Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan for January 22, 2009
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Transcript:
Poncho: That doppelganger is better than me in every way! He's polite, nice to cats... he's like my mirror opposite! I've been stupidly trying to piece this together using cheap movie plots, when all along I should have been using cheap television plots! This is just like that episode of Star Trek where the two doubles from parallel anti-matter worlds become locked in combat for all eternity! Huff, I hate when this happens.
Sorry, Andy, but other than dressing the figures in Star Fleet uniforms, our intrepid cartoonist has it right: the episode is The Alternative Factor, the characters are Lazarus and AntiLazarus, who are doubles from matter and antimatter universes, who grapple together for eternity to preserve both universes, and the actor is Robert Brown, who did indeed star in the TV version of Here Come the Brides.
You’re thinking of Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, with the white/black faced guys. They’re played by different actors, though; one is Frank Gorshin, better known as the Riddler on the TV version of Batman.
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