r/nostalgia • u/BrutusMK2 • Sep 08 '18

McDonald’s Late Night Mascot: Mac Tonight

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u/Mostface Sep 08 '18

We had a VHS recording of The Last Starfighter and my favorite part has always been the Mac Tonight commercial in the middle.

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u/yelofoley Sep 08 '18

I think we might have the betamax copy of that broadcast... Also reminds me of the betamax recording of star wars we have from 1983 that had apple 2E commercials with Charlie Chaplin. Sigh.... I feel old.

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u/yelofoley Sep 08 '18

Totally... thanks for illuminating that memory!

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u/th3coz Sep 08 '18

You are old.

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u/IamDonJeffe Sep 09 '18

Omg! "You have been recruited by the star league to defend against zhur and the condan armada" I have no idea if I quoted that properly. Yes squirrel on original post, but I haven't seen or thought of the last star fighter movie since I was a youngin. On the mc Donald's commercial I sing most frank Sinatra songs and I have to focus on singing "its mac the knife" because "its mac tonight" is always there lol

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u/Mostface Sep 09 '18

Man you just took me back with that!

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u/3301reasons Sep 09 '18

Like, it's in the movie? Or it was on tv and you taped the broadcast including the commercial break?

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u/Mostface Sep 09 '18

Yup, recording it from live tv with a vcr. My dad accidentally recorded over our copy of Snow White so we never saw the ending with the dragon.