Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 25, 1990

Transcript:

Mark: (Sure hope this works during a real emergency) This is a test of the Emergency Cartoon Comedy System. Repeat, this is only a test. Beeeeeee-eeeeee-eeeeee-eeee! This strip in voluntary cooperation with the federal authorities, has been developed to keep you entertained and distracted in the event of a breakdown of national leadership. If this had been an actual leadership crisis, this space would have been filled with emergency jokes and other diversions. This concludes our test. Asterisk/Bush: Define "Leadership crisis." Mark: It was just a joke, sir. A diversion.