Well, we all knew this was coming. Our culture demands misdirected blame and accountability, by jove!

Anyway, the city of Boston’s embarrassing, maniacal overreaction to a doofy guerilla marketing compaign for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie has forced Jim Samples, the head of the Cartoon Network, to step down.

Love that dirty water:

In a letter to employees, Jim Samples, the general manager and executive vice president of the network, wrote: “I deeply regret the negative publicity and expense caused to our company as a result of this campaign. As general manager of Cartoon Network, I feel compelled to step down, effective immediately, in recognition of the gravity of the situation that occurred under my watch.”

Turner Broadcasting System and Interference Inc. agreed to pay $2 million to make amends for last Wednesday’s bomb scare in Boston, the Massachusetts attorney general said Monday. TBS is the parent of the Cartoon Network, which initiated the marketing scheme. CNN, CNNMoney.com and TBS are all owned by Time Warner Inc. (Charts), the world’s largest media company.

Samples had been with Atlanta-based Cartoon Network for 13 years.

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