McDonald's reinvention of the Hamburglar was seemingly meant as a play for refreshed cultural relevance, but deeply mixed reactions to the new beef thief raise the prospect that the corporation has miscalculated.
A combination that can provoke interesting reactions to football failure.
Everyone," muses Mrs Fantlova, "has different reactions to the aftermath of that experience.
When I ask how they feel about the election, the most common reactions are either silence or: "I'm not that bothered".
Curiously, pro-Russian sympathies are growing, as reactions to the crisis in Ukraine tend to demonstrate.
And as some of the negative reactions showed, pictures of suffering can trigger not simply empathy and a desire to help, but also anger at the way that the people at the frontline of famine and conflict are represented.
7.27pm GMT / 2.27pm ET: We've produced a video capturing the reactions of children from London aged 14 and 15 to the Invisible Children documentary.
A lot of the Republican reaction on cable news and elsewhere seems to be stuck on Biden's actions and reactions, rather than talking up their guy.
It's wise to keep in mind that strong reactions from the likes of NBC and CNN legal analysts about the sudden likelihood that the healthcare law will be overturned could be exaggerated, expressing more of a visceral reaction that things simply didn't go as smoothly as they'd been expecting for two years.
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), linked in laboratory animals to an increase in tumours of the liver, pancreas and testicles and reduced fertility, is one of the chemicals used in the chain of reactions that makes the common non-stick surface Teflon.
There are few secretaries of state who have triggered such strong reactions.
