The Onion / Doctor Who "crossover"

[shivver]

My husband found this on Imgur, and it's apparently from a Reddit post. These are headlines from The Onion applied to Doctor Who. In case you don't know, The Onion is a satirical website. It started as a physical newspaper on college campuses in the Midwest (its weekly publication was one of the things I used to look forward to as a grad student in UIUC), writing entirely humorous articles as if they were real news. Online, it's pretty much the same, with a format like online news.

The Redditor u/Past-Feature3968 created these images by taking past headlines from The Onion and applying them to images from DW, and they're all great. As my husband remarked, the very first one shows that the creator gets the relationship.

Here's the link. You don't need an Imgur account to view it.

Doctor Who as Onion Headlines

Comments

[romanajo123]

LOL!!!

Well this is something I didn’t know I wanted. These are too perfect, favorites are the first one and the 13 and Master one.

Also “ it’s okay I’m attractive “. 😆

[shivver]

I think my favorites are the first one, the River & Ten one, and "Hey Everybody, Let's All Go to the Beach and Complain". I also laughed out loud at "Nepotism Passed Off as Synergy", because that's exactly what I've been complaining about with the characterization of Kate Stewart. :P

[romanajo123]

( Hey Everybody, Let's All Go to the Beach and Complain“ ). You mean that’s NOT what actually happened in that scene? curious 👀 😉

[shivver]

The guy that created these also did a fabulous job of choosing exactly the right image for the headline. Them walking out of the TARDIS onto the beach with that headline is what did it for me.

[romanajo123]

The beach one was brilliant.

Oh yes! I don’t think you’re the only one who thinks that. I remember a video review of DotD where someone said said something like: “ How’s nepotism feel, Kate?” 😳

[shivver]

Heh, I came back, realized I had replied to the main post and not your comment, moved it, and found that you had replied to my old comment. :P

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Though it's technically not a nepotism problem - I don't think the Brig had anything to do with Kate getting into UNIT and making her way to the top. In fact, she pretty much says so in "The Power of Three" - if I remember correctly, the Doctor asks her why she dropped "Lethbridge" and she says she didn't want any favors for being associated with the Brig. But, putting it that way really makes the joke in the image. :D