The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald

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♥	This article is dedicated to Christine Cavanaugh (August 16, 1963 - December 22, 2014, at 51) and Verne Troyer (January 1, 1969 - April 21, 2018, from suicide by alcohol intoxication at 49).

The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald
This show is anything but wacky.
Genre: Comedy Adventure Fantasy Musical Running Time: 40 minutes Country: United States Release Date: October 9, 1998 - January 30, 2003 Distributed by: McDonald's Corporation Klasky Csupo Starring: Jack Doepke (Episodes 1-3) David Hussey (Episodes 4-6) Kevin Michael Richardson Christine Cavanaugh Charlie Adler Dee Bradley Baker Pamela Adlon Jazmine A. Corona Jim Cummings Nika Futterman Paul Greenberg Alex D. Linz Lisa Raggio Kath Soucie Verne Troyer Pinky Valladry (Episodes 1-3) Episodes: 6

The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald is an American animated miniseries of retail direct-to-video episodes produced by Klasky-Csupo, Inc. in association with the McDonald's Corporation, centering on McDonald's mascot Ronald McDonald and the gang in McDonaldland. A total of six 40-minute episodes were produced and released on VHS exclusively in participating McDonald's restaurants from October 9, 1998, to January 30, 2003.

Not-So-Wacky Qualities

1. It was made just to promote McDonald's to kids, which is not a bad idea on paper, except here it doesn't work; it was the restaurant's attempt to make an animated series to compete with television programming aimed at kids.
   • This means that it's nothing more than a series of six 40-minute commercials with their own individual VHS releases.
2. The adventures the gang go on make absolutely no sense whatsoever.
3. The Hamburglar is part of the gang without any explanation.
4. Sundae in the live-action segments just looks terrifying.
5. The songs are just painful to listen to.
   • Yes, especially the theme songs from all six episodes. In fact, both of them are unnecessary for a direct-to-video series.
6. "The Monster O’ McDonaldland Loch" was a sad way to end Christine Cavanaugh's career in voice acting, and it's even sadder when she passed away in 2014.
7. The McSplorer ripped off Benny the Cab from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
8. A lot of the humor is just lazy.
9. Conceptually, the character designs just look creepy, especially Hamburglar, whose design looks like a Rugrats reject.
10. The addition of new characters just has no purpose, including Tika, Sundae, and Frank. They look like they belong in a different series rather than a McDonald's show.

Wacky Qualities

1. Decent voice acting.
2. Good animation.
3. It has a slight Nickelodeon charm to it, considering the fact it was made by Klasky Csupo.
4. To be fair, some commercials DID feature Hamburglar as part of the gang, so him being part of the group here isn't a huge stretch.
5. Despite the terrible songs, the music isn't all that bad. Just the lyrics were the biggest problem with the songs.

Reception

The show received mixed reviews and currently holds a 6.6/10 on IMDb.

Trivia

• Splaat makes his first televised appearance at the end of Scared Silly (the first video) in the infamous 1998 Klasky-Csupo logo, which is also used in the next five videos; before that, he first appeared on an animation magazine in 1996, in a print ad promoting Klasky Csupo.

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