# 2020 continues undeterred, as Adolf Hitler rises to power **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2020, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-continues-undeterred-as-adolf-hitler-rises-to-power/927187 "2020-12-04T06:53:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-continues-undeterred-as-adolf-hitler-rises-to-power/927187/3 "2020-12-04T07:12:27Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > So here’s more evidence for the theory that we’re just an alien reality show whose audience has been dwindling, so the producers just keep coming up with more and more outrageous stuff… > > Wonder what happens when we’re canceled? We had a pretty great thread back in '12 about [Plot Holes in World War II](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plot-holes-in-world-war-ii/616463), followed a couple of years later by [Plot holes in reality](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plot-holes-in-reality/681533). No doubt about it, this series really jumped the shark in the 2016 season, and I think the 2020 season is when the remaining audience is going to just roll their ocular orbs so hard they strain an eyestalk and give up on the whole thing as a bad job: > [@](#): > > A global pandemic that’s “the worst since the one from the 1918 season”, a global economic crisis that’s “the worst one since the Great Depression”–didn’t we already have that plot back in the 2008 season?–riots and civil unrest that are…wait for it!..“the most serous since the 1968 season”…and now they’re introducing a “new” character–an elected political leader named _“Adolf Hitler”?!?_ > > That’s it—I give up. By Grabthar’s hammer, the writers of _Earth_ have completely run out of new ideas! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-continues-undeterred-as-adolf-hitler-rises-to-power/927187)._