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Seven uploads span an emergency Macarena lesson, an app parody and another installment of American Voter.
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Should Food Cost More?
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- 0:11Stand-in anchor Melinda Miller asks the fictional panel whether food should cost more.
- 0:58Joyce Cucchiara offers a different proposal: keep prices unchanged but reduce the amount of food.
- 1:34The panel extends its price-hike ambitions to all food, including vegetables grown at home.
- 2:22The discussion expands beyond groceries to water, cars and gas.
Even backyard peppers aren't safe. In The Onion's satirical panel sketch "Should Food Cost More?", fictional institute chairwoman Mary Fichandler identifies homegrown vegetables as a problem: "There are people growing peppers in their yard for free, and that has to end yesterday."
The mock In The Know debate has reached roughly 1.5 million views, comfortably the most watched new upload of the channel's week. Its joke stretches beyond expensive groceries to the logic of televised expertise: political analyst Jason Copeland supports higher prices because they give him something to discuss for work. When Duncan Birch is asked where the extra money would go, his answer is simply, "It would go to the food."
Viewers are extending that logic into imagined shareholder meetings and pointing out the panel's wonderfully unruly definition of food groups, which makes room for restaurants and cupcake sprinkles.
Elsewhere in the seven-upload week, "911 Operator Talks Panicking Woman Through Macarena" gives emergency assistance an absurd assignment, while "This App Turns Your Photos into Music If You Want to Do That For Some Reason" puts the skepticism directly in the title. The costume satire "Finding Masculine Halloween Costumes For Your Effeminate Son" drew the next-largest new audience.
The channel added about 10,000 subscribers over the week, and daily views are running at more than twice their usual level. Nearby in subscriber size, CBS Mornings is also drawing above-usual daily viewing, while Real Time with Bill Maher is quieter than its norm.
The food panel remains the channel's most active video, but "The Elderly Vote | American Voter" is close behind in daily viewing, giving the week's freshest election satire substantial momentum of its own.
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What viewers say
This is how I imagine every shareholder meeting goes in every industry
@sam.4104See it on YouTubeThe major food groups: bread, eggs, meat, vegetables, breakfast, hot dogs, restaurants and the sprinkles on cupcakes
@techwiz81See it on YouTube"where will the money go?" "to the food"
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Music should cost more because it's food for the soul.
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Who fills in as anchor in The Onion's "Should Food Cost More?" sketch?
Melinda Miller, introduced as the host of Inside The Belt, anchors the fictional panel.