The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Scared Silly

I remember hearing about this video when it was released 25 years ago, and you could get it at your favorite McDonald's restaurant. However, I didn't think of buying it back then until a friend told me about it.

In this video, Ronald McDonald head for Far-Flung Forest to go camping, but some of the friends are a bit scared because of a story about ghost called the Far-Flung Phantom. Turns out that the one who is best at scaring everyone is the Hamburglar. He seems to like scary stories. At the end of it all, Ronald and his friends make a new friend who happened to play the biggest scary joke on them.

Look for this, and other Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald on YouTube.

Like the title suggests, this is the first of six direct-to-sale videos developed by Klasky-Csupo (Rugrats, The Wild Thornberrys) for McDonalds. It features Ronald McDonald in both Live-action and animated segments and is very... well... "Klasky-Csupo" (if you've ever seen Rugrats, you know what I mean.)

The titles in the series include: Scared Silly, Grimace Island, Visitors from Outer Space, Birthday World, Have Time, Will Travel and The Legend of Mcdonald-Land Loch.

As an adult, I can barely sit through these programs. The music is gawd-awful and the story lines too sickeningly sweet and have positive messages to a fault. However, my kids adore them. Even though they were produced as early as 1998, they continue to request them even now. So, they definitely have staying power within their target audience which is more than I can say about the vast majority of the competition.

Finding these movies today might prove difficult as they were primarily released only at McDonald's Restaurants on a limited basis. However, scan your garage sales, pawn shops, and the video store discount shelves and you might get lucky!

My mom bought my brother and I this on VHS when we were like six. We were in love with it and still are! No matter where we would go we had to take it with us so we wouldn't die of boredom. The songs, the haunted house, the characters, and the riddles were all fun and mysterious to us. We also have the Grimace Island tape and the one where Hamburgler goes to outer space, but his one will always be my favorite because it was the first one and it's much more scary and engaging. There are funny lines as well and some magic. I loved all the little trap doors in the house and the creepy man behind the door. This is overall a great movie for little kids.

You may not believe it, but this movie was EXTREMELY funny. And I don't mean it was funny because it was bad, it wasn't bad at all. It was surprisingly very well done and very funny. Some of the jokes were a bit much, and almost made it deserve an PG Rating or higher, but most stay out of the gutter and sexual joke area. If you enjoy the humor in such classics as Ghostbusters and American Beauty, you will LOVE this film and I guarantee you will want to purchase it right away.

All right I had this film when I was about 9,or 8. It was very funny. I can't believe I said that. It had some silly humor. But the songs weren't needed. This movie was just something I rember,having fun. I`ve seen all most all of these cute little videos. They were fun at the time. I gave them to a little cousin so he could have that fun,I had.

3/4