The Controversy That Wasn't

I've always wanted to get Pearls on TV.

Just not this way.

The strip in question is yesterday's, and the panel in question is this one, which you can see here:

Apparently, certain readers think they see the "f" word appearing twice in this panel.  Personally, I can't see it, and I know it was not in the strip as I created it.  The only thing I can think of is that the way in which certain newspapers compressed the strip resulted in the "f" word appearing.  If you are readers of either the St. Louis