When Taylor tells Governor Gatling he got rid of the morning paper because "You're not going to like it today," the puzzled governor replies, "No 'Doonesbury'?" "Doonesbury" was a comic strip whose discussions of political and social issues occasionally generated controversy. Newspaper editors sometimes moved "Doonesbury" from the comics page to the editorial page, or removed it altogether, when they felt that day's strip was inappropriate or offensive.