Comic #4157: a-new-debate-format

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Comic Description:

Panel 1:

• Character 1 (left): Dark hair, round glasses, wearing a red scarf and green shirt.
• Character 2 (right): Light red hair, light sweater.
• Text:
  • Character 1: "You gonna watch the candidates 'touch the butt' tonight?"
  • Character 2: "What?"
  • Character 1: "It's a new debate format."

Panel 2:

• Background: Night sky with stars.
• Text:
  • "People don't watch debates because they care about policy. If they did, they'd look it up on Wikipedia."

Panel 3:

• Text:
  • "Debates are basically a two-hour long farce, in which the entire nation gleefully hopes that someone accidentally says something mean or stupid."

Panel 4:

• Character 1: Same as before, showing a thoughtful expression.
• Text:
  • "Realizing this, networks simplified the format. Now, the candidates spend two hours putting their hands in little boxes while wearing blindfolds."

Panel 5:

• Text:
  • "One of the boxes contains a butt. If one of the candidates reaches into that box, it proves she’s a butt-toucher."

Panel 6:

• Text:
  • "The butt-toucher is then punished with a small drop in national polls, followed by a regression toward the mean."

Panel 7:

• Text:
  • "Has media gotten worse or has society?"
  • "I no longer have the attention span to understand that question."

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