Pizza rat is back, and he’s hungrier than ever.
Over at the YouTube prank channel PrankvsPrank, a group of clever pranksters decided to build a remote-controlled pizza rat replica. The team then set the rat loose on the streets of New York, and recorded everyone’s reactions.
While some people respond in terror, others are totally nonplussed. And that’s where the heart of the video’s humor lies. New Yorkers are no strangers to vermin, or vermin who love Italian food. Just because you're a sewer rat doesn't mean you can't have excellent taste in carbs. The city home to some of the world’s most expensive real estate saw a huge spike in rat sightings in 2015.
Pizza rat might seem like a hilarious anomaly to the rest of the world, but to many New Yorkers, he’s devastatingly familiar.