, 2014
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Not exactly the demographic of employees (or the enthusiasm level) I usually see there.

Posted by crc on 05/30/14 at 10:18 AM

Now there is something I haven't seen in years. There are three actors in there who have familiar faces - the manager, the one with the line about his "clean burger machine", and the one with the line about "scrubbing from bottom to top". Unfortunately I couldn't tell you their names to save my life.

The ad campaign was run constantly when it was on, and as kids we had our parody lyric:

You deserve to live today,
So get up and run away,
From McDonalds.

Posted by KDP on 05/30/14 at 11:55 AM

The tall, "clean burger machine" guy was Robert Ridgely. He played "The Colonel" in "Boogie Nights" (about the porn industry). He died in 1997 -- right before the movie came out, I think.

Posted by Frank on 05/30/14 at 12:20 PM

Back when this was playing on TV, I remember at one of our local McDonalds' some vandal threw a brick through the window. It had a note tied to it saying, "You deserve a brick today."

Posted by Phred22 on 05/30/14 at 04:07 PM

@Frank : Thanks for making me think of McPorn :shut:

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 05/30/14 at 05:20 PM

I guess someone must have suggested that McD's was less than clean. :lol: :coolsmile:

Posted by Tyrusguy on 05/30/14 at 06:41 PM

That would depend on the how good of workers the people who work there are Ty.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/30/14 at 07:14 PM

This was, obviously, made back when white folks weren't afraid of getting a "job" instead of requiring a "position" reflecting their years of suffering academia to get that PhD in 18th century French literature.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/31/14 at 01:50 AM

Hey, just thought of the you tube vid of some teen employee taking a bath in the sink at BK. :lol:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/31/14 at 11:53 AM

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