NOTHING is ahead of its time. Everything is from its time. What happens is that when kids grow up, become adults, they think that the time when they were growing up were "different" and "good". Watching stuff which is against this belief makes them think "oh, this is ahead of its times". In reality, nothing is ahead of its times. EXACTLY the same things and thought process was going on when the pyramids of Giza were being built. When the code of Hammurabi was being written. Nothing is ahead of its times, the only thing is that it is a realization that "grown up life" in those times was similar to "grown up life" today. And by "kids" and "grown ups", I am referring to mental age, not physical age.
I love how they all noticed just the term "Post Office box" somehow resulted in a rise, so they all started just outright saying variations on that phrase.
I get it, he’s a business owner/banker who wants to pin the debt on the working class and there for uses a P.O. Box while the hard working men and women typically just have a mail box as no need for anonymity/business P.O. Boxes. Shows the disconnect between the wealthy and the 99 percent
@@timothywells3908 I don't get how you came to that conclusion. In my town, nobody has mailboxes. We don't have a mailman. We each have a PO Box and pick it up at the post office. Honestly, it's a hassle because online stores are often unclear whether they're sending something UPS or USPS, and we use a different address for each.
That's because she's a communist working with the mail box lobby to push their anti-post office box agenda. Without post office boxes, our poor children will never learn how to pull up their bootstraps with our thriving economy.
Quite possibly my favorite Onion video. If a "live poll" was actually implemented, I can only imagine it wouldn't be too far from this: "Hard working Americans!", "Our poor, poor children.", and, of course, the "Post Office Box!" "I have several Post Office Boxes." - lol
13 years later, and it's become a thing. The news is now, literally, Reality TV. Even Jon Stewart came back from the figurative dead to tackle this very subject in his latest video, and here we are, after a pandemic and possibly at the start of WW3, and the situation is as dire as ever.
I saw a local news segment once with a live poll whether the viewers agreed a professor was right to fail all his students. It played out very similarly to this video, except the people involved couldn’t see the live poll
@@toasteroven8341 UA-cam's been showing me a lot of things like that recently, in one Garfunkel and oats video from over a decade ago they were seeing if the audience could tell if a quote was said by him, or by Hitler
@@breakingbacon658 Good. They contribute nothing to society besides giving Americans an excuse to defend themselves when others (usually Brits) say "oh but there's no foot touching the ball." You use feet to run, that should be a good enough excuse to call it football if they're gonna call it Rugby but never use rugs.
The only inaccuracy is that it shows people saying things that are popular, instead of saying things that are just divisive enough to grab attention and get them talked about without getting them fired.
New Zealand had a similar thing during a debate way back in the 2002 election (but it only polled the studio audience rather than the public at large). One of our centrist politicians gamed it by going on and on about "common sense".
In America our politicians teamed up with big tech firms and data scientists to do this 24/7 with trillions of gb of user data. Now these fucking clowns overpay for all this "demographic research" without actually knowing why we feel that way at all.
@@knightenchanter7908 No. Leslie amended "Our children" hastily when it goes down. The moment "our children" is uttered out, it stopped going down and goes up again, it just happens to reach quite a peak when she added "Our poor, poor, children."
It's funny, people use that unironically, failing to realize that the phase is meant to be something that's inherently impossible. You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps, that's not how it works
Utter Despair that’s how Fox News try’s to stay relevant, because they show clear bias and their only viewers are republican drones that just want to be told what and how to think (despite it being 30% less accurate than cnn). There fixed it for ya
@@aangsstaff4174 CNN has been tanking in the viewership dept. recently, apparently Fox is rising in viewers as well (I heard about a report on this, I don't watch either network myself)
This needs more discussion on post office boxes. Hard working Americans want to know if they are getting tax rebates for each and every post office box they own. Freedom. Apple pie. Shower me with likes dammit!
We need a new postmaster general to ensure that the mail is posted to our post office boxes by the post man in a timely manner. Too many Americans are going to the post office to check their post office boxes only to discover that the post man hasn't delivered to their post office box yet. The postal service also needs to address the rising costs of postage when posting mail from the post office.
Wait Caleb said "Dems" which usually means he's referring to them negatively, aka NOT A LIBTARD. Come on, Americans nowadays are too stupid to know who's in the other tribe!
Lets take this to Facebook you Jewish socialite super-MAGA aligned with Soros serial communist snowflake who peddles your pro-abortgun agenda with dark money from the washington zumba machine. We are over your classical jacksonian theocracy!!!!
Her increasingly massive smile and glee at his destruction toward the end is literally the funniest thing I've ever seen. Oh sweet Jesus! :D :D :D: D:D
The real comedy here is that they have no idea what real Americans care about, and instead of caring about finding out, they just accidentally stumble onto things that give them a boost in popularity without understanding why.
The real comedy is also that real Americans have little to no real understanding of economy and they just expect to hear simple solutions and pleasing statements, even completely devoid meaning, instead of a realistic and competent analysis. Resulting in pandering to ignorance.
Funny thing is that the Onion predicted that this election was going to be decided by the POST OFFICE BOX, i.e. Mail-in ballots and Trump's reluctance to fund the US Postal Service.
"my good friend Kanye West" -- drops "who is a personal friend of mine" -- drops "and we visit frequently" -- drops furthur "what i meant to say was the economy..." -- dips "can only be..." -- dipping "spurred.." -- steadily lowering... "into..." FLATLINE
Lol, I can't even remember what I was asking, but it might have had something to with the fact that he said "you come home and open your post office box", even though it isn't at home, it's at the post office, which is why it's called that.
+Jivan, well sounds like you just need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps like the other hard working americans and figure it out for the children, the poor poor children. just don't visit kanye west, or his post office box.
I noticed that the ratings for the woman in Red spiked at the very end when the audience saw her rejoice at the Yellow man's ratings dropping to Zero. The Audience was enjoying the feud between the reporters and treating National Journalism like a Drama.
That kanye joke is more appreciated today. I believe this was filmed around the time he took the mic from Taylor Swift so you would've been unpopular being associated with him.
It's so funny how they start to falter as they watch they're line drop. And then once they see what it takes to climb, they really jump into the thought with both feet. LOL
Hardworking Americans, Mom and Pop shops, kitchen table issues, Main Street not wall street, the little guys, need I go on? These people are the backbone of America!
Post office box.
*PO box*
you watched the video too ?
post office box. POST OFFICE, BOX.
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I 100% agree with you! YEAH!!
"I have several Post office boxes"
*Sudden spike*
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Logan F they were deleted tho
@@benshapiroismysexsiave2028 GRAAAAH GRRRRAAAAAAH TAAAH TAH TAH SKRRRRRRT
ok I honestly don't get the joke about post office boxes why did their ratings suddenly increase
@@elliotw.888 thats the point
“Who’s gonna pay for all this?” ⬇️⬇️⬇️
“Our poor, poor children” ⬆️⬆️⬆️
Ya our poor children are going to have to pay for this
"Post office box" ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️
Michael P
How can you try to roast someone when you’re subbed to WatchMojo? May wanna hide your subscriptions pal.
odo he was memein not roasting, and you might wanna stop being so creepy stalking on others.
Davis Herrera
Are you saying that because your playlists are just as cringe? Cuz they are.
I love that Duncan spiked his poll by saying "post office box" over and over
everyone spiked with that buzzword
@@aguyontheinternet8436 And then Larualee comes along to put Duncan in his place, haha
it really shifting against him when he brought Kanye into it
@@boedacious I love that part, too
@@boedacious this was probably back with the Grammy thing
The Kanye West line at the end tanked him. The Onion is, and always will be ahead of its time.
Seriously
@cate he probably doesnt even own a post office box
it's because they don't care about black people
NOTHING is ahead of its time. Everything is from its time. What happens is that when kids grow up, become adults, they think that the time when they were growing up were "different" and "good". Watching stuff which is against this belief makes them think "oh, this is ahead of its times". In reality, nothing is ahead of its times. EXACTLY the same things and thought process was going on when the pyramids of Giza were being built. When the code of Hammurabi was being written. Nothing is ahead of its times, the only thing is that it is a realization that "grown up life" in those times was similar to "grown up life" today. And by "kids" and "grown ups", I am referring to mental age, not physical age.
@@bhojjadamotabanda "ahead of its time" is an idiom, its not literal. Calm down pls
The economy will be fine because of hard-working Americans who work hard and are hard-working
Best political speech ever.
Also to be honest I am not entirely sure if I'm ironic or not !
Tryna hit my word count on my essays
Who's going to pay for these government bailouts?
Hard-working Americans
The economy is great because of our great post office boxes.
@@starfoxcity2694 Or Pete Buttigieg
I LOVE HOW AT THE VERY BEGINNING DUNCAN ALREADY DROPS FOR UTTERING "IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE"
@Anon Virtu I don't know what you're trying to say. Are you pro or against the stimulus package? 🤔
@@TCt83067695 piss off, bot
@@davidk7439 are you ok? Have you had your meds today? 🤔
@Arid nothing smug about his behaviour
@Rahul what's smug about recognizing the complexity of economics.
I love how they all noticed just the term "Post Office box" somehow resulted in a rise, so they all started just outright saying variations on that phrase.
Christobanistan talkin’ bout the ol PO box
yup. that was the joke.
Yeah it’s making fun of “buzzwords”
@jiggus figgus Didn't realize it before reading your comment even I have watched this for a dozen time. Good job.
Haha it’s like that was the joke or something
Lol when leslie said "mailbox" it went down a little.
Mailboxes just don’t hit like post office boxes
MAILBOX?!!? Four thumbs down
I get it, he’s a business owner/banker who wants to pin the debt on the working class and there for uses a P.O. Box while the hard working men and women typically just have a mail box as no need for anonymity/business P.O. Boxes. Shows the disconnect between the wealthy and the 99 percent
@@timothywells3908 I don't get how you came to that conclusion. In my town, nobody has mailboxes. We don't have a mailman. We each have a PO Box and pick it up at the post office.
Honestly, it's a hassle because online stores are often unclear whether they're sending something UPS or USPS, and we use a different address for each.
That's because she's a communist working with the mail box lobby to push their anti-post office box agenda. Without post office boxes, our poor children will never learn how to pull up their bootstraps with our thriving economy.
Quite possibly my favorite Onion video. If a "live poll" was actually implemented, I can only imagine it wouldn't be too far from this: "Hard working Americans!", "Our poor, poor children.", and, of course, the "Post Office Box!"
"I have several Post Office Boxes." - lol
13 years later, and it's become a thing. The news is now, literally, Reality TV. Even Jon Stewart came back from the figurative dead to tackle this very subject in his latest video, and here we are, after a pandemic and possibly at the start of WW3, and the situation is as dire as ever.
@@SomeUA-camTraveler indeed but are we still in favour of post office boxes?
I saw a local news segment once with a live poll whether the viewers agreed a professor was right to fail all his students. It played out very similarly to this video, except the people involved couldn’t see the live poll
It would be a lost of racial slurs
@@52flyingbicycles that professor video infuriated me, I remember he said that he failed students who were fine.
I love the slow, methodical way Terrance finds the exact word that spiked his poll numbers, and how quickly the others caught on!
Him leaning to seen the screen better slowly like his life was on the line during a bomb defusement threat.
I love how Lauralee gets a ratings bump from her delight at Duncan's misery.
Brilliant! This is what 90% of politicians do but it's so funny to see it done in real time
No one would even be watching it on the first place
Dam now I wish they did that as a skit
Thank you for explaining the joke to three year olds and retards. Always good when they can keep up
Actually, this is what 90% of pundits and economy “experts” do, including constantly interrupting one another...
@Nub93 lool
I love how when Lauralee gives that smug smile of victory at the end her ratings jump way up :D
How gleefully she watched him dig his hole deeper and deeper! :D
Lauralee's actress is amazing. I was blown away in the skanks video.
They predicted the trump smirk
Then she's off to finish off what remains alive of Duncan
voters love a sociopathic piece of shit
That Kanye joke aged very well
It's been a month sense this comment, it's aged like fine wine
@@rvmiv_ when i heard that i thot this vid was a recent one
@@toasteroven8341 UA-cam's been showing me a lot of things like that recently, in one Garfunkel and oats video from over a decade ago they were seeing if the audience could tell if a quote was said by him, or by Hitler
Like fine wine
its like they knew
The actor who plays Duncan needs an Oscar for the range of emotions he goes through at the end
It's the Google search guy!
Most realistic death scene I've seen in a while!
He played Google in “If Google was a guy”, so that’s something at least
@@chene-aurelgaudreau1072 and he’s in the MCU! I mean, he plays a high school teacher, but it’s still cool.
That’s Leon West, the Beltway Butcher
"U.S. Department of Offense"-- funniest thing I've seen all day, hahaha.
The DoD used to be called the Department for War.
Everyone ignores the department of special teams...
they hurt ppl feelings lol
double speak is strong with the DoD's name
@@breakingbacon658 Good. They contribute nothing to society besides giving Americans an excuse to defend themselves when others (usually Brits) say "oh but there's no foot touching the ball." You use feet to run, that should be a good enough excuse to call it football if they're gonna call it Rugby but never use rugs.
8 years later, still relevant and funny as ever.
tyu3456 i think this will be relevant a thousand years later too ko
The only inaccuracy is that it shows people saying things that are popular, instead of saying things that are just divisive enough to grab attention and get them talked about without getting them fired.
Still is
Yes.
10 years later, still relevant and funny as ever.
New Zealand had a similar thing during a debate way back in the 2002 election (but it only polled the studio audience rather than the public at large). One of our centrist politicians gamed it by going on and on about "common sense".
In America our politicians teamed up with big tech firms and data scientists to do this 24/7 with trillions of gb of user data.
Now these fucking clowns overpay for all this "demographic research" without actually knowing why we feel that way at all.
Is it possible they based this off that?
"Post Office Box"
*Everyone liked that*
1:39 cracked me up so bad. "Who's going to pay for this...?" -starts to go down- "...our children." -immediately goes back up-
our POOR POOR children
No. "Our children" made it go down, our "POOR POOR CHILDREN" made it go up.
@@knightenchanter7908 No. Leslie amended "Our children" hastily when it goes down. The moment "our children" is uttered out, it stopped going down and goes up again, it just happens to reach quite a peak when she added "Our poor, poor, children."
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Yikes, immediately quoting a 3 min video you can rewind and you got it completely wrong
Lauralee is a straight up baller.
@Drinks Home pobox
butter
I love how Lauralee just delights in his approval rating flat-lining at the end, lol.
And then her approval spikes immediately when the camera switches to her smiling face
I love how Laura's approval goes up the _instant_ the phrase "pull up your bootstraps" is mentioned 💀
It's funny, people use that unironically, failing to realize that the phase is meant to be something that's inherently impossible. You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps, that's not how it works
Perfect representation of how ratings and profit take precedence over all else, even if it means sacrificing honest journalism and integrity lol.
That’s how fox stays relevant
@@aangsstaff4174 "That's how CNN trys to stay relevant even though the only viewers who believe them are brainwashed NPC's." There, fixed it for ya!
Utter Despair that’s how Fox News try’s to stay relevant, because they show clear bias and their only viewers are republican drones that just want to be told what and how to think (despite it being 30% less accurate than cnn). There fixed it for ya
That’s how CNN and Fox stay relevant
@@aangsstaff4174
CNN has been tanking in the viewership dept. recently, apparently Fox is rising in viewers as well (I heard about a report on this, I don't watch either network myself)
This needs more discussion on post office boxes. Hard working Americans want to know if they are getting tax rebates for each and every post office box they own. Freedom. Apple pie. Shower me with likes dammit!
Those poor poor children
I'm voting for more post office boxes.
The small reference to show the disconnect between wealthy and the 99 percent. I thought it was pretty good👍
Who else likes waffles and pudding 4 years later? I sure do. I often make waffles OUT OF pudding and vice versa.
You had me with hard working Americans... But you won my heart sweetheart... With apple pie...
i love how duncan’s rating drops at the very start the moment he says “it’s not that simple”
Everyone: 🤨
Duncan: PoSt OfFicCe BoX
Everyone: 😍
We need a new postmaster general to ensure that the mail is posted to our post office boxes by the post man in a timely manner. Too many Americans are going to the post office to check their post office boxes only to discover that the post man hasn't delivered to their post office box yet. The postal service also needs to address the rising costs of postage when posting mail from the post office.
ohyesrighttherepleasedon'tstop
Someone get this man a podium
This broke the graph
This just in, GS's ratings are through the roof.
our former president agreed with you, not exactly for the same reasons
LOL The Kanye name-drop totally backfired. He's so hated XD
I think you mean to say the Dems want him back on the plantation working for them
Wait Caleb said "Dems" which usually means he's referring to them negatively, aka NOT A LIBTARD. Come on, Americans nowadays are too stupid to know who's in the other tribe!
Lets take this to Facebook you Jewish socialite super-MAGA aligned with Soros serial communist snowflake who peddles your pro-abortgun agenda with dark money from the washington zumba machine. We are over your classical jacksonian theocracy!!!!
You knot it’s satire, right?
I don't know where you two are from but Kanye is BASED and REDPILLED
Her increasingly massive smile and glee at his destruction toward the end is literally the funniest thing I've ever seen. Oh sweet Jesus! :D :D :D: D:D
The touch at the end, when Laura smiles and the vote skyrocket
That smiling face is cracking me up.
And her rating goes up when it cuts to her as well
a decade later and the kanye joke still works lmao
not really but ok
@@kings9724 Idk why but your ratings just took a nose dive... Weird.
GodTvRadio what
He always been hated
Not even. Kanye rocks.
How does the onion keep predicting the future? The kanye bit kills me even more now, due to what he said yesterday on AJs show🤣
Found the comment I was looking for
The real comedy here is that they have no idea what real Americans care about, and instead of caring about finding out, they just accidentally stumble onto things that give them a boost in popularity without understanding why.
Lol
The real comedy is also that real Americans have little to no real understanding of economy and they just expect to hear simple solutions and pleasing statements, even completely devoid meaning, instead of a realistic and competent analysis. Resulting in pandering to ignorance.
@@rohan1864 and how did that work out with impeachment. It made people even more insane in destroying demonrats. Lol.
Валерий Заподовников Russian troll detected
@@qaiser648 stop with that already. You are a bot, this
POST
OFFICE
BOX
*rating increases*
2:15 "the ol PO box " 😂😂
Funny thing is that the Onion predicted that this election was going to be decided by the POST OFFICE BOX, i.e. Mail-in ballots and Trump's reluctance to fund the US Postal Service.
"my good friend Kanye West" -- drops
"who is a personal friend of mine" -- drops
"and we visit frequently" -- drops furthur
"what i meant to say was the economy..." -- dips
"can only be..." -- dipping
"spurred.." -- steadily lowering...
"into..." FLATLINE
He should have shouted "Post office box"
He should have just called it a day after the first minute
...euhh
* smiles * 📈
This comment was made 9years ago and is perfect representation of 2020 november situation.
That Kanye bit aged extremely well
2:25, she threw him out there like chum in the water.
Absolute genius. I'm still laughing at this at the fourth watch through...
In other news: A recent poll shows most Americans like to hear the phrase "post-office box".
The Kanye west bit at the end aged like fine wine
The Kanye thing at the end! 😂 like it was written yesterday!
It seems like the onion would do better in this day since UA-cam is so huge now. Don't know why they stopped making videos.
satoriJPN that is so foolish, why would a politician buy a company that is not only satire but also marketed as satire
satoriJPN lmao trump supporters aren’t safe from being made fun of, *S N O W F L A K E*
@@ornature5324 well yeah thats all that late night tv is
@satoriJPN sad
They turned into Onion Labs. They started doing satirical ads for companies but it isn't very successful.
13 yrs. Still holds up. Then the the Kanye reference furthered that notion
"I have multiple PO boxes" ratings soar! XD
Love how Duncan Birch attracted public approval by saying he has several post office boxes
I loved it when her poll score darted up right as she said something about the hard working Americans. Brilliant!
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Tax cuts that do not need to pay for themselves thanks to the incredible "American entreprenural spirit!"
this is still peak humor and I'm not even american.
This is just straight up a brilliant sketch
>“I was talking to my good friend Kanye west”
>Poll drops
Timeless video.
Lauralee's shit-eating grin at the end makes this for me. Also, post office box.
Guys I think The Onion basically just predicted Vivek Ramaswamy
How do you figure?
This is literally how most "content creators" work. Banal as hell.
Legend has it that Clifford baines is still being filled in for to this day.
Whoever put this together is a genius
The onion predicted twitch chat
I love that LauraLee's approval spiked as she was smiling into the camera sweetly as she enjoyed watching Duncan tank
Duncan - get your act together and get those numbers up.
Those are rookie numbers! Gotta get those numbers up.
😂😂😂
That Kanye joke was way ahead of its time
Honestly lol
wow americans really do love their post office boxes
wow the dollar is strengthening, the economy is doing worse, and kanye is absolutely hated. Nice prediction, Onion! 👍🏾
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2:35 aged like a fine wine
3:00 I love how lauralee's shit-eating grin immediately sent her approval upwards 😂
One of the most creative Onions up to date!
I love the smile on the woman at the end b/c he mades a fool out of himself.
Wow you commented it 13 years ago. Hope you are doing great
This is probably my favorite Onion video ever.
the kanye dig here is extra extra funnnyyyy
That Kanye joke aged like wine
Duncan tried to tell the truth, but everyone hated it
"Post Office Box"
*GLANCES AT INSTAPOLL*
Post...Office..BOX"
Lol the Kanye comment has aged perfectly lol
They actually did this once in New Zealand in the 90s. One minor candidate banged on about common sense enough his party ended up in government.
What's the deal with post office boxes?
they have that eagle and the US flag colors.
Not sure what you're asking. But I thumbed you up anyway, for saying, "post office box".
Ananta Sesa das no, that's a mail box.
Lol, I can't even remember what I was asking, but it might have had something to with the fact that he said "you come home and open your post office box", even though it isn't at home, it's at the post office, which is why it's called that.
+Jivan, well sounds like you just need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps like the other hard working americans and figure it out for the children, the poor poor children. just don't visit kanye west, or his post office box.
The Kanye comment for Duncan 😂
2:30 THE ONION DID IT AGAIN 💀💀💀💀💀
Hold on, let me try something.
*Post Office*
I noticed that the ratings for the woman in Red spiked at the very end when the audience saw her rejoice at the Yellow man's ratings dropping to Zero.
The Audience was enjoying the feud between the reporters and treating National Journalism like a Drama.
"Department of Offense"
That is just such an incredibly correct way to talk about our country's military 🤣🤣
And they're attacking Sweden. Pretty random choice if you ask me.
It used to be called the "Department of War" before the name change in the 1940s
Mentions “Kanye West” and approval ratings go down. Waaay more relevant today than ever! Lol.
The Post Office Box is the new meta 😂
That kanye joke is more appreciated today. I believe this was filmed around the time he took the mic from Taylor Swift so you would've been unpopular being associated with him.
When he said he's good friends with Kanye West and it went down is more timely than ever before
When you try to reach the word count on your essay
2:32 onward is the finest aged wine that's ever existed
It's so funny how they start to falter as they watch they're line drop. And then once they see what it takes to climb, they really jump into the thought with both feet. LOL
Lol. The 'Kanye West' at the end. Aged like fine wine.
Ahem.... Post office box.
3:07 we welcome you with open arms
Hey this aged perfectly with the Kanye reference lol
i love the dept of offense attacking sweden for no fucking reason at the end card lmao
I like how Duncan's actor is in an IASIP episode where he talks about Kanye West. Came here after watching it.
“A good friend of mine Kanye West” 📉📉📉📉📉
"Duncan, could you tell us some ways that you think the economy is doing badly, again?" Laurlee Hickok won that grin towards the end proves she won.
and people say we can't automate politicians
takeaway
bills=bad
post office box=good
The kanye part only got better
He should've said "it can only get worse because it's the best it's ever been"
Hardworking Americans, Mom and Pop shops, kitchen table issues, Main Street not wall street, the little guys, need I go on? These people are the backbone of America!
Ok, Nixon
POST OFFICE BOX!