a tale of two hamburglers

astroal · **Posted:** Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:57 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ekfn4RYow

this is one of my favorite shilling shockers bits

Daimajinbob · **Posted:** Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:16 pm

That was pretty good, too bad Penny doesn't come around the board anymore

Col. Manning · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:48 am

Absolutely hilarious! :lol:

What a great way to tap into the memory banks of CDF-era people to mine some great (and rather dark) humor! And it's true--most of the McDonaldland characters were happy, cuddly friendly people (or creatures). I guess that, in a way, you could say that the Hamburgler represented the dark side of humanity. Little did I realize just how true to life those commercials were! :wink:

astroal · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:00 am

i often wondered what the deal was with grimace. was he suppossed to be a shake? who ever had a purple shake? he was just this big weird blob.

Col. Manning · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:32 am

Yeah, what the hell WAS Grimace...and what kind of a name is Grimace anyway? Doesn't sound like a name that you'd want to associate with McDonald's food! A shake is the only thing on the McDonald's menu that I could fathom him being--if he's even supposed to be a food item like Mayor McCheese, the Fry Guys... Otherwise, I'd have to guess that he's a "monster", like the many monsters seen on Sesame Street. Somebody was definitely on something when they came up with these characters (besides being influenced by--or ripping off--H.R. Pufnstuf).

Beastball · **Posted:** Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:49 pm

A quick look at Wikipedia shows Grimace really wasn't a milkshake per se, but only stole them. It apparently lost a pair of arms along the way too...didn't know that.

Quote:

Grimace. Grimace is an anthropomorphic purple being. Originally, Grimace was the "Evil Grimace", with two pairs of arms with which to steal milkshakes. After that first campaign, the character was revised to be one of the "good guys", and his number of arms was reduced by two. Commercials and merchandise generally portrayed him as a well-meaning simpleton, whose clumsy antics provided a comic foil to Ronald McDonald. The character was retained after the streamlining of the characters in the '80s. He was voiced by Frank Welker.

astroal · **Posted:** Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:38 pm

now that we got that cleared up.... :lol:

south shore girl · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:16 am

Grimace reminds me of Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants.

astroal · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:40 pm

patrick is fun. i used to like spongebob a lot. the show went down hill though around the time the movie came out. the movie itself was bland.

a tale of two hamburglers

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