I think the point here may be how that's a weird thing to voice as a positive for a show, no matter what you thought of the character.

These dinosaur rights activists won't stop until we're marrying our children to a Triceratops! Do you want your child marrying a Triceratops? Do ya?! With its unusual stance and its possible definition as a juvenile Torosaurus! Just flinging it in our faces!

I thought it drove completely against the message of "Jurassic Park" to date, as maudlin and simplistic as it was, to create an animal that was, at its very core, a murderous monster.

Washington, D.C. conducts business in a city constructed through slave labor, so unless you're pro-slavery I expect you won't be stepping foot on American soil again. And unless you're pro-Nazi, surely you'll forfeit any of the modern medicine we advanced through their anatomical research in the camps.

With reasoning that poor, it's safe not to take you seriously. And I don't even agree with Trevorrow.

I'm pretty sure the last movie had it covered by inventing a fictitious animal with the inherent trait of "totally evil, like slasher-movie evil" for the express purpose of killing it without remorse.

Actually, those are examples of how the image of a clown has changed in popular culture to something hostile and malevolent. And you can ball up your fists and dream of, I guess, your good American childhood where clowns meant something goddammit but I don't see the point to it.

More proof that if Vox hosts a video to "explain" something, it's something that by definition does not need explaining to anyone old enough to find their Web site.

Sidewalk's for regular walkin'! Not for Simpson's walkin'!

I always wondered about that Joker-themed gang member in the Justice League episode who had his choice of super powers and picked "gigantic spinning ball assembly that replaces everything below my waist".

It doesn't really fucking matter what those people do, though. The Mac Tonite thing is from YTMND and means pretty much nothing to anyone outside of a tiny group on certain Web sites, and that comics panel has been used, and is still used, by people all over the Internet to mean all sorts of things.

It's more like what "clown" means has changed over the years due to an excess of ironic evil/crooked/sleazy clowns in popular culture. Which is, like… that happens sometimes.

It actually didn't, which is why they ended the campaign.

That Burger King campaign was widely acknowledged as a failure and so they dropped it.

You went to a comics convention and got angry that you saw people dressed as manga characters? Do you get angry when you see all those jocks at the gym? You realize that "cosplay" as a term exists because of how Japanese abbreviates English borrowings, right?

Yeah, but… The Joker and associated characters are pretty much the exact trend that's being acknowledged here. Clowns are presented as gross and/or malevolent far more often nowadays than they are as goofy good times for kids, so McDonald's is ready to toss Ronald overboard.

Why do you feel so strongly about how the whole thing's changed in pop culture? Genuinely curious. To me it's just… something that happened. No need to get upset about it.

Eerie… a friend and I were talking a couple years back about how pretty much every instance of a clown in contemporary pop culture portrays them as either scary or ironically scuzzy, with the sole exception of Ronald McDonald.

Why

I think I speak for everyone when I say you're on the right path in life, keep doing what you're doing