McDonald's

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Sesame Street sponsor

McDonald's is a world-wide fast-food chain known primarily for hamburgers. It has offered a number of Happy Meal toys for kids and other premiums based on Muppet productions such as The Great Muppet Caper, Muppet Babies, Fraggle Rock, Dinosaurs, Muppet Treasure Island and Chicken Dance Elmo.

McDonald's is the title sponsor of the McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade, which has featured Bear in the Big Blue House, Muppet and Sesame Street balloons over the years. In recent years McDonald's has also been one of the corporate sponsors for Sesame Street.

In 2003, a German McDonald's commercial used a toy Kermit puppet by Applause to promote miniature Muppet plush Happy Meal toys.

McDonald's Canada is a sponsor of Waste Reduction Week, which features Sesame Street characters like Oscar the Grouch.

Loretta Long was struck by a car, after using the washroom at a McDonald's, while waiting for her Chinese food.

References

• On My Way with Sesame Street Volume 13 features a page of Twiddlebug riddles which spoofs the McDonald's franchise as "McTwiddles." The riddles go on to include a real recipe for making McTwiddle burgers.

See also

• Ronald McDonald