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Jul 8, 2026 51 min

McDonaldLand

from Busted Business Bureau Hosted by Christian Borkey

Were I to have a Patreon feed, this is where I would put that. But I don't. So fuck it. McDonaldLand. Come check out this hallucinatory marketing franchise with its own fan wiki, and its copyright infringing origins! W Check out Cherry Wood in her ongoing competition BFF at Splash Chicago on Wednesdays at 9pm throughout July and August of 2026! SOURCES: I made it up 1. Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions Inc. v. McDonald's Corp. c. 1977: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/562/1157/293262/ 2. Sid and Marty telling the Liberace story and their Dean Martin TV origins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLrEXvLV3_Y 3. "My brother is like Walt Disney without the budget" - Valerie Kuklenski's article in the New York Times from March 23rd, 2003 titled "Marty Krofft: Hollywood supports 'PufNStuf' comeback" 4. Literally every fucking episode of HR PufNStuf: https://youtu.be/m3WldNegaZY?si=TiGKM5i6qCskQ6TZ 5. The 2007 edition of “Litigation Services Handbook: The Role of the Financial Expert” which I absolutely did pirate because my library did not offer any ebook copies 6. Compare the 1970s McDonaldLand commercial to the 2025 one and see if you can track how much advertisers hack into our dopamine systems lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a3NNaauNgw | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZfybUBRa0E 7. The McDonaldLand fan wiki that'll fry any computer that opens it: https://mcdonalds.fandom.com/wiki/McDonaldland

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