It was a throw away joke on an extremely funny television show. It’s not anything special, and it certainly isn’t worth threatening lawsuits, treating McDonald’s employees like shit, buying it on ebay for hundreds of dollars, and whining constantly online about your hyper-entitled, desperate for geek cred, pathetic need to have your every fucking whim met and met immediately. McDonald’s screwed up by severely underestimated your sense of entitlement and the employees who took the packets for themselves deserve a bit of shrapnel too, but, my god, just shut the fuck up about it already.
Look, here’s the truth of it.
Rick & Morty averaged 2.5 million viewers this last season. You can probably add another million who watched from less than legal sources or after the fact.
When you have approximately 3.5 million fans of something, and you move forward with a promotion that distributes only 20 packets of sauce to 200 locations (a mere 4,000 total packets), you’re setting yourself up to fail, and fail miserably, pissing off a lot of people. It was an insanely stupid decision by McDonalds corporate.
Lawsuits? Threats? Just the usual assholes at work. The ones making threats and inciting violence deserve to be prosecuted, just like anyone else who walks that path.
This is the crux of the biscuit right here.
Aye.
They seemed to just be throwing it out there as a kinda “we’re in on the joke” throw away promotion. But they apparently can’t do that without a bunch of entitled whiners feeling like they deserve to get something free, and if they don’t, they flip out.
Hence the pitting. But it’s not just them, it’s also the ones flooding social media with their pathetic whining about not getting something for free that pissed me off.
So you started this thread to post about how other people being butthurt makes you butthurt even harder?
Good grief…are those actual numbers?
What…did they press the assembly line button for like just 1 minute or something.
Yeah…the fans ARE being crazy assed dicks…but Mc screwed the pooch pretty well here too.
So you’re butthurt that I posted a minor pit thread about an bunch of people being butthurt?
Do you see how stupid you sound now?
The fans who flocked to McDonald’s, shouting take my money, are bitching that they didn’t get something for free- or because they wanted to buy something and were denied?
No.
No.
So posting/starting a thread can happen without you really being butthurt? Wow, who knew?
Why am I not surprised you don’t realize how stupid you sound.
From the Cafe Society thread about this issue:
So apparently it was a marketing issue more than a manufacturing one, since they were putting the labels on by hand. From McDonalds latest response, it sounds like they’re going to try again this winter, presumably actually starting up a full production line.
They couldn’t buy this publicity for a million bucks.
The OP is only partly right; the Szechuan sauce is a flash in the pan, what we really need back is the hot mustard!
The breakfast sandwiches are a pale shadow of their former selves without the hot mustard. Same for the nuggets they are barely edible now.
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God that IS amazingly stupid.
Anybody with half a brain would have said something like “set up the assembly line…run enough to give EVERY Mc Ds’ locations enough sauce for a day or two”
Sure the set up cost for a limited run are not free…but gawd damn…think how much MORE business they would have generated for that day.
Instead, they got a bunch of pissed off customers.
NFL, ESPN, McDs’…are coporations being run by morons these days?
Is this really a wider cultural thing? The SDMB is literally the only place I’ve heard about this about. Not a peep on my Facebook feed, even, which contains the sort of people who would bitch about this.
b-BUT SZECHUAN SAUCE MORTY! TH-THAT’S WHAT’S GONNA TAKE US, ALL THE WAY TO THE END MORTY! SEASON, 9 MORE SEASONS MORTY! 9 MORE SEASONS UNTIL I GET THAT DIPPING SZECHUAN SAUCE! I WANT THAT MCNUGGET SAUCE MORTY!!!
That’s the stupid part of the rant. No one was expecting anything for free. They showed up, money in hand, to purchase it, only to find what amounted to a bait and switch.
Rick and Morty fans, as the latest wave of overly obsessed folks, are the worst.
I think they’re just looking at it wrong.
Taking a long journey and then not getting the Asian stuff you wanted is exactly the way to celebrate Columbus Day.
