I expect we will see this commercial a lot during the Olympics.
Cute, right?
Winning isn't everything. Sharing Happy Meals (R) together is much more rewarding than a trophy, right?
The message that came through to me is: maybe if the losers didn't eat so much junk food, they might be step quicker, a little stronger, and could have won that game. When you lose and someone says "Suck it up!", it does not mean "Cover your disappointment by scarfing down a load of grease and carbs," not that there's anything wrong with that.
(I had a big hamburger, some fries and a piece of bluebarry pie last night while sitting on my ass, watching the Olympics. Who am I to criticize?)
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A pleasant memory from the 5th or 6th grade involves trekking to a local McDonald's and treating my younger brother to a cheeseburger, paid for with one of a couple of certificates I'd earned by getting A's in school. Such odd concepts were at play at the time: rewards for success rather than for failure. Wow--weren't we wacky back in the mid '60s? Where were our priorities?
ReplyDeleteI saved one of those cheeseburgers, which is now about as fossilized as my wee little brain. Now, every time I'm passed over for a big promotion at work because I suck, I raise that fossilized cheeseburger high above my head, shouting, "Yeah, you got the BMW and the trophy bride, but I got a Happy Meal with cute plastic action figures of executives with BMWs and trophy brides! And fries, dammit!"
I have not seen that commercial once. Is it an American commercial?
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