Most of you have prob­a­bly never heard of Wes­ley Willis. I cer­tainly hadn’t until today. Wes­ley Willis was an inter­est­ing indi­vid­ual — a diag­nosed schiz­o­phrenic, Wes­ley became some­thing of an inter­net sen­sa­tion rather late in his short life with a string of lit­er­ally thou­sands of short but catchy tunes show­cas­ing his com­pletely tone-deaf poetry-and-rhyme vocal skills. I didn’t real­ize it, but I was already quite famil­iar with one of his big­ger tunes. “Rock and Roll McDonald’s” was fea­tured briefly in the doc­u­men­tary Super Size Me, and ever since hear­ing it on my first view­ing I’ve caught myself hum­ming it from time to time.

Now, thanks to the glory of the inter­web, I can share that catchy catchy tune with you. When it came to post­ing this, I had to choose between post­ing a live ver­sion of Wes­ley Willis per­form­ing it sev­eral months before his death or this mostly unwatch­able piece of internet-animation. Since the song was what I really wanted to show­case and his live ver­sion was a lit­tle too mumbly-mouthed, I decided to stick with the ani­ma­tion. My apolo­gies in advance for the low-quality and occa­sion­ally strange imagery.

Both the song and the video have a clear anti-McD’s agenda. I fig­ure it’s a good way to bal­ance out the fair­ness in our McDonald’s Mon­days posts, see­ing as most of them are just me ram­bling on about my love of scary clowns with hamburgers.

If you want to know a lit­tle more about Wes­ley Willis (and you should, it’s an inter­est­ing story) check out his entry on wikipedia.

McDonald’s Mon­days is a weekly series of posts writ­ten by our own Jim Squires that ini­tially appears on his pop cul­ture blog fjetsam.com.