Showing posts with label Happy Meal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy Meal. Show all posts

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Happy Vader?


The kids were off school today and I ended up staying home with them. So I did what any good Dad does on a day like that, we went to McDonalds!
I was thrilled to see that there were "Star Wars" toys in the Happy Meals. A kindly Mc-employee even gave me one which will soon take up residence in my office. I was struck though when I looked at one of the Happy Meal boxes my kids got. It featured the head of Darth Vader and in big letters the words "Happy Meal." It just seemed a bit strange seeing Vader and the word "Happy" in such close proximity. I mean, Darth Vader just isn't a happy guy. But I suppose the folks in the Mc-marketing department figured that calling it the "Burned to a crisp and stuffed into a walking iron lung meal" just didn't have the same ring to it.