Satirical piece compares Disney child stars to cicada brood emerging after 13 years
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The Onion Staff
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A satirical article from The Onion-style humor publication describing the emergence of a new "brood" of Disney child stars who have been underground for 13 years, bursting out of the soil at the Walt Disney Studios campus. The piece humorously compares the phenomenon to cicada broods, depicting the young actors as mindless, droning creatures that deliver lines and perform choreography in a swarm-like fashion.
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· 3 pulledTunneling upward out of the darkness where they had lain in wait for 13 years, the latest brood of Disney child stars reportedly emerged from the ground Monday, filling the air with their mindless droning.
Thousands of spunky young actors, part of the child performer population known as Brood D, were spotted bursting out of the soil en masse within the 51-acre Walt Disney Studios campus, where they wriggled through the grass on their bellies in search of a vertical surface to climb up and cling to.
Earsplitting screeches were heard as the child stars frantically delivered lines
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