Robot Scout

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PhilWrede

on Sept. 10, 2010

Between the squirrel, and the husband's madman rantings outside the front door, this page probably has the best visual gags in the whole story. Again, it took a while to find just the right squirrel.

Some people have told me that it looks like XX1 is reaching out to the squirrel to pet him, and others say it looks like he's going to pluck the squirrel off the car to eventually barbecue it and feed it to the husband, who's living like Homer Simpson lived when Marge kicked him out of the house. The intention was to indicate that neither one of them knew quite what to make about the other, but again, individual interpretation improves the joke beyond what I'd hoped for.