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PANEL 1 (BAPPER surprises MTN. DEWD by presting a stock certificate.) BAPPER: Check it out, Dewd! I am now officially a Microsoft shareholder! MTN. DEWD: Gah--!
PANEL 2 (MTN. DEWD urgently grabs a phone headset as BAPPER peeks in from the background.) PHONE: 9-1-1 MTN. DEWD: Hello. I think I have a medical emergency here... BAPPER: Settle down! It's not what you think!
PANEL 3 (BAPPER waves dismissively at MTN. DEWD, who is clenching his fists.) MTN. DEWD: Well then... WHY!?!? BAPPER: All will become clear in due time.. MTN. DEWD: Yeah right....
PANEL 4 (Later, MTN. DEWD is sitting on the couch alone, watching TV.) CAPTION: Later. TV Anchor: So, Sal, how does the traffic look? TV Traffic Reporter: Well, Russ, pardon my French, but it looks like-- TV Anchor): We interrupt this traffic report to bring you some late breaking news!
PANEL 5 (On the TV, a reporter is speaking into a microphone as BAPPER waves from behind some bushes in the background.) TV Reporter: This is Tina Tinapalous reporting live from the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, where an exclusive shareholder meeting this morning has taken an unexpected turn...
PANEL 6 (MTN. DEWD stares at the television as the report continues.) TV Reporter: What you are seeing now is exclusive Channel Two footage of the aftermath of this bizarre event... MTN. DEWD: So that's where my Flowbee went...
Commentary
This strip was originally published in the G3K blog back in 2002. From that original post:
Interestingly, I seemingly thought I would keep drawing these for my blog in the early 2000s, but the next strip wouldn't come for another 9 years. I still have that folder full of ideas from 1998, which are even more dated and less funny now than they were when I drew this one.