YMMV / The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald

• Awesome Music: Many of the songs, all of which come from Klasky-Csupo regulars Bob and Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo fame:
  • Wake up! Wake up! It's another day! Time to get going, why sleep when we can play?
  • There's nothing like the great outdoors, and the Far Flung Forest is the best of course. If you wanna get close to the greenery, then camping in the wild is the place to be.
  • Ronald and the gang's song to welcome the "aliens" in "Visitors from Outer Space" is pretty catchy. "Oh aliens, we welcome thee!"
  • Hey, kids! Did you ever hear the news? Time to put on your adventure shoes! Get ready for some big surprises! Adventures come in lots of sizes!
  • "He makes decisions all day long! Doesn't care if they're right or wrong! Not to worry, he's the judge and jury! A day in the life of, King Murray!"
• Broken Base: Fans of the series seem split on the meaning of the teaser at the end of the final episode promising further installments. One camp believes that this means the series was Cut Short and more episodes were genuinely planned, but another camp suggests that the teaser was just meant as a false comfort to kids since the show was ending. Note that the teaser at the end of the third episode was also somewhat generic like the final teaser, but it still foreshadowed episodes 4-6 whereas the final teaser did no such thing, being bereft of any details about future installments. A third party believes that only six videos were planned initially before it was considered to make more videos when McDonaldland Loch was in production, but the plans were scrapped due to Klasky-Csupo having a falling out with McDonald's at the last minute and only releasing the video after the squabble out of legal obligation, which is supported by the final video only being made available through Klasky-Csupo's now defunct website and the VHS cover being noticeably shoddier in quality than the previous five (the front cover obviously being a screenshot from Scared Silly depicting Tika and the Fry Kids in spite of neither of them appearing in the video and the description on the back cover not saying anything about the video's actual plot in addition to featuring stock art of one of the Fry Kids), which could be indicative of Klasky-Csupo being in such a hurry to be free of their contract with McDonald's by releasing the finished video that they didn't have the patience to make as much effort in designing the cover as the previous five releases.
• Cult Classic: Even if these animated films are tie-ins with one of the world's most infamous fast food franchises, they've still amassed quite a following. It helps that they retain Klasky-Csupo's trademark visual style.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The show was made by Klasky-Csupo, whose most well-known project was Rugrats. Barney Bunch videos usually put Ronald with a Rugrats character, Angelica's father Drew Pickles.
  • Hamburglar's design here has him wear a jacket with his shirt being the only part of his clothing with black-and-white stripes, which is similar to the wardrobe change he received for his revamp in the 2015 third pound sirloin burger ads.
  • At the end of "Visitors from Outer Space", Sundae explains to Ronald that he was only teasing when he said he's looking forward to their next space adventure. This is a lot funnier in light of The Wacky Musical Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Intergalactical Magical Radio, an obscure Audio Adaptation of the Wacky Adventures videos released a short time after "Visitors from Outer Space" that not only involved Ronald and friends journeying through outer space (this time to respond to a distress signal from some aliens) but also noticeably omitted Sundae.
• Memetic Mutation: Many a YouTube Poop has lifted footage from these videos, though usually more from the live-action segments.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • There's the "something behind that door" in Franklin's haunted house, of which we only see freakish eyes, hairy, beastly hands, and a slasher smile.
  • The first video was the first Klasky-Csupo production to use the infamous Vanity Plate, later known as RoboSplaat.
  • In "Grimace Island", the gang is caught in Hostile Weather during their ocean adventure. The scene is already frightening enough, but when Ronald goes up to the crow's nest for some Weather Manipulation, he gets struck by lightning. Not only do his bones show via X-Ray Sparks, but, in a "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" scene, you can see his heart.
• Retroactive Recognition: A year before his Star-Making Role in Austin Powers, Verne Troyer was the man inside the Sundae puppet in the live-action segments.
• Special Effect Failure: The first three videos' openings begin with a model shot of McDonaldland, and the edge of the sky can be seen briefly.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Many viewers find the animatronic suit of Sundae used in the first three videos to be unsettling because of how unnecessarily realistic it looks, which may have been why it was eschewed from the live-action segments from the remaining three videos and Sundae was only heard from offscreen during those segments in "Birthday World" and "The Monster O'McDonaldland Loch".

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