The Onion News是最好的新闻,这部电影的主题。中间有很多很多新闻片段:美国肥胖人口太多,于是政府通过法案提高“肥胖”标准以减少肥胖人数;IT巨头Gil Bates在家被劈头因为无数用户忍受不了电脑的更新速度;持枪抢劫的罪犯抢的不是钱而是一份工作……
中间有很多很精彩的部分,比如那个持枪抢劫的罪犯,当银行职员说把钱给他的时候,持枪罪犯义正言辞地说:
“Excuse me? You heard me! I need a M***f**king job! Don't you see? If you give me money, that'll just help me in the short term. But a job, that 'll help me develop valuable job skills and experience. It's like teaching a man how to fish!”
——看,罪犯都这么有觉悟。
影片中还有记者采访当红的性感女星Cherry,质疑她的歌曲太过A倾向给孩子inappropriate example。 采访中看这位女星如何把所有黄色歌曲都解释的又清纯又sweet, 最后还眨着大眼睛说自己是virgin, old-fashioned country girl,怎么可能知道那些东西,所谓的性感是“a girl celebrats being a woman” 。
电影结尾,新闻主播说:"We've learned lots of things from the 90 min,... the most of all, we've learned the creeping corporate influence over the news protects us from terrorism. "