‘The Onion’ on the ‘Aqua Teen’ bomb scare

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The Aqua Teen Hunger Force bomb scare from last week may be hard to parody because it was so dangerously close to parody by itself, but The Onion gives it a shot with a series of purported people-on-the-street interviews. Says a paramedic “interviewed” for the story: "What about all the Cheers shit you used to see around town? Man, that used to freak me out all the time."

—Posted by Catharine P. Taylor

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