2006-11-20

A young child stands looking worried and says, "Mommy... I have a question... why did I wake up next to a dead racoon this morning?" The woman, ignoring this, shakes a sheet of paper at the child and demands, "I have a question for you! You call THIS a macaroni painting?!" A caption beneath the panel reads: "I could barely even read the 'I love you'." The votey is a black-and-white close-up of the woman's furious, scowling face as she snaps, "You're fired!" — treating the child's heartfelt craft project like a failed work assignment.