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after a brief attempt to run off madly in all directions, mouse returns to the well-worn comfort of the closed loop, hoping that, in casting over the back trail, she may encounter some trace of a joke, or at least a handy catchphrase.

The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="900" width="800" rowformat="1">

<panel>
 <caption location="top left" fgcolor="blue">MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE STORYLINE:</caption>
</panel>

<panel>
 <caption location="center" fgcolor="black"> RECAP: Here at the Kremlin, our heros, having finished
 their Defenestration Day feast, have been aroused by the arrival of an indignant Officer Obie. Al,
 searching through the script, has discovered that Fascia not only has no lines, but almost no face
 time. By the side of the side road, the cartoonists, still fuming at being characterized as 'garbage',
 have begun fermenting Coke for use as eggnog, and drawing rude caricatures of Michael. Poolside, Otu
 has passed his backstoke test, and is learning fly. Meanwhile, in another part of the forest,
 N.A.P.O.L.E.O.N., having failed the backstroke and been ejected from the pool, still searches
 for Lenin, to finalize the integration of Lenin's Cereals with D&amp;H Smoking Insects and Cybernetic
 Collective. Dot, having washed her hands of the entire plotline, is in negotiations with Dubya to
 get a tax break for the revitilization of the dot-com industry. The nun, the leprechaun and the
 wolverine are drinking beer and singing old college songs. The bear has been declared out of season
 and thus null and void. The cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon - what? </caption>
</panel>
<panel/>

<panel>
 <character name="me" aspect="pensive"/>
 <character name="lenin" aspect="faceleft"/>
 <character name="mao"/>
 <character name="al" aspect="2 faceleft"/>
 <caption location="top left" fgcolor="orange">I'm not actually Officer Obie, I was just <br/>
 hoping you guys remembered where the portal was....</caption>
 <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red">Officer Obie sir, I cannot tell a lie. <br/>
 _I_ put that caricature at the bottom of the garbage! </caption>
 <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue" size="10">Hey - where are _my_ lines? </caption>
</panel>

<panel>
 <caption location="top left" fgcolor="orange">...because I really need to get back <br/>
 and deal with my workload...<br/> what caricature? </caption>
 <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red">And _I_ shot the sheriff! </caption>
 <caption location="bottom center" fgcolor="red" size="10">You're playing the dog, Al.
Dogs don't get lines. </caption>
 <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue" size="10">Well, _that_ doesn't help me! <br/>
Did someone mention cyborgs? </caption>
</panel>

<panel>
 <caption location="top left" fgcolor="orange">HEY! Who drew this picture of me on the backside of a wolverine!? </caption>
 <caption location="bottom center" fgcolor="red" size="10">Al, you're regressing. </caption>
 <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue" size="10">Must be those Time Loops    <br/> I had for breakfast. </caption>
 <character name="me" action="leaves"/>
 <character name="lenin" action="leaves"/>
 <character name="mao" action="leaves"/>
 <character name="al" action="leaves"/>
</panel>

<panel>
 <caption location="center" fgcolor="black"> YES, TIME LOOPS! THE HEARTY FLAVOR OF ARTIFICIAL FRUIT <br/>
 COUPLED WITH THE WHOLESOME GOODNESS OF INFINITE TEMPORAL <br/>
LOOPS! HAVE SOME FOR BREAKFAST TODAY, AND YOU'LL EAT THEM AGAIN <br/>
 AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN ANDAGAIN ANDAGAINANDAGAINANDAGAINANAGAINANAGINANDAGINADNAGAINANDGN </caption>
</panel>
<panel>
 <caption location="top center" fgcolor="black" size="10"> (brought to you by D&amp;R, manufacturers of Rolled Ants <br/> and other quasi-nutritional substances)</caption>
 <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue"> NEXT: TROUT! </caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>







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