Willard Scott has died. He is best known for being the weather reporter on the Today show. More importantly, he was the creator and original portrayer of the clown character Ronald McDonald, the primary mascot of the McDonald’s fast-food restaurant chain. Our main focus in this investigation is this clown connection.
The origin of Ronald McDonald involves Willard Scott (at the time, a local radio personality who also played Bozo the Clown on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., from 1959 until 1962), who performed using the moniker “Ronald McDonald, the Hamburger-Happy Clown” in 1963 on three separate television spots. These were the first three television ads featuring the character.
The character Bozo the Clown =996 was created by Alan W. Livingston and Willard Scott was 900 months 6 days old when Livingston =69 died. Livingston was born in the Pennsylvania borough of McDonald of all places. Bozo was originally portrayed by Pinto Colvig and he died a span of 19,696 days before Willard Scott’s death. Willard Scott was 661 months 16 days old when the first inductees of the International Clown Hall of Fame were enshrined.
Ronald McDonald =906. Willard Scott died 69 years after the debut of the Today =666 show and he was known to dress-up as Santa Claus =666. Scott was 6 years 69 days old when McDonald’s founded and the fast-food chain is recognized as The Golden Arches =669.
McDonald’s was founded 1,966 months 11 days after the US declared independence. Willard Scott was 996 weeks old when the United States Department of Health and Human Services was founded. Public Health =666. Scott was born a span of 196 months 6 days after the creation of the Balfour Declaration. The Jews =999.
Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock’s film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003, during which he ate only McDonald’s food. Scott died a span of 966 weeks after March 2, 2003. Morgan Valentine Spurlock =669 was 609 months old when Scott died. Poison =966.
The predecessor to what is now the international fast food restaurant chain Burger King was founded in on July 23, 1953 in Jacksonville, Florida, as Insta-Burger King. Willard Scott was a span age of 19 years 19 weeks 6 days when Burger King founded.
Stephen King’s It television miniseries premiered 1,606 weeks 6 days before the death of Willard Scott. Stephen King’s It =666. The miniseries is based on Stephen King‘s 1986 novel of the same name. The story revolves around a predatory monster that can transform itself into its prey’s worst fears, allowing it to exploit the phobias of its victims. It mostly takes the humanoid form of Pennywise, a darkly comedic clown. Clown costume =966. The final episode in the miniseries Stephen King’s It aired a span of 606 months 6 days after the founding of McDonald’s.
John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and sex offender known as the Killer Clown. Willard Scott was 96 months 10 days old when John Wayne Gacy =699 was born and Scott was 60 years 9 weeks 1 day old when Gacy was executed. Gacy was born a span of 96 weeks after McDonald’s founded. Gacy was executed 1,999 days before the death of Max Patkin, the clown prince of baseball. Max Patkin died the day before Karla LaVey founded the First Satan Church. Karla LaVey was 960 weeks old when Scott was born and Karla was 69 years old when Scott died.
The Everly Brothers‘ song “Cathy’s Clown” was written by Don Everly, who died two weeks before Willard Scott’s death. Don Everly died a span of 9,966 days after the execution of John Wayne Gacy.
Willard Scott was 919 months 19 days old when Glen Little =696 aka “Frosty the Clown” died. Frosty Little was one of only four clowns ever to have been given the title “Master Clown” by the Ringling organization. Frosty Little died 16 years 169 days after the death of John Wayne Gacy. On January 13, 1994, a Ringling Bros. Circus train derailed. This circus train derailed 10,096 days before Willard Scott’s death and it derailed 19,601 days after the founding of McDonald’s.
American rodeo clown and film actor Slim Pickens died 1,969 weeks before Willard Scott’s death. Scott’s death was 691 months 6 days after the film Dr. Strangelove premiered. Slim Pickens’ character rides a nuclear bomb, like a cowboy, to oblivion in Dr. Strangelove.
Soupy Sales was known for having pies thrown in his face, which I consider a “clown move”. Willard Scott died 619 weeks after Soupy’s death and Soupy =96 died 69 years 160 days after McDonald’s founded. Soupy Sales was a span age of 16 years 9 weeks 6 days when John Wayne Gacy was born.
Jack L. Warner was an American film executive nicknamed the “Clown Prince of Hollywood” and he died 1,999 weeks after the founding of McDonald’s. Len Shackleton was an English footballer nicknamed the “Clown Prince of Soccer” and he died 60 years 196 days after McDonald’s founding.
McDonald’s was founded 999 weeks or 6,999 days before the death of Grock, who was called “the king of clowns”.
Since we’re covering killer clowns. The fear of clowns is called coulrophobia =1999.
Willard Scott was 69 years old when the Rob Zombie film House of 1000 Corpses released and Scott died 960 weeks 1 days after House of 1000 Corpses =69 premiered. This film was the first appearance of the character Captain Spaulding =69, a homicidal clown, portrayed by Sig Haag. The last appearance of the “Captain Spaulding” character was in the film 3 from Hell, which released on 9/16/19, and Sid Haag died days later on September 21 (Stephen King’s birthday). Scott was 1,609 weeks 6 days old when Rob Zombie was born.
Juggalo =696. John Wayne Gacy was 1,699 weeks old when Shaggy 2 Dope of the Insane Clown Posse was born.
Pennywise was not only the name of the killer clown in Stephen King’s It but its also the name of a punk rock band. Pennywise released their self titled debut album when Willard Scott was a span age of 691 months 16 days. While we’re one the subject of clowns and punk rock. The band NOFX released “Cokie the Clown” 69 years 6 months 9 days after the founding of McDonald’s. Fat Mike as his alter ego, Cokie The Clown =1699. NOFX’s Fat Mike portrays “Cokie the Clown” and Fat Mike was 9,961 days old when John Wayne Gacy was executed. Fat Mike also known as Cokie the Clown =966.
Dr Rockso, the Rock & Roll clown =1666. Dr. Rockso, the coke-snorting rock & roll clown, made his first appearance in the Metalocalypse episode Dethclown. The episode Dethclown originally aired 66 years 6 months 11 days after the founding of McDonald’s.
How about one more rock and roll clown? I’m talking about The Clown =696 aka Michael Shawn Crahan =966 from the band Slipknot =696. The number 6619 is the 855th Prime number. Willard Scott was exactly 1,855 weeks old when Shawn Crahan was born.
Willard Scott was the original Ronald McDonald, the Hamburger-Happy Clown =3133. Willard Scott was exactly 33 years 30 weeks old for the death of Pinto Colvig, the original Bozo the Clown.
We recently looked at the death of Biz Markie, who was sometimes referred to as the “Clown Prince of Hip Hop”. Willard Scott was a span age of 30 years 33 days when Biz Markie was born.
Willard Scott died 33 years 100 days or 33 years 3 months 1 week 1 day after the release of the film Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
Insane Clown Posse founded Juggalo Championship Wrestling a span of 1,133 weeks before the death of Willard Scott.
McDonald’s co-founder Richard McDonald was a span age of 33 years 30 days when John Wayne Gacy was born. Gacy was convicted of 33 murders. Gacy was born 33 years 33 weeks 3 days after the founding of the FBI. Gacy was executed 1,333 weeks after Circus Circus Las Vegas opened. Gacy was 31 years 33 days old when the film Soylent Green released.
The Church of Satan was founded by Anton LaVey and LaVey was 3 years 330 days old when Willard Scott was born.
Killer Clown =1444. Willard Scott was 44 years 41 weeks old when John Wayne Gacy =44 was apprehended and amazingly Gacy was 441 months 4 days old at the time of his arrest. Gacy was known as Pogo the Clown =44 and Patches the Clown =1440. Gacy was executed a span of 14 years 44 weeks before the death of Alan W. Livingston (Bozo creator). John Wayne Gacy was executed 14 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day after the actor John Wayne died. Gacy was apprehended 444 months before the death of Meadowlark Lemon, the clown prince of basketball.
The Simpsons cartoon has Krusty the Clown. The Simpsons episode “Krusty Gets Kancelled” aired a span of 14 years 144 days after the apprehention of John Wayne Gacy.
Poison =444. Fast food =440. Willard Scott was 440 months old when Super Size Me director/star Morgan Spurlock was born. The Golden Arches =144. The FDA =44 aka the Food and Drug Administration founded 1,444 weeks 4 days before the birth of Scott. John Wayne Gacy was a span age of 4,044 days when the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was founded and Gacy was executed 41 years 4 weeks 1 days after the founding of HHS.
McDonald’s was founded 44 years 114 days before the death of Irvin Feld, who was the head of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
The predecessor to what is now the international fast food restaurant chain Burger King was founded 40 years 41 weeks 4 days before the execution of John Wayne Gacy.
Just a couple of days after Willard Scott’s death it was announced that McDonald’s will celebrates Walt Disney World’s 50th Anniversary with 50 limited edition Happy Meal Toys. Entrepreneur Walt Disney =441 was 14,041 days old when McDonald’s founded. Willard Scott was 1,114 weeks 4 days old when Disneyland =44 opened.
Willard Scott died exactly 44 weeks after Halloween. Karla LaVey founded the First Satan Church on Halloween 1999. Karla LaVey was a span age of 41 years 40 weeks 4 days when John Wayne Gacy was executed.
Pennywise the Dancing Clown =444. Evil =444. NOFX released Cokie the Clown =414 a harmonious 11 years 40 weeks 4 days before the death of Willard Scott. In the music video for “Cokie the Clown”, Fat Mike showers famous punkers with “flour” from a flower. Practical jokes =444.
Clown make-up =44. If still alive, John Wayne Gacy would have been 4,044 weeks 4 days old when Sid Haag died and Haag portraited the killer clown character Captain Spaulding (born Johnny Lee Johns =1044 and also known as “Cutter”). Sid Haag died a span of 4,140 weeks 4 days after the founding of McDonald’s, home of the other killer clown.
Deceased pro-wrestler Matt Osborne is best known as being the first wrestler to portray the character of Doink the Clown. Matt Osborne was a span age of 441 months 14 days when John Wayne Gacy was executed. Clowning around =1444.
Cesar Romero portrayed the Joker on the Batman television series. Willard Scott died exactly 1,444 weeks after the death of Cesar Romero =414. Heath Ledger played a darker version of the “Joker” in The Dark Knight and John Wayne Gacy was 444 months old when Heath Ledger was born (on 4/4, 1979).
Happy Meal =1505. McDonald’s was founded on May 15, 1940, a date that can written as 15/05. Bozo the Clown was first portrayed by Pinto Colvig =155 and he was 15,151 days old when Willard Scott was born.
Heath Ledger played the clown character “The Joker” and Ledger was 5,515 days old when John Wayne Gacy was executed. Actor John Leguizamo portrays the demon clown character Violator in the 1997 live-action Spawn film. John Leguizamo was a span age of 1,555 weeks when Gacy was executed. Evil =555.
The fear of clowns is called coulrophobia =555.
James H. Allen was an American actor who portrayed the clown character Rusty Nails. “Rusty” was born on 5/15 and he was a span age of 5,055 days when John Wayne Gacy was born.
Willard Scott was born exactly 515 months after the death of P. T. Barnum. Gacy was a span age of 15,515 days when Irvin Feld died. Irvin Feld was the head of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and this circus went defunct a span of 51 months 15 days before Willard Scott’s death.
Lou Jacobs =55. John Wayne Gacy was apprehended 5,015 days before for the death of Lou Jacobs, an original founder and teacher in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.
Alan W. Livingston =242 is the guy that created the Bozo the Clown character, which Willard Scott also portrayed. Willard Scott died a span of 4,242 weeks 4 days after the founding of McDonald’s =242. The Demon =242. Clown =242. Fools =242. McDonald’s co-founder Maurice McDonald was 11,424 days old when Willard Scott was born. Maurice founded the business with his brother Richard McDonald, who was a span age of 11,412 days when McDonald’s was founded. Ray Kroc died at the span age of 4,241 weeks and Kroc is credited with the global expansion of McDonald’s.
John Wayne Gacy was born in the year ’42. Gacy was 42 years 4 months 1 day old for the San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre. Gacy was executed a span of 1,424 days after the character “Homie D. Clown” premiered in an episode on In Living Color. Willard Scott died 42 years 2 months 24 days after the actor John Wayne. Scott was 21,410 days old when the Insane Clown Posse released their debut studio album. ICP’s record label hosts an annual festival known as The Gathering =242.
The reason why I like this pairing of 242 and 424 is when you add these two numbers together it equals 666.
Willard =1239 Scott was born a span of 239 days before Halloween. The Simpsons cartoon character Krusty the Clown made his television debut on January 15, 1989 in the Tracey Ullman Show short “The Krusty the Clown Show”. Willard Scott was a span age of 20,039 days when Krusty the Clown =2039 debuted. Krusty’s full name is Sir Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky =239. Matt Groening created the Krusty the Clown character and Willard Scott was 239 months old when Groening was born. Krusty’s voice is based on Bob Bell, who portrayed WGN-TV’s Bozo the Clown and Willard Scott’s funeral was 1,239 weeks after Bob Bell’s death.
- 239 is the 52nd Prime number. Willard =52.
Matt Groening‘s Krusty the Clown character is partially inspired by Rusty Nails, a television clown from Groening’s hometown. “Rusty Nails” was portrayed by James H. Allen =2023. Willard Scott died 2,230 days after “Rusty Nails” and “Rusty” was a span age of 2,123 days when Willard was born.
Death =272. The “Killer Clown” John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection at the exact age of 2,721 weeks. John Wayne Gacy was 27 years 27 weeks 2 days old when Shawn Crahan, aka “Clown” from the band Slipknot, was born. Gacy was apprehended 2,072 days after the film Soylent Green released.
Happy Clown =272. Stephen King was 27,012 days old when Willard Scott died. Willard Scott was 20,712 days old when the last episode aired of Stephen King’s It television miniseries.
Cesar Romero, who played the “Joker”, was 27 years 20 days old when Willard Scott was born.
Willard Scott died 272 weeks 1 day after the US release of the horror film Clown.
Rigged Reality =727. Occult Practices =727. Willard Scott was buried on the twenty year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The Pentagon was one of the building hit on 9/11. Scott was a span age of 7 years 27 weeks when construction began on the Pentagon.
Spells =272. The highly publicized McDonald’s hot coffee case came about after a woman received third-degree burns on 27/2, 1992. This woman was burned 2,702 weeks 1 day after McDonald’s was founded. John Wayne Gacy was executed 2 years 72 days after this woman was burned by McDonald’s coffee.
Again the reasoning for including 272 and 727 together is it equals 999 when added together. 999 is the inversion of 666.
Finally we have reached the Pi codes, 314 & 227. Where we find some of the tastiest programming!
John Ringling is the best known of the seven Ringling brothers, five of whom merged the Barnum & Bailey Circus with their own Ringling Bros World’s Greatest Shows to create a virtual monopoly of traveling circuses and helped shape the modern circus. Willard Scott was 2 years 270 days old when John Ringling died. Ringling Bros World’s Greatest Shows =3104.
- Willard Herman Scott Jr. =227. Willard Scott =1227.
The day after Willard Scott’s death was a span of 22,700 days since the death of Grock, who was called “the king of clowns”.
Red Skelton died a span of 1,227 days after Gacy’s execution.
Alan W. Livingston created the character Bozo the Clown =314 and Alan W. Livingston =2027 was exactly 22 years 7 months old when McDonald’s =314 was founded. McDonald’s was founded 12 years 10 months 27 days after the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was founded. Burger King =314.
Another way we can look at the McDonald’s hot coffee case is that is stems from an accident that happened on 2/27. The McDonald’s hot coffee case began when Willard Scott was 22,070 days old.
McDonaldland =227. The film Soylent Green released 12,027 days after the founding of McDonald’s. Reminder that Soylent Green was about riots, a food shortage, cannibalism, and takes place in the year 2022, which is just around the corner.
US president Joe Biden was born 2 years 27 weeks after McDonald’s was founded. John Wayne Gacy as 22 years 7 months old when Joe’s VP Kamala Harris was born. Glen Little aka Frosty the Clown =227 was 3,014 days old when Willard Scott was born.
KRUSTY THE CLOWN =314 is partialy based on a clown named Rusty Nails =314. Krusty the Clown debuted on The Tracey Ullman Show. Krusty =227. Tracey Ullman was 227 months old when John Wayne Gacy was apprehended.
John Wayne Gacy was arrested 202 years 170 days after the United States of America =314 declared independence. Gacy was executed via lethal injection =314.
Willard Scott died a span of 20,217 days after the founding of the Church of Satan.
Eclipse =314. Willard died 2 years 217 days before the next Great American Eclipse.
Shriners International =314. Shriners International, also commonly known as The Shriners or formerly known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine =227, is a Masonic society established in 1870 by Walter M. Fleming, and William J. Florence. Shriners International are the “clowns” of Freemasonry. Willard Scott was born a span of 2,207 weeks after the death of William J. Florence.