2003-03-14
Original: 2003-03-14 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Single panel:
An elderly man with white hair stands at the top of an exterior staircase, in the doorway of his home. Two children stand at the bottom of the steps looking up at him.
Old man: "Is it Halloween already? Gee kids, I must've forgotten to get candy. You see, I have this condition where-"
Children (in unison): "WE'RE ORPHANS."
Old man: "Well... I suppose I could go to the store, though my cane's broke, and-"
Children (in unison): "ORPHANS."
Caption below the panel:
"Our parents called him 'senile.'"
"Every Friday after school, we called him 'candybox.'"
Votey:
A man with a hand on his chin looks skeptical.
Man: "You expect me to believe you had NO IDEA Halloween merged with Christmas?!"
An elderly man with white hair stands at the top of an exterior staircase, in the doorway of his home. Two children stand at the bottom of the steps looking up at him.
Old man: "Is it Halloween already? Gee kids, I must've forgotten to get candy. You see, I have this condition where-"
Children (in unison): "WE'RE ORPHANS."
Old man: "Well... I suppose I could go to the store, though my cane's broke, and-"
Children (in unison): "ORPHANS."
Caption below the panel:
"Our parents called him 'senile.'"
"Every Friday after school, we called him 'candybox.'"
Votey:
A man with a hand on his chin looks skeptical.
Man: "You expect me to believe you had NO IDEA Halloween merged with Christmas?!"
Alt text
A single-panel comic. An elderly white-haired man stands in his doorway at the top of an outdoor staircase, looking down at two children at the bottom. He says, "Is it Halloween already? Gee kids, I must've forgotten to get candy. You see, I have this condition where-" The two kids interrupt in unison: "WE'RE ORPHANS." The man continues, "Well... I suppose I could go to the store, though my cane's broke, and-" The kids interrupt again: "ORPHANS." A caption below reads: "Our parents called him 'senile.' Every Friday after school, we called him 'candybox.'" The joke: the orphans exploit the senile man's confusion to extract candy from him repeatedly, every week. Votey: a skeptical man with his hand on his chin says, "You expect me to believe you had NO IDEA Halloween merged with Christmas?!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.