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This is spin off of the trump lol thread since we had so many amazing posts of videos from the onion In the beginning stages of the Onion they made a lot of videos They made a 10 episode reality show called Sex House https://youtu.be/0App7QizQCU They had a morning show called Today Now https://youtu.be/PyV-oTTyIWg https://youtu.be/6z_hkA2jWQs https://youtu.be/YZgXg_7kVI8 They had Sports Dome which was their sports show https://youtu.be/tByP3Q-zTUw https://youtu.be/vXvy968BCs8 And of course they had their newsroom https://youtu.be/9U4Ha9HQvMo https://youtu.be/Rw8gE3lnpLQ https://youtu.be/8AyVh1_vWYQ https://youtu.be/Hyph_DZa_GQ https://youtu.be/MGXSPf9b-xI This thread will be the home for posting all things The Onion
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens
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Thanks for this. I’m one of the few who never watched their videos, and I’m just starting to dig through them now. The Joad Cressbeckler series is a scream: https://youtu.be/0iqktCdX0hs
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Jun 30, 2023 12:54
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I've read The Onion since around 2001 but I hadn't watched the videos in about a decade or more, so many good ones. It can be hard to read the headlines scrolling at the bottom but they're almost all gems, like in this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQTaWjMoFw Where one just says "Scientists find all humans descended from ancient slut" so matter-of-factly that I had to pause the video because of how hard it made me laugh.
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Bring back Jim Anchower and Herbert Kornfeld or close up shop. edit: Autistic news reporter is pretty good, though.
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Jun 30, 2023 13:31
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I prefer sweet onions op
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Ez8 posted:Bring back Jim Anchower and Herbert Kornfeld or close up shop. Yeah, this is the stuff I used to read all the time back in the day. And also T. Herman Zweibel.
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Jun 30, 2023 13:46
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You guys are just making up silly names
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Ez8 posted:edit: Autistic news reporter is pretty good, though. This poo poo was funny as hell
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The did a few videos that that were poking fun at vice style journalism and that poo poo cracked me up
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Jun 30, 2023 13:56
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Literally Unbelievable is a great collection of people taking The Onion stories at face value. I couldn't find all the abortionplex reactions, but those were the best.
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Jun 30, 2023 13:58
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:This is spin off of the trump lol thread since we had so many amazing posts of videos from the onion
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Jun 30, 2023 14:02
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I've never seen Sex House before, and I'm glad that was mentioned. The payoff is worth it.
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Jun 30, 2023 15:31
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Porkin' Across America also had a great, and disturbing, payoff. I think it's all on YouTube.
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Jun 30, 2023 15:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKC21wDarBo They like establish so much lore for the future in this self-contained little thing I love how in the future it is normal that people casually insert "loving" into sentences
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DangerDongs posted:I've never seen Sex House before, and I'm glad that was mentioned. I like how there is free standing drywall for contestants to punch instead of a wall. Their “true crime” news show only had two eps but are among my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBGFQpkFNgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apwjgE0n9fc
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Jun 30, 2023 15:55
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As someone who was reading print editions of the Onion in 1993 it hurts me to read the video era called the early years BUT I am also down for a thread so kudos anyway
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Haven't seen these videos in years, didn't even realise they were still making content. Good to know they still are. Seeing 10 years on these videos though, that doesn't make me feel good
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Jun 30, 2023 16:07
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How about some cooking videos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioH53m2cod4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGgpSWcaV1U
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Aricascade posted:Haven't seen these videos in years, didn't even realise they were still making content. Good to know they still are. Seeing 10 years on these videos though, that doesn't make me feel good Kind of sad the new content mostly looks like people from fiver reading fake headlines over green screen. But I remember when the Onion was in dire financial straits and didn't they almost have to shutter? Anyway their future news series is the best and I used to really like click hole content, but in the spirit of this thread I'm not gonna link or embed anything. 😂
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ROoNT7-ZI Michael Falk is loving brilliant
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Their film reviews are usually pretty good. The Wizard of Oz one was always my favorite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SImPXjcC2TM
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There's a thread over in PYF with links to a lot of the greatest hits. It'd take a while to go through all of it but it might not be a bad way to spend some time.Dr. Quarex posted:As someone who was reading print editions of the Onion in 1993 it hurts me to read the video era called the early years BUT I am also down for a thread so kudos anyway I haven't been at it quite that long but I definitely remember when their front page was just a list of all the articles they'd ever published online.
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Our Dumb Century is the funniest book ever written, I’ll chuckle remembering little jokes like “Edward Teller Pleased with H Bomb, Calls for weapon capable of destroying sun,” or how during WWI the British cucumber sandwiches were ineffective weapons.
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The Atlas they released is INCREDIBLE
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Wilkins Micawber posted:Kind of sad the new content mostly looks like people from fiver reading fake headlines over green screen. But I remember when the Onion was in dire financial straits and didn't they almost have to shutter? Yeah they were acquired by the same PE jackals as Deadspin and AVClub who tried their damned to drive out all of the talented writers and cut costs. I spent my formative teenage years reading “Our Dumb Century,” it’s still great. A couple I still think about 20+ years later https://www.theonion.com/fun-toy-banned-because-of-three-stupid-dead-kids-1819565691 https://www.theonion.com/sexual-harassment-in-the-workplace-must-stop-vs-i-love-1819594268 https://www.theonion.com/area-bassist-fellated-1819583187 https://legacy.npr.org/assets/news/2013/onion-drugs.pdf https://www.theonion.com/christ-returns-to-nba-1819563859 I also had the shirt for this front page but had to get rid of it when we had kids  
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Somehow no one has mentioned their amazing 9/11 issue https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/onion-911-issue-oral-history
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local man thinks of idea for thread
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Why did they stop making videos? The movie was fun, haven't seen it in ten years, wonder if it holds up. At the end it just shows a clip of a nun sitting on a park bench drinking from a jar labeled ape cum with no context.
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sticksy posted:Somehow no one has mentioned their amazing 9/11 issue lol they had to change their original blurb about the Pentagon attack, it was something like “America Stronger than Ever, Say Quadragon Officials.”
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Hyrax Attack! posted:lol they had to change their original blurb about the Pentagon attack, it was something like “America Stronger than Ever, Say Quadragon Officials.” Holy poo poo lmao
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I have the book collection with 9/11 in it. It's an interesting read.
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I recall the days when their Men of the Year were the San Diego Chicken and Stomach Cancer
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Monkey Fracas posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKC21wDarBo phrases from this video pop into my head all the time still i think it’s the most accurate prediction of the future in any media
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https://web.archive.org/web/20030124085151/http://www.theonion.com/onion3902/kim_jong_ii.html That was always my favourite article.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Our Dumb Century is the funniest book ever written, I’ll chuckle remembering little jokes like “Edward Teller Pleased with H Bomb, Calls for weapon capable of destroying sun,” or how during WWI the British cucumber sandwiches were ineffective weapons. yeah. my favorite is the ww2 headline: WAheadline continued on page 2
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I’ve got way too many Onion books, including both Century and World. I need to complete the set. The video about Obama and Romney’s internet search histories in the build up to 2012 was amazing. “Must the President look at people?” “Blood child. Blood on the child” “Who will betray me?”
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Bad Purchase posted:phrases from this video pop into my head all the time still gently caress chance of that
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https://www.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperi-1819565882 A timeless classic Onion piece. My favorite Onion article though was when Citizen's United was passed in the supreme court, and the article for it was just a completely straight article like you'd see on these clickbait political websites. Appropriate.
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“Jurisprudence fetishist gets off on technicality” is a masterfully crafted joke. One of my favorites, I like his gradual loss of dignity: Ask A Guy Who's Not Doing The Gig For Less Than $200: https://www.theonion.com/ask-a-guy-whos-not-doing-the-gig-for-less-than-200-1819584697
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