Yeah, but I bet your dick remembers from all these sexy shenanigans going on inside a hot stinky box.

You only keep "forgetting" so you can watch a couple episodes to convince yourself it's real.

Fucking what?! I honestly thought this was Onion as well. Holy shit.

"Thanks for joining us, that's all the time we have on SCREWBALLZ!"

To be fair, Savage Love began in the Onion, so it comes full circle.

Whoops! It began in the Stranger, which was founded by the Onion's co-owner. And now you know the rest of the story.

As far as this show, I've heard about it for a while and it sounds interesting. As far as the fucking goes, that goes back to shows like STUDS or even The Dating Game. Assuming people didn't fuck on the dating game is like wondering how you were born.

People were not fucking ON THE SHOW, though. This is throwing a couple in a box with the explicit instruction of having sex while a studio audience waits outside in anticipation of them re-emerging fully fucked. It is exponentially more lascivious and vulgar.

And the stranger ain't gonna bay the bills. Dan's got expensive tastes. I keep having people assure me the stranger used to be a standout weekly, but I don't buy it.

PAY! PAY!

If I remember correctly, The Stranger did begin as a more "legitimate" weekly, but when the Rocket shut down they sort of took on the task of filling the hole between things like the Seattle Times and.. I dunno they became more like The Onion when they could, while still covering the same thing. So to me it's the choice between watching Brian Williams or Jon Stewart: they'll report the same thing, but one's a lot funnier and free. And Dinosaur Comics at the end (do they still have those?)

@Hooker good point. I can still manage to get it up if I'm on a Tinder date, but I still like the thrill of meeting someone in person out of the blue more. In a box? With people knowing you're fucking in the box? I'd probably be in there trying to fuck for hours because I'm thinking "I'm fucking in a box while people outside of the box are watching me try to fuck in a box.." I mean, I just try to think about algebra.

Or to put it another way, The Stranger is the AV Club section of The Onion, with attempts at onion-like humor which, like its sister to the south, the Mercury, often fall flat on their faces but are sometimes still hilarious like this front page headline from 2009:

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/the-different-kinds-of -people-that-there-are/Content?oid=1554515

I might have mentioned this before, but I was really good friends with Misako Takashima when I was living in Madison, and she did the original Hentai illustrations for Savage Love, which really captured the essence or what the reader was asking. And I know I mentioned this before, but Savage and I worked at the same video store. Savage has become a voice and advocate for a large population since then, but I like to think that there's a part of him that misses those early days, and like to think that he snickers at the very existence of this show, assuming it's still on the air.

Actually, it's about ethics in British entertainment.