Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy ( who called themselves the " Two Guys from Andromeda "), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek ( the theme song itself is a parody of the Star Wars theme ), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft.

His presence bridged the gap between the current band and the McDonald era ; he sang lead vocals on the song " One Step Closer " ( as he originally had on the 1980 album ) while Simmons took McDonald's part.

The court however upheld McDonald's laches defense, noting that Ory and her father were aware of the original version of the song, with the same questionable section, for some three decades without bringing a suit.

The song " Jesus at McDonald's " from that album was the duo's first noteworthy single.

Broken Social Scene's song " Lover's Spit " from 2002's You Forgot It in People has been featured in director Clément Virgo's movie Lie with Me ( 2005 ), Paul McGuigan's Wicker Park ( 2004 ), Bruce McDonald's The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess ( 2004 ), Showtime's Queer as Folk ( 2003 ) and the penultimate episode of the Canadian series Terminal City.

Its title is wordplay on the Led Zeppelin song " No Quarter " and the name of a hamburger made by McDonald's, a Quarter Pounder ( so named for its pre-cooked weight ).

They began as a street busking collective, sometimes with Graeme Kirkland contributing on drums, and won a role in Bruce McDonald's 1989 film Roadkill, playing buskers in a field performing their song " The Sound " produced by Bob Wiseman.

"" Chris Rock also comments on busboys in his song Busboys, McDonald's And Minimum Wage that appears on his comedy album Born Suspect.

In 2007 McDonald's used the song in a television commercial in which a young boy dressed in old school hip hop fashion listens to the song while enjoying a meal with his family.

The finale song is the title track of Audra McDonald's 2000 album How Glory Goes, and was also included on Brian Stokes Mitchell's 2006 self-titled album.

* McDonald's menu song

In the Philippines, a version of the song with slightly altered lyrics was used in a TV advertisement promoting McDonald's Big N ' Tasty.

In 1992, McDonald's used a rewritten version of the song for one of their commercials, replacing all of the lyrics except for the first line with ones pertaining to their talking Happy Meal items and Ronald McDonald.

" Come Down From the Tree ", was a song for Mama Euralie ; it is included in several recordings, including Audra McDonald's How Glory Goes.

On Michael McDonald's 2003 album, Motown ( the first of 2 albums of Motown cover songs ), the song was covered as well.

In Spring 2008, McDonald's underwent the first phase of their new image and slogan: ' What we're made of.

He has worked for clients like Nintendo, Arizona State Fair, JCPenney, McDonald's, InSinkErator, The Arizona Republic, Dremel, Bank of America, General Electric, and others ; as a producer of the Crispin Glover film What Is It?

Specifically, Bell ruled that McDonald's endangered the health of their workers and customers by " misleading advertising ", that they " exploit children ", that they were " culpably responsible " in the infliction of unnecessary cruelty to animals, and that they were " antipathetic " to unionisation and paid their workers low wages.

Instrumental hit songs could emphasize electronic organ ( The Tornados ' " Telstar ", Dave " Baby " Cortez's " The Happy Organ ", Johnny & the Hurricanes ' " Red River Rock "), or the saxophone ( The Champs ' " Tequila ", Bill Black's Combo's " Don't Be Cruel ", The Piltdown Men's " McDonald's Cave "), but the guitar was most prominent.

The first single off the album was " Peg ", which featured Michael McDonald's backing vocals and peaked at US # 11.

In addition to being the home to Ronald and the other core characters, McDonaldland boasted a theme park of " Thick Shake Volcanoes ", anthropomorphized " Apple Pie Trees ", " French Fry Bushes " ( where McDonald's French Fries grew from bushes ), " The Hamburger Patch " ( where McDonald's hamburgers grew out of the ground like plants ), " Filet-O-Fish Lake ", and many other fanciful features based around various McDonald's menu items.

The LP featured the hit title track and the Top 10 smash " Real Love " ( not to be confused with the John Lennon composition ) but did not dominate the charts and the radio as Minute by Minute had two years earlier, largely due to an oversaturation of the " McDonald sound " by many other artists ( such as Robbie Dupree's hit " Steal Away ", which copied the " McDonald sound " nearly note for note ) heard on the radio at that time — not to mention McDonald's numerous guest vocal appearances on hits by other artists at that time, such as Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, and Nicolette Larson.

Liebeck's attorneys argued that McDonald's coffee was " defective ", claiming it was too hot and more likely to cause serious injury than coffee served at any other establishment.

*" Gone Jellyfishin '" ( VHS ) ( 1991 )-Contains videos for " The King Is Half-Undressed ", " That Is Why ", " Baby's Coming Back ", " plus a pleasant surprise " aka a video bonus ( a narrated trip to McDonald's while on tour ).

A related claim is that McDonald's buys its meat from a company called " 100 % beef ", making it possible for McDonald's to call beef by-products and soy products " 100 % beef ".

McDonald's Canada's corporate website states that the commercial campaigns have always focused on the " overall McDonald's experience ", rather than just product.

Although some measure of truth lies within the tale, it is largely an idealized account written by author Bigelow Paine and loosely based on McDonald's statements, published in Paine's classic book Captain Bill McDonald: Texas Ranger in 1909.

A Big Mac combo meal with French fries and Coca-Cola served at a McDonald's in Louisvile, Kentucky.

Friday's and McDonald's and the efforts of individual restaurateurs such as Bob Payton, credited with bringing American-style pizza to the UK.

In the " Question and Answer " section of his website, Brooks explains that the " Double Quarter-Pounder with Cheese " meal from McDonald's possesses a special " base frequency " and that he thus recommends it as occasional food for beginning breatharians.

LeBron James has endorsement contracts with Nike, Inc. | Nike, Sprite ( soft drink ) | Sprite, Glacéau, Bubblicious, Upper Deck Company | Upper Deck, McDonald's and State Farm.

Other significant storylines that year included Peter Barlow's battle against alcoholism, Ken Barlow's affair with actress Martha Fraser after his dog Eccles fell in the canal, Maria giving birth to Liam's son and her subsequent relationship with Liam's killer Tony, Steve McDonald's marriage to Becky Granger and Kevin Webster's affair with Molly Dobbs.

Subsequently, in 1967, Ray Kroc of McDonald's contracted the Simplot company to supply them with frozen fries, replacing fresh-cut potatoes.

McDonald's was assumed to fry their fries for a total time of about 15 to 20 minutes, and with fries fried at least twice.

Recently, fast-food has also become more popular in Greece and Europe, with local chains such as Goody's springing up, but the McDonald's have mainly closed down.

An aerial view of the naval base with the Navy Exchange and McDonald's at left and an outdoor movie theater at bottom right, 1995

It has been reported that prisoners cooperating with interrogations have been rewarded with Happy Meals from the McDonald's located on the mainside of the base.

In Hawaii, Burger King began serving Spam in 2007 on its menu to compete with the local McDonald's chains.

In a further attack on the company, the map of Cuntinental Europe-given away free with Issue 118 and showing a large cartoon of stereotypes of the British and their neighbours over the relevant geographical areas-displayed the McDonald's logo on potentially insensitive locations, such as the Parthenon and the vicinity of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

* The first McDonald's restaurant opens in Moscow in 1990 with then-President of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR and future Russian President Boris Yeltsin attending, symbolizing Russia's transition towards a capitalist free market economy and a move towards adopting elements of western culture.

** In San Ysidro, California, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty sprays a McDonald's restaurant with gunfire, killing 21 people before being shot and killed.

This judgement, given on 15 February 2005, represented the end of the pair's 20-year battle with McDonald's.

In Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants ( 1994 ), a very high and therefore often criticized amount of damages were awarded to a woman who burned herself with hot coffee she purchased from McDonald's.

7-Eleven, primarily operating as a franchise, is the world's largest operator, franchisor and licensor of convenience stores, with more than 46, 000 outlets, surpassing the previous record-holder McDonald's Corporation in 2007 by approximately 1, 000 retail stores.

At the end of 2010, Subway was the largest fast food chain on Earth, with 33, 749 restaurants worldwide, 1, 012 more than McDonald's.

Today, American-founded fast food chains such as McDonald's and KFC are multinational corporations with outlets across the globe.

Enticed by the success of the McDonald's concept, Kroc signed a franchise agreement with the brothers and began opening McDonald's restaurants in Illinois.