Remember When McDonald's Tried to Make a Movie? 

In the original cut (which was only released in Japan), Eric was shot by the police instead of being injured by the explosion, and the dad alien literally rips the bullet out of him. In the international release, they rerecorded the audio of Michael saying "He's gone?" but he's clearly saying the original line of "He's dead?" (and they did such a poor job of it, you can still hear the original line under the rerecorded version), and "He's dead, mom, he's dead" became "They can't help him". I wish I were joking.

As a disabled person I'm mildly obsessed with the fact that his family fully believes he would be capable of trashing the kitchen to that extent overnight

E.T: the kid is flying on his bicycle Mac and me: flings a disabled kid off a cliff

The decision to wear a Pepsi shirt, while discussing a coca-cola ad disguised as a movie, is not lost on me, Drew. I see you.

Fun fact: Buzz Knudson is actually a 3 time Oscar winning sound designer, who worked on the Exorcist, Cabaret, and most notably, ET

Man, I hate it when I go to McDonald's and the 80s is happening.

"SON, DID YOU, A WHEELCHAIR BOUND PRE-PUBESCENT CHILD SPEND ALL NOGHT DIGGING UP TREES AND PUTTING THEM IN THE LIVING ROOM?? HOW COULD YOU?!?!?!?!

Random fact. My dads friend actually played the little girl in this movie and said it was one of the weirdest role she ever did

I’m impressed at the production value. They threw cars at each other and blew up a store

man, I feel bad for Kurtis, he has to go on tour with a guy that thinks he’s two different people

Flies off a cliff, survives. 50 miles from an exploding building, "He's gone"

A while ago my father told me that his sister was afraid of vacuums as a kid because of a movie where an alien is sucked up by a vacuum. I have now discovered which movie he was talking about, and I really wish I hadn't. I told my dad that I found the movie that traumatized his sister, and he said "Mac an Me?" I'm not sure it's a good thing that he remembers the name of the movie

The main thing I know this from is that every time Paul Rudd goes onto Conan's show to promote a movie, instead of promoting the movie he's in, he just shows the scene of the kid falling off the cliff in the wheelchair, and that's it. No context or explanation, just that scene. It's honestly iconic.

Coca-cola wasn't the only coke ingested while making this movie.

As a wheelchair user, I'm torn. On the one hand, it's great to see a disabled actor starring in a movie that's not ABOUT disability. But why did it have to be THIS movie?

I've heard that most of the crew for this movie was pretty much payed in advance or something. The director was hired out of the blue, showed up and saw that everyone who could be a part of a film crew was already there but he asked for the script and was told "We don't have a script. Just start filming and write one on the weekends" so they started filming and wrote one on the weekends. Also apparently the kid who starred in this film was someone who had a condition where he actually needed that wheelchair and he probably could've been a big 90s star if the movie wasn't so bad. His career never really picked up after it and now he's an artist or something. Which, props to him for being one of the few people in this film that could bounce back into the public eye after that. I don't think there's a single speaking actor in this film that continued acting after it. At least not within decade to follow.

im screaming at the implication that everyone in the crowded store was just...evacuated into the scene of an active shootout or killed in the blast. this deserves ten oscars.

Watching a movie funded 50% by Coca Cola. Wearing a Pepsi shirt. Don’t give a damn

so you're telling me that we had a movie in the 80s that had a canon disabled main character in an actually decent wheelchair played by an actual disabled actor and it was made to market off mcdonalds? Man I can't even get that kinda representation today

I think its hilarious that Buzz Knudson is not only a real person but he is an award winning sound engineer who also worked on ET: The Extraterrestrial

When I was a small child in the early 90's my aunt owned a video store in Luxembourg. I spent A LOT of time in that store and watched SO MANY movies. The thing is, I was very young at the time and now I don't recall most of them. Except for one single movie that randomly pops into my mind from time to time. I have thought about that movie hundreds of times, unable to remember what it was called or what it was about. All I remembered was the final scene involving an alien chewing pink gum in a car. I wasn't even sure if it had actually happened or if it was just a fever dream of mine. I didn't think I would be able to find proof of its existence so I never actually bothered to look it up. But then this video was recommended to me. This IS the movie! Thanks RU-vid algorithm. I feel weirdly emotional now.

I hate it when my disabled son plants a whole garden in my living room ugh

Step 1. Get brought to the USA Step 2. Blow up a gas station Step 3. ??? Step 4. Become a citizen

If ya watch conan o Brian then you have seen this exact scene when Paul Rudd was on the show. He showed that clip instead of anything he was promoting. Beautiful comedy, he even did it on Conan's last show.

Buzz Knudson is a real guy, he was my great Uncle. 😂 His nickname was Buzz and that's just what he went by. He did sound mixing for quite a few movies like: E.T., Back to the Future, The Exorcist, and Cabaret. He won three academy awards for it too. I've seen them in person as a kid in his office. My Aunt and my Uncle still have one his Oscars in their house. lol

This movie has a kid in a wheelchair as a protagonist, without making it a big deal. I gotta respect that.

Drew: I can’t get sued again Danny: I’m reviewing your legal options

16:53 "Why they're holding their hands up in a court house" I genuinely thought when watching this movie for the first time that they were in a church and was like, 'yeah, sure, why not'

It cracks me up every time that the family thinks that their son that’s in a wheelchair moved all that into the house by himself in one night with zero noise 💀

When actual extraterrestrial aliens can get American citizenship faster then human immigrants from Earth

I dont know why they think this would make a good coke ad, they literally just said coke has the same nutritional value as dirt water

In high school, my friend Greg absolutely demanded I watch this. He said it was a childhood classic for him. The wheelchair scene will forever stick with me, haha. Laughed so hard and still do whenever I see it.

We only owned like 10 movies when I was a kid that we watched over and over and this was one of them. I'm honestly shocked that more people don't appreciate the charm that the spooky little aliens have, especially when I think that ET is at least twice as ugly and far more beloved

Craziness aside, I love that the main character is in a wheelchair, and that it doesn't seem to have anything to do with his character. You rarely see that in movies.

i like to believe that as soon as the tour ended, god was like "that's it, everything good has happened" and then tried to kill us all off

18:00 Funnily enough, Knudson is a real surname, most notably of Robert Knudson, who was a sound engineer in Cabaret, The Exorcist, E.T., Close Encounters with the Third Kind, 1941, Empire of the Sun, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. So another Knudson exists, and he was part of the team working on E.T., which this movie was heavily inspired by.

remembering discussing diversity in media in one of my classes as a thought exercise (how many disabled characters can you actually think of, basically) and y’know your girl went “has anyone heard of Mac and Me?”

Ok, obviously this is a bad movie, but props to them for having a main character in a wheelchair.

the mom: I can't believe that my son, who is in a wheelchair 24/7 due to disabilities, had the AUDACITY to redecorate every square inch of my living room in the middle of the night

I feel like the filmmakers got this proposition from coke and mcdonald's and thought "Fuck it, as long as we put the ads they won't give a shit". Then they just went hog wild knowing since it was basically an ad movie.

I can’t stop laughing at the names BUZZ KNUDSON

Mom: "Surely there's a ratoinal explanation for this." also Mom: *blames wheelchair bound son for bringing in a bunch of plants and sculptures from the outside

Mac is the Gooby of this movie. The movie wants him to be lovable, funny, and entertaining, but instead you hate him and think he looks like a deformed armadillo without a shell.

Seeing Danny and Drew's videos where they plugged their tour seems so nostalgic now

12:40 Seeing Ronald pop up disturbed me more than the aliens. I didn't think I was afraid of clowns but here I am. The more you know

Buzz Knudsen was a real guy. He won three Oscars for his sound work - including for ET: The Extraterrestrial!

“all he did was blow his nose & lick our garlic” i’m sorry what

I love how you can see Drew slowly becoming more done with explaining this movie throughout the video

My favorite thing about this video is realizing why Drew had seen that scene from Mac and Me over and over again was because he saw Paul Rudd show Conan O’Brien a dozen times over the years.

Mac is actually a human kid. He's the result of what a kid would look like if it ate nothing but McDonalds. _This comment is brought to you by Pepsi._ I just want to say... You guys are awesome.✌️😄 Have a very fortunate 2022.

Nobody gonna talk about how some kid in a wheelchair legit just outsped the police driving in their police cars

I've been laughing at "Buzz Knudson" for ten minutes

Only three years late to this video, but this video just shot the memory of this movie back into my brain. Totally forgot this existed. I also somehow never noticed all the blatant McDonald's and Coke advertisement 😂 (I watched it when I was 6 or younger no doubt). I also somehow completely wiped the entire McDonald's dance scene from my memory haha. Definitely one strange movie, but I was also enjoyable to watch when I was little 🙂. Also, they failed on their advertisement for me. I don't drink coke or eat McDonalds 😂

I love how he's wearing a Pepsi shirt whilst watching a massive coke commercial

Would you say Macs older family could be called “Big Macs”

Paul Rudd always played the Cliff clip when he went on Conan. It was a running gag that he’d always play this clip instead of one from whatever film he was promoting.

Buck Flower is actually a known character actor and when you introduced him next to Security Guard, I was like "why was Buck Flower doing security on Mac and Me??" but then I used my feeble brain and realized that he's probably playing a security guard in the film lol

Me: Can we watch E.T? Mom: We have E.T at home. E.T at Home:

Danny if you do not put your nutcrackers back into the background I will contact my lawyers. You have 3 days

Lol one GLORIOUS bit of trivia you forgot to mention about this movie, is that while E.T. stands for ‘Extraterrestrial’, MAC, stands for ‘Mysterious Alien Creature’ haha 😄 Also, the reason they dressed him in a bear costume was so they could pull of the same trope of having E.T. wear the girls clothes to allow him to blend in, but escape in that movie. Not just arbitrarily be out in public to be hidden, only to break out into choreographed dancing 😂 I’m one of the lucky few these days to have been a bad movie hunter at Blockbuster, and with that I found this movie, and Malibus Most Wanted, which actually became one of my favourite movies ever.

i am so sorry about how hard i laughed at 8:07 and i cant think of any way to defend myself about it

They just assume that their DISABLED son stayed up late bringing all that crap into the house

Just a friendly reminder that the actress who plays Eric’s mother, Christine Ebersole, is an acclaimed Broadway actress and the voice of Steven Universe’s *WHITE DIAMOND, A DICTATOR OF AN INTERGALACTIC PLANET,* began _with this role_

The fake names in the credits is actually not an uncommon occurrence. "Alan Smithee" is actually the official pseudonym used by the Directors Guild of America from 1968 to 2000, which directors would credit themselves as if they had worked on a movie that was meddled with so much by the executives during production that the director no longer wanted to be associated with it.

4:40 can we PLEASE take a moment of silence for this godly bit

Neighbors kids: *Screaming for help* Drew: huh, strange, oh well, back to making RU-vid videos

*whole movie is about drinking coke* Drew: *wears Pepsi shirt*

I'm laughing my ass off thinking about Drew recording the voice for the stuffed animal that sounded like it was from Jersey

Fun fact: Every time Paul Rudd came on Conan O'Brien's show (late night, conan, even the podcast), instead of showing a clip from whatever he was working on at the time, he would show the clip from this movie of the kid in the wheelchair falling off a cliff

I JUST realised that I watched this move when I was like 7 and throughout my life thought that it was E.T. wow

A PEPSI SHIRT, SHOTS FIRED i watch the falling-off-the-cliff scene at least once a month as a Depression Cure®, a true masterpiece

the cops yelling "put that down" and wielding a gun at someone who isn't actually holding anything is the most realistic part of this movie

"So then it takes off and flies into space as all the names of the people who are probably ashamed to have been in this movie show up on screen" This is why Drew Gooden is arguably the best comedian on the internet

JENNIFER ANISTON IS ONE OF THE BACKGROUND DANCERS. I REPEAT, JENNIFER ANISTON IS ONE OF THE BACKGROUND DANCERS.

I don't believe in spanking your kids. I'll just show them this movie instead.

"Then we go to McDonald's where it looks like the 80' is happening. " 🤣🤣🤣

Kid: I wanna watch ET Mom: We have ET at home ET at home: *WHISTLING INTENSIFIES*

I can't get over the fact that this movie and the Heathers movie came out in the same year.

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I think it’s so funny that they had a dance party at McDonalds where everyone is jumpin’ around and sliding side to side, doing a lot of stuff with their feet, and the main (human) character can’t get in on the fun. So he’s just watching.

i've seen all of your videos at least 3 times at this point but they're so rewatchable, the jokes still get me every time

My mom watched this movie growing up and when i was 14 she said “hey theres this movie called mac and me lets watch it” and we did and she goes “isnt he so cute i think he looks like your brother” 👌

"Yes, I would like to order one *McExtraTerrestrial* please."

This video is two years old and no one has mentioned Paul Rudd has used Mac and Me to troll Conan O’Brien for years by rolling a clip of it instead of whatever he was supposed to promote?!

I GOOGLED BUZZ KNUDSON! turns out he’s won 4 academy awards and worked on over 100 movies as a sound engineer🤷🏻‍♂️

drew: does a video thats 88% coca cola also drew: wears a pepsi shirt

The single best part of the movie Mac and Me has been its legacy as a Paul Rudd jokes, one of the best jokes ever created. It’s legendary. Side note I vaguely remember this movie as a kid, they drive through a big solar farm? I’m obese and addicted to coke (not the illicit drug) so maybe it worked?

I can't believe how much this movie totally stole from E.T. I mean, my favorite part in E.T. was the whole house shootout scene and military airstrikes on residential property.

"Sears is being destroyed" A glimpse into the future

I love how they see a disastrously remodeled/trashed room and their first thought is "the kid in a wheelchair did it!" Like..a top student athlete would have serious difficulty accomplishing all that in a single night. Imagine carrying all that crap in with one arm, rolling a wheelchair + the weight of the stuff you're carrying with the other. Silently. In one night. And also destroying a wall.

I actually liked this movie as a kid. I think we had the vhs. I never knew it was made by McDonald's, but I was really young when it came out.

Imagine the world discovering your personal favorite childhood movie and destroying it on the internet for years straight.... sucks for those people *sniffle*

Everyone's talking about how drew and danny uploaded at the same time, but is anyone gonna talk about the fact that kurtis did too?

Drew: makes a video about a Coca Cola sponsored movie Also drew: wears a Pepsi shirt What a legend

They can bring him back to life but they can't fix his legs

Buzz Knudson was a real dude who also worked in the same sound design role for the actual ET movie

the pepsi shirt omg i swear drew is a comedic genius it’s so subtle and i noticed it like half way thru the video

“This movie’s insane. I love it so much” -Danny Gonzalez 2019

That initial clip is from Paul Rudd, every time he goes on Conan O'Brien's show and they cut away as if they're about to show a clip of whatever movie he's promoting, that clip plays instead, it's their own little rickroll and he's done it like 10 times.

i would absolutely LOVE to see another wheelchair chase scene w the same level of intensity