Happy Meal
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Sep 13, 2026
Eddy WebbHOST
It was explicitly meant to be a kids' movie.
Eddy WebbHOST
There were – the Los Angeles Times estimated there were nearly 5,000 Speed Racer-related merchandise, toys, kids, Happy Meals stuff, video games, die-cast vehicles, race sets, stuff like that.
Eddy WebbHOST
It was a movie to move toys.
Eddy WebbHOST
And Wachowski
Matt McCuskerGUEST
[laughs]
Chris WilliamsonHOST
It's like, "Do you wanna go with super large on the, on the Happy Meal to super-size it?"
Matt McCuskerGUEST
Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
Matt McCuskerGUEST
It's, it's a, but it, it's one of those things I think that's very important in these cases, where that they, if they can get you on that, that's how they kinda get you.
Cassandra EmmersonGUEST
If the brand was a logo, then what are they doing all this time?
BenHOST
The Happy Meal is probably the greatest invention of any marketing ploy I've ever seen.
BenHOST
When you're a child, it's called a Happy Meal.
BenHOST
You go and get it when you want to be happy.
Cassandra EmmersonGUEST
It's identity.
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BenHOST
The takeaway stores do it amazingly.
BenHOST
McDonald's in particular.
BenHOST
The Happy Meal is probably the greatest invention of any marketing ploy I've ever seen.
Breanna HeimHOST
He didn't know those people.
Breanna HeimHOST
So the fact you can just be living your life, wanting to take your eight-month-old baby or your nine-year-old daughter to a McDonald's to get a Happy Meal, and there's some person that's having a bad day, and then, then your life is just over.
Breanna HeimHOST
That is a thought that absolutely horrifies me because there's nothing you can even do about it.
Breanna HeimHOST
It's not like you can just stay inside all of the time.
speaker_2HOST
I don't buy that entirely, though.
speaker_2HOST
From a studio executive's perspective, wouldn't you desperately want to soften a Roald Dahl book? Like a happy, less terrifying movie sells more McDonald's Happy Meals, doesn't it? Why wouldn't you round off the sharp edges?
speaker_3HOST
Well, you might want to, but if you actually sand off the menace, you completely destroy the mechanism that makes the story compelling to a child in the first place.
speaker_3HOST
The source brings up the 2020 adaptation of The Witches as a frequent critical example of this.
Cory KinnanHOST
Neither.
Cory KinnanHOST
It's like, what toy is better, from McDonald's Happy Meal or Burger King's Kids Meal? Like, I don't know what matters here.
Cory KinnanHOST
Yeah.
Cory KinnanHOST
So, like, he's going to put up numbers.
KiraPANELIST
Supersize?
RichPANELIST
The Happy Meal? I don't know.
KiraPANELIST
That's kind of cute.
KiraPANELIST
The Happy Meal and everybody's just frowning.
KiraPANELIST
I
JacobHOST
was about to say, I
DominicHOST
You got a fucking cell phone.
DominicHOST
You got out of Arby's Happy Meal.
DominicHOST
Does Arby's even have Happy Meals? No.
AndyHOST
I'm going to name this podcast Mint Mobile, and you're going to have a more visceral reaction to that.
AndyHOST
Okay, guys, for the record, I did not agree to calling this podcast Mint Mobile.
Erin SpeedyHOST
I mean, it's such a good story.
Erin SpeedyHOST
What's the feedback you get from this? Do most New Zealanders know when they're going through the drive-thru and they're getting their cheeseburger or their Happy Meal to keep the kids quiet in the back seats or whatever it is, do you think most New Zealanders know about the impact that they are having by buying that on farmers across the country?
Simon KennyGUEST
I'm not sure they do.
Simon KennyGUEST
I don't know.
Erin SpeedyHOST
I mean, it's such a good story.
Erin SpeedyHOST
Would you, I mean, what's the feedback you get from this? Do most New Zealanders know when they're going through the drive-through and they're getting their cheeseburger or their Happy Meal to keep the kids quiet in the back seats or whatever it is, do you think most New Zealanders know about the impact that they are having by buying that on farmers across the country?
Simon KennyGUEST
I'm not sure they do.
Simon KennyGUEST
I don't know.
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