Toonbots archive - episode published 20010821
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The metacartoonist reaches into the vast storehouse of our common Angloamerican heritage and pulls out Gilbert and Sullivan and Oz, oh my!
Gilbert and Sullivan and Oz, oh my! *ahem* The metacartoonist reaches into the vast storehouse of our common heritage, as I was
saying, thus illuminating the cognitive/artistic/symbolic medium with a panoply of semiotic allusive constructs, each hand-picked at the
height of its freshness and lovingly arranged within the now-traditional Pokey the Penguin panel layout.
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The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="500" width="800" rowformat="1"> <panel> <character name="dot"/> <character name="lenin"/> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red" font="courbi">DOT, I'M FEELING FINE TODAY<br/>HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY!!!!!!</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="blue" font="courbi">YES!!! I THINK I DO AGREE!!</caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="blue">Wait! What just came over me?</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="blue">Truth to tell, Len, this is bad.<br/> It's all so bad it makes me sad<br/> In point of fact, I'd tell my Dad<br/> If only a Dad I'd ever had.</caption> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="red" font="courbi">BUT IT IS, IT IS A GLORIOUS THING<br/> TO BE A PENGUIN KING!</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="red">For I am a penguin king!<br/> And if ever a penguin king there was<br/>Then on his head there'd just be fuzz<br/> Because, because, because, because...<br/> I AM A PENGUIN KING!</caption> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="blue">Gilbert and Sullivan -- that's a switch<br/> Maybe this story arc's not such a [[BEEEEEEP]]</caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="orange" size="12">Whoops, sorry, folks, almost got out of hand there. Lucky thing I had that seven-second loop installed on the Toon-o-Matic.</caption> </panel> </cartoon> |
