There’s an episode of Phineas and Ferb in which the evil plan of Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz is to use a small army of giant robotic penguins to freeze the city with their icy breath and then get the citizens hooked on his delicious hot cocoa.
The first cup of cocoa is free.
The second cup is also free.
But the third cup costs $1,000,000.00.
His plan is genius, he explains, because he only needs to sell three cups to have all the money he needs!
I mention this because the Wikipedia entry for the show notes that Doofenshmirtz is “a mad scientist driven largely by a need to assert his evilness, whose own ineptitude often defeats him.” Sounds like someone else who has been in the news a lot lately. Doofenshmirtz, however, is actually a wonderful father, unlike you-know-who.
