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by Thom64 on August 2nd, 2006
In the comic drawn by Schultz, no adults ever appear or speak, but the children sometimes respond to the school teacher. When they adapted the comic for animation they still wanted to keep the children-only perspective of the strip, but they still had to have the children respond to something. They could not use an adult voice or image as that would not be consistent with the environment or feel of the strip.
I don't know how they came up with the "wa wa" stuff, but I am pretty sure it was to communicate the idea that the children were interacting with an adult without creating a character for the adult.
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very good
by VOD on December 7th, 2008
This is the right answer, nice Thom64.
by Logo on February 27th, 2009