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Michael's avatar

I love the image accompanying "top broken promises".

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James daSilva's avatar

Me too! I wonder whether, with all the pope coverage in April 2005, priests were even more top of mind than usual for The Onion’s writers

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Quiara Vasquez's avatar

Here's the crazy thing about "Fear Factor" creator John de Mol: he created seemingly every Y2K reality show EXCEPT for "The Mole" (which, to make the irony more obvious, is literally called "de Mol" in its home country).

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James daSilva's avatar

I had never heard of him, which is incredible! I've never watched any of those reality shows, to be fair, but I guess I assumed Mark Burnett or some British person was behind them

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Wayne Cointelpro's avatar

Last week’s joke about the mom getting breakfast in bed was outstanding.

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