The Horrors Of McDonalds Playplace
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When will creepcasts next episode come out?
Hey editor, *kisses*
shut up meg
Lol i love how you're like the average Joe in your reactions to things. But then you make these twisted dark animated videos lol
My little brother cracked his head open at a McDonald's playpen when he was about 4 years old by climbing over the safety fence and crawling on top of the tube slide. He slid off, smacked his head on the brick ledge below, and was bleeding profusely on the ground. Not to say the restaurant didn't have enough safety measures in place, but one must never underestimate a kid's determination to try and kill themselves in any way they can because their little brains are screaming at them "wouldn't it be cool if you did a backflip off the roof and landed in that trashcan?"
Lmao, too true with that sentiment. You just don't know what the bodily consequences of doing shit like that is at such a young age. The only time I broke my leg was when I was 5 years old because I thought it would be cool to climb to the top bar of a tire swing set and jump off to impress my friends. Obviously the intent wasn't for kids to be climbing the support structure of the swing set, but we found a way.
Hah! I was just wondering last night, 'I wonder how many lives humans have..." Because I've easily almost died more times than a cat by the time I was 18. And still have close calls roughly once per year. Usually doing stupid shit or trying to get things done faster.
It would be pretty sweet if you landed that backflip though
@@slickestrick4117 One of my classmates in elementary school broke both of his arms at the same time by doing a backflip off a swing and getting his arms caught in the chains. I wasn't there to see it but I hope having both arms in casts for a month means it was pretty badass.
God, if the lady who spilled hot coffee on herself can get millions, yall better at least be millionaires. And to be fair, it does sound pretty cool
My first job was at McDonald's. We used to have families that would be at the restaurant for HOURS. They'd show up, eat lunch. Let the kids play for two hours while they talked or maybe worked on their laptops. They'd order more snacks. Play some more. Order more meals. Play some more. Talk some more. And then get ice cream and go home.
Oh word?
that sounds awful. Im crying reading this
Those kids ruled the playground
thats what my mom would do during the summer when my brother and i where bored and hungry. she'd take us to mcdonalds, buy us lunch and let us play. this was back during the early 2000s and i have fond memories of it
Good lord, multiple meals at a McDonald’s? So much salt and sugar lol
My son fell out of the McD’s climbing tunnel when he was 7 (he’s now23) breaking his femur. Was in a body cast four 12 weeks but he never hated the place after that. They paid for all medical bills plus a little extra for his (and mine) pain and suffering. The franchise gave us free food each week for next 2 years and he loved going there to get his happy meals. I remember taking him there all casted up in his wheelchair where the employees treated him like a god. He still to this day shows his war wound bragging about how he got free Micky D
That’s actually a pretty sweet story. Glad it worked out.
free mcdonalds for 2 years... mcdonalds was like "you got hurt? let us hurt you more, but on the inside!" lol
thats crazy. i was always soooo scared of those tunnels
Leg-end 😅 🦵
So your a mom but cant spell "for" correctly yeaaaa ok 😂
That toddler impression was FRIGHTENINGLY accurate.
HOLY FUCK YOU'RE STILL ACTIVE??
Brother it's been a year where have you been
25:30
That toddler impression is gonna give me nightmares of what it's gonna be like having a kid once I get married.
I heard he was a toddler before starting on youtube
shoutout to that one kid i met in a McDonalds play place when i was like 7. Man we instantly hit it off and were best buds for that 30 minutes of playtime, only to never see each other again. Hope your living your best life buddy 🫡
He died last year. Farming equipment accident on a pumpkin patch hay ride. I’m sorry, I thought you knew that. My condolences….
@@Manhandle730 I dug up his grave, he was actually alive! He had a special coffin with a compartment under it with food and air tanks to last him for probably a decade or two. Was planning to go up to 70 in there, pretty cool guy.
Coincidentally my last memory of a McDonald’s play place was when I was 7
@@StillNoClue22osama bin laden?
Isn't he on the FBI watch list these days
Hunters impression of a toddler was scarily accurate 😭
The hand thing with the fries is what sold it for me and the thousand yard stare.
26:03
Im dead laughing at this
Shit has me rolling
You hunt toddlers? With what, nets and Cheetos?
I remember climbing in a Officer BigMac cage, and some kid had left his collection of TMNT comics behind, which I happily took home. Greatest moment of my life.
what a buffoon child, those comics were better in your hands
Meanwhile some kids day was ruined that day lmfao tough shit kid should’ve left the comics at home
DUDE THOSE WERE MINE
@@davealayaprove it or you're lying
Finders keepers!
When I was a kid it was my birthday and my dad took me to the play place. I was crawling my way out of the tube when motherfucking Ronald McDonald himself poked his head around the corner outside of the tube exit and said hello to me and asked if it was my birthday. My response was the single most visceral scream of terror I have ever emitted and I ran back into the play place.
LMAOOO THIS MADE MY DAY 💀
Makes sense... Those metal Ronalds were everywhere, I'd be terrified as a 26yo if Ronald mcdonald surprised me
In Finland the playplaces(and playgrounds in general) were considered BY LAW to be "In parents' consideration if their kid is too stupid to use the playground or not". People tried to sue of course when their Little Timmy "nutty putted" itself inside the playplace, but most of the time the courts used the logic of "If the city provides a beach, is it the city's fault if you did not teach your kid to swim?", highlighting the parents' responsibility for their childrens' safety.
"Your kid wins a Darwin award. RIP, Bozo."
-Finland
@@viscountrainbows2857 "The stupid either die young, or become politicians"
-My dad 😅
Another reason to love Finland.
That polecy should BE adopted Worldwide ....
I read that as "city provides a bench" and thought it was a mixed metaphor
I have a scar up my back from a loose bolt on one of those tube slides. No lawsuit because my mom hates confrontation (and we had military insurance) but I remember watching an employee dump a mcdonalds cup of water down the slide to rinse off the blood and kids kept on playing... The 90s were a magical time.
Oh the one that were out side! Shit was on fire! Slide down the lava tube!
I just came to congratulate you for spelling loose right. This is the first time I've ever witnessed it on TH-cam
@@aggrocd1985I know right usually spell lose.
Kinda sick tho. You got a cool scar?
@@aggrocd1985 That's so rare I'm about to lose my mind
I remember when I was a kid, a fat boy got stuck in the tube, and everyone piled up on top of him. We were stuck in there like sausage meat. Eventually, someone got us out. Obesity kills.
Dude it almost turned into that plane crash on the snowy mountain scenario. Do you think you could have survived? Could you eat enough to establish dominance in the tube?
@ichaseiyoutube you are evil
I would be traumatized for life. I have second-hand claustrophobia just from reading this
Caseoh lore
😆
My grandpa had a construction company and worked at tearing down an old McDonald’s. They gave him the entire fucking play place. He wanted to add it onto a tree house all the grandkids had, but he never bolted anything down😭😭😭 now we have a random pieces of slides and hamster tunnels in the backyard
My little sister was playing one time in a McD Playplace. She was like four or five and was in this open concept-ish crawlspace (sorry I can’t describe it better, boxy thing) that wrapped around itself. Upon reaching the top and looking out, she froze stiff and completely peed herself. I remember hearing one kid yell “Hey, it’s raining!” followed by a silent realization of the smell, and shrieking panicked children.
And that was how we found out my baby sister has a fear of heights.
Wtf💀
I broke both my arms after being flung off a merry-go-round at a McDonald's Play Place. My dad was trying to see how fast he could spin us kids before we fell off.
Im gonna take a guess and say 30mph? Idk
I guess he got his answer.
Very fast
Did your parents have the 70's attitude of "better you do it right now to get it out of your system"? That kind of idiotic thinking was so common back in the day.
Your dad likes to party
when i was a little kid, my grandma used to always take me to this McDonalds 2 towns over so i could play in the indoor playplace while she would sit and read her books. i remember what would turn out to be the very last time that i would ever play there, this little kids morbidly obese father got completely stuck in one of the tubes while trying to follow his son through. the fire department had to come and disassemble the tubes and then used a saw to cut him out of the section that he was stuck in. the playplace at that McDonalds never reopened after that incident.
That really stinks but I'm really glad other people share the experience of playing on a fast food playground while grandma reads her book
I see what you did
Dude the person whos dad that was also commented on this video lmao
This reminds me of Homer getting stuck in the water slide
I was that dad's little kid. 😢
I was born and raised in Arizona in the 70’s. At least they were smart enough in the summer to just slap a ‘PLAYGROUND CLOSED’ sign on the door outsid instead of letting us go on metal slides in 110° heat.
I used to work as a cave tour guide, making a living via leading groups of people through microwave sized holes and tunnels going headfirst down almost vertical passages while hundreds of feet underground, and yet the thought of having to crawl through the tunnels of a play place disgusts and scares me.
Microwave sized? 😂😂😂
@@stephentarantino1313 About as well as I know how to put it.
@@stephentarantino1313that’s how cavers and cave divers measure😂
@smuleplayz can't do that champ, that's about half a microwave and I'm not feeling it
@@freakkyser you know when you’re diving with crazy people if they have to take their tanks off to fit😂
I remember my uncle (who was a OCD clean freak) was a manager at a McDonald's and he came up with a ingenious way to clean the ball pits but corporate threw a hissy fit. It involved a transfer container, hose and a vacuum pump. The balls would be cleaned with bleach and scolding hot water in the transfer container and would float before being put back in the pit. Corporate said the kids would get sick from the bleach.
Given there are worse things in a ball pit than bleach (that’s a cleaning product) is a weird yet complex complaint McDonald’s had with your uncle. Hope you got the good toys from happy meals when he closed though!
Maybe if you just left the bleach on the balls lol, but given a little water and a few hours would take care of that seems like an asinine reason. It was probably more that they didn't want to spend the money, but gave him an excuse other than "we're too cheap and don't care about the kids".
classic example of them going, "ah the costs outweigh the risks" greedy fucks all around hahah
@harrisonashley1631 corporations at that scale act like a malignant tumor attempting to grow and consume. With little regard for the host as if parents wouldn't feel safer if it was hospital sanitized.
It's safe if you use the same amount of bleach you'd use for dishes I think
Past McDonalds: Amazing Colorful Wonderland
Current McDonalds: Grey Corporate Depression
Modern McDonald's be like: "ɢʀᴀʏ ɪꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴇᴡ ʀᴇᴅ. ᴛʀʏ ꜱᴏᴍᴇ ɢʀᴀʏ, ʙɪᴛᴄʜ."
They say this while sexually forcing a plain-ass classic McDonald's hamburger into your mouth.
@@ejm1225 😆🧹🙌
I like the postmodern design these places were hell.
Disgusting piss and sweat swamp ball pits.
@@ejm1225sexually???! 😭
@@incarnateflame3462 I didn't care for ball pits at any place
Dude, the McDonald’s right by my house was dope, it had a play place and it was fully NASCAR themed. Had a whole car in there and everything. It was filled with photos and other memorabilia and was really cool to sit down and look at. But alas, they too got the modernization treatment. My family likes the new modern look but I miss the cool ass car :(
I had a blast in those playplaces as a kid, those temporary friendships you would make were the best.
for sure
I always ran into the weirdos lol, it was like a kids version of gta strangers and freaks mission
@@alexryherd9810 Fr fr never knew who you'd come face to face with
I once hit a kid in a McDonald’s play place because he called Optimus prime gae
@@alexryherd9810 That's the best way I've ever seen that described.
My first job was McDonald's. Some kid shit all in the tubes and my manager asked me to clean it. I just went ahead and went home. Got a new job the next day lol
Well now some other poor soul had to do it 😂
straightup that's a hazmat situation
That's wild,why the fuck would the manager expect you to clean it
@capitancuba8962 to this day I have no idea. I can only assume cause i was a newer employee and cause I was 17 at the time lol
@@pittyxl650: Yeah, you gotta walk out if that happens, you have no choice.
The way he does his toddler impressions is hilarious. I have a 1 year old and he is SPOT ON with the manurisms.
i'm sorry to say but your 1 year old might be mentally tarded then lol
In my area (a hotter state), the play places saw an issue with reptiles making a home inside- especially in the ball pit. I was apparently a nice enough kid that an employee gave me a "You don't wanna go down that road" moment before I ran off to play. "Found a balled up snake in there the other day." "Is it gone?" His face said it all and from then on I never played on one with a ball pit ever again. Thank you for reading my report about McDonald's Play Place. I hope you enjoyed.
That's actually pretty startling! But, was the snake you found like a Garter, or was it of a more venomous variety? Because I'm genuinely curious!
@Dash-The-Wonderful A lot of the ones that you find curled up in dark hiding spaces like that tend to be babies and usually rattlers. My mom found one building our walkway in our backyard. She immediately made me go inside without telling me why and had my dad get a shove and fling the little fella out into the open field we used to have out back. She told me later, but it was a pretty scary moment as I instantly picked up on her fear. I felt the same with that employee. I did not question him on it and knew he was just looking out. The little ones are the most dangerous not only because mom could be near, but because they have yet to develop the ability to control how much venom they release when they bite, often WAY overdoing it. So if you ever encounter a baby venomous snake, just avoid it or try to get it safely to somewhere away from people and pets. They get displaced easily with places being built up so quickly. Our neighborhood has been fully developed for years and we still get opossums, deer, and even foxes. Thankfully nothing really bad, but I know others aren't as lucky.
I was just glad that dude was looking out because there's a hell of a lot worse things kids can get into besides bodily fluids and germs left by others.
@@gameznotgames2435 Yikes... Rattlers in a ballpit. Just unlocked a new phobia.
But that's good information to know, that the younger a Rattler is, the less venom control it has. Thanks for telling me that!
The Buger King in South Louisiana had an outside playground with a ball pit. The place was surrounded by swamps. Snakes used to get in the ball pit and bite the kids.
That's so fucked lmao
Burger Swamp
Around Boston we always heard rumors of hypodermic needles in the ball pits
Burger King is better
awesome
never had a playplace nightmare story and i absolutely loved them. i'm still mourning mcd's redesign from the colorful to the simplified drab brown office-like buildings
It feels like the buildings grew up with us, and not in a good way. McDonalds went from a happy child to a depressed adult😂😂
Tried to reinvent themselves probably because they were known as unhealthy
I hate the new designs, as well. On top of trying to appeal more to adults than they did in the 80s and 90s, I've also heard it explained that the buildings are easier to sell when they aren't designed with parts specially designed for a restaurant. They don't like how you can always tell when a building used to be a Pizza Hut, for example.
At least they're brown where you are. All the places in my town were painted gray.
@@donnylurch4207 But…but it IS a restaurant, what kinda crack are they smokin?!?!😂😂
I can kinda see what their point is tho. Shit what was that one rental store called? “Family Video” I think, it looks goofy af to see another business buy one of their buildings and make no changes at all😂😂
I'll add my personal horror story concerning them. When I was a toddler, I got my foot caught in the plastic bridge on one of those playplaces, and I now have a deformed toe because of it.
Oh my goodness I am so sorry that happened to you!😮
Lol deformed toe
That's so random, but I'm kinda glad Im claustrophobic now 😅
@@SaintShion I think he was talking about the plastic and chains suspension bridge. they use heavy-ass pieces of plastic that could easily break bones if someone else jumped on the bridge while you were stuck
some of us had to learn that lesson the hard way
@@Zonedoutallthetime That's exactly what happened. Thank you.
Out here looking like a bearded meg griffin with that hat.
ftm Meg Griffin
Lore Accurate Adult Meg Griffin
@@zachyboi4173literally tho lmao
Ron Griffin
I'm 5 foot 5 and used to go thru once or twice a week and with towels and spray bottle to clean those play place tubes. The mcds I worked at was in a nice area and I was maintenance and loved crawling thru there and cleaning it because I could lock the room early in the morning and just work in solitude listening to music. Didn't get micromanaged because I was the only person who was willing to do it so they let me do it however the fuck I want. It was nice to have a little bit of peace and quiet at a place where it was always chaos and noise.
I worked at McDonald's in high school--on my second day, I was told to go clean the play place. Found adult toenail clippings under one of the tables, which is a pretty rough place to be at in life. Then a dad came up to me and said "hey buddy, my daughter threw up under our table. Sorry." That didn't bother me. What did, is that I couldn't find the vomit.
Special shoutout to that time I unknowingly went on one of the slides after another kid pissed herself on the way down. Or the time I popped out of the tubes to eat my nuggies, only to look up at the TV (that they had broadcasting the news for some reason) and see footage of the Haiti earthquake. Or the time some kid punched my autistic sister in the jaw, then blamed it on me. Fond memories.
Most likely the dad tried to clean up after his own children and just needed someone to sanitize the area? Hopefully
At least they told you. Usually they don't even say anything.
Life lesson, if you can see a glare on a metal slide, DO NOT slide down it.
Huh?
They're saying that if the sun is reflecting off of a metal slide, prepare to get your ass burnt
We almost got kidnapped by a crackhead in a McDonald’s Play Place in Los Angeles. This had to of been 1990.
For people curious. The reason the old ads from the 60s (8:41) are so oddly paces and creepy is because its a style of "editing" called "in camera" editing. Back in the day film was expencive so to save on costs they would use as little film as possible, only filming parts that were going to be in the final product. The filmographer would start and stop the film camera with breaks in-between to give directions and practice runs. sometimes they just had to use what they filmed (like the kid just stairing being weird) Also him probably being an inexperienced filmographer didnt help the end product
that's very interesting!
*"For curious people,..." :
Word order, honey...
It almost feels like a "nouvelle vague" movie lol.
@Ultamami The (edited) speaks volumes
My dad worked in the McDonald’s corporate world and he used to drag me around when he’d go do his business at different stores across the state. He would literally just abandon me in the play place for hours lol. It was so nasty and I’m surprised I didn’t contract some deadly illness. If there wasn’t a play place I was just left at a table. I think the staff noticed I was just ditched and I remember a few specific workers who would bring me snacks and hang out with me on their breaks. So shoutout to them tho
damn, thats sad, it sounds like your dad didnt really care about you, to just drag you around and ditch you while he worked , why didnt he leave you at home or something? or with a neighbor at least ? yeah, i agree, shout-out to the workers who showed you some kindness and treated you like you mattered.
That’s really sad man :(
No offense, but your dad sucks
Where was Mom?
@@reasorlloyd1 drunk😛
As a child, I slid down a large covered McDonald’s PlayPlace slide, right into a large puddle of cold chunky vomit. I was covered in it. It was pretty traumatic.
When I was a kid I remember going into a McDonald's play place and the strongest memory of that play place was a turd sitting perfectly in the middle of a platform, perfectly lit on all sides by the halogen bulbs from the tall ceiling of the room. I don't remember what else happened. It was the same season when the McDonald's star wars bobbleheads came out.
I never shit or pissed in the tubes I always went in the bathroom like a civilized human.... then scooped it out of the toilet and walked it to the play place where I'd then smear it all over the inside of the tube, but to shit INSIDE the tube?!?! I'm not a savage!
Barbarians indeed
This literally made me scream laugh omg 😭😭😭
@@Big5mokE719 🤣🤣🤣👍
Almost falling through nylon crawl nets, followed by playing Mario Kart Double Dash, stuffing your face with a greasy burgers and fries, while receiving complimentary Pokémon cards and wearing a paper crown was THE LIFE back in the day.
Yeah dead ass 😂 now McDonald’s burgers give me Ibs 💀💀💀💀 but exploring the forest is kinda my play place so I mean at least there’s that and in some ways it’s better
My guy... You were at Burger King.
@@SeekerGoldstone Exactly, never said I was talking about McDonald's. BK >> McD's
@@VictorSnakevenom1 "Almost" falling between the nets? I don't believe you 🍻
The last time I ever played on a McDonald's playground, I was 7, and I stepped [barefoot] in some toddlers vomit. I ran desperately to escape it and get back to my parents to help me clean it off. I slid down the slide into a thick puddle of vomit sitting on the bottom part of the slide. One of the most traumatic experiences of my life.
The last time I was 3, I was in a McDonald’s, vomiting all over the play place right in front of one of the slides at the very bottom. I vaguely remember seeing nearly transparent foot marks of my vomit all over the floor minutes later. Small world.
Hell yeah
Reading the traumatic experiences, fast friendships, and first job stories are great. Great video too.
10 year in the past McD's Canada crew/manager here. I can contribute a couple things:
- We had some of the playland equip shown, and it was an indoor setup. I think it was all torn out and switched to the tube set up in the mid 90's in my store.
- We had a giant mesh net bag, and the playplace balls were put inside that and sanitized with a water/sanitizer mix. Floor of ballpit was sanitized. However this wasn't done as often as it should have been.
- Every night that I worked close, I had to personally crawl thru each of the playplace tubes to make sure no one was hiding in there after the doors were locked (robbery risk). Im 5'1 and I was about 120 lbs then and I fit thru them with room to spare. Theyre not tiny tubes.
If you were 120 then, would you still fit in a tube today? How much do you weigh now?
@@pooploopsplease leave the internet for awhile
@@pooploopsWhy does it matter?
@@joshlowman9540 It reads like an obesity self confession. Just curious if that’s the truth.
@@pooploops Yeah idk man I understand having morbid curiosity, but just sounds kinda creepy. Plus it’s kind of not ur business
Worked at a McDs in 2003. Had a series of kids make their way to the front register covered in literal shit. One of the kids had diabolically slid half-way down the slide, shit, and kept going. It was a busy day of de-shitting the slide and kids...
Hey, one of the top comments confesses to being a kid who shit in a similar situation. You might have your culprit right here.
@@ElvenRaptorIt was a joke because the end of it said “My wife was pretty disappointed with me”
@@ashoe-ys9el I was hoping they weren’t referencing that lol. Gotta use that brain meat.
it’s weird to think those kids are like 30 now
As a kid, i have literally never entered a McDonald's playground, without there being at least 3 puddles of puke and pi*s somewhere inside of it. So yeah, mixing a deadly amount of garbage food that gives you can*er and running around on slides and platforms is a recipe for puke, pi*s and sh*t covered kids and slides.
I was a menace to society as a kid. I would take a ball from the ball pit home every time I went. Hopping to have my own one day. I gathered about 30 or so and my mom told me to stop. Thus, the ball pit plan fell through.
I never got to do that. I still wish I had gotten some ball pit balls.
How did you manage to sneak them home? I snuck a crushed one home when I was 5, quickly and disapointedly realised that they don't reinflate.
The police doesn't want yo to know but the balls at the McDonald's play pit are free. You can take them home
I thought about doing that but always worried Officer Big Mac would come to my house and sentence my ass to ball pit prison for life.
Moms didn’t see the vision smh
I hadn’t eaten McDonald’s in decades. I’m with my 4 year old and he saw the playpen inside so I caved in and we went in. This was last month in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. I put my backpack down on the table and watched my son playing until our number was called. I quickly went to grab the food and returned. It took me less than 10 seconds. When I got back my cellphone was missing. So I told the manager right away and learned that they had no cameras in the playpen. They have cameras everywhere else but there. Wtf?!?!?
I’ll never forget the time I was at a McDonalds play place as a child and I went into a plastic helicopter thingy. This little girl next to me started peeing outta nowhere and was just making direct eye contact with me the entire time. shit was crazy lmao
Dude I can't stop laughing reading this😂😂😂
Tug and turn is also a maneuver that got certain adults banned from the Playplace.
That commercial is so unsettling, the majority lack of music makes it worse.
One of my core childhood memories was in a mcdonalds playplace in Jamestown ND. We were passing through to see family and decided to eat there, but me and my younger brother were more interested in playing. When it was time to leave we obviously didnt want to go, so my dad tried climbing inside the tubes to get us and got stuck. It probably took about a half hour for him to get out.
i had chicken pox on my fifth birthday and my mom let me have my birthday party at the mcdonalds playplace even though i had a highly contagious infection. we didnt invite any of my friends because that would have been irresponsible, so it was just a few of my family members hanging around while i contaminated the entire playplace. good times.
Your mom an expert on biological warfare
How thoughtful
Lovely
Your mom deserves mom of the year for letting you out if the house contagious. Good job.
She loves you.
Back when I used to work at a McDonalds me and a bunch of coworkers could have sworn on our lives that the playplace was haunted. Even a manager swore it was haunted. We’d hear weird stuff and see movement in it when the restaurant was empty. Also we would NEVER clean it unless a kid either crapped or died in it. If someone had to clean it, it would be like sending in a tunnel rat in Vietnam.
By chance, was a man named Scott Cawthon a coworker?
It was raccoons. At least it would comfort me to think that if I were you
It was the forgotten children, the Children of the Ballpit
@@WildertheHarpyI guess it wasn't.
So how often did children die there?
That McDonaldLand ad is unironically the most unsettling thing I've seen in a long time, holy shit.
It was full on analog horror.
I was thinking that the whole time, shit gives unironic analog horror vibes. Half expected the parents to look around and call out for their child in fear
That is called McDicks not McDonald's you thinking of that childhood song old McDonald blah blah blah bullsh**!
I was cackling at how awkward it was
Edit: Ok yeah the McDonaldLand part is quite weird
@@thegrunch6448 it's not McDonaldLand is McF***land creepy basement uncle funcle time playing with his pee pee and balls and made it more right.
3:37 the child falling into the abis in the bottom left
I feel inclined to tell you it is abyss* thank you that will be my autistic moment for this day/night cycle
I feel inclined to tell you he's on a swing
My husband and I just took our 6 year old son to a classmates bday party at a local McDonald's PlayPlace a couple of weeks ago. The whole area was dirty and smelly. Our son said it smelled even worse up in the tubes and didn't want to play in them, and to top it all off, we were sick with some sort of virus 3 days later. The glory days of the playplace have passed.
McDonald's playplaces can either be really wholesome and fun or spawns from hell itself
Its always so much fun, until you turn a corner in the tunnels and stumble across human waste. Then you crawl out and ask your parents if we can go home now lol
Bro, that plastic/rubber tree gave me Vietnam style flash back's to my child hood and playing at Micky D's. :"D
Por que no los dos?
Ball pits always had cocaine, poop and a snake in them.
The full Fallen Kingdom song in 4 parts #1I used to rule the world
Chunks would load when I gave the word
Now every night I go stow away
Hide from the mobs I used to slay
They once were terrified
Every time I looked into their eyes
Villagers would cheer my way
For a hero I was, that's what they'd say
One minute we had it all
Next our world began to fall
Away from all that it had once become
They all cried for my help, but I stood there numb
I gaze off into the boundless skyline
Note block choirs playing in the sunshine
#2 Turn around, pick up my sword and wield
The blade that once forced evil mobs to yield
And hope one day that this chaos and
Destruction turns for the better
Never a bow in hand
That was when I ruled the land
It was the creepers and the skeletons
Blew down the doors and boxed us in
Arrows whizzing by like streaks of light
I tried all that I could to stay and fight
As the undead roamed the street
Families broken at my feet
Life itself suspended by a thread
#3 Oh, why was it that I wasn't dead?
I gaze off into the boundless skyline
Note block choirs playing in the sunshine
Turn around, pick up my sword and wield
The blade that once forced evil mobs to yield
If this battle should leave me slain
I know Herobrine will call my name
Better to take a stand
That was when I ruled the land
I gaze off into the boundless skyline
Note block choirs playing in the sunshine
Turn around, pick up my sword and wield
#4 The blade that once forced evil mobs to yield
If this battle should leave me slain
I know Herobrine will call my name
Better to take a stand
That was when I ruled the land
I gaze off into the boundless skyline
Note block choirs playing in the sunshine
Turn around, pick up my sword and wield
The blade that once forced evil mobs to yield
If this battle should leave me slain
I know Herobrine will call my name
Better to take a stand
That was when I ruled the land
I have a bloody tale to tell from the McDonald's playground...
25 years ago, It was my sister's 6th birthday, and while she was opening presents, I was getting ready to go down the McDonald's play slide face first with my arms infront of me.
As I screamed for joy going down the slide on my belly, mouth open, big smile...my chin was the first to hit the "speed pump" at the end of the slide (designed to slow kids going down the slide properly)
This resulted in my two front 7 year old beaver teeth, slamming down on my tongue, piercing straight through it.
The last thing I remember is my muffled screams of pain as I ran through the entire McDonald's restaurant, mouth pouring with blood all over the floor, looking for my parents, while everyone else (employees included) just stared 😂
I thought that was going to be a horrible poop story. Not sure if I’m relieved or not
deserved lmao
Something very similar happened to me when I was a kid, except for me it wasn't the tongue but instead I almost bit off my upper lip 💀 My poor mother can't see blood without feeling violently ill so I applaud her for being an absolute trooper and driving us to the nearest hospital while I was gushing blood from my face 💀
@@TheVincenzoGaming yup, kids gotta do dumb stuff if they wanna learn
did you die?
I remember as a kid telling my mom I wish there was a ball pit at the McDonald's play place (they were outside). She then promptly told me they used to but got rid of it because a copperhead snake had eggs in the ball pit, the eggs hatched, and the hatchling snakes bit a toddler who died. That shook 5yo me to my core.
I was born in '89. My elementary school had a playground with metal slides, jungle gym, monkey bars etc. It's 30 years later, and they STILL have the exact same fucking metal equipment!!
'97 and we had a wretched metal slide at my k-8 too! I think they replaced all the equipment about 10 years ago, but it was there all through my time there (until 2011). I think the monkey bars were metal too but I don't remember them getting nearly at hot as that horrible slide.
My elementary school got rid of a huge chunk of the metal playground equipment, and replaced them with plastic. This was fine, in terms of reducing heat, but the static electricity on those things, were a nightmare on their own. And now that school is gonna close forever.
I just think jungle gyms and big toys are going to go the way of the dodo more or less…. 😫😫😫😫😫😫😫
This is insanely serendipitous, I was an Amazon Driver at the start of last year and delivered all over DFW. I pulled into a less suburban area, and had to deliver packages. It was dark af outside and barely any light sources out there. I pulled up to one house to deliver the packages and saw some disturbing shapes in the darkness. When I used my flashlight to check them out, it was ALL MCDONALD’S PLAYLAND EQUIPMENT! I still have a picture of the personal Officer Big Mac cage thing I encountered
I would piss myself if I saw that in the dark tbh
Play places would probably still exist if each mcdonalds had a designated cleaning dwarf who was tasked with constantly cleaning alongside the playing children.
The overhead for that probably isn't worth it.
Having a cleaning dwarf sounds like a trend from the early to mid 19th century
We still have PlayPlaces in our state...
I had to sanitize the one I worked at everyday. Every inch of it. I was 5’10 at the time.
@@mf.danger9235At least that one got cleaned. Ours was so nasty. I personally found puddles of half-dried puke in there more than once & when it was closed for maintenance or something for several months, some kids started a rumour that someone shat in one of the tunnels right at the top and no one cleaned it up. I believed it
I love you bro ! You bring joy to me !! Your re-enactments are so good because your a quiet watcher when your in public !! I understand! Rock and roll man . Much love and thanks to your mom for your existence
My elementary school had metal and wood everywhere. The slides were literally facing south so they were in the sun all day. Teeter totters were metal and we fell of that stuff all the time. The rest of the lot was blacktop. Imagine a kid today losing their skin over a ten foot slide in playing kickball with those red rubber balls that ripped your actual face off if they hit you.
And we fucking survived
Gen Z needs this
@@PrisonBecky I’m GenZ and I got to experience this. Fun times. Or the playground that was swarmed by bees and wasps during the spring and august
@PrisonBecky Gen Z? Gen Z is getting old. The latest Gen Z was 2009 at the end of the aughts. Anyone born then would be 16 at most by now. Ain‘t no 16 year old climbing on play places. The oldest Gen Z is almost 30. You mean Gen Alpha?
@@SorrowAvenue26yo gen z here. These did exist in the early 2000, some exist in big cities to this day. Metal is very rare but some municipal parks still use metal.
Had a blast when I was 4-12 in these places. Last time I had fun there was a school fundraiser when I was in 5th grade or so.
Going to a fast food play place as a kid and making a friend there who you end up never seeing again is something else man
They were the original online FPS matchmaking
Kind of bittersweet
Today I recommend the Tekken8 Fight Lounge, good people in there fr
No one ever saw him, he was the spirit that lived in the structure. He is very real but no one knows his name
Oh for real... I remember one time a kid brought his Matchbox cars.....good times 😄
I fell off a ladder on a McDonalds play ground in 1989. I was 2. A kid stepped on my fingers and I fell, hitting my front teeth on one of the ladder rungs on the way down, losing a tooth and pushing the vestigial adult tooth up into my gum. I spent my entire childhood with one front tooth and needed braces as a teenager to fix the adult tooth once it came through.
15 years of suffering from a MacDonald playground over here!
A McDonald’s in my town renovated their play place while I was just growing out of the age where you’d be allowed to be in them, and they built it with an underwater theme (I live on the gulf coast). There was ocean floor wallpaper all around the room, boxes of nuggets and fries in the pictures propped up on coral and rocks. They always had Finding Nemo, Finding Dory, etc. playing on 2 separate tvs at different sides of the room, and there was a row of kiosk/computer things where kids could play games down the middle parallel with the playground. The tables would light up and were touch-activated so the squares would light up or change color if you tapped them. There were 2 dummies in scuba gear and a weird cartoon submarine hanging from the ceiling like they were swimming. The playground itself wasn’t that expansive, but the inside was relatively big and completely visible through plastic-y fencing/mesh. My brother (now 19) was able to play in the play places way past the age of 12 because he looked smaller and way younger than he actually was for years (at 16 he still looked 12, he would often be given his drinks in kid cups at sit-down restaurants because he looked so young for so many years).
TL:DR- McDonald’s play place in my town was goated
When my mom was pregnant with me, my sister crawled into the tubes at a playplace and got too scared to get out by herself. My mom obviously couldn’t get to her so she got frustrated with my sister who refused to move. One of the teenagers that worked there had to squeeze inside the tubes and pull my screaming and crying sister out
I feel like McDonald's grew up with us. Went from fun and colorful to a depressed minimalistic maturity.
Kids have iPads now. I have a few McDonald's with playplaces in my area and they're usually empty every time I get food there.
Yea. ... Now I'm sad(der)
@TomOfficiaI go away, spam.
Nah, marketing just got more sophisticated. Simpler colors and less clutter makes the messaging have a clearer context, while allowing for way more flexibility for promotions. The Monopoly game was the pivot point to this new style, followed by the "say I love McDonald's in any language" campaign and then the first truly modern campaign "I'm Lovin' It" - which has been the guiding campaign for McDonald's for over a decade now.
yeah i agree
The choking clip is even funnier when you realize it's likely because they had to keep doing takes and eat more every time.
I worked night shift at the McD near me when I was out of high school for a few years. One night while I was mopping and putting up the play area, it REEKED of a diaper that obviously had been filled and then taken off inside of the play place. It meant one of us was supposed to climb inside, find it, and clean/disinfect out the entire section that it was in. And good luck if it was in the BALL PIT, where you gotta dig around to search for it before inevitably having to shut that entire thing down until the next day's shift could get in there to start trying to clean it up.
We were understaffed so often that we just never even bothered trying to find it. None of us were willing, so we left it for the morning people to figure it out. Literally never heard one word from management at all about having left it. lol
I really want to see a liminal horror set in a 1970s mcdonald's now.
Remmber this is the same era they had to make a boardcast to remind parents to not forget about their kids,"do you know where your kid is?"
Playing in the play place was like lord of the flys. You never new who you would met or what you would find. It was pure chaos and I'm sure parents got a kick at watching their kids unlesh all that pent up crazy and not have to lift a finger as they relaxed.
That broadcast was because of the Atlanta Child murders. So many children were being murdered/going missing that they started those broadcasts to remind parents that if they left their children unsupervised long enough they could be brutally murdered.
The jail cell was terrifying. My parents used to make me go in that thing. "It'll be fun." It was bad enough in there alone, but then a few other kids would get in, and you'd be stuck. You had to be a contortionist to get down that ladder.
I've had dreams like that.
I played in one as a kid and never realized how bad it was until I got older. Like how was my claustrophobic ass able to handle that
Yeah just looking at that thing terrifies me. I don't remember having it at the play places I went to, but I for damn sure wouldn't try to get in that. Abso-fucking-lutely NOT. I liked the tubes and slide a lot, tho.a
I got in there at one. I thought it was cool. There were no other kids there at the time though so I had the run of the place. Both interesting and boring as a kid. No one to play with.
I am now a large man and I will avoid tight spaces at every opportunity.
The only time I remember being in a play place was I remember stumbling across a few kids with a big plastic bowl and these brightly colored circular dradle things, they would attach them to some pull cord, rip it to spin it up, and then drop them into the bowl and see witch one would be left standing. One of them even was nice enough to give me a blue and silver one. Little did I know I just watched some kids have a bayblade match for the first time and it blew my little brain.
7:57 The Grimus thing wasnt just a cage for children lol. It was on springs and had grip tape on the floor. You were supposed to hold onto the bars and shake back and forth furiously. Cuz he was the milkshake.
25:56 i have not seen a more accurate depiction of a child in my life.
Yeah it’s pretty accurate. I was never a big fans of kids until I had mine. I still dislike all other kids but mine are cool lol
@@jdt9177Nah. Yours suck, too.
He's so cute! He's getting so big!
Only McDonalds type playplace I have seen was left rotting outside. That cube of nightmares is probably gone now.
no dude, the ones from the 2000's with the soft padding was awesome. you could throw yourself anywhere and it's just soft padding. it was awesome
The metal playground is what I grew up with. The slide burned you because it was out in the sun all day. And the Big Mac metal cage had wasp's nests in them most of the time and the ground consisted of wood chips.
25:30 You are way too good at that impression... Maybe it's just because I'm also a KC guy but man, I have seen that exact child way too many times
My aunt broke her collar bone falling off the monkey bars at a McDonald's Play Place. They used to just be playgrounds with hamburgers on them before they became the maze of plastic tubes we remember.
I loved when they setup the N64s and GameCubes in the lobby. That was a fun way to kill time after school. Especially because I was really good at the spinning donation thingy where you could win a dollar menu item if you got it to the bottom rung.
Me and my brother would so often play on the GameCubes. Especially the one that had Smash or either Mario Kart or Mario Tennis.
@@KitsuneYojimbo I played the shit out of some Mario Golf.
@@himonightbreeze Mario Golf? Hell yeah! Always wanted to play that but never had the chance.
The primal scream in the outtakes I felt in my soul. Thanks for all the joy you bring to our lives, Meat crew.
00:10 Back to the Future sfx, what a cherry on top!
Hell yeah
I was scared for life in first grade at a play place. It was raining so my friends mom took us to MCDs to play. My friend got on top of the tube slide and started climbing up, half way up he fell and cracked his head open. It was horrific. After that my parents wouldn’t let me hang out at his house.
That's messed up for your parents NGL 😭
Papa's toddler impression is scarily accurate.
My grandparents always took me to closest Playplace much to the protest of my mom (because y'know, disgusting cesspit). It actually sold socks inside the store since it was a rule you had to wear them on the equipment. I remember sliding into puke at the bottom of the slide there and having to buy new socks from McD's.
Yellow b ick road😂 10:54
“Seatbelt grid-system torture device” just made me spit my lunch out.. thank you😭🤣
.... mcdonalds knowing about the fact that they are actively endangering people and not bothering to do anything about it is a trend, it seems
(look up the scalding hot coffee and chicken nuggets cases if u don't know what I mean)
@iniminimoshimo also maybe them just funding mass genocide!!!!!!!
@@iniminimoshimowho the fuck doesn't know got coffee is hot
@@PacksSacks it wasn't about the coffee being hot. it was about it being so dangerously scalding hot that the lady got very severe burns and needed hospital care. she had to get skin grafts and needed medical care for two years.
@@PacksSacks I didn’t. Because I had no idea what got coffee was until this reply.
Thanks for the trip of nostalgia. I remember the ball pit at my local play place in the 90s and the rumor we had was that there was a coral snake living in it that management was unable to catch and remove. Fun times though...
My hometown rumor I heard around the preschool playground was that the reason they got rid of the ball pit was a girl said she kept stepping on crunchy things and worms kept biting her. The story said she eventually got bitten by a mother rattlesnake and the worms were her babies
When I was little I was scared Chuck E. Cheese would chase me up the tunnels and I pissed myself
I used to love getting lost in the tube mazes and just chillin in some secret quiet nook like some demented cat person. One day I found a fresh turd in the maze. Never again.
Australia still has them at Mcdonalds everywhere. The best is the kids playgrounds at pubs, where you can dump the kids and get drunk.
how responsible.
That sounds like an awful idea. Get plastered so you can forget your kids at a bar full of rowdy & drunk strangers? Australia, from what Ive heard, has a bad drinking problem.
Oh my God I was a pub kid. Most of our local pubs didn't have anything but one in town did and it was something fucken cool when dad would say "hop in the car, heading to the royal"
@@cogcog5264 it's called living
And then drive home with the fam!
While daddy Meat was wearing that pink Hat all I could think was Peter saying “shut up Meg.”
My grandma would always take me to the local McDonald’s as a kid where she’d meet up with all her friends. I’d just play in the play place for hours once every week with all the other kids
“Tug & Turn Merry-Go-Round”
Sounds like my Friday night
I used to work at an arcade/amusement place in my local area when I was 15, and got stuck working in the play area that had a ballpit/ball launchers. The cleaning procedure was every couple hours, where you take a can of Lysol spray, and just kinda do a pass across the majority of the balls.
I got pink eye twice, and the flu once in the FOUR MONTHS I worked there.
back in the 80s, my uncle got stuck in a mcdonald’s outdoor playplace and my grandma had to call the fire department to get him out…years later that outdoor playplace was shut down
I vividly remember climbing around in the hamburger jail thing. It was outside and instead of sand or mats on the ground, they had giant wood chips. Like the ones that were the size of a bar of soap that are meant for landscaping. It was magical
IMAGINE being a tight enclosed space with bugs in every direction and the only way out is to fall down a slide. This is what happened to my ONLY AND LAST time I went to a McDonald's play pen as a kid as I went up into the tube slide and finding it infested with hundreds If not thousands of roaches as some kids brought up food and left it there for weeks or months and an entire colony formed around it. Needless to say this scared my psyche as I know have a huge insect phobia...
Jesus Christ
That souds like a nightmare I am so sorry
@@Sofia-wh9jr yeah since the playpen is always separated from the restaurant/dining area itself you can totally spot the difference in cleaning. The minimum wage workers aren't gonna prioritize that over food saftey and the kitchen. I always wondered how they clean them cause I can't imagine an adult crawling inside to clean it.
I was a kid in the 80s and in elementary school all of our playground equipment was metal and concrete. We this "slide" thing that was just a huge metal off kilter right triangle. Think of a huge shiny metal Dorito. It was about nine feet wide and at one end was only about a half foot high, but it rose to seven feet at the other end. It then just pretty much went right down at a 90 degree angle. It was tilted at maybe a 60 degree angle on the "face"/slide part and it was made of shiny, slick, reflective metal so it got hot enough to burn your skin. So the "play"that took place here was kids would run up the face of it and grab on to the metal railing at the very top and the "game" was to stay at the top the whole time. I got thrown off that thing more times than I can remember.
Holy shit I’m college age and I knew papa meat was in his 40’s but it never occurred to me that he was at the age not only to have kids but that those kids would be my age. Gotta be the coolest dad on the planet.
it's a meme at this point and he goes along with it, he's actually 30.
@@LagrangePoint0 okay I was about to have a crisis of faith, because that man looks 30 but I would've demanded his secrets if he was in his 40s.
Don't let them fool you, he is a literal dinosaur
@@LagrangePoint0 oompaville does the same thing lol. he's supposedly 43.
Papa looks great being in his 30's. Ever seen the obnoxious fat 20yr old lady in a mobile chair who gets sprayed with a fire extinguisher- she looks 60yrs old.