2006-11-12
Original: 2006-11-12 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Father: SO SON, WHADDYA WANT TO READ TONIGHT?
Panel 2:
Young boy (red/orange hair): "AN ELEPHANT NEVER FORGETS!"
Young boy: HAHAHA! AGAIN?
Panel 3:
(An elephant in a suit reads aloud from the book held in front of him.)
Book text: "I remember with perfect clarity the face of every woman who ever scorned me."
Votey:
(Close-up of the elephant wearing a small hat.)
Elephant: "Drinking does nothing"
Father: SO SON, WHADDYA WANT TO READ TONIGHT?
Panel 2:
Young boy (red/orange hair): "AN ELEPHANT NEVER FORGETS!"
Young boy: HAHAHA! AGAIN?
Panel 3:
(An elephant in a suit reads aloud from the book held in front of him.)
Book text: "I remember with perfect clarity the face of every woman who ever scorned me."
Votey:
(Close-up of the elephant wearing a small hat.)
Elephant: "Drinking does nothing"
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: a father leans in and asks, "So son, whaddya want to read tonight?" Panel 2: a smiling boy with reddish hair excitedly says, "'An Elephant Never Forgets!'" then laughs, "Hahaha! Again?" Panel 3: the punchline reveals the book itself, a melancholy elephant in a suit reading aloud the line, "I remember with perfect clarity the face of every woman who ever scorned me." The joke: the cheerful children's title hides a tale of an elephant cursed by a perfect memory of every heartbreak. Votey (aftercomic): a sketch of the sad elephant now wearing a small hat, sighing, "Drinking does nothing" — he can't even forget his pain by drinking.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.