I'm Going Crazy!!!!

**turpin** · 21st June 07, 05:13 PM

Was it this guy?

From Mad Magazine, Spy vs Spy.

**neo71665** · 21st June 07, 07:04 PM

I love spy vs spy, lol

**Dirka Skene** · 21st June 07, 07:09 PM

No, it was definitely Mac Tonight. I remember it perfectly. I had nightmares about that moon headed freak all the time when I was little. He was replaced by that Burger King thing with elephauntitis of the head.

Geez, you would think burger joints would have more "dream friendly" mascots.

**Erisianmonkey** · 21st June 07, 07:56 PM

Next to spiders, that Burger King mascot is my second all time biggest fear. I have insane nightmares whenever I see that thing more than twice in one day. It has got to the point where I will not eat at Burger King until they kill it off. I would go to their website and tell them this, but I really don't want the nightmares from being faced with the thing. Oh well, I don't eat much fast food anyway.

Mac Tonight never bothered me though. I had a several dreams with him in them though. Usually hanging out with Max Headroom and, for some unknown reason, Ray Charles.

**prairieson** · 21st June 07, 09:34 PM

Originally Posted by Dirka Skene

That new commercial where that king thing is dancing with a mustache....that one's really wierd. I've never eaten at Burger King, but I'm definitely afraid to now.

It pretty much creeps me out too, and I think I know why... I suspect that the person under the big head in that commercial is a woman. check out the legs when "he's" dancing and the hands stroking the mustache in the next scene, just looks too feminine to be a man.

**Riverkilt** · 22nd June 07, 12:05 AM

So olde...never heard of Mac Tonight...thought it was Ray Charles too...

Of course I HATE McDonalds ever since they named their clown back in 1968 and my phone didn't stop ringing until call tracing came out.

Did see great graffiti at one of the construction sites when they were building the METRO in Washington D.C. back in 1970

God is love,
Love is blind,
Ray Charles in blind,
Ray Charles is God!

Made sense to me.
Ron

**beowulf67** · 22nd June 07, 04:52 AM

I think Burger King is trying to play up to a gay audience. Watch the breakfast commercial where the man wakes up and rolls over and the king is in bed with him. There are a couple of others that have subtle things that imply it, at least that's how I see it.
I'm probably totally wrong on this, but that is the impression I get from the commercials.

**ronstew** · 22nd June 07, 07:01 AM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

Oh yeah...that campaign went over like a pregnant pole vaulter. I don't think that anyone got the point of that...and the character was reasonably creepy.

The one thing it had going for it was the song, a variation of the Bobby Darin version of Mac the Knife. Of course, many people don't realise that the older song is about a hit man/serial killer. You want creepy?

**fluter** · 22nd June 07, 07:14 AM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Did see great graffiti at one of the construction sites when they were building the METRO in Washington D.C. back in 1970

God is love,
Love is blind,
Ray Charles in blind,
Ray Charles is God!

<guffaw> Yup, I saw that one, too!

**Bob C** · 22nd June 07, 07:31 AM

I'm glad Grinder came up with the answer, Dirka. Otherwise, you'd have had me wracking my brain all day. I remember that ad campaign, but I would not have come up with it without help.