2006-07-25

A family-room scene. A mother stands behind two children -- a young girl and a young boy -- facing an elderly woman with big orange hair and glasses, the grandmother. The girl cheerfully asks, 'How about a game of checkers?' The grandmother replies with alarming enthusiasm, 'How about we murder all the children in the world at the same time?!' The boy cries out, 'Gramma!!' A caption underneath reads: 'Now and then i have to politely remind Grandma that this isn't the 2010s anymore.' Votey (aftercomic): A close-up of the grandmother's weary, eyes-closed face as she says, 'The tumblr wars were brutal.' The joke imagines a future where an old woman who came of age in the 2010s carries the leftover extremist mindset of bygone internet flame wars.