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* OfCorpseHesAlive: "Roosevelt's Remains To Run For Fifth Term"
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** The section dedicated to the years 1929 to 1946 is titled "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Dust, Despair and Death]]: Those Were the Days". The title of the next one (1946-1963) is "The Swell Years", which are immediately followed by the years 1963 to 1981: "Peace, Love and Other Bullshit".
* OfCorpseHesAlive: "Roosevelt's Remains To Run For FifthTerm"Term". This is followed by "
** The section dedicated to the years 1929 to 1946 is titled "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Dust, Despair and Death]]: Those Were the Days". The title of the next one (1946-1963) is "The Swell Years", which are immediately followed by the years 1963 to 1981: "Peace, Love and Other Bullshit".
* OfCorpseHesAlive: "Roosevelt's Remains To Run For Fifth
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* WhoShotJFK: Parodied in "Kennedy Slain by CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons"
** President shot 129 times from 43 different angles!
** President shot 129 times from 43 different angles!
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* WhoShotJFK: Parodied in "Kennedy Slain by CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons"
**Freemasons: President shot Shot 129 times Times from 43 different angles!Different Angles".
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* DemonicDummy: How ''Series/HowdyDoody'' is written about.
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* DemonicDummy: How ''Series/HowdyDoody'' Series/HowdyDoody is written about.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The cultural attitudes of each era are parodied.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The cultural attitudes Aside from the blatant racism and sexism featured in the earlier pages, some headlines that mock specific ideas of each era the time are parodied."Man Ventures Outside Hatless", "Surgeon General Warns Against Smoking Any Brand of Cigarette Other than Chesterfields" and "Secret Pac-Man Patterns Fall Into Russian Hands".
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* AmericanEagle: Despite the name of the paper, it only adopted an onion as its logo in 1968. Before that, most versions were accompanied by an eagle.
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* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle:
** T. Herman Zweibel's introduction to the book contains a picture of the [[invoked]][[HumbleBeginnings earliest existing issue]] of ''The Onion'', which is titled: "''The Mercantile-Onion. Being a Helpful Chronicle and [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe Digeſt of Publick Events]] of Significant Note, and Well-Found'd Advices, &c., for the General Enlightenment of Letter'd Yankees''."
** This has been simplified to "The Best Source of News-worthy Items in our Great Republic"[[note]]the hyphen is removed in 1908[[/note]] by the 1900s, and gets shorter and shorter as the decades pass:
--->'''1913:''' The Best Source of News in Our Great Republic\\
'''1922:''' Finest Source of News in Our Great Republic\\
'''1928:''' Finest Source of News in America\\
'''1950:'''Finest News Source in America\\
'''1968:''' Finest American News Source\\
'''1981:''' America's Finest News Source[[note]]this is the one ''The Onion'' uses in RealLife[[/note]]\\
'''1998:''' America's News Source
** T. Herman Zweibel's introduction to the book contains a picture of the [[invoked]][[HumbleBeginnings earliest existing issue]] of ''The Onion'', which is titled: "''The Mercantile-Onion. Being a Helpful Chronicle and [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe Digeſt of Publick Events]] of Significant Note, and Well-Found'd Advices, &c., for the General Enlightenment of Letter'd Yankees''."
** This has been simplified to "The Best Source of News-worthy Items in our Great Republic"[[note]]the hyphen is removed in 1908[[/note]] by the 1900s, and gets shorter and shorter as the decades pass:
--->'''1913:''' The Best Source of News in Our Great Republic\\
'''1922:''' Finest Source of News in Our Great Republic\\
'''1928:''' Finest Source of News in America\\
'''1950:'''Finest News Source in America\\
'''1968:''' Finest American News Source\\
'''1981:''' America's Finest News Source[[note]]this is the one ''The Onion'' uses in RealLife[[/note]]\\
'''1998:''' America's News Source
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* MilleniumBug: "Planet Temporarily Closed Due To Computer Crash"
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* MilleniumBug: MillenniumBug: "Planet Temporarily Closed Due To Computer Crash"
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* MilleniumBug: "Planet Temporarily Closed Due To Computer Crash"
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* FailedFutureForecast: The iconic photo is on the back cover, altered with [[UsefulNotes/HarryTruman Truman]] holding a copy of ''The Onion'' with the headline "Other Guy Defeats Whats-His-Face". A page of the book itself includes the correction that in fact, Whats-His-Face defeated the Other Guy.
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* FailedFutureForecast: The iconic photo is on the back cover, altered with [[UsefulNotes/HarryTruman Truman]] holding a copy of ''The Onion'' with the headline "Other Guy Defeats Whats-His-Face". What's-His-Face". A page of the book itself includes the correction that in fact, Whats-His-Face What's-His-Face defeated the Other Guy.
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--> 'I Have a Dream That [[WhosLaughingNow One Day Little Black Children Will Beat the Living Crap out of Little White Children']]
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--> 'I Have a Dream That [[WhosLaughingNow One Day Little Black Children Will Beat the Living Crap out of Little White Children']]Children]]'
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* ArtEvolution: Aside from the design of the paper itself, the logo of ''The Onion'' at the top of the page is repeatedly redesigned as the decades pass until it becomes the current one in the '90s.
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* {{Retraux}}: Despite ''The Onion'' having been founded in 1988, all the pre-'80s newspapers shown in the book have period-accurate typefaces and layouts that reflect the style of the time they're supposedly from.
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** "'''HOLY FUCKING SHIT''' MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON"
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** "'''HOLY FUCKING SHIT''' SHIT'''; MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON"
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** Another article describes how [[Creator/EdgarBergen Charlie McCarthy]] went off script during a radio show, telling the audience they should kill themselves.
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** Another article describes how [[Creator/EdgarBergen Charlie McCarthy]] went off script during a radio show, [[SuicideDare telling the audience they should kill themselves.themselves]].
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* RadiationInducedSuperpowers: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in [[Franchise/SpiderMan "Boy Bitten by Radioactive Spider]] [[TakeThat Dies of Leukemia."]]
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* RadiationInducedSuperpowers: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in [[Franchise/SpiderMan [[ComicBook/SpiderMan "Boy Bitten by Radioactive Spider]] [[TakeThat Dies of Leukemia."]]
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* AlternateHistory: Some articles have traits of this, such as Archduke Franz Ferdinand showing up alive after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon refusing to resign and [[GoingPostal going on a killing spree]] which leads to his being gunned down after an extensive manhunt, and the US not just losing UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, but actually surrendering to them.
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* AlternateHistory: Some articles have traits of this, such as Archduke Franz Ferdinand showing up alive after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon refusing to resign and instead being arrested, sent to prison, breaking out, and [[GoingPostal going on a killing spree]] which leads to his being gunned down after an extensive manhunt, and the US not just losing UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, but actually surrendering to them.
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Oedipus Complex is a disambiguation
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* OedipusComplex: "[[UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower Eisenhower]] Warns of Military-Industrial-Oedipal Complex"
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* ADateWithRosiePalms:
--> "Betty Grable Appointed Head of U.S. Army Special Masturbation Fantasy Squadron"\\
"Actress Will Supply Badly Needed Jack-Off Fodder for Our Boys"\\
"Ordered to Visit Front, Display Rear"
--> "Betty Grable Appointed Head of U.S. Army Special Masturbation Fantasy Squadron"\\
"Actress Will Supply Badly Needed Jack-Off Fodder for Our Boys"\\
"Ordered to Visit Front, Display Rear"
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** Another article describes how [[Creator/EdgarBergen Charlie McCarthy]] went off script during a radio show, telling the audience they should kill themselves.
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** There is an advertisement for an "Anti-Masturbation Harness" to forcibly prevent this.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen "Cute Little Mouse Crushed To Death By Petting"]]
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* ForTheEvulz: Why Nagasaki was nuked, according to the article.
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* ForTheEvulz: Why Nagasaki was nuked, according to the article."Nagasaki Bombed 'Just For The Hell Of It'"
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: During World War II, a cartoon shows the Statue of Liberty menaced by the Axis leaders. While Tojo is about to bash her head in with her tablet and Hitler is brandishing her torch menacingly, Mussolini is standing there with his hands on his hips and pants around his ankles, revealing his heart-spotted undershorts.
* MegaCorp: The final page, for the year 2000, includes the article "All Corporations Merge Into Omnicorp" which also assumes control of all world governments, just for convenience.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: "Roosevelt's Remains To Run For Fifth Term"
* SelfAbuse: There is an advertisement for an "Anti-Masturbation Harness and Genital Pouch" that not only locks away the manly parts, but also includes [[GroinAttack a blade]] to discourage erections.
* ShoePhone: "Alger Hiss Evades Capture with Secret Evapo-Spy Wristwatch; [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Rep. Nixon's]] Emergency Jet-Pack Ambush Fails"
* ShoutOut: "Do you have [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends yesterday's newspaper, an extra bootlace]], and some grass?"
* ShownTheirWork: The newsprint style of each individual decade is painstakingly reproduced. There are also lots of period-accurate historical and literary references.
* SituationalSexuality: "Let's Work Together to Pretend Our War-Time Homosexual Experiences Never Happened"
* ShoePhone: "Alger Hiss Evades Capture with Secret Evapo-Spy Wristwatch; [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Rep. Nixon's]] Emergency Jet-Pack Ambush Fails"
* ShoutOut: "Do you have [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends yesterday's newspaper, an extra bootlace]], and some grass?"
* ShownTheirWork: The newsprint style of each individual decade is painstakingly reproduced. There are also lots of period-accurate historical and literary references.
* SituationalSexuality: "Let's Work Together to Pretend Our War-Time Homosexual Experiences Never Happened"
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* ShoePhone: "Alger Hiss Evades Capture with Secret Evapo-Spy Wristwatch; [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Rep. Nixon's]] Emergency Jet-Pack Ambush Fails"
* ShoutOut: "Do you have [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends yesterday's newspaper, an extra bootlace]], and some grass?"
* ShownTheirWork: The newsprint style of each individual decade is painstakingly reproduced. There are also lots of period-accurate historical and literary references.
* SituationalSexuality: "Let's Work Together to Pretend Our War-Time Homosexual Experiences Never Happened"
* ShoutOut: "Do you have [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends yesterday's newspaper, an extra bootlace]], and some grass?"
* ShownTheirWork: The newsprint style of each individual decade is painstakingly reproduced. There are also lots of period-accurate historical and literary references.
* SituationalSexuality: "Let's Work Together to Pretend Our War-Time Homosexual Experiences Never Happened"
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--> "Nothing Looks Like A Dame, There's No Books Like A Dame"
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* BlackComedyRape: Along with all the cartoons featuring Lady Liberty, there's also "US Troops Pull Out Of Vietnamese Peasant Girl".
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* BlackComedyRape: Along with all the cartoons featuring Lady Liberty, Art/LadyLiberty, there's also "US Troops Pull Out Of Vietnamese Peasant Girl".
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* ButtMonkey: UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is the most prominent one ("Should Nixon Be Brought Back to Kick Around Some More?", "Nixon Vetoes Federal Love and Happiness Act"), but UsefulNotes/WarrenGHarding doesn't even get articles, just two headlines: "Harding Elected, Forgotten About" and "President Harding Dies Several Months Ago"
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* ButtMonkey: UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is the most prominent one ("Should Nixon Be Brought Back to Kick Around Some More?", "Nixon Vetoes Federal Love and Happiness Act"), but UsefulNotes/WarrenGHarding doesn't even get articles, [[DemotedToExtra just two headlines: headlines]]: "Harding Elected, Forgotten About" and "President Harding Dies Several Months Ago"
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: "Mussolini Becomes Italian Dictator After Closely Contested Fist-Fight"
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: "Mussolini Becomes Italian Dictator After Closely Contested Fist-Fight"
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* ILoveNuclearPower:
** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in [[Franchise/SpiderMan "Boy Bitten by Radioactive Spider]] [[TakeThat Dies of Leukemia."]]
** "GM Unveils Atom-Burning Jet Convertible At Futurama '55"
--> "Thousands of Would-Be Buyers Killed in Product Show"
** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in [[Franchise/SpiderMan "Boy Bitten by Radioactive Spider]] [[TakeThat Dies of Leukemia."]]
** "GM Unveils Atom-Burning Jet Convertible At Futurama '55"
--> "Thousands of Would-Be Buyers Killed in Product Show"
* RadiationInducedSuperpowers: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in [[Franchise/SpiderMan "Boy Bitten by Radioactive Spider]] [[TakeThat Dies of Leukemia."]]
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* TakeThat: An article about [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]'s death by leukemia, noting that it's the sixth [[ILoveNuclearPower radiation-related death]] in the past month, following [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards and his crew]] and [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]].
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* TakeThat: An article about [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]'s death by leukemia, noting that it's the sixth [[ILoveNuclearPower radiation-related death]] death in the past month, following [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards and his crew]] and [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]].
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* AngryBlackMan: "UsefulNotes/MalcolmX: 'I Also Have a Dream'
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* AngryBlackMan: AngryBlackManStereotype: "UsefulNotes/MalcolmX: 'I Also Have a Dream'
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* ConspiracyKitchenSink / WhoShotJFK: "Kennedy Slain by CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons"
** President shot 129 times from 43 different angles!
*** Then all 70+ suspects were shot outside the courtroom by Jack Ruby, leaving the whole thing a mystery.
*** A headline in the next issue is "Warren Commission Admits to Killing JFK".
** President shot 129 times from 43 different angles!
*** Then all 70+ suspects were shot outside the courtroom by Jack Ruby, leaving the whole thing a mystery.
*** A headline in the next issue is "Warren Commission Admits to Killing JFK".
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* ConspiracyKitchenSink / WhoShotJFK: ConspiracyKitchenSink: "Kennedy Slain by CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons"
** PresidentFreemasons" posits that every conspiracy theory about who assassinated UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy was true simultaneously. A subhead reports, "President shot 129 times from 43 different angles!
*** Then all 70+ suspects were shot outside the courtroom by Jack Ruby, leaving the whole thing a mystery.
*** A headline in the next issue is "Warren Commission Admits to Killing JFK".angles".
** President
*** Then all 70+ suspects were shot outside the courtroom by Jack Ruby, leaving the whole thing a mystery.
*** A headline in the next issue is "Warren Commission Admits to Killing JFK".
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* WhoShotJFK: Parodied in "Kennedy Slain by CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons"
** President shot 129 times from 43 different angles!
*** Then all 70+ suspects were shot outside the courtroom by Jack Ruby, leaving the whole thing a mystery.
*** A headline in the next issue is "Warren Commission Admits to Killing JFK".
** President shot 129 times from 43 different angles!
*** Then all 70+ suspects were shot outside the courtroom by Jack Ruby, leaving the whole thing a mystery.
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** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in [[Franchise/SpiderMan "Boy Bitten by Radioactive Spider]] [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Dies of Leukemia."]]
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** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in [[Franchise/SpiderMan "Boy Bitten by Radioactive Spider]] [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome [[TakeThat Dies of Leukemia."]]
*ShoutOut: "Do you have [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends yesterday's newspaper, an extra bootlace]], and some grass?"
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: An article about [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]'s death by leukemia, noting that it's the sixth [[ILoveNuclearPower radiation-related death]] in the past month, following [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards and his crew]] and [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]].
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* TakeThat: An article about [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]'s death by leukemia, noting that it's the sixth [[ILoveNuclearPower radiation-related death]] in the past month, following [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards and his crew]] and [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]].
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* RasputinianDeath: "Russians Continuing To Kill Rasputin" details how he was not only repeatedly stabbed, shot, and poisoned, but also [[ChainedToARailway run over by a train]], [[XRaySparks electrocuted]], [[HollywoodAcid dissolved in acid]], [[ManOnFire set on fire]], [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled with a cavalry spear]], BuriedAlive, [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] ''[[UpToEleven twice]]'' and [[LudicrousGibs chopped into tiny pieces]], but ''still'' refused to die.
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* RasputinianDeath: "Russians Continuing To Kill Rasputin" details how he was not only repeatedly stabbed, shot, and poisoned, but also [[ChainedToARailway run over by a train]], [[XRaySparks electrocuted]], [[HollywoodAcid dissolved in acid]], [[ManOnFire set on fire]], [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled with a cavalry spear]], BuriedAlive, [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] ''[[UpToEleven twice]]'' ''twice'' and [[LudicrousGibs chopped into tiny pieces]], but ''still'' refused to die.
