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Our Dumb Century

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Our Dumb Century	type	TVTItem
Our Dumb Century	label	Our Dumb Century
Our Dumb Century	page	OurDumbCentury
Our Dumb Century	comment	Our Dumb Century is a mock 20th-century retrospective by the writers of The Onion. It consists of fake front pages whose look and feel parodies that of each era of the century, with headlines and articles making fun of news stories throughout the century.
Our Dumb Century	fetched	2024-04-18T09:16:26Z
Our Dumb Century	parsed	2024-04-18T09:16:26Z
Our Dumb Century	processingComment	Dropped link to PacMan: Not a Feature - ITEM
Our Dumb Century	processingComment	Dropped link to VerySpecialEpisode: Not a Feature - ITEM
Our Dumb Century	isPartOf	DBTropes
Our Dumb Century / int_11d206ef	type	Subliminal Seduction
Our Dumb Century / int_11d206ef	comment	Subliminal Seduction: "Bing Crosby Record Reveals Secret Message When Played Backward: 'Have a Swell Day, Ladies and Gents'"
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Our Dumb Century / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
Our Dumb Century / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: "Russians Continuing To Kill Rasputin" details how he was not only repeatedly stabbed, shot, and poisoned, but also run over by a train, electrocuted, dissolved in acid, set on fire, impaled with a cavalry spear, Buried Alive, beheaded twice and chopped into tiny pieces, but still refused to die.
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Our Dumb Century / int_146f8df0	type	Situational Sexuality
Our Dumb Century / int_146f8df0	comment	Situational Sexuality: "Let's Work Together to Pretend Our War-Time Homosexual Experiences Never Happened"
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Our Dumb Century / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Our Dumb Century / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: "Aristotle Onassis Killed by Lone Gunman in Athens Motorcade" The entire Watergate scandal, which instead plays out like the Gary Tison prison break, up to and including Nixon being gunned down by police outside of a Motel (Spiro Agnew still at large).
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Our Dumb Century / int_1787e703	type	Candid Camera Prank
Our Dumb Century / int_1787e703	comment	Candid Camera Prank: "Allen Funt Lets President In on Hilarious 'Cuban Missile Crisis' Prank"
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Our Dumb Century / int_1bdbbbae	type	The Klutz
Our Dumb Century / int_1bdbbbae	comment	The Klutz: "Gerald Ford Sworn In; Promises Awkwark, Bumbling Transition", in reference to that one time he fell down the stairs.
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Our Dumb Century / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Our Dumb Century / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: All of World War I was caused by Archduke Ferdinand picking a horrible time to do some King Incognito and not tell anybody.
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Our Dumb Century / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Our Dumb Century / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: "Mussolini Becomes Italian Dictator After Closely Contested Fist-Fight"
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Our Dumb Century / int_1f8cdb5c	type	Who Shot JFK?
Our Dumb Century / int_1f8cdb5c	comment	Who Shot JFK?: 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".
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Our Dumb Century / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Our Dumb Century / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: "Idi Amin Praises Former Ugandan Defense Minister As 'Delicious'"
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Our Dumb Century / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Our Dumb Century / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: "President Ford's Pet Rock Dies", resulting in messages of condolence from other world leaders and "National Day of Bumming Declared"
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Our Dumb Century / int_2547b359	type	Real Dreams are Weirder
Our Dumb Century / int_2547b359	comment	Real Dreams are Weirder: "Martin Luther King Jr.: 'I Had a Really Weird Dream Last Night'", in which he meets Jackie Gleason and is threatened by a giant roll of paper towels, among other nonsense.
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Our Dumb Century / int_26f41623	type	Kill Sat
Our Dumb Century / int_26f41623	comment	Kill Sat: "US Launches Orbiting Homeless Incinerator"
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Our Dumb Century / int_307a34f9	type	Radiation-Induced Superpowers
Our Dumb Century / int_307a34f9	comment	Radiation-Induced Superpowers: Deconstructed in "Boy Bitten by Radioactive Spider Dies of Leukemia."
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Our Dumb Century / int_31aba995	type	Self-Abuse
Our Dumb Century / int_31aba995	comment	Self-Abuse: There is an advertisement for an "Anti-Masturbation Harness and Genital Pouch" that not only locks away the manly parts, but also includes a blade to discourage erections.
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Our Dumb Century / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Our Dumb Century / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: "Holy Shit, Man Walks on Fucking Moon. Neil Armstrong's Historic First Words on Moon: 'Holy Living Fuck'" "Last Night's Fireside Chat Just a Stream of Cuss Words" Richard Nixon gives one during a shootout with police.
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Our Dumb Century / int_38291355	type	Does Not Know His Own Strength
Our Dumb Century / int_38291355	comment	Does Not Know His Own Strength: "Cute Little Mouse Crushed To Death By Petting"
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Our Dumb Century / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Our Dumb Century / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Which gets Ralph Nader killed when test-driving one of the Trope Namers. He is memorialized with a sculpture of a Pinto with an eternal flame rising from its exploding engine.
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Our Dumb Century / int_43964f3	type	Worst News Judgment Ever
Our Dumb Century / int_43964f3	comment	Worst News Judgment Ever: "Death of 500,000 Somalis Momentarily Distracts Nation from Dream Team Excitement" "President Harding Dies Several Months Ago"
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Our Dumb Century / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Our Dumb Century / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: "God Kills Oral Roberts For Fundraising Shortfall", referencing the televangelist's real statement that the Lord would "call him home" if he couldn't raise a particular sum of money by the end of the year.
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Our Dumb Century / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Our Dumb Century / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Richard Nixon is the most prominent one ("Should Nixon Be Brought Back to Kick Around Some More?", "Nixon Vetoes Federal Love and Happiness Act"), but Warren G. Harding doesn't even get articles, just two headlines: "Harding Elected, Forgotten About" and "President Harding Dies Several Months Ago"
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Our Dumb Century / int_49d5f48f	type	Of Corpse He's Alive
Our Dumb Century / int_49d5f48f	comment	Of Corpse He's Alive: "Roosevelt's Remains To Run For Fifth Term"
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Our Dumb Century / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
Our Dumb Century / int_4c851777	comment	There's also the running gag of cartoons featuring Lady Liberty being sexually assaulted by "The Wretched Spaniard", "The Hun", a Lounge Lizard, a "Capitalist Plutocrat Bastard" ("I've raped everything else in sight, why not you too, Sister?"), Benito Mussolini, Nikita Khrushchev, a dirty hippie, and an Arab terrorist.
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Our Dumb Century / int_4d45aa06	type	Banana Republic
Our Dumb Century / int_4d45aa06	comment	Banana Republic: "CIA Subdues Fruit-Hatted Peoples of Lesser Americas"
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Our Dumb Century / int_53830d	type	The Internet Is for Porn
Our Dumb Century / int_53830d	comment	The Internet Is for Porn: "Computer-Industry Leaders Call For Creation Of Masturbation Superhighway"
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Our Dumb Century / int_5e5cf652	type	Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
Our Dumb Century / int_5e5cf652	comment	Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die: "New President Assures Nation, 'The Only Thing We Have to Fear is a Crippling, Decade-Long Depression'".
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Our Dumb Century / int_5eb8a669	type	"Angry Black Man" Stereotype
Our Dumb Century / int_5eb8a669	comment	"Angry Black Man" Stereotype: "Malcolm X: 'I Also Have a Dream'
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Our Dumb Century / int_6141b228	type	Full-Boar Action
Our Dumb Century / int_6141b228	comment	Full-Boar Action: "McKinley Killed By Wild Boar"
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Our Dumb Century / int_617a1d43	type	Conspiracy Kitchen Sink
Our Dumb Century / int_617a1d43	comment	Conspiracy Kitchen Sink: "Kennedy Slain by CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons" posits that every conspiracy theory about who assassinated John F. Kennedy was true simultaneously. A subhead reports, "President shot 129 times from 43 different angles".
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Our Dumb Century / int_7230cfe	type	Shoe Phone
Our Dumb Century / int_7230cfe	comment	Shoe Phone: "Alger Hiss Evades Capture with Secret Evapo-Spy Wristwatch; Rep. Nixon's Emergency Jet-Pack Ambush Fails"
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Our Dumb Century / int_743ad340	type	Absurdly-Long Limousine
Our Dumb Century / int_743ad340	comment	Absurdly-Long Limousine: "GM Unveils New '55 Cadillac Dreadnought", which rolls on eight wheels, seats twenty-four people, has three-foot-tall tail fins, and comes equipped with a dashboard-mounted martini mixer, basement, and optional three-season patio.
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Our Dumb Century / int_826ffcc8	type	Demonic Dummy
Our Dumb Century / int_826ffcc8	comment	Demonic Dummy: How Howdy Doody is written about. Another article describes how Charlie McCarthy went off script during a radio show, telling the audience they should kill themselves.
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Our Dumb Century / int_85b1e741	type	Creepy Crossdresser
Our Dumb Century / int_85b1e741	comment	Creepy Crossdresser:
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Our Dumb Century / int_872b9e12	type	Chained to a Railway
Our Dumb Century / int_872b9e12	comment	Chained to a Railway: An advertisement for a railroad claims that this happens less frequently on their railroad than on competing lines.
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Our Dumb Century / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Our Dumb Century / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: "Japan Forms Alliance With White Supremacists in Well-Thought-Out Scheme"
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Our Dumb Century / int_967fd9b	type	Perilous Old Fool
Our Dumb Century / int_967fd9b	comment	Perilous Old Fool: Just as in real life, Theodore Roosevelt tried to enlist in the Army to fight WWI. In the article, he's accepted, but assigned to mess hall duty to keep him out of danger.
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Our Dumb Century / int_9a2aee13	type	Heroic Bystander
Our Dumb Century / int_9a2aee13	comment	Heroic Bystander:"Japanese Zeroes Held Off by Boy with Dick Tracy Decoder Ring"
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Our Dumb Century / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Our Dumb Century / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: "War Department Gears Up To Fire 3 Million Women"
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Our Dumb Century / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Our Dumb Century / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: "Horrible Asshole Richer Than Ever"
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Our Dumb Century / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Our Dumb Century / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: Some articles have traits of this, such as Archduke Franz Ferdinand showing up alive after World War I, Richard Nixon refusing to resign and instead being arrested, sent to prison, breaking out, and going on a killing spree which leads to his being gunned down after an extensive manhunt, and the US not just losing The Vietnam War, but actually surrendering to them.
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Our Dumb Century / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Our Dumb Century / int_aa8dcc21	comment	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.
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Our Dumb Century / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Our Dumb Century / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The cultural attitudes of each era are parodied.
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Our Dumb Century / int_ac1e30d8	type	Red Scare
Our Dumb Century / int_ac1e30d8	comment	Red Scare: "Senator McCarthy: 'I Hold in My Hand a List of 205 Liquor Stores'" "New Medical Report Finds Heavy Petting Linked to Communism" "Sinatra Warns Ruskies to Knock It Off" "Secret Pac-Man Patterns Fall Into Russian Hands"
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Our Dumb Century / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Our Dumb Century / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: "Nagasaki Bombed 'Just for the Hell of It'" "US Army Finds Last Place on Earth Untouched by War, Blows It to Hell" "H-Bomb Test a Success! Eniwetok Atoll Islanders Return to Their Home, a Mile-Wide Crater on the Ocean Floor" "Reagan Nukes Libya"
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Our Dumb Century / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Our Dumb Century / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: "Nagasaki Bombed 'Just For The Hell Of It'"
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Our Dumb Century / int_af05e6d0	type	The Treachery of Images
Our Dumb Century / int_af05e6d0	comment	The Treachery of Images: "Giant Poster of Mao Seizes Power In China"
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Our Dumb Century / int_b0ac233d	type	Heaven Above
Our Dumb Century / int_b0ac233d	comment	Heaven Above: A spoof headline from the week after the airplane was invented is about the government planning airplane expeditions to Heaven. The story reveals that within ten years, it will be possible for the average American to vacation there.
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Our Dumb Century / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Our Dumb Century / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: An article about Peter Parker's death by leukemia, noting that it's the sixth radiation-related death in the past month, following Reed Richards and his crew and Bruce Banner.
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Our Dumb Century / int_b6db5695	type	Political Overcorrectness
Our Dumb Century / int_b6db5695	comment	Political Overcorrectness: One of the news stories is about an Iowa family being attacked for having only white members.
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Our Dumb Century / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Our Dumb Century / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: "Dastardly Japs Attack Colonially-Occupied US Non-State"
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Our Dumb Century / int_b739b613	type	Elvis Lives
Our Dumb Century / int_b739b613	comment	Elvis Lives: "Elvis Dead; Is Elvis Alive?"
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Our Dumb Century / int_bb40e7e0	type	Failed Future Forecast
Our Dumb Century / int_bb40e7e0	comment	Failed Future Forecast: The iconic photo is on the back cover, altered with 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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Our Dumb Century / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
Our Dumb Century / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: Tax evasion is the only heinous crime Al Capone is even accused of.
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Our Dumb Century / int_c64a7400	type	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
Our Dumb Century / int_c64a7400	comment	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: The French surrender ten minutes after Nazi Germany invades. They do it again when Pearl Harbor is bombed, and AGAIN when the Americans drop a different kind of bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Our Dumb Century / int_c68ce696	type	King of the Homeless
Our Dumb Century / int_c68ce696	comment	King of the Homeless: There's a small article in 1932 about Herbert Hoover signing an accord with King Gus II, sovereign of all hobos. Also in attendance were the Duke and Duchess of Junkland, Emperor Lazlo of Trashville, and the ambassador to the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
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