You Might Enjoy: The Big Flop
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
On each episode of Wondery’s podcast The Big Flop, comedians join host Misha Brown to chronicle one of the biggest pop-culture fails of all time and try to answer the age-old question: who thought THIS was a good idea?
The Hamburglar was just a mascot, but Jerome Jacobson was the real deal - a McDonald's security chief who pulled off the ultimate inside job. While millions of Americans peeled game pieces hoping for a miracle, this master manipulator was turning Big Macs into big bucks, orchestrating a multi-million dollar fraud. Discover the supersized story of how one man's greed turned America's favorite promotion into the biggest McFlop in fast-food history.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeties, we're about to play a sample of an episode of a different show. It's called The Big Flop. We Think You're gonna like it. |
| 0:05.5 | And it's about this one incident in business history that is one of the funniest things we'd ever heard of. |
| 0:11.5 | And we kind of experienced it. Remember McDonald's did that monopoly sweepstakes? |
| 0:14.9 | How could I forget, Jack? |
| 0:15.6 | Where you try to capture different monopoly pieces to win like crazy prizes. My family ate at McDonald's like six days in a row on the Upper West Side, purely to get |
| 0:23.8 | a Corvette. |
| 0:24.6 | We didn't get one, spoiler. |
| 0:25.7 | Nick, I didn't know this at the time. |
| 0:27.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.8 | But there was a guy at McDonald's, a security chief, who almost pulled off the ultimate |
| 0:32.8 | inside job to ruin McDonald's monopoly. |
| 0:36.2 | Wait to hear this, besties. On Wonderondery's podcast, The Big Flop, |
| 0:39.8 | comedians join host Misha Brown to chronicle pop culture's biggest fails and try to answer the |
| 0:44.9 | age-old question, who thought this was a good idea? Like putting a little sticker on a cup at |
| 0:51.5 | McDonald's, and that sticker was a monopoly piece worth a million |
| 0:54.8 | dollars. |
| 0:55.4 | Yeah, there's a whole strategy behind it. |
| 0:56.9 | But at the time, the McDonald's collab with Monopoly was a genius idea, right, Jack? |
| 1:01.0 | The only problem, when they picked their head of security, the one guy in charge of protecting |
| 1:05.5 | those million-dollar monopoly pieces, McDonald's drew the wrong card. |
| 1:09.6 | Comedians, Ifi Waddewey and Beth Stelling, join Misha on this episode to break down |
| 1:14.0 | what really went down with the McDonald's monopoly scandal. |
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