Kim Rosenthal is a character in the comic strip Doonesbury.
She first appeared as a baby in the 1970s, as the last child evacuated from Vietnam. She was adopted by the Jewish Rosenthal family. Her early appearances in the strip had her learning how to talk entirely from television commercials. Her first words were "Big Mac", and she soon was quoting entire commercials by heart.
This became even more extreme during the 1976 presidential campaign, ...
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Kim Rosenthal is a character in the comic strip Doonesbury.
She first appeared as a baby in the 1970s, as the last child evacuated from Vietnam. She was adopted by the Jewish Rosenthal family. Her early appearances in the strip had her learning how to talk entirely from television commercials. Her first words were "Big Mac", and she soon was quoting entire commercials by heart.
This became even more extreme during the 1976 presidential campaign, during which she took a liking to the campaign advertisements of Jimmy Carter, and would instantly say "Hi, I'm Jimmy Carter", followed by a summary of his political positions to anyone who would listen.
She was later seen becoming a national honor student in high school, which her classmates considered unfair because they believed the stereotype that both Asian and Jewish people are good at math.
After this Kim disappeared from the strip for many years, and reappeared in February 1996, where she met Mike Doonesbury at the CyberCitizens-For...
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