Dude! Mayor McCheese was plagiarism!

[Tweed]

http://www.answers.com/topic/mayor-mccheese

"Mayor McCheese is the mayor of the fictional McDonaldland, created for an advertising narrative for the McDonald's fast food chain. He has an enormous cheeseburger for a head, and sports a top hat, diplomat's sash and monocle. His Chief of Police is Big Mac.

In 1973, courts sided with Sid and Marty Krofft that McCheese bore too close a resemblance to H.R. Pufnstuf, and that all the other McDonaldland residents were plagiarism as well.

He has largely been phased out of the McDonaldland canon in recent years."

How sad, Mayor McCheese rules!

[Kire]

1. "all the other McDonaldland residents"?

did they all change in 1973?

I wouldn't know, I was still crawling around in the "Playland" in the early '80s.

[expatriot]

2. I used to dream that McDonaldland was a real place... as a kid

I mean day dreams and night dreams... To me it existed somewhere in a fantasy world between amusement park and mythic realm.... I mean it was real... you could get to it by going down those long hallways of buildings you were never allowed to explore because you were too small and just had to follow your parents.

[Tweed]

3. They had a Sega McDonald's game

I wish I could get my hands on that game. It was alot of fun.

[Longgrain]

4. Yep! Here's the guy he was ripped off from...

I could tell you the whole story...but I just don't have the time...