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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:
<cartoon height="800" width="800" rowformat="1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2"> <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> <panel rowdir="vert"> <panel> <panel/> <panel><panel/><panel/></panel> <panel/> </panel> <panel/> </panel> <panel rowdir="vert"> <panel rowdir="horiz"> <panel rowdir="horiz"> <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> </panel> <panel rowdir="horiz"> <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> </panel> </panel> <panel rowdir="vert"> <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"/> </panel> </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> <character name="mao"/> <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>