2007-01-21

Color comic, single panel. A young red-haired girl in a pink shirt stands by a window asking her balding father (in a green shirt), 'Daddy... where do babies come from?' He stammers, 'Uh... uh... well...' A sign on the wall reads 'TEENAGE STDs UP.' The girl then recites the textbook answer herself: 'When a sperm cell combines with an egg cell, it forms a zygote, which...' Below the panel, the father's relieved inner thoughts read: 'Oh thank GOD! I'd thought for sure it was unprotected sex.' Votey (black-and-white add-on panel): a grinning person gestures at a child seen from behind and says, 'Nope, he didn't say anything about using a condom!' The joke: the dad's relief that the child knows the clinical mechanics is undercut by the child having taken his non-answer as license to skip protection.