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EPISODE #100!
A rip-roaring ride through the wacky annals of Toonbottery, from the very first panels-only minimalist strip up to the present day with its regular use of fifth-wall humor, this episode is a masterfully interwoven tapestry of toon prowess and mild-mannered self-deprecating prankster-imbued joke/jest/social-commentary, and as such is fittingly the one-hundredth installment of the vanguard of minimalist tooning: Toonbots.

The script used to make this toon:
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<panel>
 <caption location="middle" size="32" fgcolor="blue">A TOONBOTS RETROSPECTIVE</caption>
 <caption location="top left" size="14" fgcolor="orange">100</caption>
 <caption location="top right" size="14" fgcolor="orange">100</caption>
 <caption location="bottom left" size="14" fgcolor="orange">100</caption>
 <caption location="bottom right" size="14" fgcolor="orange">100</caption>
 <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">Hard to believe, totally true:<br/>
The one-hundredth Toonbots is ready to view.</caption>
</panel>

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  <panel><panel/><panel/></panel>
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   <panel>
     <panel><caption size="14">Caption,</caption></panel>
     <panel><caption size="14">caption,</caption></panel>
     <panel><caption size="14">caption,</caption></panel>
   </panel>
   <panel>
     <caption location="middle" size="14" bgcolor="black" fgcolor="blue">MONKEY!</caption>
   </panel>
  </panel>
  <panel>
    <caption location="middle" size="14" fgcolor="orange">Then things started<br/>getting funky.</caption>
  </panel>
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  <panel>
    <character name="dot"/>
    <character name="bot"/>
    <caption location="bottom middle" size="14" fgcolor="orange">Dot and Bot,</caption>
    <character name="dot" action="leaves"/>
    <character name="bot" action="leaves"/>
  </panel>
  <panel>
    <character name="d" rel-h="50" rel-w="50"/>
    <character name="a" rel-h="50" rel-w="60"/>
    <caption location="bottom middle" size="14" fgcolor="orange">Dubya, Al,</caption>
    <character name="d" action="leaves"/>
    <character name="a" action="leaves"/>
  </panel>
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</panel>

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 <panel>
   <character name="will"/>
   <caption fgcolor="orange" size="14" location="bottom middle">William Shakespeare's</caption>
   <character name="will" action="leaves"/>
 </panel>
 <panel>
   <character name="mao"/>
   <character name="lenin"/>
   <character name="marx"/>
   <caption fgcolor="orange" size="14" location="top middle">Commie pals!</caption>
   <caption fgcolor="red" size="12" location="bottom left">Hey, Fred!</caption>
   <character name="mao" action="leaves"/>
   <character name="lenin" action="leaves"/>
   <character name="marx" action="leaves"/>
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</panel>

<panel>
 <character name="hick"/>
 <character name="chick"/>
 <caption fgcolor="orange" location="bottom middle">Toon-o-Matic drawing well</caption>
 <character name="hick" action="leaves"/>
 <character name="chick" action="leaves"/>
</panel>

<panel>
 <caption fgcolor="orange" location="top middle">Wolverines are ...</caption>
 <caption fgcolor="orange" size="32" location="middle">NONONONONONONONO</caption>
 <caption fgcolor="orange" location="bottom middle">LEAVE THE DOOR ALONE!</caption>
</panel>

<panel>
 <caption fgcolor="red" size="14" location="top left">Hey Fred!</caption>
 <caption fgcolor="blue" size="14" location="top middle">Ow!  My foot!</caption>
 <caption fgcolor="blue" size="10" location="top right">(Osama bin Laden?   <br/>Can't be.<br/>No mustache.)</caption>
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 <character name="hick"/>
 <character name="bot"/>
 <character name="will"/>
 <character name="nose" rel-h="30"/>
 <character name="dubya"/>
 <character name="osama" aspect="post-penguin"/>
 <character name="chick"/>
 <character name="damonk" aspect="faceleft"/>
 <caption fgcolor="gray" location="top middle" font="_nahkt" size="40">SADFL kjoiwu eroi usdpoi fuwe r87x</caption>
 <caption fgcolor="orange" location="bottom middle" size="14">Emsworth!  Napoleon!  I think I found the wolverines!</caption>
</panel>

</cartoon>






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