McDonald’s Gets It All Wrong…Uh…Right in Fishing Ad

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Hey this is a cute McDonald’s commercial but let’s analyze all that’s wrong and odd with this spot. If a boy is out fishing in the middle of nowhere with his father/grandfather, how likely is it they’d have McDonald’s take out? It’d be pretty cold by the time they got to the fishing hole. How wrong is it the boy uses a french fry as bait knowing even if the fish bit it, it’d kill it. Oh wait. strike that. And how likely would it be a crowd of crazed kids would come crashing out of the middle of nowhere at the mere sniff of a McDonald’s french fry? Oh wait. Strike that too.

Apparently, we are completely wrong on this one. The power of the McDonald’s french fry is so overpowering most people would do anything to get their hands on one. Guess Leo Burnett is a lot smarter than we thought.

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