Television
The series finale of “McMillions,” HBO’s docuseries about the McDonald’s Monopoly scam, airs Monday. The Times’ TV team breaks it down.
March 9, 2020
Entertainment & Arts
It has become something of a commonplace since Hamlet first uttered the precept that the purpose of acting is “to hold, as ‘twere, the mirror up to nature.”
Feb. 18, 2015
Business
Same clown, new clothes: Is that the main takeaway of McDonald’s newest makeover of its brand ambassador Ronald McDonald?
April 23, 2014
Ronald McDonald gets new outfit, takes on Twitter. Still creepy?
World & Nation
Antibacterial Baby Boomers Department: Mr. Clean is officially middle-aged.
Aug. 26, 1998
The TV advocacy group Action for Children’s Television plans to lodge a formal complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against CBS for last Friday’s airing of “Ronald McDonald’s Family Theater: The Wish That Changed Christmas,” which was hosted by the clown character and was fully sponsored by McDonald’s restaurants.
Dec. 23, 1991
Food
Marketing: Fast-food chain decides it’s time to update the icon for today’s savvier youth. But please, don’t call him ‘new.’
Oct. 10, 1998
Hockey
Smile, you hockey pucks: Tired of those family photos where everyone seems to wear the expression of a jailed murder suspect?
Feb. 14, 1995
Hoping to make its longtime mascots more appealing to media-savvy kids, McDonald’s Corp. has hired the creator of the edgy “Rugrats” cartoons to give Ronald McDonald and friends a make-over.
July 16, 1998