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WTF was that all about?

I don't even get it...

Is the joke that Americans are rude, obnoxious, lazy, and stupid? If so, I am genuinely offended.

The character is from Viz, a British magazine. It's the same magazine that features Mr Logic, who was based on the illustrator's (then undiagnosed) aspie brother.
There's a thread about Mr Logic in the General Discussion area.

Anyway, as far as I can see the comic strip wasnt poking fun at Americans but at British kids who talk like Americans. Or, if not British kids in particular, then British people in general.
You get DJs on the radio in Britain talking with a weird transatlantic twang, and you get British TV adverts featuring people using Americanized phrases - like "most excellent!" (sooo 1990s!) - that sound totally incongruous with their posh English accents.
At least there was a lot of this sort of thing going on until recently. Now it has become quite fashionable in Britain to bash America. Or white America at least. Now you'll find kids in every suburb in Britain wearing baseball caps and talking like Black American rappers.

So Brits think we all talk like Beaver Cleaver do they? And why are they using a volleyball?

I thought it was funny, too. Sort of like how an alien might act on Earth if the only referents he had were TV and radio broadcasts. Obviously, the writer picked the most prevalent stereotypes from our culture: one minute the kid sounds like he's on "Green Acres;" the next minute, like an extra on "Bonanza;" then in the next panel it's like he swallowed a hip-hop album but was only able to digest the easiest bits.
It reminded me of some of the satire in Burroughs' Naked Lunch where he parodies the speech of racist Southerners to show how ugly and ignorant they are. So you could say that if reflects the cartoonist's opinions of American culture, or you could say he was showing how kids like to imitate other cultures' speech patterns and mannerisms. Or both. Or some other point of view. It depends on your own.
Personally, I think this is a pretty good country, but it needs some work. And, in my opinion, it needs a new President and Cabinet--one that actually gives a rat's behind about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Immediately, if not sooner.