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The Onion's Future News From The Year 2137 (SLYT).
Posted to their channel ... May 13, 2013.
Posted to their channel ... May 13, 2013.
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Interesting idea, but starts to drag after a while. The future needs to be more concise.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 4:09 PM on October 18, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 4:09 PM on October 18, 2022 [1 favorite]
The future needs to be more concise.
Those that don't die live underwater.
posted by Splunge at 4:26 PM on October 18, 2022 [3 favorites]
Those that don't die live underwater.
posted by Splunge at 4:26 PM on October 18, 2022 [3 favorites]
"How it do, Vitamin?"
The only thing that clued me in it was old was the video resolution, otherwise it could have been written this morning.
posted by abulafa at 4:43 PM on October 18, 2022 [7 favorites]
The only thing that clued me in it was old was the video resolution, otherwise it could have been written this morning.
posted by abulafa at 4:43 PM on October 18, 2022 [7 favorites]
This is all the more frightening given The Onion's once-surprising knack for satirizing things that eventually come true.
posted by swift at 5:05 PM on October 18, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by swift at 5:05 PM on October 18, 2022 [4 favorites]
I do miss this era of Onion video shorts, which includes such classics as 'Just Give Me The Damn Sepak Takraw Ball' and Are We Giving Robots Too Much Power?. The newer TikTok parodies and such don't pack the same zing for me, and I'm not sure what's up with that movie review stuff but it doesn't seem super funny.
posted by whir at 9:20 PM on October 18, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by whir at 9:20 PM on October 18, 2022 [2 favorites]
I can’t count the number of times I’ve stumbled on one of these old videos and got excited for a fleeting moment that it is new.
Seriously, would love their take on the Now Times. I suspect they were ahead of their time as video content online was just a fledgling industry that was mostly the Really Plugged In. Now, they’d make a killing. (Or am I misremembering and they actually aired on tv proper?)
posted by [insert clever name here] at 10:36 PM on October 18, 2022 [2 favorites]
Seriously, would love their take on the Now Times. I suspect they were ahead of their time as video content online was just a fledgling industry that was mostly the Really Plugged In. Now, they’d make a killing. (Or am I misremembering and they actually aired on tv proper?)
posted by [insert clever name here] at 10:36 PM on October 18, 2022 [2 favorites]
The editing of this video is absolutely killer. Their TV show was the only thing to ever give The Day Today a run for its money on the sheer hyperkinetic jampacked humor front, and the fact that this video throws three layers of joke on-screen at all time massages a part of my soul.
posted by Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted at 3:21 AM on October 19, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted at 3:21 AM on October 19, 2022 [3 favorites]
This was a little too on the nose for me to find it funny...
posted by wittgenstein at 8:46 AM on October 19, 2022
posted by wittgenstein at 8:46 AM on October 19, 2022
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