Most Hysterical Photographs Of The Year Award goes to The Billboard Liberation Front, who yesterday altered a billboard in San Francisco to feature an obese child (probably a leftover from The Maury Povich Show) in sick Ronald McDonald make-up, an alien, a McDonald's golden arches logo, and the words "TO SERVE MAN." The clincher was the animatronic Ronald McDonald feeding a cheeseburger to a mannequin of the enthusiastically wide-gomped fat child, both sitting right in front of the billboard. The perpetrators then dressed as screaming versions of Ronald McDonald and Hamburgler, and celebrated with chants and helium balloons of Ronald's head. Turns out the plan for McDonald's take-over of the eating habits of the planet was nothing more than an extraterrestrial domination and enslavement plan lifted right out of a "Twilight Zone" episode. After the celebration in the park (in which some great photos of gasp-inducing Ronalds being cuffed and hauled into squad cars were taken) the BLF then moved... like an undulating sea of yellow, red and white vomit... into a nearby McDonald's location, where the nightmarish reverie commenced. These photos literally had me laughing so hard I spilled my piping hot morning McDonald's coffee into my lap and I'm getting my lawyer on the phone right now! Photos found on BoingBoing and also Laughing Squid. Great photos.
And by an amazing coincidence, our friends at Stay Free magazine have posted an article examining various vintage McDonald's TV commercials on their site today. See the terrifying genetic experiments that used to populate McDonaldland!
McDonald's did in fact celebrate its 50th anniversary here in Chicago recently, when they opened what appears to be called the 50th Anniversary Restaurant, on the site of a former McDonald's (the "Rock'n'Roll McDonald's" that was immortalized in song by Wesley Willis). I stopped by there a couple weeks ago with some time to kill, but did not make it into the place because I was stopped cold by a series of bronze life-size statues of people (I'm guessing they're supposed to be customers, or happy denizens of McDonaldland or something) near the entrance. One of the statues was indeed of Ronald McDonald, who was reaching down to a child on a trike. Although it was obviously supposed to look like that Ronald was For The Children(TM), I could not help but think that Ronald was actually saying, "This child is fat enough to be turned into McNuggets!" And thanks to the Billboard Liberation Front, now I know that is EXACTLY what he is saying. Good thing I didn't go in!
Posted by: jima | May 31, 2005 at 01:58 PM
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