The 13 Most Bizarre Foreign McDonald's Commercials

First of all, what they're doing here is cruel. What happens in this commercial is physically impossible, unless that guy was carrying around a dairy-beard the whole time, and even then, it would get gross after a while. The girl wouldn't be happy, she would be sad, from being poisoned and all.

This is a lie. Just like years ago when Tropicana fooled small children as myself into thinking that you could really stick a straw into an orange and drink it.

This isn't so strange because it's foreign and we don't understand it, it's strange because, sociologically, the last thing you should ever have in a commercial for, or starring, a woman is her growing facial hair. Of course, this facial hair might have a hair more positive cultural significance in the commercial's context than the facial hair of an American woman pretty much anywhere, but implying (even though most people assume this) that McDonald's drinks will turn you into some kind of freak of nature with horrible, terrifying human deformities, is just bad marketing.

How many girls do you know will flock to McDonald's for a shake that makes them a walking Testosterone factory?

OBLIGATORY: If that’s the beard she gets on her face, then… blah, blah, blah vagina joke.

This Israeli commercial really makes the American Government look like a bunch of hyper-controlling, overbearing, pushy jerkholes led by a douche who doesn’t give a baby giraffe about the rules (this was in 2007).

Who says McDonalds can’t get political?

The lessons about the perception of the United States learned in this commercial are that the (former) president of the United States is an enormous dick and an unmitigated cock-block to anyone who works for an American company and that the USA is ALWAYS. EFFING. WATCHING YOU.

Definitely a creepy commercial for most, but one that really does poke fun at the U.S. quite well, done by a foreign advertising company for an American brand in a foreign land.

This commercial is very much a "you kind of have to live there to get it" type of commercial, which plays on Turkey's conservative nature to give us a montage of a world where the Turkish invented the first everything. From robots, to hamburgers, to space travel.

Apparently what they would do is bumble around, get nothing done, and focus on what Turkey needs as opposed to what the world needs. After that clean, good-natured message where Turkish robots knock over everyone's letters during a game of Scrabble, we are treated to a shot of a hamburger more delicious than anything an American McDonald's has ever seen.

The climax of the commercial is seeing what it would've been like had the Turkish invented McDonald's hamburgers, but unlike everything else, it really looks like they probably would've done a better job. The layers of rich melted non-cheddar cheese make this burger look like something you'd pay $12 for at a diner.

Amazing.

Also, WTF Turkey?

You know how you watch the first 20 seconds of a commercial and it's about something totally unrelated to the product it's trying to sell- but then all of a sudden the camera focuses on the Wrangler jeans logo, or the Nike swoosh on a pair of shoes and you go "ohhhhhh"?

Imagine that, but without the "ohhhhhh" moment (*snicker*)

This commercial features a cute girl trying on a hat (hatS???) in more ways than any non-effeminate man could ever have imagined, and then hits the viewer with the Golden Arches at the end. No food.

I repeat: no food in this food commercial. Just a cute girl. Now they're not even trying.