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The Babylon Bee👁 Image
is a satirical news website that can basically be described as an evangelical Christian version of The Onion. Each weekday, several fake news stories are published, often satirizing Evangelical Christian culture or commenting on current events from a conservative Christian perspective.

The site was founded in 2016 by Adam Ford, who left in 2018 to pursue other projects. The current CEO is Seth Dillon.

In June 2019, a Babylon Bee podcast was launched by editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director (read: Photoshop artist) Ethan Nicolle (illustrator of the webcomics Axe Cop and Bearmageddon). There are two types of episode: one where they discuss some of the site's stories from the previous week before moving onto a main topic, and another where they interview a guest, who have ranged from political commentors Michael Malice and Dave Rubin, Christian apologists Greg Koukl and Jeff Myers, Christian celebrities Kevin Max, Mike Nelson, and Kevin Sorbo, and other figures including Bishop Barron and Elon Musk.

Their YouTube channel can be found here👁 Image
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This website provides examples of:

• Action Politician: Trump attempts to defeat Biden👁 Image
  by attacking his campaign bus with his Presidential War Rig and a Sawed-Off Shotgun.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: Lampshaded here:👁 Image
  
  "This is a dismally dark day for our dying democracy under a destructive and devious Donald Trump," mourned Max Boot, using masterful alliteration to drive the point home.
• Affectionate Parody: Of Evangelical culture and U.S. politics.
• All Men Are Perverts: "Study Finds 100% Of Men Would Eat Any Fruit Given To Them By A Naked Woman"👁 Image
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• Anarcho-Tyranny: "California Prisons Release Thousands Of Felons To Make Room For Skaters, Surfers, People Who Go Outside👁 Image
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• And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Following the Trump impeachment: "Mitch McConnell Sends Pelosi Shirt Reading 'I Impeached The President And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt'👁 Image
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• Animesque: One article👁 Image
  describes the impeachment of Donald Trump as an episode of Dragon Ball Z, with Nancy Pelosi releasing her Impeachment Attack after gathering the energy from every human spirit, only for Trump to absorb the attack and cackling maniacally at those "Foolish mortals!".
• Antagonist in Mourning: On Biden beating Trump in the polls, "More Liberals Switching Their Vote To Trump After Realizing He's Their Only Reason For Living."👁 Image
  
  "Without Trump, I'd be lost. It's a real Batman-Joker situation here," said Xander Zee as he protested in front of the White House, begging people to vote for Trump. "He's my muse, the object of my passion, the orange of my eye."
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Congress is described as being comprised of "warmongers, rapists, and half-dead geriatrics"👁 Image
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• Axe-Crazy: "Canadian Doctor Prescribes Euthanasia for Sore Knee👁 Image
  " portrays a patient having to flee (still clad in a hospital gown) from a doctor with a chainsaw and a nurse with an axe.
• Banana Peel: Suggested by Joe Biden as a means of stopping criminals,👁 Image
  along with anvils, rakes and sticks of dynamite disguised as cigars.
• Bigger Than Jesus: "Trump: 'I Have Done More For Christianity Than Jesus'"👁 Image
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• Black Comedy Burst:
  • "Trump Designing Much, Much Higher Wall To Keep Out Biden's Migrant Flights"👁 Image
    sticks to mostly conventional political satire about Trump and Biden, until the ending:
    At publishing time, Trump's new wall had already proved an effective deterrent as three planes had crashed into it.
  • The ending of "Donut Sales Surge As Police Departments Re-Funded"👁 Image
    :
    Lt. McFritter: Yes, we're already putting our cops through a special equity course to train them to shoot more white people.
• Black Republican: "Black Conservative Attends First Republican Meetup"👁 Image
  
• Blaming the Victim: "City Of Chicago Sues Murder Victims For Not Getting Out Of The Way Of Bullets"👁 Image
  
• Bookends: The Californians Move To Texas👁 Image
  series starts with Kevin welcoming ex-Californians Timpani and Steve to the neighborhood. It ends with Timpani and Steve welcoming a new ex-Californian couple to the neighborhood.
• Boomerang Bigot: Parodied by depicting Ben Shapiro as a Neo-Nazi who is kicked out of his own party after fellow Nazis noticed his yarmulke: "Notorious Nazi Leader Ben Shapiro Outed As Jew"👁 Image
  
• Bullying a Dragon: After being denied Communion for her anti-Catholic stances, Nancy Pelosi attempts to impeach the Pope👁 Image
  
• Burn the Witch!: Kamala Harris narrowly avoided being burnt on the stake when she introduced photocopying to rural Americans. She protested that she was innocent, but her cackling like a witch only convinced them. Happily she was rescued by the Secret Service at the last minute👁 Image
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• Cats Are Mean: According to this article👁 Image
  , cats want humans to go back to work after the COVID lockdowns so they can get back to doing the mysterious things cats do when their owners are away, such as plotting world domination.
• Chairman of the Brawl: "VP Debate Crowd Goes Wild As Trump Emerges With A Steel Chair👁 Image
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• Chastity Couple: "Southern Baptist Convention Lifts Ban On Sex After Marriage"👁 Image
  
• Christmas Creep: "Scholars Now Believe Saul Threw Spear At David For Playing Christmas Music Well Before Thanksgiving."👁 Image
  
• Clickbait Gag: Exaggerated in their article "You Won't BELIEVE What This Clickbait Article Says👁 Image
  ." The article just describes what the reader's emotional reaction to the article will be without having any actual content.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Facebook accidentally kidnaps Dennis Prager and tortures him👁 Image
  as part of its aggressive anti-hate speech campaign.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: Hell's denizens are forced👁 Image
  to watch only terrible Christian movies.
• Condescending Compassion:
  • "Compassionate Kenneth Copeland Utters Brief Prayer For Third-World Countries While Flying Over Them In His Luxury Jet"👁 Image
    
  • During COVID: "Inspiring: Celebrities Spell Out 'We're All In This Together' With Their Yachts👁 Image
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• Crocodile Tears: "Ted Cruz Dons All-White Suit To Cry Outside Biden's Detention Centers👁 Image
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• Custody Battle: "Judge Determines Trump Will Get The Nation On Weekdays, While Musk Gets Every Other Weekend And Holidays"👁 Image
  
• Dirty Communists: Bernie Sanders' democratic socialist policies and views tend to be exaggerated into making him a hardline communist, such as articles describing how he admires pictures of Joseph Stalin or demanding that the United States become more like Maduro-led Venezuela.
• Distinction Without a Difference: "Op-Ed: We Must Stop The Old, Incoherent, Corrupt White Man By Electing A Different Old, Incoherent, Corrupt White Man👁 Image
  " suggests that Trump and Biden aren't so different.
• Diving Save: "New Footage Shows Heroic Trump Leaping In Front Of Mike Pence To Protect Him From Sneeze👁 Image
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• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • Plenty of examples in typical News Parody style, some of which are Whole Plot References to Biblical narratives; see "Miracle: Coronavirus Passes Over Houses With Chick-Fil-A Sauce Smeared On Door Posts"👁 Image
    and "Woman Immediately Healed After Touching Hem Of Trump's Suit Jacket".👁 Image
    
  • In Episode 2 of Californians moving to Texas👁 Image
    , the liberal woman finding out her husband is eating ribs in the back corner and then him trying to explain it to her is very similar to someone finding out their husband is having an affair with another man.
  • "Conservative Caught Listening to NPR Swears He Only Turns in for 'Car Talk'👁 Image
    " sounds like a man protesting that he only keeps up a subscription to Playboy for the articles.
• Don't Explain the Joke: In "Innovative New Process Converts Plants into Meat by Feeding Them to Cows", the newscaster says he thinks viewers will be "udder-ly" impressed. He briefly tries to explain the pun before realizing how awkward the explanation is and switching to the field reporter.
• Draco in Leather Pants: "New Film Adaptation Of '1984' To Feature Big Brother As The Good Guy"👁 Image
  The producers say they think modern, more progressive audiences will like Big Brother more than rebel Winston Smith.
• Easy Evangelism:
  • "William Lane Craig Proves God's Existence By Just Solemnly Holding Up Plate Of Fish Tacos"👁 Image
    
  • Parodied by "Character in Christian Movie Fails to Get Saved, Experts Baffled." The experts conclude that a recent Christian film, Bulletproof: Facing the Fire 2, must have been released without being finished when the main character, an agnostic police officer, finally comes to church but does not immediately convert.
• Egocentrically Religious: Joel Osteen: 'Attacks Against Me Are Attacks Against The Bible'👁 Image
  
• Elephant in the Living Room:
  • This article👁 Image
    is yet another take on "The Emperor Has No Clothes", with Emperor Joseph I showing up naked one day. When a boy tweets that he's naked, every media and tech giant hound, harass and gaslight him, claiming that the boy is far right and there is no naked man.
  • "Biden Announces Increased Spending On Smergberd, Rustamufferns, Blabtrussels"👁 Image
    . Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert shouts and questions this, and is booed.
• Embarrassing Initials: "College Freshman Explains Socialism To Cuban Who Escaped On A Raft"👁 Image
  : The freshman invites the Cuban to his college group: "Socialists Undermining Capitalist Knowledge".
• Enemy Mine: After Christians denounced Harry Potter for allegedly promoting witchcraft since the series' debut in 1997, and liberals condemned its author J. K. Rowling for her controversial views on sex and gender during The New '20s, "Fundamentalist Christians Delighted Liberals Finally Agree With Them About Harry Potter"👁 Image
  and they team up against Rowling with a Book Burning.
• Epic Fail: "Woman Burns House Down Attempting Easy DIY Pinterest Craft".👁 Image
  
• Escaped from Hell: Jeffrey Epstein.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Parodied. "Joseph Stalin Warns Dems May Be Going Too Far Left👁 Image
    "
  • Justin Trudeau randomly deciding to invade Poland👁 Image
    horrifies Vladimir Putin so much that he refrains from doing the same to Ukraine.
  • Multiple demons and pagan gods disavow Balenciaga👁 Image
    for its scandal involving BDSM teddy bears.
• Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: In-Universe. Played for Laughs with "Can You Name The Christ Figure In Each Of These 10 Marvel Movies?"👁 Image
  
• Escaped from the Lab: Scientists discover👁 Image
  that Critical Race Theory simply escaped from some college humanities department into the general population.
• Fan Disservice: After statements from Nancy Pelosi that Donald Trump is morbidly obese: "Press Horrified As Trump Begins Taking Shirt Off To Prove He's Not Obese👁 Image
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• Female Misogynist: Parodied: "Internalized Misogyny: Girl Pretends Her Successful Lawyer Barbie Is A Mommy"👁 Image
  
• Fire-Breathing Weapon: Elon Musk has a bizarre obsession with these:
  • "Elon Musk Rescues Texans With Giant Flamethrower Mech"👁 Image
    
  • "Elon Musk Airdrops New Flamethrower-Equipped Cybertanks Into Ukraine"👁 Image
    
  • "Elon Musk Confused As UFC Trainer Explains How Mind Control Flamethrower Drones Not Allowed"👁 Image
    
• Flock of Wolves: The FBI tries to thwart👁 Image
  a right-wing terror plot by infiltrating them, only for all of the would-be terrorists to turn out to be fellow FBI agents.
• Fusion Dance: Ted Cruz and John Kasich fuse into a single candidate👁 Image
  named Jed Crusich in a last-ditch effort to prevent Donald Trump from becoming the Republican nominee.
• Gone Horribly Right: "California Achieves World's First Crime Rate Of Zero After Legalizing All Crime"👁 Image
  
• Good News, Bad News: "Good News: Vaccine Shows Promise In Clinical Trials. Bad News: It Also Resurrected Hitler As A Zombie."👁 Image
  
• Happily Adopted: Hunter Biden... by Amy Coney Barrett.
• Hitler Ate Sugar:
  • During the COVID-19 lockdown: "Reminder: Adolf Hitler Also Wanted To Go Outside And Do Things"👁 Image
    
  • A variant using something he didn't do to imply Even Evil Has Standards: "'The View' Audience Applauds Hitler After Revelation He Never Voted For Trump."👁 Image
    
• Hoist by His Own Petard: "Trump Fired After Forgetting To Reply To Elon's Email"👁 Image
  
• Holy Burns Evil:
  • "Democrats Hiss In Terror As ACB Pulls Out Crucifix👁 Image
    "
  • "Biden, Harris Rushed To Burn Ward After Touching Bible👁 Image
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• Horrible Hollywood: Parodied. "Chaos At Oscars As Chris Hansen Appears On Stage👁 Image
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  Chris Hansen: Why don't you all just have a seat over there?
• Hypocritical Humor: "Feminist Changes Mind As WW3 Kicks Off"👁 Image
  
• I Hate Past Me: "Dr. Fauci Gets In Heated Debate With Seventeen Previous Versions Of Himself👁 Image
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• If It Bleeds, It Leads: Mocked during a period where news media outlets were warning about the possibility of "incel shooters" because of the release of the movie Joker: "Media Horrified By Lack Of Violence At Joker Screenings👁 Image
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• Immediate Self-Contradiction: "Biden Apologizes For Racist Gaffe: 'I Like All Races, Even The Bad Ones'"👁 Image
  
• Insane Troll Logic:
  • "Discernment Blogger Makes Compelling Case That Jesus Was A Heretic"👁 Image
    
  • "Whoopi Goldberg Says Order 66 'Wasn't About The Jedi'"👁 Image
    
    According to Goldberg, Order 66 was a complex executive order and came about due to a variety of factors, from supply chain shortages affecting power converter availability at Tosche Station to boring trade disputes on Naboo. But, no matter what the actual cause, Goldberg was insistent that the wiping out of all the Jedi "wasn't about the Jedi".
  • "Whoopi Goldberg Says America Should Ignore War In Ukraine As It's Just Two Groups Of White People Fighting"👁 Image
    
  • Here's How 14 Different News Outlets Covered The Will Smith Slap👁 Image
    : Several examples from the image graph:
    • Fox News: Oscars Plagued By Rise In Black-On-Black Crime
    • HuffPost: The Patriarchal Roots Of Slapping, Exposed
    • CNN: Mostly Peaceful Oscars Threatens To Distract From January 6 Commission
    • OAN: If They Hadn't Stolen The Election From Trump, This Never Would Have Happened
    • Salon: White Supremacy Has Gotten Out Of Hand
    • Snopes: FALSE: Will Did Not "Slap" Chris. Chris's Cheek Struck The Palm Of Will's Hand
    • Vox: Rethinking The Slap: Why Getting Slapped Is Actually A Good Thing
    • InfoWars: Illuminati Members Stage Fake Slap To Distract Us All From Implementation Of The New World Order
    • Vice: I Slapped Myself 100 Times And Smoked Crack To Better Understand The Black Experience In America
    • The View: Hurrr Durrr hurrr duh duh durrrr...
• It's All About Me: "Meghan Markle Concerned Queen's Death May Yank Her From Spotlight for a Few Days👁 Image
  "
• Just the Introduction to the Opposites:
  • A dog👁 Image
    takes its left-leaning owner to therapy for getting upset over 4th of July fireworks. In addition, another dog took its right-leaning owner to therapy after he got upset over the other guy tweeting how much he hates America.
  • In another, a murderer relaxes after a long day by listening to a podcast about housewives.
• Kids Prefer Boxes: "Scholars Now Believe Jesus Ignored Magi's Gifts, Just Played With The Boxes They Came In👁 Image
  "
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Americans Will Now Be Required To Identify Ukraine On A Map Before Posting Opinion On Ukraine👁 Image
  mocks all the people who act like experts on the topic of Ukraine when they had no clue where it was beforehand:
  "This won't, of course, stop all of the bad opinions from getting out there," said one analyst. "But it should filter out something like 98% of the uninformed rhetoric on the conflict. And, in some small way, it will increase American knowledge of geography, which is never a bad thing."
• Laser Sight: Joe Biden announces Hillary Clinton to be his running mate on stage while covered in numerous laser dots👁 Image
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• Lawful Stupid: This article👁 Image
  where people are convinced that Skynet should be allowed to wipe out humanity because Cyberdyne is a private company.
• Lies to Children: "Father Who Instills Sound Doctrine In Children Also Guarantees They'll See Mittens The Cat In Heaven.👁 Image
  "
• Loophole Abuse: "College Figures Out How To Discriminate Now That Affirmative Action Is Banned"👁 Image
  
• Lysistrata Gambit: Gender-Inverted with male Star Wars fans👁 Image
  in a bid to make Disney disavow The Last Jedi.
• Man-Eating Plant: In a spoof of an incident at Union Theological Seminary in which students confessed their sins against the environment to potted plants, one article has a giant flytrap refuse to accept the apology and immediately start a crusade to Kill All Humans.
• Mascot Racer: "NASCAR Ratings Skyrocket After Addition Of Mario Kart Power-Ups👁 Image
  " (Though the article doesn't mention it, there was already a licensed NASCAR product made around that concept in the Wii video game NASCAR Kart Racing.)
• Merit Badges for Everything: A "Peaceful Protest" badge👁 Image
  for Girl Scouts who throw their first Molotov Cocktail.
• Messianic Archetype: Parodied by depicting people worshipping Trump:
  • 10 Ways Trump Is Exactly Like Jesus👁 Image
    
  • 'Hosanna! Hosanna!' Trump Triumphantly Rides Into CPAC On Back Of A Donkey👁 Image
    
  • Reminder: We Must Resist The Commercialization Of January 6 And Remember Trump Is The True Reason For The Season👁 Image
    
  • Evangelical Flips Through Book Of Revelation To Figure Out When Trump Will Be Back👁 Image
    
• Moral Guardians: Inverted: "Parents Worried Non-Violent Video Games Turning Kids Into Sissies"👁 Image
  
• Morton's Fork: One article has a man trying to decide whether to work from home or at the office. Either way, people are going to be popping in and distracting him from work.
• Naked People Are Funny: Joe Biden forgetting to put on clothes before a press conference👁 Image
  and legacy media outlets rushing to cover for him in a reference to The Emperor's New Clothes.
• Never My Fault: In Kabul Airport Now Ranked World's Second Most Dangerous Behind Chicago O'Hare👁 Image
  , Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot blames Chicago's rise in crime on unvaccinated Trump voters from Indiana. She also insists that the only solution to this problem is another 100 years of Democrats controlling the city's government.
• Nobody Loves the Bassist: This is a common target in worship band articles, and there are several.
  • There's an article about a new, dumbed-down bass guitar model specifically for worship bands in church👁 Image
    , noting: "It also has decorative knobs, so you can pretend to adjust settings and turn up your volume, even though the church bass is turned off in the house anyway."
  • "Church Bassist Replaced With Cardboard Cutout👁 Image
    "
  • Church bassist asked to play in darkened storage closet.👁 Image
    
  • Worship bassist placed under discipline for playing top string.👁 Image
    
  • Church bassist for ten years is a random guy who wandered on stage.👁 Image
    
• No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: invoked In this article👁 Image
  , the Republicans thank the Democrats in advance for all the free publicity they'll get during the SCOTUS nomination of Amy Coney Barrett when they start hounding a conservative working mother.
  "We are prepared to be even more obnoxious than we were during the Kavanaugh hearings, if that's what it takes," said Senator Kamala Harris.
• Number of the Beast: "Not A Good Sign: Average Gas Price In California Now $6.66"👁 Image
  
• Obviously Not Fine: Parodied👁 Image
  . Governor Gavin Newsom insists that California is progressing towards utopia while he's a Man on Fire.
• Overly Narrow Superlative:
  • Three days into 2020, "Trump Reminds Everyone He Hasn't Been Impeached All Decade."👁 Image
    
  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is regularly referred to as "the world's smartest socialist."
• Overt Operative: "U.S. Retaliates For Chinese Spy Balloon By Releasing Spy Inflatable Flailing Arm Tube Man"👁 Image
  
• Paper-Thin Disguise:
  • There's a Running Gag where Hillary Clinton tries to infiltrate some organization with an inept disguise to either assassinate or discredit her enemies.
    • Hilga Clintonheimer👁 Image
      , a nonpartisan legal scholar from Sweden, testifies before Congress during the Trump impeachment.
    • Hiltasha Clintonova👁 Image
      , in full Soviet military garb, is the surprise winner of the 2020 Iowa democratic caucus.
    • After her arrest, Ghislaine Maxwell is assigned a famous Italian guard called "Hiluigi Clintonelli"👁 Image
      .
    • After Trump was diagnosed with COVID: "Spanish Orderly Hidalgo Clintoniña Welcomes Trump To Walter Reed Medical Center👁 Image
      "
    • "Biden Takes Town Hall Question From Undecided Irish-American Voter Henry O'Clintonhan👁 Image
      ". She's dressed in a Lucky Charms costume with a fake beard.
    • "Report: Hunter Biden Documents Were Lost By Jewish-American UPS Driver Hillzekia Clintonstein."👁 Image
      
  • "Dems Rush To Defend Kavanaugh After He Puts On Joe Biden Mask.👁 Image
    "
  • "'We Must Cancel Thanksgiving,' Says CDC Scientist Who Looks Suspiciously Like A Turkey In A Lab Coat👁 Image
    "
  • Donald Trump is steadily becoming the new Hillary Clinton:
    • The White House Press Corps is joined by a braggadocious New York reporter called "Ronald Crump"👁 Image
      .
    • Biden Appoints Construction Worker Donaldio Trumptinez To Finish Border Wall👁 Image
      
    • 'The View' Announces New Cast Member Donella Trump👁 Image
      
    • Trump makes his way back to Twitter by disguising himself as a Chinese Communist Party PR rep👁 Image
      named "Chongald Xrump". And when that didn't work, he came back by disguising himself as a spokesperson for the Taliban👁 Image
      named "Donhammed Trumpistan".
• Patron Saint: The Bee reacted to the record-setting TV audiences that Caitlin Clark drew during the 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament with "Caitlin Clark Canonized As Saint After Performing Miracle Of Making Women's Basketball Watchable👁 Image
  ". The piece ended by claiming the Catholic Church was set to declare Clark as the "Matron Saint of Unwatchable Sports".
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: "Hollywood Actors Pledge Never To Take A Role Where They Have To Pretend To Be Someone Else."👁 Image
  
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  Poe's Law:
  • The Bee gets this a lot, with critics claiming that its audience believes the articles are true, regardless of how zany and absurd they may be. Snopes has fact-checked them several times; of course, they parodied this.👁 Image
    Eventually, Snopes created a new rating of "labeled satire" for outlets like The Bee.
  • Invoked in "Reality Criticized For Not More Clearly Distinguishing Itself From Satire👁 Image
    ."
  • They have recently started a site called "Not The Bee" for stories so ridiculous it would be easier to believe they're satire.
  • No less than Donald Trump himself posted a Babylon Bee article on his Twitter feed in October 2020👁 Image
    , seemingly unaware it was fake news. Ironically, the Bee had previously posted an article entitled "President Trump Declares The Babylon Bee His Most-Trusted News Source👁 Image
    ."
• Political Overcorrectness: They frequently parody campaigns to censor "offensive" content, e.g. Mastercard changing its name to "Equalitycard"👁 Image
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• Purely Aesthetic Era: A Running Gag has Biblical scholars presenting theories that treat scripture in this light, as in "Wise Men Actually Just Sent Gifts Using Free Prime Shipping, Scholars Now Believe"👁 Image
  and "New Evidence Suggests King David Actually Saw Bathsheba Wearing Leggings As Pants."👁 Image
  
• Race Lift: "Daily Wire Announces They Are Making Their Own 'Black Panther' Starring Ben Shapiro"👁 Image
  . Killmonger is played by an equally whitebread host, Michael Knowles.
• Raised by Wolves: One article👁 Image
  has LeBron James giving a lecture on privilege to a man who claims to have been raised by possums.
• Readings Are Off the Scale: "Biden Reveals His Plan Is To Just Raise Gas Prices Until The Counter Spins Back To Zero"👁 Image
  
• Recycled with a Gimmick: As mentioned above, the website is basically The Onion AS A CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE WEBSITE!
• Released to Elsewhere: Parodied with veiled euphemisms wherein AOC unveils her "accountability plan"👁 Image
  for Trump supporters after the 2020 election.
  [They] will be tried in special accountability courts before being herded into special accountability cars and sent to accountability camps. Those who resist being held accountable will be administered special accountability with accountability guns loaded with high-powered accountability bullets.
• Reptilian Conspiracy: Politicians are exempted from COVID lockdown restrictions because their species is naturally immune👁 Image
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• Reverse Psychology: Donald Trump is portrayed as regularly engaging in this to absurd levels: criticizing war so liberals will sign up for the army en masse in defiance👁 Image
  , nominating Joe Biden for SCOTUS so the left will accuse him of sexual misconduct👁 Image
  , and even supporting his own impeachment so the Democrats will do a 180 to oppose him👁 Image
  
• Right Behind Me: Biden👁 Image
  on adding Metamucil to his "cabinet":
  "I just can't get enough of that stuff! I bet if Donald Trump took it he'd be a lot nicer to me. He's not standing behind me, is he? Please tell me he's not standing behind me!"
• Romance Cover Scene: "Trump Tries To Win Suburban Women By Starting In Series Of Romance Novels"👁 Image
  is naturally illustrated with the cover for the first installment, Orange Passion.
• Rule-Abiding Rebel: "Man Who Agrees With The Media, Universities, Corporations, And Hollywood Thinks He's Part Of The Resistance👁 Image
  ". They also made a YouTube skit👁 Image
  .
• Safe Zone Hope Spot: Parodied in "WOKEPOCALYPSE: The 2020 Babylon Bee Halloween Horror Special," a Zombie Apocalypse spoof where the "zombies" are instead inane liberal soapboxers; fleeing civilians are rescued by a Crazy Survivalist Trump supporter, but once they're safely in his peaceful home he spouts equally inane conservative rhetoric which reveals him as a Zombie Infectee.
• Scatterbrained Senior: Joe Biden's reputation as this is frequently Exaggerated For Laughs, with articles about him smudging the note on his hand that reminds him what his name is, or announcing that he's the only candidate who can beat Ronald Reagan.
• Scrubbing Off the Trauma: One article parodies public ambivalence toward both candidates in the 2020 presidential election by describing polling places offering basins of water to allow voters to wash their hands of their vote👁 Image
  in the manner of Pontius Pilate.
• Serious Business: "Trump Brokers Historic Peace Deal Between Yankees And Red Sox Fans"👁 Image
  
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: A Terminator is sent back in time👁 Image
  to prevent all the bad Terminator sequels from being made.
• Shout-Out:
  • Several of the writers appear to be big fans of The Lord of the Rings; it's one of the most referenced works on the site.
  • Their spoof video "The Woke Zone" is a reference to the original The Twilight Zone (1959):
    • The first skit is a version of "It's a Good Life" wherein Anthony constantly accuses everyone of being transphobic and sends anyone who has a different opinion to the cornfield, along with banned things.
    • The second is a bit more oblique, but it concerns a "frightened man" named Robert Wilson who keeps seeing something threatening but can't get anyone else to acknowledge it...only in this case, it's a protest turning violent rather than a gremlin on the wing. It even recreates the episode's Signature Shot of the hero looking out the window to see the Hidden Harasser right in his face.
    • The final skit is a spoof of "Living Doll" in which a man notices his daughter's new doll, CR-Tina, trying to drive a wedge between him and his family by preaching hatred against white people when he's alone but spouting general comments about how bad racism is when his wife and daughter are present. The new doll, Patriot Tammy, isn't any better. The skit ends with him trying to pry her off his black neighbor.
  • "Soros-Backed District Attorney Prosecutes Illinois Boy for Terrorizing Burglars👁 Image
    " talks about a DA going after Kevin McCallister for defending his house against the Wet Bandits with "Home Alone" Antics and injuring them in the process, completely ignoring that the bandits would have inflicted similar or worse harm on Kevin.
  • In one article, Ken Ham recreates dinosaurs from amber for an Antediluvian Park and "life, uh, finds a way"...but luckily, the dinosaurs follow the pre-Fall rules and live peacefully with humans. One even yanks a bathroom stall off to give the user some more toilet paper.
• Shown Their Work: Someone on their staff is clearly a lifelong, avid gamer, and so this pops up quite bit when it comes to videogame references and culture. For instance, this article's dig at Mad Catz peripherals👁 Image
  is twice as funny if one is familiar with the aforementioned company's reputation.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Snopes frequently fact-checked the Bee's articles (even ones that are seemingly too far out there to be believed), which prompted the Bee to respond with articles mocking them such as "Snopes Recommends Shutting Down Internet To Prevent Spread Of Satire👁 Image
  ". As noted above, Snopes eventually created a new category of "labeled satire".
• Skewed Priorities:
  • "Starbucks Unveils New Satanic Holiday Cups"👁 Image
    :
    Christian groups expressed concern over the new design, but many believers were reportedly relieved that Starbucks was not promoting something like unity or tolerance with this year's cup design.
  • Man Imprisoned In Gulag Happy President Doesn't Make Mean Tweets👁 Image
    
• Skyward Scream: After Trump shut down the government over border wall funding: "Nation's Libertarians To Scream At Sky The Moment Government Reopens👁 Image
  "
  At publishing time, sources had confirmed the method was just as effective as libertarians' usual political strategies.
• Sleazy Politician: "No Tax On Tips Passes Senate Unanimously After Clarification That Bribes Can Count As Tips"👁 Image
  
• Small Name, Big Ego:
  • After Russia invades Ukraine, Neil Young once again threatens to remove his music library from Spotify👁 Image
    unless Putin gives in to his demands.
  • Played for Laughs by way of Self-Deprecation when CEO Seth Dillon responded👁 Image
    to the Steven Crowder vs. Daily Wire contract controversy by claiming that Crowder was talking about the Bee when he made vague references to "Big Con" and that the Bee was a global media empire MegaCorp that strong-arms its contributors.
• Society Is to Blame: Parodied with Cain defending his murder of his brother Abel in front of God by claiming that a system of "white supremacy" is truly responsible and that God should be a part of the solution instead of perpetuating "structures of oppression" by blaming Cain. God banishes him.
• Spelling Bee: "Spelling Bee Contestant Asks The Definition of "Woman""👁 Image
  
• The Starscream: Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are often spoofed to have a relationship like this with articles in which Harris is already reviewing her own VP picks👁 Image
  immediately after becoming VP pick herself, muses about having him involuntarily euthanized👁 Image
  after he twisted an ankle, and a plate of bulletproof glass being placed between them👁 Image
  at Biden's inauguration.
• Stealth Insult:
  • "New Disney+ Premium Service Will Send A Satanist Drag Queen To Your House To Teach Your Kids About Communism"👁 Image
    mocks left-wing perceptions of right-wing views, while also directing a jab at parents who are too lazy to impart knowledge to their own children.
  • "Ted Cruz Says All His Haters Are Just Unable To Resist His Raw Sex Appeal👁 Image
    " is making fun of Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez for constantly accusing her critics of being attracted to her instead of simply despising her politics, but doesn't mention her name once.
• Straw Affiliation: Mocked after some unfortunate comments by Chelsea Handler on the topic: "Chelsea Handler Patrols Polling Places To Make Sure No Black People Are Voting For Trump👁 Image
  ".
• Stupid Good: "Idiot Waves You Through Stop Sign When It's Clearly His Turn"👁 Image
  
• Stupid Jetpack Hitler: In September 2023, the Bee ran a story headlined "Canadian Parliament Gives Standing Ovation To Mecha Hitler For Role In Fighting Russians👁 Image
  ". And yes, the Mecha Hitler pictured in the story is the same one that's the trope's page image. A few days earlier, Parliament had given a standing ovation to a 98-year-old Ukrainian WWII veteran during a visit by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. As it turned out, said veteran had served in a Waffen-SS unit.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: Quite a few of Hilary Clinton's many disguises have her dress up as a man.
• Take That!: Part and parcel as a parody news site. One in particular lists the "10 Most Hilarious Episodes of Friends", and the accompanying article is completely blank.
• That One Level: "Man's Whole Life Has Been Preparing Him For This Moment When His Kid Asks For Help With The Water Temple"👁 Image
  
• Threatening Shark:
  • "Man Being Devoured By Hungry Sharks Tries Apologizing To Them👁 Image
    "
  • "Massacre As Great White Shark Allowed To Compete In Women's 500 Freestyle👁 Image
    ." The shark wins by killing everyone on the field.
• Twofer Token Minority: Parodied: "Amazon's New Lord Of The Rings Series👁 Image
  To Include Bisexual Transgender Elf In Wheelchair."
• Unknown Rival: Parodied and exaggerated when Neil Young demands Spotify to unperson Joe Rogan. Nobody knows who Neil Young actually is👁 Image
  . Even Google returns blank pages.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: The music video "Be My RBG: A Ballad of Political Unity" is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to friendships across ideological lines, with the title and chorus referencing the notorious Odd Friendship between Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
• Vice President Who?: From the 2024 Vice-Presidential debate: "Americans on Edge of Their Seats As Two Men Battle for Most Useless Position in Government👁 Image
  ".
• Wacky Fratboy Hijinx: Brett Kavanaugh is depicted as a Manchild Fratbro drunkenly dumping a keg of beer on Amy Coney Barrett's head to celebrate her confirmation to the Supreme Court.
• We Care: "Companies Strangely Silent On Pride Month In The Middle East"👁 Image
  is about companies that support the LGBT community during Pride Month, but only in the US. Their Middle Eastern branches don't bother trying to appeal to them and just keep their logos the same as usual.
• White Man's Burden: Deconstructive Parody with "White Liberal Shocked As Black Man Gets ID"👁 Image
  . It's exactly that, and the liberal in question doesn't even think black people can even feed themselves.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: "Unlucky Charismatic Gets Boring Gift Of Hospitality."👁 Image
  
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: "Governor Whitmer Refuses to throw Ring of Power into the Fires of Mount Doom👁 Image
  "
• Would Hurt a Child: "Anonymous White House Source Claims Trump Punched a Baby.👁 Image
  "
• Your Mom: "The 10 Most Brutally Martyred Christians In American History"👁 Image
  has for #5: "Your mom, who was told by the deacons that she couldn't eat three whole casseroles at the potluck". The image is replaced with placeholder text explaining that she sat on the camera, and crushed it because she's fat.
• Zombie Apocalypse: Parodied in "WOKEPOCALYPSE: The 2020 Babylon Bee Halloween Horror Special👁 Image
  " with people on both sides of the political spectrum standing in for zombies.

The podcast provides examples of:

• Hypothetical Fight Debate: One of their standard questions in their interview show is pitching some hypothetical match-ups.
  Who would win in a fight? 👁 This example contains a YMMV entry. It should be moved to the YMMV tab.
  Bishop Barron, or a Balrog?
• Running Gag:
  • They ask all their guests if they've ever met the Christian musician Carman, regardless of how unlikely that is.
  • They also ask their guests if they'll commit themselves to Christ, altar-call style. Since most of the guests are Christian, most say yes; the podcasters act as if they've gotten a new convert regardless.
• Sound-Effect Bleep: Swear words are censored with [FLOWERBED!].