Does Richard McBeef sound like one of those McDonalds characters like Grimace & the Hamburglar?

Answer 1

You seriously have to think about this?

What is another name for Richard? ---Dick.
Now just axe the "Mc" and leave the "Beef" and what's the "pedifiles" name in his story?

However, you could have left the "Mc" as it also makes a sick reference to "fast food" which isn't a pleasent thought when one is thinking that Cho was most likely talking about sodomy in his writing assignment.

I think it was just a not so clever way of him using a "dirty" name for a "dirty" character in his script.

Answer 2

It was a metaphor. Remember John called him 'fat'. You eat too many Big Macs you turn into a McBeef. I couldn't help but think, from reading both scripts that this kid might have been abused by a family member or something. That could have really messed up his mind if that is actually what happened to him. I'm not defending him, of course, just offering an observation.

Answer 3

It might sound like that if it were not the title of Cho's play.

Lucinda Roy, the department's director of creative writing, who had Cho in one of her classes and described him as "troubled. She referred him for counseling....but he would not go.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-17-virginia-tech_N.htm?csp=34

“I kept saying, ‘Please go to counseling; I will take you to counseling,’ because he was so depressed,” Roy said. But “I was told [by counselors] that you can’t force anybody to go over ... so their hands were tied, too.”

Fellow students in a playwriting class with Cho also noticed the dark and disturbing nature of his compositions.

“His writing, the plays, were really morbid and grotesque,” Stephanie Derry, a senior English major, told the campus newspaper, The Collegiate Times.

“I remember one of them very well. It was about a son who hated his stepfather. In the play, the boy threw a chainsaw around and hammers at him. But the play ended with the boy violently suffocating the father with a Rice Krispy treat,” Derry said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18148802/

A copy of Cho's play entitled "Richard McBeef," can be found at thesmoking gun website. The bizarre play features a 13-year-old boy who accuses his stepfather of pedophilia and murdering his father. The teenager talks of killing the older man and, at one point, the child's mother brandishes a chain saw at the stepfather. The play ends with the man striking the child with "a deadly blow." (10 pages)
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0417071vtech1.html

Cho also wrote a second play, entitled "Mr. Brownstone"; the play is named after a Guns N' Roses song and contains lyrics copied verbatim from the song. Both plays are available on the website below.
http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/

Answer 4

Yes. It is a bit of an unfortunate name to have. I'm not sure what this guy is about but I think I would be changing my name.

Answer 5

Actually, it would have been a good name for a chain of delis. But now, the brand is tainted.

Answer 6

Kinda but it sounds more like a porn actors name.

Answer 7

Yes and so do McDreamy and McSteamy

Answer 8

yep.