Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 17, 1979
Transcript:
Rick: All right, Duane, what gives? Man: This will have to be off the record, okay, Rick? I don't want to embarass Jimmy before my formal resignation... Rick: Okay, okay. Now, what's the deal? Why are you skipping? Man: It's the symbols program. It's gone completely to hell. I can't figure it out, Rick. We got off to such a magnificent start! The cardigan, the stroll, the tree house! But lately, it's almost as if Jimmy's commitment to symbols is only... only... Rick: Symbolic? Man: You don't know how hard it is to live with that kind of irony.