mcdonald's monopoly mishaps.

Yesterday morning I heard an ad for McDonald's yearly Monopoly contest.  I found it a little odd that the young woman speaking in the ad referenced her losing games of Monopoly constantlydue to her brother hiding the money is his pocket.

Does anyone else remember the mess a few years back, when McDonald's found out the company they had hired to run the promotion had been rigging it so family members of employees would win?

This is why things have to be run by a wider group of people.  I have the feeling some of the guys in McLegal would have remembered this, and felt like it draws attention to past incompetence.

Either that, or it was completely tongue in cheek, and I'm underestimating the genius of McDonald's

maybe i'm amazed.

Off-topic, but I'm pretty sure I just saw a 9/11 joke on 30 Rock, a prime time network sitcom.

Yeah.

At the same time, the episode dealt with Thomas Jefferson sleeping with his slaves, Black soldiers on the confederate side of the U.S. Civil War, and sneaking into A.A. meetings to stalk a crush. So, maybe I should have seen this coming.

Still. 9/11 joke to close a sitcom set in NY? Ballsy. I am impressed.