Dear Internet Executive

Dear Dr. Newt,

Isn't your advice show basically just a ripoff of Ask a Ninja?

A viewer accuses Dr. Newt of being a rip-off artist.


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Episode Annotation: Dear Internet Executive

Ask A Ninja: One of the most popular series on the Internet, Ask A Ninja, created by L.A. Improv comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, features an overly energetic ninja (Sarine) who answers e-mails from "viewers" in confusing and comical ways. Launched on November of 2005, it was not the first of these type of shows, but it's by far the most influential, having spawned a number of copycats, including the mammalicious mexican assassin of Ask a Chola, and possibly Ask Dr. Newt (though don't tell the doctor I said that, I might get bitten).

But the ninja has had a lot of notoriety and has mixed with many celebrities, including interviewing "actors" Will Ferrell and Jon Heder, hobnobbing with the stars of Mythbusters or accidentally assassinating Bree from lonelygirl15, possibly the only Internet personality larger than him. She's certainly much cuter...

Corporate whore: What Dr. Newt calls the Ask A Ninja ninja most likely because he peddles a bunch of products on his website, shirts and DVDs and what not. So don't support a corporate, capitalist whore like the ninja and buy Dr. Newt schwag at CafePress.com.

Newtoronomy: The academic field which dedicates itself to proving the intellectual superiority of the newt - hence Dr. Newt's dissertation: "Newts are smarter than ninjas."