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From: ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia,net.jokes
Subject: Re: Meta-humor in Charles Schulz's Peanuts
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Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 14:19:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 14:19:44 1985
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In article <800@h-sc1.UUCP> shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue) writes:
>In the last panel, Charlie Brown manages to sneak a word in edgewise, and
>says, completely deadpan:  "They remind ME [my emphasis] of two dots of
>india ink."

The old "Pogo" strip by Walt Kelly was good for this sort of thing.
Characters would often lean against the edge of the cartoon frame or
refer to things that happened "in the last panel."

The BEST source for meta-humor is, of course, Monty Python's Flying Circus.

[Scene showing lost explorers in African jungle.  One of the party narrates:]

...and there is nothing but a few feet of film to record the last moments
of our existance.

(Pause)

Wait a minute!!  If we are on film, then...

SOMEONE MUST BE FILMING US!!

[Scene reveals camera crew filming lost explorers.  Explorers joyfully
run toward camera crew, hands extended.  They are saved!

(Another pause)

Wait a minute!!  If these are the people who WERE filming us...

WHO'S FILMING US NOW??

[Scene now reveals meta-camera crew filming camera crew filming explorers]

 . . .

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Dave Seaman	  {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|seismo|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h!ags