Money-making arc

This is a story arc about the people at Clones 'R' Us trying to make money after their government funding ends.

Plot
The story arc begins with a worried Gordon Noble telling Thaddeus Euphemism that their govermnent funding will end at the end of that month. Thaddeus thinks this is a good thing since they've been too dependent on government funds anyway, but Gordon says that government funding is the lifeblood of the company. Thaddeus jokes that if it's the lifeblood, it's time for a transfusion and then proceeds that they should "throw off the shackles".

In the next strip, Gordon asks the workers for money-making suggestions. Bob has a lot of suggestions, but they're either disturbing (mandatory employee organ donation, injure ourselves in public places and sue for the insurance, scam old people) or ridiculous (beanie babies, buy all the lottery tickets, Vegas, write a get-rich-quick book, send our bank account numbers to a Nigerian prince).

In the next two strips, Thaddeus (on Gordon's suggestion) tries making money by advertising soda sitting by a giant soda can and drinking it. This makes him burp and he and Bob have a burping contest.

In the next strip, Thaddeus dresses Bob as a soup can to advertise soup, but he thinks he looks ridiculous.

In the strip after that, Gordon charges some of the local schools for field trips, hoping to make the kids curious about science. However, some of the kids have seen Thaddeus's videos on YouTube and knnow he's inept, and one of them makes a joke about racism being the word for the science of classifying living things.

The story arc then pauses for one strip, and after the pause, Gordon is worried about their money situation when a group of Squirrels arrive.

In the next strip, Gordon says that they need hundreds of thousands of dollars and can't be paid in acorns. One of the squirrels says that their new business model (a shifty insurance company) is making them a lot of money.

The next strip sees Gordon worried about whether or not they should trust the squirrels. Thaddeus, who is doing an experiment on a one-eyed creature, says not to worry because the squirrels aren't evil but rather "their moral compass doesn't always point 'true north'." Some squirrels look at an actual compass and note that it always points to "money" and then in the bonus panel, the one-eyed creature says that it doesn't trust the squirrels either.

In the following strip, Thaddeus and Gordon agree to partner up with the squirrels but they think they hear an evil laugh. It's just a cell phone ringing, but they're still nervous.

The final strip talks about the squirrels working with the humans and replacing the food with granola bars.

Trivia

 * The science of classifying living things is actually taxonomy.
 * Thaddeus's YouTube videos from the Youtube arc are mentioned again.
 * Gordon alludes to the Squirrel takeover arc.