For McD’s Swedish Clientele, Fairy Tale Cameos are No Big Deal

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We’re addicted to DDB, Stockholm’s work for McDonald’s. (See “WAKE UP!” and other randomness.) There’s a strange and wonderful pixie magic about it that McD’s lacks Stateside.

Check out the spots for “No Big Deal,” a campaign brought to our attention by Ads of the World. Finding a geriatric under your hood, a knight at your doorstep, an artist who paints with his toes, or a troll playing games with your kid, doesn’t even register on the radar against McDonald’s humblest meals.

If those unnatural-looking meat patties tasted anything like how these ads look, we would eat them every day. Well, probably not. But we’d maybe have chicken nuggets once in awhile.

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