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2005-06-01

Original: 2005-06-01 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
A blond man in a red shirt and a brown-haired woman in an orange shirt stand together with their backs to the viewer, the woman pointing up at a stork flying in from the right. The stork carries a baby in a bundle held by its beak.
Woman: "THE STORK! OUR SON IS HERE!"

Caption (below panel): "We were both glad when the stork finally gave back our baby."

Votey:
A crude black-and-white drawing of a bird (a stork) with an annoyed expression.
Stork: "This thing is useless!"

Alt text

Main comic, single panel: A blond man in a red shirt and a brown-haired woman in an orange shirt stand with their backs to us against a purple landscape. The woman points up at a stork swooping in from the right, carrying a baby slung in a bundle from its beak. She exclaims, "THE STORK! OUR SON IS HERE!" The caption beneath reads, "We were both glad when the stork finally gave back our baby." The joke: rather than delivering a newborn, the stork is returning a baby it had taken, and was apparently unhappy with it. Votey (aftercomic): A rough sketch of an irritated-looking stork declaring, "This thing is useless!" — explaining why it gave the baby back.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.