Patrick McDonell's comic strip Mutts sometime involves two squirrels belting peoples heads with nuts. McDonnell often likes to use these squirrels to assault the Mutts characters along with classic comic strips of the past. now exactly why these two rambunctious squirrels throw their food at people hurting them is not really ever explained into he strip. Obviously the comic artist is using these squirrels to show display some sort of dissatisfaction with the word and one wonders if these squirrel characters and their nut throwing tendencies will ever get old and rub the reader the wrong way.
McDonnell to his credit keeps coming up with short one-liners concerning these panels and the physics behind much of the action. I am surprised after an extensive search he has not come up with an apple example and sir Isaac newton strip into this bit and one has to wonder, especially a comic strip critic and expert such as myself, if there is a tie in with this strip and sir Isaac newton's famous discovery and thought of gravitational pull between objects. 
McDonnel likely originally had a strip in mind with two squirrels at one point early in his career but concluded that a dog and cat would give him a more warm centric comic strip along with more numerous panel 
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