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Toonbots archive: episode published 26 February, 2001

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The metacartoonist adroitly demonstrates that any aspersions of a lack of originality can be avoided by retreating into the realm of social commentary. What you say? Some one set up us the bomb? It's you, Dear Reader. It's you.

The script used to make this toon:

<cartoon height="450" width="600" rowformat="2">
<panel>
   <character name="mao"/>
   <character name="lenin" aspect="faceleft"/>
   <caption location="bottom right" size="18" fgcolor="red">So I said, "Move, 'Zig'"!  HAHAHA!</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
   <character name="dot"/>
   <character name="lenin" aspect="faceright"/>
   <caption location="bottom left" size="18" fgcolor="red">Hey, Fred!</caption>
   <caption location="bottom right" size="18" fgcolor="blue">How are you, gentlemen?</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
   <caption location="bottom middle" size="18" fgcolor="red">Oy.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
   <caption location="bottom left" size="18" fgcolor="red">That's hopelessly derivative.</caption>
   <caption location="bottom right" size="18" fgcolor="blue">What?</caption>
</panel>
</panel>
<panel>
</panel>
<panel>
   <caption location="bottom middle" size="18" fgcolor="red">So was that.</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>