April / 11 / 2006
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Notes

That Craisins! package is covered in text. Here's the details for those of you without microscopes:

The coupon text:

"This coupon good for the purchase of one (1) Super-Fun-Size Family Bushel of Mother Topeka's Brand Craisins! Offer not valid in dimensions where prohibited by law. Cash vale of this coupon is 1/40 of one Fun-Time Brand Metadollar. Craisins are good."

And here's the ingredients text verbatim:

"INGREDIENTS: Cranberries and/or Cranberry Substitute, Caranuba Wax, Modified Corn Starch, Dextrose, Maltose, Fructose Dihydramine, Hydrolized Yeast Extract, Animal Solids, Animal Liquids, Animal Gases, Animal Faces, Squirrel Proteins and Hormones, FDC Red No. 5 May contain traces of hyper-peanuts."

the programmer (22 of 32)
strip info entered by themysticalone and approved by Rich
Panel Dialogue Location Props
1 Cornhusk (floating head, narrating): The fighting continued for years. The Middle Pangaeans fought with what seemed to be an inexhaustable supply of weaponry and self-loathing.
Woman (Middle Pangaean, shooting a Topekan): I hate that you're making me do this!
Man (Topekan, with gunshot wound)
Middle Pangaea
Pub (Axis, Exterior)
  • Body Part(s)
  • Gun (Revolver)
  • Sound Effect (Blam! Blam!)
  • Blood
2 Cornhusk (floating head, narrating): The Topekans countered with fresh, virgin battalions of knack-o-lytes, beaming in reinforcements and free sample packets of Craisins.
Woman (knack-o-lyte, many, Topekan)
Middle Pangaea
Pub (Axis)
  • Food (Craisins)
  • Debris
3 Cornhusk (floating head, narrating): Each packet had a coupon on the back for five Fun-Time(tm) brand metadollars off the purchase of a full-size bushel of Craisins.
Text (Craisins packet): Mother Topeka's
Craisins!
Nowhere
  • Food (Craisins)
4 Cornhusk (abashed): Oh. That was probably an unnecessary detail, wasn't it? It's so hard to tell sometimes.
Yakmeat (consoling Cornhusk): No, that's cool, you're doing fine. Keep Going.
Phillip (excited): Go back to the violent bits.
Topeka Prime
Complex (Cowputer Labs)
  • Cow (Clara, Cowputer)

Character Info

Yakmeat
First Appearance
the programmer (11 of 32)
Recent Appearances
lost (28 of 32)
making a hole (5 of 27)
the wound (1 of 16)
Cornhusk
First Appearance
the programmer (13 of 32)
Recent Appearances
lost (28 of 32)
making a hole (5 of 27)
the wound (1 of 16)
Phillip
First Appearance
genesis
Recent Appearances
lost (1 of 32)
showcase showdown (6 of 83)
burn this, part 2 (1 of 31)
Man
First Appearance
chaos pope (6 of 16)
Recent Appearances
the math fuhrer (6 of 24)
the office (3 of 64)
making a hole (3 of 27)
Woman
First Appearance
a dish best served delicious (or, invoking godwin's law) (17 of 33)
Recent Appearances
the office (57 of 64)
the programmer (22 of 32)
infinite typewriters (10 of 116)
Text
First Appearance
guest week (8 of 12)
Recent Appearances
lost (5 of 32)
the office (1 of 64)
showcase showdown (3 of 83)
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