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Recap / Epic Rap Battles Of History Ronald Mc Donald Vs The Burger King

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Fast food wars take a whole new meaning as McDonalds clown Ronald McDonald takes on the King from Burger King, unaware that they're about to get some major competition.


  • Always Second Best:
    • The King points out that the highest ranking official in Ronald's entourage is Mayor McCheese, a position far lower than that of nobility.
    • Wendy claims that the King's breakfast croissants are actually worse than Ronald's McGriddle. Also counts as Damned by Faint Praise on Ronald's part.
  • Calling the Old Man Out: Wendy almost immediately disses Ronald and the King as losers old enough to be her fathers. (Which they technically are if you go by when the companies were founded: McDonald's in 1940, Burger King in 1953, Wendy's in 1969).
  • Didn't Think This Through: Ronald thinks this of Burger King's decision to use Cheetos in their recipes. Also overlaps with No True Scotsman, since Ronald says at least his recipes haven't changed since Willard Scott played him first.
  • I Have No Son!: Wendy claims McDonalds did this to Ronald by replacing him with a box with a face.
  • Incoming Ham: Wendy appears to a chanting of "Where's the Beef?"
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Ronald concedes that the King's onion rings "are pretty good".
  • Monster Clown: The King accuses Ronald of being this, comparing him to Pennywise by claiming he looks like he ate someone's brother in a storm drain.
  • Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: The King has no idea who EpicLloyd is, so Ronald comparing himself to Nice Peter and the King to EpicLloyd goes right over his head. Of course, this is Self-Deprecation to the show's creators.
  • Pretender Diss: Ronald compares himself as the Coke to the King's Pepsi, his Mac to the King's android, and that he's Nice Peter, while the King is EpicLloyd.
  • Ripped from the Headlines: Ronald describes the King as a bin full of lettuce facing "da feet", referencing a controversy where a Burger King employee got in trouble for standing in a bin of lettuce. Earlier, the King mocks Ronald for his company's pink slime meat, itself another controversy where McDonalds got in trouble for their processed meat.
  • Self-Deprecation: Ronald is willing to acknowledge the Rick and Morty controversy by pointing out he had lines for days because of the szechuan sauce demand.
  • Toilet Humor: The King claims Ronald's pink-slime meat turns his asshole into a drive thru. In other words, Ronald's food gave the King diarrhea.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: The King gives Ronald a hard time about McDonalds infamous ice-cream machines being broken all the time.
  • Wham Shot: Ronald just finished his second verse until someone starts asking "Where's the beef? Right here!" It then shows Wendy — of Wendy's — gearing up for a battle.

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