Mark Burnett did actually threaten to sue the producers of Boot Camp for coming up with an elimination-style "reality" series. If only he'd actually gone through with his threats; perhaps we wouldn't have had to endure "For Love or Money 2" or "Temptation Island."

I'm rather fond of "drop and gimme a 20 share."

The Scrappy references are made for the members of the old Brunching Shuttlecocks board, which ranked new members as "Scrappy-Doo" (the runty dog, of course, being one of the few items that Lore Fitzgerald Sjoberg could rate an "F", seeing as how "nothing was worse than Scrappy-Doo.") And when a Scrappy overextended his welcome, a passel of forum veterans were always there to *boot* the transgressor back into submission -- hence the asterisks in the strip's title. Cue the "The More You Know" logo, and cut to commercial.

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