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Did somebody say McDonald's?

* [[Retraux]]: Many restaurants in the 1980s and 1990s were built in a faux-fifties style. Some of them were even built to have only drive-thru and walk-up service, like the earliest ones.

* [[Too Smart for Strangers]]: [http://youtu.be/Jwb9W51j7fo The second commercial] seemed to be ''trying'' for this, but instead, it just comes off as incredibly creepy.

'''Ronald''': Well your mother's right as always, but, I'm Ronald McDonald! Here, give me a McDonald's shake! }}

* [[Repurposed Pop Song]]:

* In ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', Jules and Vincent discuss what a Quarter Pounder with cheese is called in France. It's apparently called a "Royale with Cheese" and a Big Mac is called "Le Big Mac". <ref>[http://www.mcdonalds.fr/alacarte/sandwichs-1/products-0 In real life], ''Royal Deluxe'' and just plain ''Big Mac'' respectively.</ref>

* [[The Onion]] did a spoof article stating that a new mascot called the Hammurderer had been pulled from the McDonaldland cast.

* In ''[[Coming to America]]'', Akeem finds work at a fast food restaurant called McDowell's. Since McDonald's actually exists in the film's universe, the similarity is heavily [[Lampshaded]].

* In ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'', the boys work at Burger World. The establishment's logo is an upside down version of the Golden Arches, a common way to parody the franchise.

** Guest starring Ronald McDonald [[Character as Himself|As Himself]].

* [[Dire Straits|Mark Knopfler]]'s song "Boom, Like That", is all about Ray Kroc's turning McDonald's into a franchise, and his less than nice techniques. (After he bought them out, the original McDonald brothers started a new restaurant. Kroc put a McDonald's across the street and ran them out of business.)

* An odd reference in ''[[Scotland, PA]]'', a [[Black Comedy]] [[Setting Update]] of ''[[Macbeth]]'' in a rural fast-food restaurant in the 70's. After Joe and Pat murder Duncan and take over his restaurant, they rename it after themselves: McBeth's. They even use a giant letter M as their logo.

* Mooby's of the [[View Askewniverse]] is an obvious parody. ''[[Clerks II]]'' is set almost entirely inside one.