De La Croix is obviously not The Jaguar. One has a black patch over his face, the other has a human-man face. They look totally different except for the face-parts.
@@sambeck2510, stolen goods are marketable due to their low cost to acquire. When dealing in high value stolen goods, I would assume that the item could be seen as an investment to a collector. Artwork retains its monetary value well over time but to the right person its worth may exceed the market value or any other dollar amount exponentially.
As a person who has bought and sold hot items I never heard the term. It must be a regional thing. As so anyone in the market for "replica" Roman artifacts that the Pittsburgh museum of art and history believe they have the originals still? Asking for a friend. Find on Craigslist
Fencing = The sport of fighting with swords, especially foils, épées, or sabers, according to a set of rules, to score points against an opponent. Fencing = A process of selling stolen goods to a receiver, mover, or moving man, who knowingly buys to later resell them for profit. A lovely double entendre.
When I went to one of my sister's fencing tournaments I pissed her off to no end by insisting that if she started selling stolen fencing equipment she could be a fencer that sells stolen stuff specifically for fencing. In other words, a fencing fencing fence.
@@fluffyunicorn57 Nah, she fences, which means she's fencing, she sells stolen stuff, which makes her a fence, but also the stolen stuff is specifically for fencing, which makes her a fencing (verb) fencing (adjective) fence (noun)
It's been 13 years and I still sometimes wonder if Reggie somehow pulled it off, or if he is but one of countless valiant souls to end up slain at Le Jaguar's feet. Whoever he is.
This comment was actually helpful for me, as I don't follow professional sports or athletes. Now it makes much more sense. I thought it was simply bringing the swashbuckling tales of 18th century novels to contemporary life. Thank you!
Honestly, “the steam room” is just such a perfect microcosm of glossy 2000s low-brow news reporting. It feels like something Barstool could’ve done in ‘07 if they were on television
It's amazing what a pro career gets people out of. The jewel heists and scandels are understandable, but good lord no man should be above the law when it comes to exceeding the legal level of epicness.
I saw Greengrass vs De La Croix on the national news - it was the greatest fencing match I've ever seen. Greengrass is a true legend of the sport. But De La Croix's story didn't end there. He broke his silence at the very end of his trial, looked directly at the ONN camera and boisterously declared: "Our match is still in its prologue! Make your preparations, for no prison can handicap a genius of the epee such as myself." He mysteriously escaped his cell a few hours later. Every once in a while I see this video and I get excited at the thought of his return.
I still get chills thinking about the final segment of their bout, when De La Croix drove his foil into Greengrass's mask with such force that it took out an eye! My darling wife fainted dead away as we watched, and her lady's maid had to rush for the smelling salts. And yet! Sportsman that he is, Greengrass still managed to disarm the roué for that final point, then attend his trial the very next week displaying a dashing eyepatch, to deliver the damning testimony himself.
@@maxmuir7559 you forgot to mention the fact that De La Croix has the assistance of his darling and mischevious newly-rewed, the countess Stephania De Ulster, who fenced with the daredevil! i thought that Greengrass was outmatched, but that Samaritan proved me wrong.
Their duel was like watching poetry in motion, but their ripostes were packed with brutality. It was barbaric how they scored on first to draw blood rather than points.
I just realized that this is specifically meant to parody the fictional French criminal mastermind Arsène Lupin: The Gentleman Thief, the same character that the popular Lupin The Third anime happens to be inspired by.
I fence and I was laughing so hard! If only the fencing world really did have controversies like this. The sport itself is great but no one ever feels the need to follow it like they do football
This is one of the few times I've seen where taking on the sponsorship/ads into the video actually works in the maker's favor. It adds more 'realism' to this kind of satire and it's similar to the media shows on TV nowadays. But you just have to know when it gets too excessive within the one 'episode'...you don't want it to overpower the actual content meant to be seen. Aside from that, love your stuff! I always save the best to last when watching my subs and yours is right on the bottom. ;P
funnily enough, soon after the sponsorship started i remember seeing an article on their site which was about how pepsi had decided to stop advertising because 'we know its good, and that's enough'.
@Headsetphobias It seems to be a spoof of old adventure serials, comic book villains, and James Bond movies. I love how they did it as a sports presentation!
While I am not the world's greatest fender, I fenced for a year while in college. Mostly foil, but when I did a little epee I was amazed by the advanced guys' ability to hit my fingers and score points- even with my hand behind the guard. Any touch on the fingers (any touch anywhere) is a point with epee. foil has lots of rules, but it only scores points for a touch to the main torso ie: a hit to the vital area. With epee, you can lose a bout by having your pinkie touched 5 times.
This is so close to current ESPN shouting head sponsorship, it is beyond satire and becomes reality. Anyone remember "HOT" bracket, sponsored by G-drink? (?)
the fact that the stream room is sponsored by Coke Zero completes the parody. The Steam Room is a parody of ESPN's the Hot Seat sponsored by Budweiser. It wasn't a complete parody with Coke Zero.
It's kinda funny that Reggie Greengrass name is Reggie White, because it starts a song that goes.. "Green grows the grass" and the word that derived from it ... I wont type it here (just say Green grows fast a few times to get it). The point is, even the naming convention is brilliant!
I'm a fencer and I love this. They get extra points for using the phrase "ataque au fer" correctly in a sentence. But I have to dock them for changing from saber to foil in the middle of the story. ;-)
What I find most amusing about shit like this, is these guys are jokers and goofs who aren't even reporting real news, and yet their sets are so much better than actual news sets in most countries. Those shitty cardboard backgrounds and thin wooden desks that fall apart if touched. Amazing what a difference money can make.
For all the critics of the Coke Zero ad, just ask the Onion where to send your check to cover the costs so they don't have to advertise. You're willing to do that, right?
@dominicpodom Well, although we call it FIE in English, the actual translation is "International Fencing Federation," so they were close enough. Besides, I doubt the real FIE chair would like being portrayed as Peter James Whistleby IV. :-)
0:19 "PARIS - A painting by Rene Magritte was stolen from a brussels museum on Thursday morning by two armed men, The Guardian reported. The robbery occurred just after 10 a.m., shortly after the museum , a former home of Margritte, opened, when a man rang the doorbell to ask if visiting hours had started. The man then pointed a gun at the museum attendant while an accomplice went inside. The thieves made museum workers and visitors kneel in the courtyard while they left on foot with a 1948 paint-" The scoundrels! Robbing the place in broad daylight! Also, the weather that day was a high of 20 C, and a low of 0 C. What a wild day in the weather! o.o
@Roploop Why are you saying "lol wow"? I am in production and I can tell you that this video would have cost 10's of thousands of dollars even though most of it is green screen. They have about ten actors involved in this one section, half a dozen costumes to hire, countless graphics and several news and photographic mock ups. I just do not see that 118 thousands views are going to pay for all that even with the adverts and coca cola sponsorship.
I'm pretty sure it's more about how certain stars like Kobe Bryant and Albert Haynesworth can get away with alleged rape and illegal possession of firearms and keep their jobs. Look at Michael Vick. After he was let out of jail the question wasn't "what's he gonna do now?" it was "what team is he gonna play for?"
De La Croix is obviously not The Jaguar. One has a black patch over his face, the other has a human-man face. They look totally different except for the face-parts.
Good observation.
I thought this too! I still can’t believe people have so much against him for no reason!
Agreed
The Rembrandt thing could have happened to anyone. I had a friend forget her chapstick in my car once.
Couldn't possibly miss the human man face
how many 6'1 men with pencil mustaches can there be who move with the grace and power of a jungle cat
I love the delivery of "no, it's too dangerous!"
I almost spat out my cereal
This is a cereal-spitting skit for sure
"Fencing" also means the practice of knowingly buying stolen goods.
@@sambeck2510, stolen goods are marketable due to their low cost to acquire. When dealing in high value stolen goods, I would assume that the item could be seen as an investment to a collector. Artwork retains its monetary value well over time but to the right person its worth may exceed the market value or any other dollar amount exponentially.
As a person who has bought and sold hot items I never heard the term. It must be a regional thing. As so anyone in the market for "replica" Roman artifacts that the Pittsburgh museum of art and history believe they have the originals still? Asking for a friend. Find on Craigslist
@@sambeck2510 Yes, that's the way I understood the term.
That's clever
Fencing = The sport of fighting with swords, especially foils, épées, or sabers, according to a set of rules, to score points against an opponent.
Fencing = A process of selling stolen goods to a receiver, mover, or moving man, who knowingly buys to later resell them for profit.
A lovely double entendre.
When I went to one of my sister's fencing tournaments I pissed her off to no end by insisting that if she started selling stolen fencing equipment she could be a fencer that sells stolen stuff specifically for fencing. In other words, a fencing fencing fence.
thank you and nice pfp
@@tobyeasterbrook8117 You mean a fencing fence.
Ohhh... thank you! That had slipped by me!
(Although in this case, not clear whether he's stealing to fence or to possess.) But still, well noted.
@@fluffyunicorn57 Nah, she fences, which means she's fencing, she sells stolen stuff, which makes her a fence, but also the stolen stuff is specifically for fencing, which makes her a fencing (verb) fencing (adjective) fence (noun)
It's been 13 years and I still sometimes wonder if Reggie somehow pulled it off, or if he is but one of countless valiant souls to end up slain at Le Jaguar's feet. Whoever he is.
This is probably my favorite Onion skit. How do you even escape with $50 million in gold?
Very slowly.
You underestimate the jaguar sir
I leave these kinds of questions up to La Jaguar.
That's like... one suitcase full. Gold is fucking valuable, my dude.
@@nathangamble125 Your math is off. 10 pounds of gold is US$272,000. $50 million in gold is something like 1,800 pounds.
This needs to be a movie.
It's been a bunch of movies starring Mr. Carey Grant
@@CaesarCassius Carey Grant was just the most handsome man to ever live.
@@nicholsjoshua15, an angel of a man.
Diabolik is pretty close
@@fnord5071 I should watch this.
The way he casually says “I demand it” is definitely underrated.
"widows who he WIDOWED, no doubt!"
"Reggie you ready to swallow some wet steam."
"The wetter the better." lmao
Reggie Greengrass is my hero.
I think we all want to be Reggie Greengrass on some level
No man can be as good as Reggie greengrass
I wish the world was really like this. Imagine reading the paper every morning if this kid of drama actually took place!
lol
Oh yeah, this sounds like the kind of world where raid bosses spawn in the middle of the park, and everyone can join the fight
@@TheMamaluigi300 what the fuck are you on about it’s literally just a thief
@@TheMamaluigi300agreed
you sure there wasn't a monkey's paw lying around?
Its an anology to professional athletes getting in legal troubles. Just a high class starical version of it.
No shit.
Thanks for the clarification!
This comment was actually helpful for me, as I don't follow professional sports or athletes. Now it makes much more sense. I thought it was simply bringing the swashbuckling tales of 18th century novels to contemporary life. Thank you!
You must be fun at parties
Honestly, “the steam room” is just such a perfect microcosm of glossy 2000s low-brow news reporting. It feels like something Barstool could’ve done in ‘07 if they were on television
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"Moi? Le Jaguar?! Impossiblu!!" :)
It's amazing what a pro career gets people out of. The jewel heists and scandels are understandable, but good lord no man should be above the law when it comes to exceeding the legal level of epicness.
De La Croix's plans will soon be.. *puts on shades* foiled.
walked off with 50 million in nazi gold rofl
I saw Greengrass vs De La Croix on the national news - it was the greatest fencing match I've ever seen. Greengrass is a true legend of the sport.
But De La Croix's story didn't end there. He broke his silence at the very end of his trial, looked directly at the ONN camera and boisterously declared:
"Our match is still in its prologue! Make your preparations, for no prison can handicap a genius of the epee such as myself."
He mysteriously escaped his cell a few hours later. Every once in a while I see this video and I get excited at the thought of his return.
I still get chills thinking about the final segment of their bout, when De La Croix drove his foil into Greengrass's mask with such force that it took out an eye! My darling wife fainted dead away as we watched, and her lady's maid had to rush for the smelling salts.
And yet! Sportsman that he is, Greengrass still managed to disarm the roué for that final point, then attend his trial the very next week displaying a dashing eyepatch, to deliver the damning testimony himself.
Underrated comment
@@maxmuir7559 you forgot to mention the fact that De La Croix has the assistance of his darling and mischevious newly-rewed, the countess Stephania De Ulster, who fenced with the daredevil! i thought that Greengrass was outmatched, but that Samaritan proved me wrong.
Their duel was like watching poetry in motion, but their ripostes were packed with brutality. It was barbaric how they scored on first to draw blood rather than points.
"I have no choice but to take up the foil once again."
It's been ten years, where the hell is my jock jam
Bro, AC/DC just came out with their first album since 2014. If you can’t find a Jock Jam on there, then you aren’t looking hard enough!
I just realized that this is specifically meant to parody the fictional French criminal mastermind
Arsène Lupin: The Gentleman Thief, the same character that the popular Lupin The Third anime happens to be inspired by.
Really? Can you elaborate
I love The Steam Room, that could totally work as an actual show.
"Seduced, married and divorced" That is gold.
Somehow I can't help thinking that Clifford Banes has a hand in this.
The photo of Le Jaguar at 1:12 implies that he once stopped in front of a camera for a high quality photoshoot mid-robbery
Thus proving that the police are bumbling fools that even the paparazzi can run circles around.
"Who will confront this blackguard?"
HA! Love it.
if sport news would be like this i would watch it
*were like this
Me too! for sports I don't even care about.
"For all his villainy, there's no denying, he's still Da Vinci with the sword" ⚔
I fence and I was laughing so hard! If only the fencing world really did have controversies like this. The sport itself is great but no one ever feels the need to follow it like they do football
Then it's settled, you must become... The Jaguar!
@@LeadHerring Redrally went so deep into the Jaguar persona that he hasn't been heard from for thirteen years !
"I still love you le jaguar!"
One of those jokes that you never think about but totally get.
Peter James whistlebee is obviously the fence for the stolen goods and the person who trained la Croix. Peter is the original jaguar.
This is one of the few times I've seen where taking on the sponsorship/ads into the video actually works in the maker's favor. It adds more 'realism' to this kind of satire and it's similar to the media shows on TV nowadays.
But you just have to know when it gets too excessive within the one 'episode'...you don't want it to overpower the actual content meant to be seen.
Aside from that, love your stuff! I always save the best to last when watching my subs and yours is right on the bottom. ;P
Scoundrel!
I can't believe the fencing federation is allowing this kind of behaviour! Something should be done. This is outrageous.
Is it bad I kind of this guy was real? I would definitely watch fencing if he did.
you kind of what
@@FirstUsername Looking at the context, probably "kind of wish"
@@FirstUsername tad late
atari as are you.
It is a lot less interesting than this
These guys are great :-D
So much like real American TV that many people don't notice it is a joke :-D
"Yeah thats not me, i mean its just clearly not me" - Master Shake
For context $50M of gold weighs 3,300 pounds or 1500 kilograms
funnily enough, soon after the sponsorship started i remember seeing an article on their site which was about how pepsi had decided to stop advertising because 'we know its good, and that's enough'.
We have to accept the truth: Le Jaguar is simply a half-man, half-jaguar super-thief.
I somehow instantly grew a scoundrel, debonair pencil mustache while watching this video.
@Headsetphobias It seems to be a spoof of old adventure serials, comic book villains, and James Bond movies. I love how they did it as a sports presentation!
Monaco is a nice nod to Grace Kelly, who was in to Catch a Thief. (1955 film about a cat burglar like this)
Top five onion skits up there with the Alqueda vs 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist
ohhhhh! hahhaah omg now i finally understand the video. it's like NFL players committing crimes but this is the fancy version
I thought it was making fun of that movie trope
@@constantinekorkousky3363 How about both?
It's freaking awesome that the onion is getting such a big name sponsor.
stay classy you comic gods
I'm a fencer and I've heard that one so many times lol
He is a noble sportsman and true gentleman. Do not defile his name with your false accusations.
Were you the one he was holding the Rembrandt for?
If this video pops up in your sidebar the title is "Bad Boy Fencing Star Implicated In Yet Another Jew..."
Even more accurate. Kudos to The Onion team.
Me Le Jaguar? Preposterous! Great parody of what's his name that killed the dude with his car
"Ready to swallow some hot steam? The wetter the better!" LOL sexual innuendos ftw!
"are you ready to swallow my hot steam?"
"i sure am"
Man, these onion videos are so well done. Great graphics, excellent actors, good editing.
"you ready to swallow some hot steam?!"
Most of these are so well done that they are almost believable. Job well done again!
"The wetter the better!"
While I am not the world's greatest fender, I fenced for a year while in college. Mostly foil, but when I did a little epee I was amazed by the advanced guys' ability to hit my fingers and score points- even with my hand behind the guard. Any touch on the fingers (any touch anywhere) is a point with epee. foil has lots of rules, but it only scores points for a touch to the main torso ie: a hit to the vital area. With epee, you can lose a bout by having your pinkie touched 5 times.
This is so close to current ESPN shouting head sponsorship, it is beyond satire and becomes reality. Anyone remember "HOT" bracket, sponsored by G-drink? (?)
the fact that the stream room is sponsored by Coke Zero completes the parody. The Steam Room is a parody of ESPN's the Hot Seat sponsored by Budweiser. It wasn't a complete parody with Coke Zero.
a very skilled athlete.
It's kinda funny that Reggie Greengrass name is Reggie White, because it starts a song that goes.. "Green grows the grass" and the word that derived from it ... I wont type it here (just say Green grows fast a few times to get it). The point is, even the naming convention is brilliant!
I thought they were simply acting as if Zorro was a bad guy and real. Either way the vid was pretty kick ass.
I still love you Le Jaguar
i'm pretty sure the onion has invented time travel because all these videos from 2008-9 are popping up like i've never seen them before
I'm a fencer and I love this. They get extra points for using the phrase "ataque au fer" correctly in a sentence. But I have to dock them for changing from saber to foil in the middle of the story. ;-)
What I find most amusing about shit like this, is these guys are jokers and goofs who aren't even reporting real news, and yet their sets are so much better than actual news sets in most countries. Those shitty cardboard backgrounds and thin wooden desks that fall apart if touched.
Amazing what a difference money can make.
If only life were so interesting.
@ValorUnlimited If there was a dude like this he'd surely be the most interesting man in the world.
hooray!! fencing was actually the subject this time!!
I fucking love this one
there, I just robbed some of your precious mind time/space
For all the critics of the Coke Zero ad, just ask the Onion where to send your check to cover the costs so they don't have to advertise. You're willing to do that, right?
It seems to me that Coke advertising on the "Coca Cola Steam Room" adds an element of realism that adds to the humor.
I would totally go see this movie. 20 plus years ago, it would have been the perfect Pierce Brosnan roll.
this sure makes me want a coke zero
@dominicpodom Well, although we call it FIE in English, the actual translation is "International Fencing Federation," so they were close enough. Besides, I doubt the real FIE chair would like being portrayed as Peter James Whistleby IV. :-)
The Onion... PLEEEEASEEEE... Make more content like this!!!
excellent use of "rake"
Really well written episode fellows.
Welcome to the Ford "Drive One" Pregame show!!!
This is my new favourite Onion video. Oh I hope they make a followup with Greengrass and Le Jaguar!
This is literally miraculous ladybug
"NOH It's too dangerous!"
The wetter the better
Love the football throwback slight. Epic. One of my favorites
This is fucking amazing.
the pic of the fencer with the mask made me think of the Comedian from "Watchmen"
Pretty sure this guy is supposed to be Diabolik, the Italian comic book character.
The ads make it seem more like an actual sports news program.
Dr. Insano needs to hire Le Jaguar to assist in his evil schemes.
I love this video so much!
WOW! Thank you soooo much man! this thing rocks!!
0:19
"PARIS - A painting by Rene Magritte was stolen from a brussels museum on Thursday morning by two armed men, The Guardian reported. The robbery occurred just after 10 a.m., shortly after the museum , a former home of Margritte, opened, when a man rang the doorbell to ask if visiting hours had started. The man then pointed a gun at the museum attendant while an accomplice went inside. The thieves made museum workers and visitors kneel in the courtyard while they left on foot with a 1948 paint-"
The scoundrels! Robbing the place in broad daylight! Also, the weather that day was a high of 20 C, and a low of 0 C. What a wild day in the weather! o.o
@Roploop Why are you saying "lol wow"? I am in production and I can tell you that this video would have cost 10's of thousands of dollars even though most of it is green screen. They have about ten actors involved in this one section, half a dozen costumes to hire, countless graphics and several news and photographic mock ups. I just do not see that 118 thousands views are going to pay for all that even with the adverts and coca cola sponsorship.
This is ridiculous De La Croix and Le Jaguar are two different people, Le Jaguar wears a mask and La Croix doesn’t
Except when he fences.
I'm pretty sure it's more about how certain stars like Kobe Bryant and Albert Haynesworth can get away with alleged rape and illegal possession of firearms and keep their jobs. Look at Michael Vick. After he was let out of jail the question wasn't "what's he gonna do now?" it was "what team is he gonna play for?"
Mike Vick was a absolute dog
If only real news was this exciting.
That's what she said! - Michael Scott
"Go rehydrate"
There where lots of comments like that.
It used to be "Go cool off".