Guess what they’re both fucking creepy bastards. I don’t eat at McDonalds either, but that will never change as the food sucks too. Let me know when Ronald is in a commercial in bed with a kid please., then he will be creepier than the King.
I’m gonna miss that creepy bastard.
I’m even more dispointed that BK is losing that “rebel” attitude in marketing. Never much cared for BK but I did love how they basically gave the big middle finger to the “YOU’RE KILLING US WITH YOUR FOOD!” types.
What happened to you BK? You used to be cool man. 
No more nightmares for me.
Moving to Cafe Society (from MPSIMS).
I remember the Subservient Chicken. That was just plain wrong.
The Burger King had a series of Xbox video games too. IIRC one of them was a “stealth” game where you stalked unsuspecting people in order to foist hamburgers on them. Never played it, but it sounded quite amusing.
Agreed with everyone in the “creepy is part of the hilarity” camp. Ronald McDonald is wayyyyyy creepier, because there’s absolutely no acknowledgement that there’s anything weird about an oversized mascot in makeup and a wig. At least with the King, I felt like the advertisers knew about the creepy factor and were subtly letting me in on the joke. The McDonald’s people use that fucking clown in earnest.
Long live the Burger Republic!
Down with the clown!
Whoops! I just noticed that thelurkinghorror already mentioned the BK stealth game upthread.
I coulda sworn I read every post before posting my own… grumble grumble old age
Anyway, sorry thelurkinghorror.
That’s the ‘happy hairy’ guy I was thinking of. Here he is in a 1978 commercial.
It’s cool. I’ll call off the King. Hopefully he hasn’t made it to your house yet!
The other two games were a pocketbike race and bumper cars. If I played either I don’t remember much.
That’s great! I always found him very creepy.
YES!!! That’s just it. And I LIKED The King! I’ve loathed Ronald McDonald from the very first time I saw him and to this day I want to kick him in the groin. Or see how fast his red plastic hair would melt if it accidentally caught on fire. The King was ‘special’. (I wonder what blah new commercials BK is going to foist on the public. Closeups of Whoppers, I suppose. Snore.)
I love The King, so much.
The fact that the king was so creepy and weird is what made the commercials funny IMO. Same as that crazy as shit Snickers commercial with the super-creepy lady-mask thing that shoved candy into the shopping cart.
Pass the brain bleach please. :eek:
I think they did…
I’m very sad to hear this. That had to be one of the greatest and funniest ad campaigns I’ve ever seen. I don’t eat at Burger King anyway (because it’s horrible), and with the passing of the King, the entire Burger King corporation has absolutely nothing to offer me.
I LOVED subservient chicken. And thanks for making me waste another 5 minutes of my life yet again, playing with him.
I am relieved that the king is gone as he was creepy as fuck and utterly irritating. BK is one of the few fast food places I can eat at, since they have a veggie burger, so I never stopped eating there because of their commercials, but they did annoy me.
I grew up with a neighbor, across the street, being a McDonald’s mascot. At least part-time, anyway; never thought to ask if that was all he did. And on Halloween they always gave out…toothbrushes. And McDonald’s certificates. Come to think of it, I think he was a dentist. But getting toothbrushes from Ronald McDonald was just weird.
For some reason I have Coldplay stuck in my head now.