This McDonald’s clown survived.
Both of these folks went on to do just fine.
I’m with you, Eve. Yes, he got money and recognition and whatnot, but the ding to the dong?? That’s pretty rough.
It might be an interesting thread:
WRITE A MCDONALD’S COMMERCIAL IN THE STYLE OF…
I think Tennessee Williams would have written great copy for one.
[Jessica Lange southern matron character]I’ll never forget the first Chicken McNugget I ever had. My young man took me to the Green Orchid Cotillion, Daddy said I was too young but Mama said ‘Go Esther it’s your one chance ever to have a little happiness’, and my young man took me behind the Linsey’s new Studebaker, and he put it in my mouth and said “Get a good taste of it, lick the sauce off of it, put your tongue on it…”, and then, then when he was finished, he gave me a chicken McNugget, and it was wonderful. And he hanged himself in the barn. Oh, Chicken McNuggets, now with Zesty Italian dressing.
[/Jessica Lange southern matron character]
Who do you figure would’ve authored this vignette?
slow clap
But now I really don’t want a chicken mcnugget.
Ike Turner, but he’d have delivered the lines differently. “Look here, we ain’t going to no play, no concert, no symphony, we going to a movie bitch, you pay and I choose.”
I saw the name before the commercial even started but it took until the very last scene before I recognized her.
Scene opens on a crime scene. There is a dead nude woman in the floor, victim of a violent death. There is heroin paraphernalia, an ashtray filled three times with lipstick coated cigarette butts, and half a box of Chicken McNuggets on a glass top coffee table. A forensics team is examining the body while the clearly-in-charge trenchcoat clad David Caruso or Jerry Orbach type detective fiddles with the items on the table.
Forensic Team Member 1: Are you getting the same results from the lividity? Yet the blood spatter here is obviously post mortem?
Forensic Team Member 2: Yes… somebody clearly had sex with her hours after she was dead. Detective, any theories?
Detective puts the remnants of a small plastic bag full of powder into his pockets, then picks up a McNugget from the box, dips it in an open sauce container, and eats it.
Detective: Well, I guess I’m not the only one who thinks that some things are just as good to dip it in when they’re cold… like this McNugget with this new Honey Garlic dipping sauce.
I never understood what was wrong with any project that pays the mortgage and puts food on the table. Isn’t one’s responsibility to ones family providing for them?
Artistic merit is nice, but a roof over your head and food on the table is pretty damned important.
You don’t know what I’m up against: because it’s full of, of, of things that are only correct because they’re grammatical but they’re tough on the ear, you see; this is a very wearying one, it’s unpleasant to read.
I can’t make out what the guy at the end with a mouthful of food is saying. It sounds like, “F, I totally avert your shrine.”
The guy in the sling looked familiar, too.
Reminds me of this quotation -
No prizes for guessing who said that - it could apply to many actors and many films.
Is that really so much worse than The Bourne Identity? Or Pirates of the Caribbean (after Black Pearl)?
Let’s face it, there are some movies with really stupid lines that anyone with a brain would feel idiotic saying, yet the lines get said, with emotion even! That isn’t even the most brainless (most brainless would be the actress who had to say, “What does mountain-grown mean?” or “Oh, Mrs. Olson, it’s my coffee. I think he’s going to leave me!”)
And actually, it did kinda make we want a nugget. Not enough to go across the alley to get one, but…
I’m with Eve. It is high on my hate list (although they haven’t played it in my area for a while.)
I almost wish I ate there so that I could stop eating there in protest.
But that guy can always take his paycheck and and do Long Days Journey into Night at a community theater. He’s still in a better place than the people doing community theater who don’t have a McDonald’s gig on their resumes.
I think you may be overthinking this just a little bit. It’s a McDonald’s commercial, not Breaking Bad.
The Meloni commercial–now that’s painful.
Well at least he does an okay job with the lines. He’s clearly likable and natural in front of the camera, it’s a shame that he has to read those ghastly lines. But maybe it’s a stepping stone to stardom.
Fer instance, here’s a Daniel Tosh in a terrible Taco Bell ad looking absolutely horrendous. Years later, he is a reasonably big deal.
Heck, here’s Julianna Margulies in a terrible McDonald’s ad looking absolutely lively! Who could’ve predicted the flat affect that would make her a star? 
I have a sudden urge to put my hair up in a banana clip and peg my jeans.