Happy Meal
on March 23, 2015 at 12:01 amI was staring at this comic for a while, wondering to myself, what sort of monkey/ape creature would come with a Batman Happy Meal toy set? And then I asked around and I was immediately shamed for not realizing these were Nightscream and Optimus Primal from Beast Machines. I mean, it makes much more sense for Joyce to not know who those guys are than Batman, even with her mind wipe. If a mindwiped girl knows who Hello Kitty is, she can probably figure out Batman. Dude’s kind of everywhere. But Transformers back then, before the new movies, were pretty ignorable.
Plus recognizing Nightscream is a reason TO mindwipe yourself, anyway.
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I learned both as a kid and when I was trying to get Pokémon toys as an adult: you just gotta ask, and they’ll give the ones you want,
Assuming it’s in stock.
I realized when I was a kid all you have to do is give them two quarters and they give you the toy without having to eat their nasty food.
People working the cash register at McDonald’s probably have seen much weirder things than “a grown-up ordering a Happy Meal, and specifying a particular toy.”
Despite knowing this in my head, I don’t think I’d have the courage to do so myself. Both in terms of asking for a Happy Meal, and then dealing with the terrifying Happy Meal in front of me.
Don’t even need to buy the Happy Meal. You can usually just buy the toys separately.
As if I would deny myself the Mcnuggets.
I have an aunt who was pushing 80 years of age with both hands who actually paid money to buy the entire display of little “Madame Alexander” dolls when they were in the Happy Meals seven or eight years ago.
What’s with the glare from the register guy? And how did she get a transformer? That long ago the toys were given based on gender.
I think its because she’s too old to be ordering a happy meal? Although there’s really no way they’d react that IRL, probably.
You still find shockingly rude people in the service industry. Depends on what standards they are being held to by the manager.
Register people don’t care, one button is the same as any others. I could see the people making the order glaring.
As a register person, I can guarantee I do care. However, i work at Burger King, not McDonalds….so there’s that.
Somebody may have put it in the wrong box. It happens now and then.
There’s the Gorilla Gangster of Gotham, but he’s probably a bit obscure for a Happy Meal toy. Or any kind of toy.
There’s also Jackanapes, but not in 1999.
There are a lot more than you’d think. Gorillas were apparently kind of a big deal in comics at one point.
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Wow, all these years, I assumed the bat-guy was Batman. The incompatibility with “monkey” never even occurred to me.
If only we all could forget Nightscrap.
I hated that guy’s hair so much.
I don’t even know anything about his character. I was just REALLY focused on how awful her hair is.
By the time the last pokemon black/white collection came to Mexico the employers were used to it. God that search for the pikachu… Like a hundred Mcdonalds all over Mexico city and I could only manage to get one with another friend of my hometown who has only 2 places… damn.
There is even menu that is exactly the happy meal except with the “fruit” and with more mcnuggets or just bigger portions… because they know…