Inter-Tubing

I will never be able to look at bubble wrap in quite the same way again.

Sheep Pong rulez!

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I liked #2 best of the 3 Tron episodes.

SpiceWare, on Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:05 AM, said:

Me too. Very funny premise, and I love all of the classic videogame sounds they used for the "channels".

I really like the third one too, because it makes for a great visual gag. One of the lesser-known hazards of living in cyberspace.

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That is interesting. All these years I thought the kids in my neighborhood made that up

We sung it as...
McDonald's is your kind of place
They'll sell you rattlesnakes
Hamburgers up your nose
French fries between your toes
If I were you I wouldn't go there
They'd take you underwear
McDonald's is your kind of place...YOUR KIND OF PLACE!!

I've taught it to my kids

I've run into other things like that where I always assumed it was something made up by me or my friends, and yet it turned out to be something far-reaching. (There are other lyrics posted on that video's YouTube page as well, which are remarkably similar.)

While that's completely expected now - thanks to the internet - I wonder how things like that managed to spread so far 40 years ago? Or is it just that common for kids to make up those kind of lyrics with universal themes like food getting shoved up your nose and underwear being stolen?

It would make an interesting Master's Thesis.

It's entirely possible my sister heard it from someone else in elementary school, and taught it to me. (I vaguely remember it happening during a car trip somewhere.)

I guess the really frightening thing, is how McDonald's managed to successfully burn something like that into the brains of kids that stuck with them for the next 40 years.

There's another McDonald's jingle I recall, but have yet to find the video for it...

"Oh McSaturday is a great day for McBurgers,
And McSunday is a great day for McFry-i-ies,
On McMonday and McTuesday, and McWednesday and McThursday,
McShakes are a McWonderful surprise!
Oh McFish are always biting on McFridays,
But which day is McBetter than the rest?
Every day's a great day for McDon-on-ald's,
But the day before tomorrow is McBest!"

Thanks, Ray.

I knew I'd heard that McDonald's melody somewhere...

Even though I have yet to find the specific version I remember, iTunes has 480!! versions of "Down By The Riverside" done by everyone from Louis Armstrong to Elvis, Jimmy Durante to Alabama, and Peter Paul & Mary to Bill Haley & The Comets. I've never looked at the complete results for a single song on iTunes before... it's rather startling. I wonder which song has the most versions?

Anyway, thanks Wikipedia for jogging my memory!

Interesting coincidence: the week after posting this, on Iron Chef America, Alton Brown made up a song to "Down By The Riverside" in the McDonald's tradition:

"Kitchen Stadium is your kind of place,
Summer truffles in your face,
Udon noodles between your toes,
We eat chilies up your nose,
And don't forget The Chairman's looks,
He gets them out of comic books,
Kitchen Stadium is your... (stops singing)
You know, I think I'm going to rework this last line during the battle."

Then after the battle, he said The Chairman had a suggestion for rewriting the ending...

"And don't forget The Chairman's charms,
I hope he doesn't come and break my arms,
Kitchen Stadium is your kind of place"

A brilliant take on classic gaming...