Jason Alexander does the McDLT
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This ancient ad for McDonald’s failed product roll-out of the McD.L.T. features a young and spry Jason Alexander. In the song if this is Alexander really singing it’s a bit of a surprise to hear a competent singing voice coming out of Jerry’s screaming sidekick. And watch how cat-like he is when he jumps into frame.
Aside from it being made of NastyMeat®, the McD.L.T. required an abominable amount of Styrofoam to keep the hot things hot and the cool things cool. While a good idea in theory, having to assemble a burger flies in the face of the entire concept of fast food. Why not give me two separate cups, one with ice, and one with liquid and have me mix them together you jackasses. What am I, a machine?
Comment // December 27th, 2007 // 3:31 pm
Great site, but just wondering if you were aware that Jason Alexander has been singing on Broadway for longer then he’s been on TV. Check out The Producers sometime, it’s pretty good. ;)
The commercial itself though, is definitely fairly tacky.
Comment // December 28th, 2007 // 9:55 am
No, but I did no research at all on the subject. I’ve heard the Producers was excellent, I didn’t realize he was in that performance.
Comment // December 30th, 2007 // 12:23 pm
Jason Alexander was also in TV movie version of “Bye Bye Birdie.” The man really can dance and sing.
Comment // June 17th, 2009 // 8:20 pm
at one time the mcdonalds adverts was cool
because of ronald mcdonald he was the cornerstone
of mcdonalds in the 80′s to the late 90′s but that fun has long
gone now they dropped the fun loving clown image to the lime green and tack brown image i think that kids should lobby to bring him back it is basicaly the simpsons without krusty the clown mcdonalds what was you thinking
by dumping such great character it was a bad move doing that.
frankie smales
(retro tv advert fan)