[Click to view comic: 'The Can Man Can']

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"It's like a Koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain!" Capt. Murphy, SeaLab 2021

While the Confucious/confused thing is lame, at least it didn't have some sorry-ass jokey ha-ha punchline.

If you could expand this to an 18-part series where one character cathes fire/self-emolates for an unspecified reason in each episode, I think you'd be on to something.

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Ham-fisted ham fisting.

[Click to view comic: 'The Can Man Can']

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"It's like a Koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain!" Capt. Murphy, SeaLab 2021