The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald
| The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald | |
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Animated version of Ronald McDonald as seen in the show.
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| Created by | McDonald's |
| Written by | Andrew McElfresh Michael Bloom Eryk Casemiro Jane Reardon Vanessa Kaufman |
| Directed by | John Holmquist Jim Duffy |
| Starring | Joe Maggard as Ronald McDonald |
| Voices of |
Joe Maggard Charlie Adler Pamela Adlon Dee Bradley Baker Christine Cavanaugh Jazmine A. Corona Jim Cummings Nika Futterman Paul Greenberg Alex D. Linz Lisa Raggio Kevin Michael Richardson Kath Soucie Verne Troyer |
| Opening theme | "McDonaldland is changing" by Pinky Villandry (ep. 1-3) "The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald" by Joe Maggard (as Ronald McDonald) (ep. 4-6) |
| Composer(s) |
Mark Mothersbaugh Bob Mothersbaugh |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Arlene Klasky Gábor Csupó |
| Running time | 40 minutes (1-6) |
| Production company(s) | Klasky Csupo |
| Distributor | McDonald's |
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| Original network | Direct-to-video |
| Original release | October 9, 1998 – February 21, 2003 |
The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald is a series of retail animated direct-to-video episodes produced by the ka-chew! division of Klasky Csupo for the McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain and about the McDonald's mascot, Ronald McDonald and the gang in McDonaldland. A total of six forty-minute tapes were produced, released at various times between 1998 and 2003.
Although the series is "free-standing", ongoing artistic influences can be inferred from the ways certain characters were drawn for animation similar to the animation from the fellow Klasky Csupo series, Rugrats, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, The Wild Thornberrys and Rocket Power. For example, the character Birdie shares certain aspects of grooming and costume with Eliza Thornberry and Lil DeVille, and the rendition and bearing of the Hamburglar, reminiscent of Darwin and of Chuckie Finster, may have been an influence on the design of Otto Rocket. Elements of early K-C "house style" are also very evident on other supporting characters like Sundae the dog and the Chicken McNuggets. Co-protagonist Tika, however, is a very normal looking human girl of color. Iam Hungry appeared in one part of the episode "Visitors from Outer Space". Also, Mayor McCheese made an appearance in the final two episodes.
A new character named Franklin was also introduced in the first volume in 1998 as the son of Dr. Quizzical (a scientist who was the inventor of Hamburglar's "Quizzical Bear Call" that was seen earlier in the episode). Tika was also included as a human sidekick to Ronald McDonald in the first and fourth volumes. In the first and sixth volumes, Ronald was seen driving a sarcastic anthropomorphic car called the McSplorer. in 2005. the show aired on Noggin in August 6th on Saturday. And The show was created by Zoo Lane Productions, Nick jr, Csupo productions, and Nevala. The Wacky adventures of Ronald Mcdonald is an American Children's Animated Television series That takes Imagination in secret doors. And It teaches Preschoolers all about Friendship, Honesty and more life lessons that can be learned in a Fun, Amazing and Wacky Way! And created by some Stretchy Comedy animation. It can get Better and better untill it gets even more Wackier then ever!
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