Uncontrollable panic grips the Japanese countryside, as everyone’s favourite earless, blue, robotic cat Doraemon (pictured right) faces off against his most despicable enemy ever – his own, twisted clone: Broadband (pictured left).
Broadband was created by the fiendish FCC for a devilish plot to ensnare and corrupt the souls of America’s innocent youngsters, and can usually be found trolling around the FCC’s ‘Kid’s Zone’. If you ever had any doubts that the FCC knows nothing about Kids (and doesn’t really care for them, anyway) just take a look at the gargantuan design effort poured into their Kid’s zone – I bet somebody spent half an afternoon on that, if not less.
The main differences between Doraemon and his cheap rip-off seem to be that Broadband is fatter and has a rather vicious nervous tic. That might have been done to obscure the plagiarism a little bit, or perhaps somebody felt that a bloated and disturbed mascot would befit the FCC better.
Another difference is that Broadband has stripes. Those are not taken off Doraemon, for a change, but rather Disney’s Cheshire cat character…
All in all, Broadband is not only a cheap rip-off, but a shoddy rip-off, to boot, and if the FCC wasted more than 50 of the taxpayers’ dollars on him (which is, sadly, extremely likely) they’ve been had, big time.
Emperor Akihito is expected to call for the resignation and ritual suicide of FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin any moment now. Go Doraemon!