But if I’d known in advance that McDonalds was supposed to be offering Rick’s favorite sauce on a particular day, I still wouldn’t have gone. It would have been a total ‘meh’ for me. It has nothing to do with my appreciation for the writing and execution of the show.
What I’m trying to say is that every “fandom” is diverse. It contains some people who take the show or movie or graphic novel (or whatever), way too seriously, and it contains other people who simply enjoy and respect the object of fandom.
I would be curious to know if the McDonalds executive who advanced this idea of 4000 packets for millions of fans, is being patted on the back for getting McD’s in the news, or is being booted downstairs. It would be an interesting story for some enterprising journalist to ferret out.
A disproportionate number of humans can’t be stupid assholes; that’s not how proportions work.
“A disproportionate number of RM fans are stupid assholes” means that there’s a greater percentage of assholes in the fandom than is represented in humanity at large.
…unless it’s ME that doesn’t understand how proportions work, in which case I am both stupid and an asshole for posting this.
(Also, if you’re yelling at some poor minimum wage worker just trying to get through a shift because some suit they’ve never met underestimated how important some meme sauce is to you, then you don’t deserve any satisfaction.)
you know I remember trying that sauce when they did the Mulan tie-in almost 2 decades ago and it was a slightly spiced up version on the normal mcd’s sweet and sour nugget sauce…
I remember no one was impressed about it… and given the average mental level of adult swim and its viewers its not surprising this thing went down in flames …
A disproportionate number of assholes in humanity would mean to me that there is some agreed upon number of assholes that should exist, and that humans have more. That works for the other situations, though the “agreed upon number of assholes” would be the average.
I don’t even watch the show, so much as I’m accidentally exposed to it in passing, but I’m positive that character’s role is not supposed to be aspirational.
Rick is not who you want to be, people. Rick is not who you should aspire to. Rick is not a role model, unless the role you want is “objectively terrible waste of oxygen.”
That is all.
Oh, yeah, back to original topic: Never tasted McDonald’s faux-Szechuan stuff, never developed an interest, and don’t believe the assholes in question have any legitimate beef other than “I NEED SUMFIN TO TROLL ABOUT.”
I get who you are pitting, I just think it’s ridiculous to criticize someone for being fans of a show that has characters that are less than admirable.
I agree. Whatever you may think about McDonald’s decision here, they screwed over their employees. Fast food workers already take so much shit from asshole customers. Why make it worse?
He’s not criticizing people for being fans of the show. He criticizing fans of the show who apparently don’t understand the point that the show is trying to make.
The creators of the show don’t want you to idolize or emulate Rick; they want you to pity and laugh at and ridicule him. Unfortunately, some of the show’s fans seem to think that emulation is preferable.
It’s the same point that was being made in the article i quoted in my previous post.
How about we blame the people who were assholes to the employees more than we blame the corporation for having employees for the assholes to be assholes to.
The post you had made wasn’t about the asshole customers, but rather about McDonald’s actions. I, apparently mistakenly, figured that, in expressing disdain for McDonalds, but not for the sauce wanting customers, you were prioritizing who was more to blame.
