God bless the goddamn Onion

NEW EPISODE OF SEX HOUSE OH JESUS GOD OH GOD.

the frog special effects on this are so great

sexy game of settlers of catan!

jesus, this got darker than i would've guessed

ahahaha, mannnn, this is really chugging along nicely. "Those days are just lost to me."

"sex house" deserves its own thread, frank deserves an emmy

/!\~incoming sext~/!\ thread of sex house

I don't know if I can sit through the rest of it. My wife already bowed out.

Cloudy drink kills frog: the Onion's "Sex House"

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-celebrates-full-week-without-deadly-mass-sh,29293/

uh...

UPDATE: Never Mind

Whenever a news item says "this sounds like something straight from The Onion", it rarely actually does.

They are kicking arse with the dark satire recently, its amazing. The video one of the astronauts dying a "painful high pitched death" choking on helium was just... jesus christ.

Somehow I had never seen this:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/shaq-misses-entire-second-half-with-pulled-pork-sa,2895/

Ten episodes of the 60's Batman show

http://www.avclub.com/articles/10-episodes-that-find-the-60s-batman-at-its-campy%2C84592/

Philip Baker Hall on playing Seinfeld's "Bookman"

http://www.avclub.com/articles/10-episodes-that-find-the-60s-batman-at-its-campy%2C84592/

God bless the AV club.

Bookman link: http://www.avclub.com/articles/philip-baker-hall-on-the-chicago-8-seinfeld-and-pa,84611/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/911-truther-convinced-government-destroyed-past-11,29520

http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-this-image,29553/

loooooool

LOOOOOOOOOOL

That is beautiful.

And yet ... Mohammed conspicuously absent from the fray.

it's almost as if...that's the point of the fucking story

lol balls!

Oh, I get it now.

hahahaha

Theyre on fucking fire lately:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/googles-911-homepage-design-stirs-controversy,29524/

ganesh some

is it just me or have they been really daring lately?

I think a lot of this is angry writers who didn't make the move to Chicago and figure their days are numbered, so why not go for it?

I think the angry Onion writers who did not make the move are no longer writers.If anything, maybe it's an attention getting move from the writers who did make the move, as well as the new writers the old, ex writers prematurely denigrated.

I kinda feel like its a cyclical thing with The Onion, they get kinda stale for awhile and then every so often they'll unleash a string of stuff that pushes the limits.

that sounds right

what is this move you speak of?

the onion moved their editorial offices to chicago (where their corporate hq has been for some time) this summer

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2012/03/onions-bumpy-ride-chicago/50149/

1 group that hasn't moved yet: video. that move is going to happen, though. enjoy sex house while you've got it.

It ended yesterday, so perfect timing!

Although the video dept. was still based in NY at the time, Sex House was shot in Chicago with Chicago actors. So you neeeever knoooooow.

ohhh

where had they been located?

When the sex house writers were on reddit they were saying they'd been onion writers for a while who didn't want to move to Chicago and wouldn't be doing so. I think normal onion video (the spoof news and sport stuff) has all moved to chicago, but the 'onion digital studios' stuff like sex house is funded by youtube and will be staying in nyc?

Surprised me that they're not still in Madison, actually!

The Onion is in the midst of the biggest upheaval in the newspaper's 24-year history.

Holy shit, I feel really old. 24 years!?

yeah`, onion for me has always been a madison thing. feel good about them moving back to the midwest.

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If it helps, The Onion was largely a local phenomenon for the first half of its existence. It wasn't until the implementation of the website and mass distribution around the turn of the century that the world-at-large knew anything about it.

think the "creative economy," to use a loathsome but I hope descriptive term, is much stronger if everybody isn't operating out of the same town

I got into it through my brother in the mid-to-late-90s, but he had been in college (in Georgia) and presumably it had a decent college-town alt-weekly type circulation. I remember he had the one with "Christ Returns to NBA," which is dated 1996. So it was a "thing" before the internet although obviously it's way way bigger now.

I first discovered it when I started my freshman year at Illinois in 1994, with one of my all-time favorite covers with the Thompson Changes Title from 'Governor' to 'Sexecutioner' with an awesome cust and paste job showing Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson in full S&M gear.

96 was around when their website started - I'm pretty sure I remember that headline (though I may have been backtracking)

Yeah, when they started the website they put up a lot of their old covers. I'm 99% sure that was from the fall of '94 because I remember my roommate's mom getting offended upon seeing it up in our floor lounge.