Theories on Grimace

[justaGUYnamedROB]

Speaking of McDonald's, does anybody have any clues what the heck this guy is supposed to be?:

I'm gonna have to go with: Evil Eggplant Wizard

 

[IDDQD]

He's the posterchild of why pregnant women shouldn't work in nuclear facilities. :v

 

[mina]

a dropping of a purple people eater.

 

[justaGUYnamedROB]

Yeah I can see the "drop" part, based on his overall body shape.

What I never quite got though is why did they make him purple? If he's supposed to represent shakes, which are cold, why not blue?

And does anybody find it an odd coincidence that "Barney the Dinosaur" happens to be almost the same shade of purple too?

 

[mina]

i'll be honest. Grimace always scared me as a child. What does his name mean anyway? that he's unhappy? hates children but pretends with a grimace on his face? Does he feel torn b/c perhaps he's health concious but is forced to haulk cheap greasy food to the massses? Is Ronald McDonald blackmailing him? what is the backstory?

 

[GuacaMolly]

He always looked like a grape gum drop that's been licked and then stuck in a coat pocket because grape is always the worst.

 

[GoodNewsJim]

He's the teletubbies daddy.

 

[latteda]

He always looked like a grape gum drop that's been licked and then stuck in a coat pocket because grape is always the worst.

I was thinking puppet gum drop, also.

 

[justaGUYnamedROB]

Is Ronald McDonald blackmailing him?

Wouldn't surprise me. Probably has some photos of him in a compromising situation with Cookie Monster or something, and just uses him as cheap pawn to do all his dirty work.

Come to think of it, I have heard Ronald McDonald's name come up in certain circles whenever the topic of the "Kennedy Assassination" has been brought up.

Third gunman on the grassy knoll? He wouldn't!

 

[Mrs. Luther073082]

I think he is a poop. His name is Grimace because people grimace when they make poops.

 

[mina]

Wouldn't surprise me. Probably has some photos of him in a compromising situation with Cookie Monster or something, and just uses him as cheap pawn to do all his dirty work.

Come to think of it, I have heard Ronald McDonald's name come up in certain circles whenever the topic of the "Kennedy Assassination" has been brought up.

Third gunman on the grassy knoll? He wouldn't!

i wouldn't be surprised! :o I wouldn't put anything past that clown!

 

[justaGUYnamedROB]

Cognition is fun.

 

[PrincessFromOz]

I think he's the picture of what occurs if one eats too many burgers. One gets larger around the middle.. and eventually turns purple

 

[unkalledfor]

he's a suppository

 

[justaGUYnamedROB]

BoarderDave brought something rather startling to my attention in the "T-shirts that say something" thread:

Notice how the overall blobbish shape of the body doesn't change much, and the color variation is only slight. But it's striking how we start off with a creature with kind, almost human eyes, and they get progressively blacker and beadier further down the "chain." Notice how the mouth starts off toothless...then it moves into the beginnings of a set of teeth that appear to be those of a herbivore and rather unthreatening...and then we end up with a downright frightening set of fangs that would make even the most jaded T-Rex cringe.

Could we be looking at a possible genetic link here?

A single genome in various stages of evolution?

Today, The Happy Meal.....tomorrow, the world?

 

[Spicy McHaggis]

I always assumed Grimace represented the milkshakes on the menu.

Grimace being the face you make when you get brainfreeze.

I can't explain why he's purple though. Hypothermia maybe?

 

[unkalledfor]

Grimace is a large, purple being of indeterminate species with short arms and legs; he is known for his monotonous face and slow-witted demeanor. His most common expression is the word "duh". Originally, Grimace was the "Evil Grimace", with two pairs of arms with which to steal milkshakes. After that first campaign, the character was revised to be one of the "good guys", and his number of arms was reduced by two. Commercials and merchandise generally portrayed him as a well-meaning simpleton, whose clumsy antics provided a comic foil to Ronald McDonald. The character was retained after the streamlining of the characters in the '80s, but was dropped in 2007.

 

[Inkachu]

he's a suppository

:stifling snort-laughter:

 

[Inkachu]

BoarderDave brought something rather startling to my attention in the "T-shirts that say something" thread:

Notice how the overall blobbish shape of the body doesn't change much, and the color variation is only slight. But it's striking how we start off with a creature with kind, almost human eyes, and they get progressively blacker and beadier further down the "chain." Notice how the mouth starts off toothless...then it moves into the beginnings of a set of teeth that appear to be those of a herbivore and rather unthreatening...and then we end up with a downright frightening set of fangs that would make even the most jaded T-Rex cringe.

Could we be looking at a possible genetic link here?

A single genome in various stages of evolution?

Today, The Happy Meal.....tomorrow, the world?

:Starts choking on her sandwich and keels over from deathly lunch-laughter:

 

[radhead]

He's a strange phenomenon unexplained by modern science. We (man) created him. He's an unspeakably blasphemous creation of our collective subconscious minds. Birthed at a time when the whole world "loved" McDonald's. This mystical/prophetic oddity of human nature was our unknown, but foreseen, real reaction to McDonald's in the future.

Did we really love McDonald's? The grimace [wink] says not.