The Retrologist by Rolando Pujol

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A drive-thru in Anaheim and other places where McDonald's Mac Tonight is still creepily crooning

A drive-thru in Anaheim and other places where McDonald's Mac Tonight is still creepily crooning

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May 17, 2012
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A drive-thru in Anaheim and other places where McDonald's Mac Tonight is still creepily crooning
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He’s part of any decent 1980s nostalgia session: The creepy McDonald’s singing crescent moon who plays a mean piano and goes by the name Mac Tonight, a play on Bobby Darin’s “Mack the Knife,” the song which Mac also riffed on in the service of selling Big Macs to adults.

The campaign, which began on the West Coast in 1986 and went national the next year,…

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