# WAY smartest and funniest thing I've seen in a long time.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513 "2009-04-18T06:35:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/1 "2009-04-18T06:35:00Z")
[Prague’s Franz Kafka International Named World’s Most Alienating Airport](http://www.theonion.com/content/video/pragues_franz_kafka_international) If you like it half as much as I do, you need to watch it about 4 times to catch all the gags, it’s brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/2 "2009-04-18T15:38:30Z")
Ha! ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/3 "2009-04-18T16:03:59Z")
My favorite is [Sony Releases New Stupid Piece of Shit that doesn’t Fucking Work](http://www.theonion.com/content/video/sony_releases_new_stupid_piece_of) ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/4 "2009-04-18T16:05:23Z")
Bizarrely, this story was taken as fact and used for humorous comment by Jimmy Fallon on his TV show. Apparently he and his writing staff: 1. Have never heard of Franz Kafka, or 2. Have never heard of the Onion, or 3. Aren’t able to recognize an Onion story, or 4. Have some automated service that scans the Internet for headlines, and which doesn’t list the source of the headline. Also: I was surprised there were no cockroach references in the video. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/5 "2009-04-18T16:08:57Z")
It’s hard to decide what is my favorite, but at the moment it might be"Everyone is calling me S." ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/6 "2009-04-18T16:13:02Z")
Also, you gotta look for the subtitles under the names onscreen, and the digital crawl and baggage check… god they had so much fun doing that. ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/7 "2009-04-18T18:02:53Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > It’s hard to decide what is my favorite, but at the moment it might be"Everyone is calling me S." “Departures arriving early and arrivals landing late may be cancelled or delayed without prior notice” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/8 "2009-04-18T18:30:50Z")
FYI, these are available as free podcasts. There is a video series, and an unrelated audio series. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/9 "2009-04-18T18:57:01Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > It’s hard to decide what is my favorite, but at the moment it might be"Everyone is calling me S." Can you fill me in on that one? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/10 "2009-04-18T19:07:23Z")
I laughed out loud, and feel kind of guilty for laughing out loud at the astronauts suffering “high pitched death after helium leak” video. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/11 "2009-04-18T19:20:58Z")
“Obama blasted for failing to solve issue of life being a cold, despairing excessive in futility.” ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/12 "2009-04-18T20:47:02Z")
To me, the problem with the Onion is that the joke is in the title, and the rest is just derivative. The idea is clever. You expect the video to contain a lot of references / similarities to his work, especially The Castle and The Trial. And it does, and that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/13 "2009-04-18T20:52:12Z")
For some reason none of the Onion videos will play for me. The area where the video is supposed to be stays black; if I move my mouse into that space I get the bar at the bottom and the various link options at the sides, but that’s it. I’m using Windows XP and Firefox 3, if that matters, but I know I’ve been able to watch Onion videos before ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/14 "2009-04-19T02:02:54Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > For some reason none of the Onion videos will play for me. The area where the video is supposed to be stays black; if I move my mouse into that space I get the bar at the bottom and the various link options at the sides, but that’s it. > > I’m using Windows XP and Firefox 3, if that matters, but I know I’ve been able to watch Onion videos before Do you have Adblock Plus installed in Firefox? I’ve found Adblock sometimes makes videos fail to load, and such was the case here for me. Disable Adblock, then bring up the site again and the video should then load and play. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/15 "2009-04-19T02:42:37Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > For some reason none of the Onion videos will play for me. The area where the video is supposed to be stays black; if I move my mouse into that space I get the bar at the bottom and the various link options at the sides, but that’s it. > > I’m using Windows XP and Firefox 3, if that matters, but I know I’ve been able to watch Onion videos before Rather appropriate given the video in questio ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/16 "2009-04-19T02:57:56Z")
That worked, once I figured out how to do it. Apparently simply unchecking [www.theonion.com](http://www.theonion.com) in the filter list isn’t sufficient, I have to completely disable Adblock Plus before opening the website. Which is going to be a PITA. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/17 "2009-04-19T03:29:30Z")
I was able to add an “exception” to AdBlock Plus: @@|http://www.theonion.com/ads/video-ad-uid/ Now the videos play. ---
**Author:** ![Henrichek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/18 "2009-04-19T03:49:22Z")
I also had the problem with a black video window. However, all videos are also available on YouTube: [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheOnion&view=videos](http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheOnion&view=videos) ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-smartest-and-funniest-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/493513/19 "2009-04-19T04:17:48Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I was able to add an “exception” to AdBlock Plus: > > @@|[http://www.theonion.com/ads/video-ad-uid/](http://www.theonion.com/ads/video-ad-uid/) > > Now the videos play. I just did this, and it seems to be working. Which is good, because I forgot to un-disable Adblock before, and actually saw some ads on the next website I went to. :mad: