Trivia / The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald

• Acting for Two:
  • Kevin Michael Richardson voices both Grimace and Chief Gunga of the Grimaces.
  • Charlie Adler voices Hamburglar, the McSplorer, and McNugget #3 (the purple one).
  • Corey Burton voices a bug incensed by the gang using the word "bugs" in a negative light as well as an angry mob member in the Wild West in the penultimate video "Have Time, Will Travel".
• Children Voicing Children:
  • Tika and Frankin were respectively voiced by Jazmine A. Corona and Alex D. Linz, who were both around nine when the series began.
  • Almost averted with Warren Sroka as the child king Murray in Have Time, Will Travel, who was 17 at the time the video was released.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Morgan Spurlock's documentary Super Size Me features a scene depicting footage from the first video "Scared Silly" accompanied by John Banzhaf referring to the series as a cartoon on TV that features Ronald McDonald and claiming it airs on Nickelodeon every day. The Wacky Adventures videos were released Direct to Video and never aired on any television network, major or otherwise. Furthermore, the only connection The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald has with Nickelodeon is that the videos' production company Klasky-Csupo also produced the Nicktoons Rugrats, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, The Wild Thornberrys, As Told by Ginger and Rocket Power, which is presumably why Banzhaf erroneously attributed the Wacky Adventures series to being a cartoon airing on that channel.
• Invisible Advertising: The series was advertised a lot when the first three tapes were released, but the second half of the series wasn't. Made worse that the sixth and final video was only available through the Klasky-Csupo website in 2002/2003 as McDonalds never put that episode through their restaurants.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Much like McDonald's Happy Meal toys, these videos were not made to last. Each installment was only sold for a limited-time and even the Klasky Csupo website only had limited quantities. They have also never received a reissue of any kind, not even on DVD.
• Kids' Meal Toy: in 1999, a set of eight LEGO building kits were released. They could be used separately or together. Each one had a slope brick featuring an image of one of the series' characters; Ronald, Sundae, Birdie, McNugget Buddy, Grimace, Fry Guy, Hamburglar, and Fry Girl.
• No Export for You: The videos were not widely distributed available outside of the United States, if at all:
  • It’s known for sure that at the very least, the first two VHS tapes were available at McDonalds stores in Australia, though considerably later than their US counterparts (they were possibly released as late as 1999-2001). Anything beyond that is a lot harder to find.
• The Other Darrin: A few characters have different voice actors from the ones who were their standard voice actors in the advertisements at the time.
  • Christine Cavanaugh replaces Russi Taylor as Birdie.
  • Kevin Michael Richardson replaces Frank Welker as Grimace.
  • Bob Joles replaces Howard Morris as Mayor McCheese in his brief cameo in "Have Time, Will Travel".
  • In spite of being a tie-in to the Wacky Adventures videos, the tie-in audio play Intergalactical Magical Radio notably has Hamburglar, Grimace and Birdie voiced by their standard commercial voice actors Carl W. Wolfe, Frank Welker and Russi Taylor instead of Charlie Adler, Kevin Michael Richardson and Christine Cavanaugh (Russi Taylor is the only one that qualifies as The Original Darrin, as she was the only voice actress Birdie ever had in the standard McDonaldland ads and Grimace and Hamburglar's original voice actors were respectively Lennie Weinrib and Larry Storch).
• Production Posse: Hamburglar, Birdie and the bear from "Scared Silly" are respectively Ickis, Oblina and Krumm from Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.
• Role Reprise:
  • Jack Doepke, the actor who played Ronald during the 1990s, provided his voice.
  • Same thing with David Hussey, who replaced Doepke in 2000.
  • Jeff Lupetin also reprises his role of Iam Hungry.
  • Also, Charlie Adler reprises the Hamburglar, having previously voiced him in the "Hamburglar Touch" commercial in 1984.
• What Could Have Been: If the ending of "The Monster O'McDonaldland Loch" is any indication, there were going to be more than just six videos.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: The first three videos (Scared Silly, The Legend of Grimace Island, and Visitors From Outer Space) were produced in 1998, but the latter two were released in January and April 1999. Birthday World was produced in 2000, but came out the following year. The sixth and final video (The Legend of Ol' McDonaldland Loch) was produced in 2001 and released two years later.
• You Sound Familiar: Org is voiced by Carl W. Wolfe, who also voiced the Hamburglar in some 1990s commercials.

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