The U.S.O.U.S. counter-measure — "Fully Functional Phil," the anti-samizdat children's ad

pivotal · 20 November YDAU

• When: 20 November YDAU (the weather-delayed State House Annex meeting)
• What: The government's answer to the object is a public-service cartoon. In a transcribed meeting (Tine Sr., InterLace, the Glad Flaccid Receptacle Corp., Viney & Veals), the icon "Fully Functional Phil" — a crossed-eyed prancing ass — is designed to warn children ages four-to-twelve against "a certain very wicked and sneaky cartridge that even has a little smiling face on the case," to accept no spontaneous or post-delivered entertainment without an adult, and to fetch a policeman (who can cut the power) if a parent sits creepily engrossed. Tine Jr. states the stakes plainly: "the year half the nation stopped doing anything but staring bug-eyed at some sinister cartridge while little whorls went around in their eyes until they died of starvation." The scene renders the object as a managed public-health enemy — a smiling-faced Canadian cartridge to be met with a smiling-faced burro and a "traumatic graphic" at fourteen seconds. See the U.S.O.U.S. thread.