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"Jesus H. Christ, Houston, we're on the &*!!@# moon"

Mark Frauenfelder at 10:52 am Mon, Jul 20, 2009

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ill lich

In fact if you have the cd, they DO give credit to The Onion (in fact I believe they SAMPLED the audio from a recording made by the Onion).

However, compared to other ECC audio collages this one is kind of weak.
Maneki Nico

â€œJesus H. Christ in a chicken basket!â€

Thatâ€™s gotta be a regionalism, no?
Anonymous

The spoken audio comes directly from the audio book of The Onion’s Our Dumb Century. The oohs and ahhs are sped up versions of the Brian Wilson song “Our Prayer/Gee.” So basically everything is stolen.
Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLndLjMibyM
Anonymous

Hahah! Also reminds me of a sketch by The Whitest Kids U’ Know, seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdenE9NGMxM
Anonymous

better version here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrXxZmTHIcc
jphilby

And if they had really fucking talked like that to fucking Houston, they’d STILL be on the fucking moon.

Check out this transcript.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.posteva.html

Michael Collins is orbiting the moon, alone, and Houston comes up with some busywork for him at 112:14:56. For almost 2 minutes, Collins says nothing. At 112:17:39, is Collins pretending he didn’t hear Houston?

I like to think so. I like to believe he was saying to himself “I can’t FUCKING believe that crap. What the hell? I’m ORBITING the fucking MOON! Screw THEM! This is GREAT!” And then, “aaaaaahhhh kkkkththtthk … you’re breaking up, Houston.”
anders411

Yes, but did they try to blow it up?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI
caipirina

remix version with more cowbells and unicorns please !!!
Brainspore

Nice video complement to the classic “Onion” article.
zoetrope

I picked up their album sometime ago. Pimp shit.
searconflex

from now on I shall refer to the moon as “&*!!@# moon”.
Chukpowah

I’d go so far as to call it a straight rip off of the Onion Article, with no credit given – LAME
Mark Frauenfelder

“Pimp shit.” Does that mean it’s good or bad? I can’t keep up with you youngsters and your lingo.
Roku

#5: “So basically everything is stolen.”

Your powers of perception are astoundingly acute!

(Apparently someone isn’t familiar with the ECC, or has a sense of humor so dry as to be indistinguishable from cluelessness.)