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	'''Hard Drinkin' Lincoln''' is a [[Adobe Flash\|Macromedia Flash]] Internet cartoon series produced in 2000 for the Internet animation company [[Icebox.com]]. The series was created by [[Mike Reiss]] and directed by Xeth Feinberg. Unlike Reiss and Feinberg's later series for Icebox, ''[[Queer Duck]]'', Hard Drinkin' Lincoln did not receive attention from other media outlets, but still received some coverage.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/10/impc.00.html\|title=Empty Cribs; An American in Israel; Net Tunes\|date=August 10, 2000\|website=[[CNN]]\|author=\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125222542/http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/10/impc.00.html\|archive-date=January 25, 2020\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/youtubes-exclusives/\|title=Can YouTube replace TV?\|date=February 1, 2012\|website=Macleans\|last=Weinman\|first=Jaime\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160330172434/http://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/youtubes-exclusives/\|archive-date=March 30, 2016\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2000/11/daily-news-icebox-com-and-fox-blow-up-and-redford-and-ifc-goes-north-of-the-border-81262/#!\|title=DAILY NEWS: Icebox.com and FOX, Blow Up and Redford; and IFC Goes North of the Border\|date=November 29, 2000\|website=[[IndieWire]]\|last=Hernandez\|first=Eugene\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116040012/https://www.indiewire.com/2000/11/daily-news-icebox-com-and-fox-blow-up-and-redford-and-ifc-goes-north-of-the-border-81262/\|archive-date=November 10, 2017\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://variety.com/2000/digital/reviews/icebox-2-1200463547/\|title=Icebox\|date=July 9, 2000\|website=[[Variety (magazine)\|Variety]]\|last=Swanson\|first=Tim\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108234012/https://variety.com/2000/digital/reviews/icebox-2-1200463547/\|archive-date=January 8, 2021\|url-status=live}}</ref>		'''Hard Drinkin' Lincoln''' is a [[Adobe Flash\|Macromedia Flash]] Internet cartoon series produced in 2000 for the Internet animation company [[Icebox.com]]. The series was created by [[Mike Reiss]] and directed by Xeth Feinberg. Unlike Reiss and Feinberg's later series for Icebox, ''[[Queer Duck]]'', Hard Drinkin' Lincoln did not receive attention from other media outlets, but still received some coverage.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/10/impc.00.html\|title=Empty Cribs; An American in Israel; Net Tunes\|date=August 10, 2000\|website=[[CNN]]\|author=\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125222542/http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/10/impc.00.html\|archive-date=January 25, 2020\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/youtubes-exclusives/\|title=Can YouTube replace TV?\|date=February 1, 2012\|website=Macleans\|last=Weinman\|first=Jaime\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160330172434/http://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/youtubes-exclusives/\|archive-date=March 30, 2016\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2000/11/daily-news-icebox-com-and-fox-blow-up-and-redford-and-ifc-goes-north-of-the-border-81262/#!\|title=DAILY NEWS: Icebox.com and FOX, Blow Up and Redford; and IFC Goes North of the Border\|date=November 29, 2000\|website=[[IndieWire]]\|last=Hernandez\|first=Eugene\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116040012/https://www.indiewire.com/2000/11/daily-news-icebox-com-and-fox-blow-up-and-redford-and-ifc-goes-north-of-the-border-81262/\|archive-date=November 10, 2017\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://variety.com/2000/digital/reviews/icebox-2-1200463547/\|title=Icebox\|date=July 9, 2000\|website=[[Variety (magazine)\|Variety]]\|last=Swanson\|first=Tim\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108234012/https://variety.com/2000/digital/reviews/icebox-2-1200463547/\|archive-date=January 8, 2021\|url-status=live}}</ref>

	==Synopsis==		==Synopsis==
	The series portrays [[Abraham Lincoln]] (voiced by [[Jim Ward (voice actor)\|Jim Ward]])<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.stephaniemiller.com/about/jim-ward/\|title=Jim Ward\|date=2019\|website=Stephanie Miller's official website\|last=Miller\|first=Stephanie\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607104308/https://www.stephaniemiller.com/about/jim-ward/\|archive-date=June 7, 2019\|url-status=live}}</ref> as a boorish alcoholic who enjoys pestering his wife [[Mary Todd Lincoln]] (voiced by [[Jocelyn Blue]], later [[Tress MacNeille]]) and causing trouble during shows at [[Ford's Theatre]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Schwartz\|first=Barry\|title=Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America\|year=2008\|publisher=University of Chicago Press\|page=163\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1p9T8drMHeYC&pg=PA163 \|isbn=9780226741901}}</ref> Many episodes end with Hard Drinkin' Lincoln being shot by [[John Wilkes Booth]] (the main antagonist, voiced by [[Maurice LaMarche]]), often to the delight of bystanders.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Brown\|first=Thomas J\|title=Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial\|year=2011\|publisher=JHU Press\|page=9\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kLRK8SL9bNsC&pg=PA9 \|isbn=9781421403786}}</ref> Other historical figures who appear in the episodes include [[Jenny Lind]], [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi\|Mohandas Gandhi]], [[Ulysses S. Grant]], [[Robert E. Lee]] and [[Frederick Douglass]]. Creator Reiss explained: "What makes me proud of 'Hard Drinkin' Lincoln' is that it's a totally undeserved attack. The comedy comes from the fact that this man did nothing to deserve this."<ref>{{cite news\|last=Anthony\|first=Ted\|title=Lincoln Belongs to the Ages -- and the Marketplace\|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/20/news/adna-lincoln20/2\|newspaper=LA Times\|date=February 20, 2005}}</ref>		The series portrays [[Abraham Lincoln]] (voiced by [[Jim Ward (voice actor)\|Jim Ward]])<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.stephaniemiller.com/about/jim-ward/\|title=Jim Ward\|date=2019\|website=Stephanie Miller's official website\|last=Miller\|first=Stephanie\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607104308/https://www.stephaniemiller.com/about/jim-ward/\|archive-date=June 7, 2019\|url-status=live}}</ref> as a boorish alcoholic who enjoys pestering his wife [[Mary Todd Lincoln]] (voiced by [[Jocelyn Blue]], later [[Tress MacNeille]]) and causing trouble during shows at [[Ford's Theatre]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Schwartz\|first=Barry\|title=Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America\|year=2008\|publisher=University of Chicago Press\|page=163\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1p9T8drMHeYC&pg=PA163 \|isbn=9780226741901}}</ref> Many episodes end with Hard Drinkin' Lincoln being shot by [[John Wilkes Booth]] (the main antagonist, voiced by [[Maurice LaMarche]]), often to the delight of bystanders.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Brown\|first=Thomas J\|title=Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial\|year=2011\|publisher=JHU Press\|page=9\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kLRK8SL9bNsC&pg=PA9 \|isbn=9781421403786}}</ref> Other historical figures who appear in the episodes include [[Jenny Lind]], [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi\|Mohandas Gandhi]], [[Ulysses S. Grant]], [[Robert E. Lee]] and [[Frederick Douglass]]. Creator Reiss explained: "What makes me proud of 'Hard Drinkin' Lincoln' is that it's a totally undeserved attack. The comedy comes from the fact that this man did nothing to deserve this."<ref>{{cite news\|last=Anthony\|first=Ted\|title=Lincoln Belongs to the Ages -- and the Marketplace\|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/20/news/adna-lincoln20/2\|newspaper=LA Times\|date=February 20, 2005}}</ref>

	==Credits==		==Credits==
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	==Reception==		==Reception==
	[[Richard von Busack]] of [[Metro Silicon Valley\|MetroActive]] said that the series had witty "moments of humor" and praised the cartoons on [[Icebox.com]], adding that he never heard the theme song of the series "without a surge of patriotism," adding that the animated series is "a reminder of the sacredness of the First Amendment."<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/08.30.00/lincoln-0035.html\|title=Emancipated Satire\|date=August 30, 2000\|website=MetroActive\|last=von Busack\|first=Richard\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919221309/http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/08.30.00/lincoln-0035.html\|archive-date=September 19, 2020\|url-status=live}}</ref> Joshua Shenk of ''[[The American Prospect]]'' described the show as a "typical Lincoln image" and said that Lincoln, in the show, "is a blend of Homer Simpson and Kenny from South Park."<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://prospect.org/features/myth-lincoln-reconstructed/\|title=The Myth of Lincoln, Reconstructed\|date=July 19, 2000\|website=[[The American Prospect]]\|last=Shenk\|first=Joshua\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023093924/https://prospect.org/features/myth-lincoln-reconstructed/\|archive-date=October 23, 2020\|url-status=live}}</ref> Academic Barry Schwartz described the show as one of the recent Lincoln spoofs which are "cut from the same cloth as ongoing museum controversies involving "transgressive" art."<ref>{{cite journal \|last1=Schwartz \|first1=Barry \|date=Winter 2003 \|title=Lincoln at the Millennium \|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0024.103/--lincoln-at-the-millennium?rgn=main;view=fulltext \|journal=Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association \|volume=24 \|issue=1 \|pages=1–31 \|access-date=January 8, 2021}}</ref> [[Wired (magazine)\|Wired]] described the series as "improbable" and one of the company's entrances into a "crowded world of online animation entertainment sites"<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://www.wired.com/2000/07/cartoons-have-online-screen-tests/\|title=Cartoons Have Online Screen Tests\|date=July 19, 2000\|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)\|Wired]]\|author=Wired Staff\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809012025/https://www.wired.com/2000/07/cartoons-have-online-screen-tests/\|archive-date=August 9, 2020\|url-status=live}}</ref> and the ''[[Baltimore Sun]]'' said that critics and visitors have "raved over" the show.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2000-07-08-0007080118-story.html\|title='Wong' cartoon draws ire of Asian Americans\|date=July 8, 2000\|website=[[Baltimore Sun]]\|last=Lu-Lien Tan\|first=Cheryl\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210108232753/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2000-07-08-0007080118-story.html\|archive-date=January 8, 2021\|url-status=live}}</ref> Scott Bass of ''Streaming Media'' described the comedy of ''[[Mr. Wong (web series)\|Mr. Wong]]'' and ''Hard Drinkin' Lincoln'' as "so edgy" that he could not "imagine seeing it on TV."<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=62666\|title=Q&A With Steve Stanford of Icebox\|date=August 30, 2000\|website=Streaming Media\|last=Bass\|first=Scott\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108232458/https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=62666\|archive-date=January 8, 2021\|url-status=live}}</ref>		[[Richard von Busack]] of [[Metro Silicon Valley\|MetroActive]] said that the series had witty "moments of humor" and praised the cartoons on [[Icebox.com]], adding that he never heard the theme song of the series "without a surge of patriotism," adding that the animated series is "a reminder of the sacredness of the First Amendment."<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/08.30.00/lincoln-0035.html\|title=Emancipated Satire\|date=August 30, 2000\|website=MetroActive\|last=von Busack\|first=Richard\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919221309/http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/08.30.00/lincoln-0035.html\|archive-date=September 19, 2020\|url-status=live}}</ref> Joshua Shenk of ''[[The American Prospect]]'' described the show as a "typical Lincoln image" and said that Lincoln, in the show, "is a blend of Homer Simpson and Kenny from South Park."<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://prospect.org/features/myth-lincoln-reconstructed/\|title=The Myth of Lincoln, Reconstructed\|date=July 19, 2000\|website=[[The American Prospect]]\|last=Shenk\|first=Joshua\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023093924/https://prospect.org/features/myth-lincoln-reconstructed/\|archive-date=October 23, 2020\|url-status=live}}</ref> Academic Barry Schwartz described the show as one of the recent Lincoln spoofs which are "cut from the same cloth as ongoing museum controversies involving "transgressive" art."<ref>{{cite journal \|last1=Schwartz \|first1=Barry \|date=Winter 2003 \|title=Lincoln at the Millennium \|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0024.103/--lincoln-at-the-millennium?rgn=main;view=fulltext \|journal=Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association \|volume=24 \|issue=1 \|pages=1–31 \|access-date=January 8, 2021}}</ref> [[Wired (magazine)\|Wired]] described the series as "improbable" and one of the company's entrances into a "crowded world of online animation entertainment sites"<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://www.wired.com/2000/07/cartoons-have-online-screen-tests/\|title=Cartoons Have Online Screen Tests\|date=July 19, 2000\|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)\|Wired]]\|author=Wired Staff\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809012025/https://www.wired.com/2000/07/cartoons-have-online-screen-tests/\|archive-date=August 9, 2020\|url-status=live}}</ref> and the ''[[Baltimore Sun]]'' said that critics and visitors have "raved over" the show.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2000-07-08-0007080118-story.html\|title='Wong' cartoon draws ire of Asian Americans\|date=July 8, 2000\|website=[[Baltimore Sun]]\|last=Lu-Lien Tan\|first=Cheryl\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210108232753/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2000-07-08-0007080118-story.html\|archive-date=January 8, 2021\|url-status=live}}</ref> Scott Bass of ''Streaming Media'' described the comedy of ''[[Mr. Wong (web series)\|Mr. Wong]]'' and ''Hard Drinkin' Lincoln'' as "so edgy" that he could not "imagine seeing it on TV."<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=62666\|title=Q&A With Steve Stanford of Icebox\|date=August 30, 2000\|website=Streaming Media\|last=Bass\|first=Scott\|accessdate=January 8, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108232458/https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=62666\|archive-date=January 8, 2021\|url-status=live}}</ref>

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'''Hard Drinkin' Lincoln''' is a [[Adobe Flash|Macromedia Flash]] Internet cartoon series produced in 2000 for the Internet animation company [[Icebox.com]]. The series was created by [[Mike Reiss]] and directed by Xeth Feinberg. Unlike Reiss and Feinberg's later series for Icebox, ''[[Queer Duck]]'', Hard Drinkin' Lincoln did not receive attention from other media outlets, but still received some coverage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/10/impc.00.html|title=Empty Cribs; An American in Israel; Net Tunes|date=August 10, 2000|website=[[CNN]]|author=|accessdate=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125222542/http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/10/impc.00.html|archive-date=January 25, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/youtubes-exclusives/|title=Can YouTube replace TV?|date=February 1, 2012|website=Macleans|last=Weinman|first=Jaime|accessdate=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160330172434/http://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/youtubes-exclusives/|archive-date=March 30, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2000/11/daily-news-icebox-com-and-fox-blow-up-and-redford-and-ifc-goes-north-of-the-border-81262/#!|title=DAILY NEWS: Icebox.com and FOX, Blow Up and Redford; and IFC Goes North of the Border|date=November 29, 2000|website=[[IndieWire]]|last=Hernandez|first=Eugene|accessdate=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116040012/https://www.indiewire.com/2000/11/daily-news-icebox-com-and-fox-blow-up-and-redford-and-ifc-goes-north-of-the-border-81262/|archive-date=November 10, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2000/digital/reviews/icebox-2-1200463547/|title=Icebox|date=July 9, 2000|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|last=Swanson|first=Tim|accessdate=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108234012/https://variety.com/2000/digital/reviews/icebox-2-1200463547/|archive-date=January 8, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Synopsis==
The series portrays [[Abraham Lincoln]] (voiced by [[Jim Ward (voice actor)|Jim Ward]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stephaniemiller.com/about/jim-ward/|title=Jim Ward|date=2019|website=Stephanie Miller's official website|last=Miller|first=Stephanie|accessdate=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607104308/https://www.stephaniemiller.com/about/jim-ward/|archive-date=June 7, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> as a boorish alcoholic who enjoys pestering his wife [[Mary Todd Lincoln]] (voiced by [[Jocelyn Blue]], later [[Tress MacNeille]]) and causing trouble during shows at [[Ford's Theatre]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Schwartz|first=Barry|title=Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America|year=2008|publisher=University of Chicago Press|page=163|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1p9T8drMHeYC&pg=PA163 |isbn=9780226741901}}</ref> Many episodes end with Hard Drinkin' Lincoln being shot by [[John Wilkes Booth]] (the main antagonist, voiced by [[Maurice LaMarche]]), often to the delight of bystanders.<ref>{{cite book|last=Brown|first=Thomas J|title=Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial|year=2011|publisher=JHU Press|page=9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kLRK8SL9bNsC&pg=PA9 |isbn=9781421403786}}</ref> Other historical figures who appear in the episodes include [[Jenny Lind]], [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Mohandas Gandhi]], [[Ulysses S. Grant]], [[Robert E. Lee]] and [[Frederick Douglass]]. Creator Reiss explained: "What makes me proud of 'Hard Drinkin' Lincoln' is that it's a totally undeserved attack. The comedy comes from the fact that this man did nothing to deserve this."<ref>{{cite news|last=Anthony|first=Ted|title=Lincoln Belongs to the Ages -- and the Marketplace|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/20/news/adna-lincoln20/2|newspaper=LA Times|date=February 20, 2005}}</ref>

==Credits==
*Written & Created by: Mike Reiss<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.awn.com/animationworld/queer-duck-coming-out-dvd|title='Queer Duck': Coming Out on DVD|date=July 16, 2006|website=[[Animation World Network]]|last=Stike|first=Joe|accessdate=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428115521/http://www.awn.com/animationworld/queer-duck-coming-out-dvd|archive-date=April 28, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nutanix.com/theforecastbynutanix/profile/what-business-leaders-can-learn-from-the-simpsons|title=What Business Leaders Can Learn from The Simpsons|date=March 30, 2000|website=The Forecast|last=Ball|first=David|accessdate=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927104250/https://www.nutanix.com/theforecastbynutanix/profile/what-business-leaders-can-learn-from-the-simpsons|archive-date=September 29, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/23/sundance.yahoo.idg/index.html|title=Forget Sundance -- Yahoo is the place to be|date=March 30, 2000|website=[[CNN]]|last1=Rich|first1=Laura|last2=Anderson|first2=Lessley|accessdate=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417183041/http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/23/sundance.yahoo.idg/index.html|archive-date=April 17, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>
*Directed & Produced by: [[Xeth Feinberg]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/2001/03/09/cyber-digest-18/|title=Cyber Digest|date=March 30, 2000|website=[[Entertainment Weekly|EW]]|last=Robischon|first=Noah|accessdate=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108233842/https://ew.com/article/2001/03/09/cyber-digest-18/|archive-date=January 8, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>
*Voices: Jim Ward, [[Jocelyn Blue]], Maurice LaMarche, [[Kath Soucie]], [[Kevin Michael Richardson]], Tress MacNeille
*Animation Director & Designer: Xeth Feinberg
*Music by: Xeth Feinberg and [[Sam Elwitt]]
*Theme Music by: Sam Elwitt
*Executive Producer: [[Mike Reiss]]

==Reception==
[[Richard von Busack]] of [[Metro Silicon Valley|MetroActive]] said that the series had witty "moments of humor" and praised the cartoons on [[Icebox.com]], adding that he never heard the theme song of the series "without a surge of patriotism," adding that the animated series is "a reminder of the sacredness of the First Amendment."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/08.30.00/lincoln-0035.html|title=Emancipated Satire|date=August 30, 2000|website=MetroActive|last=von Busack|first=Richard|accessdate=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919221309/http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/08.30.00/lincoln-0035.html|archive-date=September 19, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Joshua Shenk of ''[[The American Prospect]]'' described the show as a "typical Lincoln image" and said that Lincoln, in the show, "is a blend of Homer Simpson and Kenny from South Park."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://prospect.org/features/myth-lincoln-reconstructed/|title=The Myth of Lincoln, Reconstructed|date=July 19, 2000|website=[[The American Prospect]]|last=Shenk|first=Joshua|accessdate=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023093924/https://prospect.org/features/myth-lincoln-reconstructed/|archive-date=October 23, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Academic Barry Schwartz described the show as one of the recent Lincoln spoofs which are "cut from the same cloth as ongoing museum controversies involving "transgressive" art."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schwartz |first1=Barry |date=Winter 2003 |title=Lincoln at the Millennium |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0024.103/--lincoln-at-the-millennium?rgn=main;view=fulltext |journal=Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=1–31 |access-date=January 8, 2021}}</ref> [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] described the series as "improbable" and one of the company's entrances into a "crowded world of online animation entertainment sites"<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2000/07/cartoons-have-online-screen-tests/|title=Cartoons Have Online Screen Tests|date=July 19, 2000|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|author=Wired Staff|accessdate=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809012025/https://www.wired.com/2000/07/cartoons-have-online-screen-tests/|archive-date=August 9, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> and the ''[[Baltimore Sun]]'' said that critics and visitors have "raved over" the show.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2000-07-08-0007080118-story.html|title='Wong' cartoon draws ire of Asian Americans|date=July 8, 2000|website=[[Baltimore Sun]]|last=Lu-Lien Tan|first=Cheryl|accessdate=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210108232753/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2000-07-08-0007080118-story.html|archive-date=January 8, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> Scott Bass of ''Streaming Media'' described the comedy of ''[[Mr. Wong (web series)|Mr. Wong]]'' and ''Hard Drinkin' Lincoln'' as "so edgy" that he could not "imagine seeing it on TV."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=62666|title=Q&A With Steve Stanford of Icebox|date=August 30, 2000|website=Streaming Media|last=Bass|first=Scott|accessdate=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108232458/https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=62666|archive-date=January 8, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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