I did laugh a bit at the part with the Fireball bucket. I had no idea what was up with the water part, though.

err... wait... what?

It seems like nowadays Mario is getting used all over the place: T-shirts with pixelated Marios on them, a capella groups singing Mario music, all sorts of "lol mario" videos on google/youtube. It's all starting to look like a tired comic device.

Uh....

Okay I don't really want to start another topic, but

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ZkZeDYI_U

WTF

Can someone clarify whether they just outright stole the idea or if the act schematics were open to the public or what?

You'd think with the bigger budget that McDonald's has, they could've at least made an effort to hide the ninjas. Their hands aren't even covered.

Furthermore...

Phew, sorry for the outburst, but McDonald's failure to mimic a classic game properly infuriates me.