Oh wait, it was the first one:

This is apparently a “stellar outdoor idea for McDonald’s from Leo Burnett Chicago.” You know how I know that? Because the Leo Burnett agency said it was a stellar outdoor idea for McDonalds, mother effers…

I’m not the first to say this (hell, someone said it on the Leo Burnett site already), but this stellar outdoor idea just looks like an anti-littering campaign and not something that would make me want to actually run out and get a mint shake (yes, that’s what’s in a Shamrock Shake, you bunch of ‘tards).

Remember that guys? That would have been the goal of doing this big, expensive piece of trash along the Chicago River, which is usually full of trash on it’s best days – to sell more friggin’ shakes! Not to look cool, or win awards, or post how clever you are on your blog, but to move shakes out the door.

Who the hell approves this crap? I mean, are things that big at Micky D’s these days that you could sneak an expense like this past everybody without someone raising a hand and saying, “hey, I don’t think that’s going to do what you think it’s going to do…”?

Next time you hear about a round of layoffs at McDonalds corporate or Leo Burnett, remember you saw wasteful crap like this on National Drinking Day.

J.

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Does the longer version of this ad have her trying to get his phone number, too?  “Honey, mommy is working her way through the skaters next, so I need a wing man…”

While I’ve got you here, I need to say something about McDonalds and the Olympic games.  What the fuck?  Every couple of years, Micky D’s sponsors the Olympic athletes and every couple of years I see the amazing new heights of athleticism these kids get and go, “ain’t no god damned way they are eating McDonalds, at all, ever.”

Over the holidays, I took a break from my diet and exercise regime and gave into the siren’s call of the Big Mac and Egg McMuffin and I feel like a moose.  I’m pretty sure if some speed skater even inhaled a whiff of a Big Mac, her system would shut down. These are our are top athletes and McDonald’s wants us to believe that the gymnasts don’t just hork that hamburger back up right after the shoot is done?

I saw a kid at Disneyland yesterday that was maybe 5-6 years old and looked like Augustus Gloop with pigtails.  THAT’S what feeding a child McDonald’s looks like, not whoever is this kid in the ad.  As they were walking away, the mom actually bought her cotton candy and I thought to myself, “these are the people that usually sue McDonald’s because they are morbidly obese after 20 years of daily Quarter Pounder with Cheese intake.”

Who the hell does the Olympic committee turn down?

SECRETARY: “Sir, I have Jim Beam on the phone to talk about advertising?”

OLYMPIC AD MAN: “Tell them to fuck off, but let me know if Jack Daniels calls, that’s where the big money is!”

J.

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