Woman Trades Rick And Morty Szechuan Sauce For A Golf GTI
To anyone who has never watched a single second of a cartoon called Rick And Morty, this story flies about a mile over our heads. However, even those of us who’re clueless on this front have probably seen the characters and the memes.
In the wake of McDonald’s recent decision to offer a super-limited-edition Rick And Morty-inspired Szechuan sauce, the unexpected and almost violent demand for it, and the bizarre stories of eBay values and puzzling trades being made, we bring you this: a woman actually traded her packet of cheap McDonald’s sauce in a branded sachet for a fully-functional MkIV Volkswagen Golf GTI.
Rachel Marie, a 23-year-old graphic designer from Michigan, who seems to be one of those awful people who make an effort to obtain rare, sought-after things not to enjoy them, but to profiteer off them, went to her local McDonald’s and stood in line for her turn. She bought a meal with a sachet of sauce, kept the latter unopened and popped it online to see what she could get for it.
A local man who “just really friggin’ needed some sauce” offered his modified Golf GTI, and Rachel accepted. Yep: she got an actual car out of a packet of sauce. After that, this year’s Christmas crackers are going to seem even worse than usual. We don’t have full confirmation that this is truly real, because no one has seen the title to the car in Rachel’s name, but it seems as legit as it can.
Meanwhile, McD’s says it’s planning to bring the sauce back at some point soon, and in greater quantities. We wonder whether the guy whose Golf it used to be might be feeling a bit silly right now.
As linked in the Tweet above, earlier this year a Rick And Morty superfan bid $14,700 for a 20-year-old sachet of the Szechuan sauce that the seller found inside an old car he’d bought. That’s enough for us, world; we’ll hop off at the next stop, thanks.
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And then they find out the car was stolen xD
I mean… People are free to do what they want but…. Why? Just why?
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Quite the intelligent fanbase
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂
Oh yeah?
What if I disliked Rick And Morty without having seen it?
You couldn’t accuse me of not getting the jokes, so argument shut.
Jokes aside though,
Are you really gonna call people idiots because they don’t have a solid grasp of theoretical physics, Narodnaya Volya, or Russian covers of Cat Steven songs? Really?
And yes, I know, I know, it’s not a Cat Stevens cover. It was a damn joke. Geez.
This is just wow. For sauce.
It was only available on October 7th and I was super annoyed when the lne nearest participating location didn’t have any because I had to go to ocoee for it and wasn’t going to search all over central Florida.
They were giving away Rick and Morty posters too
GUYS! I have a bottle of sauce can i get a skyline?
Meanwhile in England you can buy a bottle for 2 quid
Where’s that?
Is it April fools or is it possible to be that r*tarded? Only in America…
Acostumbrate joaquìn, son retrasados
I’m not a fan of Rick & Morty (in fact, I’m getting sick from hearing the same pickle jokes over and over), but I’m a fan of BTTF, and basically, on October 21th 2015, Pepsi released their Pepsi Perfect Limited Edition bottles in homage to the second movie. I think the original price of the bottle was something like $10/$25 or something like that. Two hours later, you could see the same, unopened bottles, reaching the three-number mark, and some even sold at the four-number mark. I remember looking at that and simply being discouraged of that type of people who just try to get money from it by reselling the product for a lot more to legit fans.
if rick and morty fans are super smart why do they go absolutely insane for a special sauce? 🙄
Because it was refrenced in an episode. I swear, one episode they vould be nazis and bam, we’d have them to deal with again