Obama Urges Citizens To Hide Evidence Of Our Formerly Prosperous Lives From Nation's Young Children
Movie fans demand to see new Heath Ledger performance in 'Dark Knight Rises,' a truly authentic Mexican restaurant is shut down immediately, and another dead body is tossed on a heap somewhere. It's the week of February 13, 2012.
President Obama urges citizens
to hide evidence
of our formerly prosperous lives
from the nation's youth.
Suave releases a new
20 year leave-in conditioner.
And a truly authentic
Mexican restaurant
is shut down immediately.
Focus groups have found
the tone of my voice
to be cold and unforgiving.
They are correct.
It's The Onion Week In Review.
Saying they weren't interested
in hearing
about what is or isn't possible,
moviegoers demanded this week
to see Heath Ledger reprise his role
as the Joker in this summer's
the Dark Knight Rises.
Avid fans called for new scenes
of the late actor onscreen
living and breathing
in the upcoming film,
adding that they didn't want
to get into a whole existential
debate about it,
they just wanted to see it done.
I don't want to have to talk about
who's alive and who's dead.
I just want an original scene
with original dialogue
with Christian Bale playing Batman
and Heath Ledger playing the Joker.
Film enthusiasts added
that while they're at it,
a brief vignette
with Jack Nicholson's Joker
talking to Heath Ledger
about teaming up
to run Gotham City together
would be pretty cool too.
Washington area conservationists
announced Wednesday
the beginning of a new
breeding program
designed to save
the few remaining members
of the moderate Republican species
from complete extinction.
Environmentalists launched
an initiative Monday
to capture centrist GOP politicians
in their natural habitat,
and move them to captivity
where they're safe
from the highly territorial
evangelical and Tea Party sub-genus.
A lot of captured specimens
tend to be weary
around each other at first,
but once they realize
they're free to support gay rights
or increase funding
for public education,
they begin their sexual ritual
almost immediately.
Scientists said they hoped
this measure proves more successful
than the liberal-conservative
cross-breeding they tried last year
which resulted in Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders
being ferociously mauled
and torn apart
by Kansas Republican
Lynn Jenkins.
A Colorado man reminisced Monday
about a simpler time
when he only masturbated
to still images on the internet.
36 year Timothy Barchuk
who now says he requires
multiple streaming hardcore videos
just to get excited,
willfully reflected on the days
of waiting for slowly loading images
of naked women to appear.
Look at this picture
of Phoebe Cates.
Sure, you can pull it up
in two seconds now.
Back in the old days
you'd have to wait for it
to materialize on your screen
pixel by pixel.
It's not about her tits,
which are nice,
but it's about waiting for them.
Nowadays you can pull up
eight different videos
of anal sex at once.
Who cares!
In local news, the person
who will one day become
the warlord ruler
of what was once Nebraska
is born in an Omaha hospital.
And in other news,
a man and a woman get drunk
and blow $30,000
in one night.
A lonely college student
calls up his mom
to talk about Harold and Kumar.
And another dead body
is tossed on a heap somewhere.
This week's episode of
The Onion Week in Review
was guest-edited by breakout
NBA sensation Jeremy Lin.
For more visit
theonion.com/newsbeat.
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