Salt Lake City Hoping To Boost Tourism By Reminding Visitors They’re Free To Leave At Any Time
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In a move designed to help the metropolitan area attract more tourists, Salt Lake City officials unveiled a new advertising campaign Thursday reminding potential visitors that they can leave at any time.
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To your right, you can see Salt Lake City. Or you can turn your head to the left, if you'd rather not look at it.
Ah! Wonderful. I love not having to look at Salt Lake City. I appreciate that option :-)
It does look like a nice place to avoid.
This is a lie. I actually wanted to leave Salt Lake City once, but had to spend five and a half hours waiting for the next Greyhound.
You took Greyhound out of Salt lake? May God rest your soul, lol!
It was easily one of the worst experiences of my life.
David Robles First of all... ewww. Second of all, I think you meant 1st not 3rd. Remember, three is two more than one.
Wait, what..
You watch the Onion, Luke!?
Yes. I have been reading The Onion so long I actually remember being in high school when I read my first article.
I was once in the Salt Lake City airport.
I quickly boarded a flight to a great destination.
Salt Lake has a great a little airport. I can get to Vegas in about an hour on Southwest.
@@JMMT7022801 and the best part is that you don't have to return to Salt Lake if you don't want to, right?
I took a short vacation to Salt Lake City once a few years back and I'm still free to leave whenever I want!
Bullshit!!! This is like the "Free Candy" van, well I'm not falling for that a sixth time!
Well played.
i never considered going to utah or salt lake city. i still have no intentions of ever going to utah or salt lake city.
Well if you ever do just remember that you don't have to stay, you're free to leave at any point.
I live here and hate it.
JMMT7022801 HA! I knew it, you can't leave! Everyone, don't go, it's a trap!
Zion national park in Utah is the most beautiful place I have ever been. But of course you don't have to go there, or if you do, they've got great food, stunning scenery and decent speed limits for you to trek on out of there anytime.
went last week drove ten minutes in and turned around.
And I thought I could just can check out anytime but never leave.
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that's california. move there & you'll wind up too broke to ever leave.
I find this distasteful. It makes fun of mormons and of Utah...
....and it doesn't even MENTION that Salt Lake City is a great place to pick up a few extra wives during a visit.
haha. but then there would be no incentive for female tourists.
***** ok, but the original mormon religion did indeed teach and practice polygamy. the modern church eventually outlawed it because it is outlawed in the u.s. but that is contrary to the original religion.
***** most don't practice it, but there certainly are polygamists out there. anyway, i consider all religion to be preposterous (the supernatural beliefs) and most contain problematic teachings, so i think all are fodder for humor. the fact that people believe in things that aren't real shouldn't give them some sort of special anti-joke-cracking privilege. in fact their preposterous beliefs should and do elicit humor, and they should really be able to laugh at themselves as well...
***** haha. now i have to make fun of you for being ashamed to be a rational atheist. if you've spent time in utah, you've seen polygamists. anyway, those of us who come from fanatical religious backgrounds ourselves, and see some of the negative consequences of those, may feel a little more motivated to make hella fun of those delusional, and too often (but certainly not always) socially abusive belief systems... they're kinda asking for it with their outrageous & delusional beliefs, their frequent attempts to impose them on others, not to mention war-making in the name of religion, etc.
Or not, if you don't.
I can't wait to leave Salt Lake City and I'm not even there!
Perfect video. Now for your video of Phoenix just add: Your visit to Phoenix includes the National Grand Jury Museum and the Sheriff Joe Center for Excellence in Avoiding Federal Subpoenas. And for Albuquerque you can simply say: Visit Albuquerque - An Experience that you can Share with your Therapist.
U can stop watching this video whenever you want.
I've lived in Utah my entire life, and I've wanted to leave my entire life.
I'd actually prefer hearing more of this kind of advertising. I honestly think this sort of thing is a good direction.
So, the opposite of Hotel California."You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave."
I think it's good that Salt Lake City is reinforcing to people that staying there is not an obligation. Not many people know that. I felt like I barely managed to escape when I went there, so I can attest.
It actually does look like a nice place.
And Mormons aren't so bad, right? They're pretty friendly. And I can leave at any time, no pressure.
You've fallen for their trap card!
You can't leave once you become one of their wifes, so there's that.
Victor Zimmermann come on, man, there's gotta be a better joke than that. The whole "hurr hurr, Mormons have lots of wives" thing's been stale for longer than most of us have been alive. There's isn't something more contemporary?
Yeah no pressure, you don't even have to visit if you don't want to, you're free to not ever think of Salt Lake again if you rather not.
It is a nice place. Salt Lake is surprisingly not very mormon.
"Relax, " said the night man,
"We are programmed to receive.
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave! "
Our family passed through Utah on our way to Yellowstone
This is the best tourism ad I've ever seen! I'm not kidding!
Now we need promos for NYC, Chicago and LA. That's it.
The Louvre needs this sort of workup.
This actually makes me want to visit Saltlake City
HA! I lived in Salt Lake City for most of my life! Hope to move back in a year or two.
That wasn't the city creek center
How do people not get this...?
0:28 Salt Lake City. Did we mention there's beer here?
Hey, when nothing else works!
this is how I advertise myself on tinder
I've done several road trips through Utah. At the time I smoked cigarettes, drank coffee and drank alcohol, all of which is restricted heavily. I learned quickly that a) plan your gas ups at the indian reservations, because they not only sell all three products, the people behind the counter won't give you the hairy eyeball for buying them. B), plan your route to get you out of the state as quickly as possible.
That actually looks really nice
Those photos look amazing. I want to visit.
so good
Yeah... That works for me!
This sounds more like a threat
lol that's their actual logo
Really nice
Salt Lake City actually looks really nice and I want to visit now :(
Classic reverse psychology LOL
I've lived in Utah for 6 years, and I'm an Atheist. It is beautiful here and so far i haven't been approached by a single missionary. But who knows what tomorrow will bring.
I used to live in Salt Lake City. I left when I wanted to.
Salt Lake City looks like a great place, i might go some day.
I am on the fence about whether this was funny or not.. what a weird feeling
Leave or the SLCPD will kill you, especially if you are unarmed or a dog in a backyard. #slcpd
Fuck the SLCPD.
Daniel Nielsen The SLCPD shot the dog.
Sal Tlay Ka Siti, the most perfect place on earth
Where flies don't bite your eyeballs, and human life has worth!
this is pretty true, its basically a layover city
No I won't fall to the lure of this sirens song
i don't get this one
Good times.
I live in Utah
The UK should use this approach.
Well O.K. then
Poor Salt Lake City.
inspiring
Well, I've never wanted to go to Salt lake city more.
Yo! The stunning structure is not the Mormon Tabernacle CHOIR. It's just the tabernacle. Jesus, who proofreads your copy, Ariana Huffington?
Now replace Salt Lake City with weed.
"I can stop anytime."
I don't quite follow. Are you making a severly missinformed jab at marijuana addiction, or just some dumb fuck trying to make smoking weed sound like the coolest thing ever?
Or don't. Your choice.
This is epic.
The Onion is the best at sponsored posts on youtube.
Every time my wife flys through SLC, I remind her that she’s free to leave at any time.
Looks like a pretty cool place to me.
I live in Utah and all this shit is true
I live in a beautiful vibrant city (Paris, France) and I’d like to know I can leave and go to Salt Lake City now. And come back.
Written the 420th day of the Coronavirus Era.
Or you could go to L.A. instead and take one of their world famous personality tests
And end up homeless on the street and admire the Hollywood sign, well if you can see it through the pollution of course.
Oh yeah who wouldn't want to visit the city run by people who believe they have magical bullet proof underwear
Funny stuff. :)
SLC actually looks pretty beautiful...
I feel like if I go, i'll never come back. The announcer doth protest too much. Haha.
TOTALLY F+ EPIC.
LOL... yeah there's an inside joke here.
Utah is a really nice place................ especially pioneer park! so much beautiful wildlife! ;)
Yep, every kind of hippy and hobo you can shake a stick at... until every kind of police officer takes you down for your stick shaking.
Genius
Parody Confused With Honest Advertising. Film at eleven!
glory to arstotzka!
I don't get this video. Are they trying to say Utah people are unfriendly?
They're making fun of how Mormonism is a creepy cult whose presence deters people from wanting to go to Utah
***** That's rude and inaccurate! They're actually a creepy _religion_.
I had a couple of Mormons go far out of their way to help me when I was terribly lost in Europe, so, they can't be all bad.
because people think its just like a big cult, and ppl cant leave cults
vegnewb That's their entire foundation. Being extremely friendly... to draw you in.
Such a beautiful place.... wow, not SLC.
Reminder that City Creek Center is built so that you almost always have a perfect view of the temple across the street
Is this real? Because holy shit the laughter...
The Morman want you to believe that you are free to leave, but is an illusion.
HAAAA...was in Salt Lake City and couldn't wait to leave!!!
Hilarious. Utah rules!!
If you plan on going to Utah to drink with your buddies... you are gonna have a bad time.
Salt lake city huh
But..... Where's the Salt Lake?
***** I shall have a pinic there, and I shall use the salt from there... FOR FREE!
My evil plan will come to fruition soon!
GabrielSparkletits But to do that, some work is needed, and it wouldn't be as efficient as a lake made of salt!
Muahahahaha!, my plan is flawless!
***** I .... ah.... um.... Ok.
What good is water that is salty? Utah is a big fucking toilet and the Salt Lake is the bowl. They may not take kindly to a visitor like me, but at least I'll be free to leave.
Hahaha
I love traps....wait what
You edited another video
Cheer up commenters it's the onion it's the antedote of what should make you want to spit vile comments
Is that SingleMuslim ad for real !?
I don't wanna click on it, yet............here goes !!!
Holy shit !
haha. love it.
I don't really get it. Is there a perception that when you go to Utah you're not allowed to leave?
They're just satirizing the Mormon culture there.
No, it's just kind of a boring place to live is all. There was absolutely nothing in here that could be used to parody Mormonism. The joke is that they're trying to get tourists to visit by reminding them they don't have to stay because it's not a very exciting city.
+Issy Wise That's so we can tell eachother apart from the 100 other Mormon families getting their family photos at the same time, lol.
***** how so?
That was surprisingly stupid. Any real thoughts?
I cant tell if this is satire without a button?
I feel welcomed, don't you?😉
xD I love hos the Onion decided to do this as a long commercial instead of just a news story that is 1 minute long with a person boringly reciting the jokes. Also, the jokes are hilarious! Much respect to Salt Lake City!
Muahhahahahaha As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints I found this particularly funny Muahahahaha!!!! Sure, come on down to temple square the exits are clearly marked, LMAO!!!
salt lake city airport
Its a lie! Get me outta here!
What fun is Mormonism if it doesnt force you at gunpoint?
I live in Utah. Fox 13 reported this as a real tourism ad..
No they didn't.. Go look at the report on their website, Fox 13 made a good natured response to an obvious satire.