From 1998-2003, Linz provided the voice of Franklin, a human boy in the Live-action / animated series, The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, McDonald's released a videotape series titled Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald.

Starting with Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald, in 1998, Ronald wore a different looking suit replacing the french fry bag pockets, with standard red ones and the one on the heart being a red circle with the " M " in the center.

" In " The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald ," he took on a new, sporty appearance wearing green goggles, a leather jacket, striped shirt, shorts and sneakers.

Hamburglar was voiced by Howard Morris in most commercials, Charlie Adler in some 1980s commercials and " The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald "; and Carl W. Wolfe in some 1990s commercials.

Grimace was played by Patti Saunders ( 1971 – 1984 ) and voiced by Frank Welker in the commercials, Larry Moran in some commercials, and by Kevin Michael Richardson in " The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald.

Mayor McCheese was voiced by Howard Morris impersonating Ed Wynn in the commercials and by Bob Joles ( also impersonating Ed Wynn ) in " The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald.

In " The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald ," the Fry Kids were featured with black noses and visible mouths.

The Fry Kids spoke in sped-up voices in the 1980s commercials, were variously voiced in the 1990s commercials, and were voiced by Kath Soucie, Paul Greenberg, and Nika Futterman in " The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald ".

Birdie was a regular in " The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald ", but shown in a different outfit.

Birdie was played by actress Patti Maloney and voiced by Russi Taylor in the commercials and by Christine Cavanaugh in " The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald.

In " The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald ", the McNuggets were shown as large McNuggets with chicken beaks, chicken wings, and cowboy boots.

The McNugget Buddies were voiced by Hal Rayle in the commercials and by Pamela Adlon, Lisa Raggio, and Charlie Adler in " The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald.

He appeared only in " The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald ", where he was animated with puppetry.

Iam Hungry was featured in " The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald " VHS, titled " Visitors from Outer Space ", where he eats the gunk off of Ronald's rocket.

They were re-released on June 5, 2012 in the DVD set of Ernest's Wacky Adventures by Image Entertainment.

Klasky-Csupo also produced a number of projects in commercial advertising, including a series of direct-to-video features ( The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald ) for the McDonald's fast food chain.

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* Wacky Adventures of Cracky

# Pig Detective on Wacky Adventures ( 1998 ) PlayStation roleplaying game for kids.

In the 1990s, The Disney Afternoon, ALF, The Hogan Family, Murphy Brown, Frasier, Seinfeld, Saved by the Bell, California Dreams, The Wacky World of Tex Avery, Garfield and Friends, The Mask, Mummies Alive !, Extreme Ghostbusters, Pocket Dragon Adventures, Pokemon, and other shows landed on the station.

In the late 1990s, more first run syndicated talk and reality shows, such as Forgive or Forget and Ricki Lake began moving onto KTXA while the amount of sitcoms, such as Family Matters, The Jeffersons, Good Times, All in the Family, Gomer Pyle, U. S. M. C., The Beverly Hillbillies, Amen, Step by Step, Sister, Sister, Hangin ' with Mr. Cooper, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Living Single, Mad About You, Coach, Martin, and cartoons, such as Street Sharks, Mighty Max, Monster Rancher, Brand Spanking New Doug, The Wacky World of Tex Avery, Mummies Alive !, Pocket Dragon Adventures, Extreme Ghostbusters, Jumanji, Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, Pokémon, DuckTales, and Hercules were reduced.

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* Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald ( 1998-2003 )

Though the character was dropped during the streamlining of the characters in the mid-1980s, he did appear in a 1999 " The Wacky World of Ronald McDonald " VHS episode entitled " Have Time, Will Travel " and a non-speaking cameo in " The Monster O ' McDonaldland Loch ".

* The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald ( 1998 ) as Blather

* The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald

Hayes also had a short role in The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald as One-Eyed Sally.

On the original model sheet, Tweety was named Orson ( which was also the name of a bird character from an earlier Clampett cartoon Wacky Blackout ).

* Marv Albert with The Wild and the Wacky from the World of Sports

The popular Wild N ' Wacky Wednesday series runs from May to Labor Day.

However, a few had the 1945 opening version of that song — some cartoons had the standard length of the Blue Ribbon title sequence, with the audio from the original credits playing over the part where the cartoon's title is shown ( such as Farm Frolics, Old Glory, Wacky Wildlife, and Tick Tock Tuckered ), while others had a shortened version of said sequence ( edited to fit the length of the music ; cartoons with this style opening included Lost and Foundling and Trap Happy Porky ).

One media term coined to describe the younger Bennett was " Mini-Wac ," derived from another of his father's nicknames, one created by his enemies but ultimately embraced by some supporters-" Wacky ".

" Wacky Races ran on CBS from September 14, 1968, to January 4, 1969.

Series 1 re-used designs that were issued on the 1967 die-cut series and Series 2 re-used designs from the 1969 Wacky Ads.

In addition, the Wacky Packages Old School series released in 2010 featured 33 all new cards, but they were parodies of products from the era of classic Wacky Packages.

This set contained artwork from previously released cards, a test marketed Wacky Can Labels set, as well as more unreleased artwork from the aborted 1992 series to make a set of 72 base cards.

Also from the Wacky Races was the Ant Hill Mob, originally portrayed as a group of crooks but in this incarnation are now are either reformed, never had the criminal background of their earlier Wacky Races incarnation, or are engaging in a protection racket.

The members also has completely new names from the original Wacky Races series ( except for their leader Clyde, who was named " Big Clyde " in the Wacky Races ), who, with their largely self-aware car, Chugga-Boom, acted as the heroes and were constantly rushing to Penelope's rescue.

Plus the Compact Pussycat from Wacky Races is never seen in the series.

In 1973 ' Dick Dastardly's ' Car ( 809 ) was issued featuring models of the characters ' Dick Dastardly ' and his sidekick ' Muttley ' from the children's television programme Wacky Races.

The character has since evolved into a PC game industry in-joke, making appearances in games from Apogee's 1994 Wacky Wheels as well as titles as recent as the 2006 SiN Episodes: Emergence and 2007 Chili Con Carnage and more recently including 2011's Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Muttley ( who turned from a " bluish hue " to a " dusty brown ") wore only a collar in Wacky Races, but in Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines he donned a World War I style aviator's cap and scarf, and served as a flying ace along with Dastardly and two other pilots as members of the " Vulture Squadron ".

As Wacky Races is inspired by the film The Great Race, so was Dastardly derived from the film's chief villain, Professor Fate, played by Jack Lemmon.

The Dread Baron also bears some similarities to the Red Max, another character from the Wacky Races series.

In the unaired pilot of the new Wacky Races series, Wacky Races Forever, Dastardly and Muttley would have been the main villains, working for the vice-president of Perfect Industries, in an attempt to stop the other racers from crossing the finish line.