The Onion: 20 Years Later

The Onion: 20 Years Later

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20 years ago, The Onion mocked Donald Rumsfeld — and his wife
Plus, The Onion goes after Michael Bay 3 years after he threatened to sue them. Let's revisit summer 2005!
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20 years ago, The Onion brought back Amber Richardson
Plus, Bush's energy plan, podcasts, cell phones, dog cloning, the Geico gecko and much more.
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20 years ago in The Onion, a male novelist tried to write women
Plus, The Onion discusses terrorism and high school dropouts, PepsiCo tries to connect with youth culture, and a column about lesser-known "Get Smart…
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20 years ago, The Onion featured a cat general and Tom Cruise
Plus, The Onion comments on Burger King, Sandra Day O'Conner, the London bombings, Joe Scarborough and Jean Teasdale getting drunk
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20 years ago, Congress got a puppy
On July 20, 2005, The Onion returned from vacation with jokes about outsourcing, drunk confidence, the Marines, robot fighting, dating and much more.
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20 years ago, The Onion turned Us Weekly into Harper's magazine
The Onion mocks the Catholic Church, John Bolton, iPods and NASCAR. Plus, Jackie Harvey and Don Turnbee show up.
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The Onion in 2056: A dystopian world of Flash animation
In 2005, The Onion imagined the world 51 years later. Get ready for endless sci-fi tropes and Flash animations.
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20 years ago, The Onion listed everything that can go wrong
Plus, jokes about everything that can go wrong, John Updike, cassettes, Habitat for Humanity, President Bush, Portugal, medical marijuana and much more.
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20 years ago, Bush unbanned vigilantism in The Onion
Plus, The Onion covers the Special Olympics, "The Rockford Files," Björk, the genocide in Sudan, "Deep Throat," the NBA and much more.
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Judge Joe Brown overruled Judge Hatchett in The Onion 20 years ago
Plus, mid-2000s tropes like Camp Snoopy, "Napoleon Dynamite," stem cells, early "green" products and the "Van Helsing" franchise.
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20 years ago, The Onion blamed stupidity in Area Death
Let's make fun of advertising, metalhead-goth love, having just one beer, President Bush, Memorial Day, filibusters and more.
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Bush tried to save rom-coms 20 years ago in The Onion
Let's revisit CEO kidnappings, school principals, Gil Scott-Heron, commencement speakers and religious agreement on chicken!
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