2008-05-01
Original: 2008-05-01 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A blonde woman holds a large kitchen knife while standing close to a young man (seen from behind). She is smiling. Another person's face peeks in at the lower right, appearing to wear some kind of mask or disguise being pulled off.
Woman: IT'S ME, SON! IT'S ME! I WAS ONLY DRESSING LIKE THE GUY WHO KEPT YOU IN HIS BASEMENT FOR SIX YEARS TO PUNISH YOU FOR GETTING A B-MINUS ON YOUR HISTORY TEST!
Caption (below panel): "Pretty creative, huh?"
Votey:
A hand pats the young man on the head. He has a small, blank, slightly dazed expression.
Woman (offscreen, via speech bubble): I'LL LEAVE THIS FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT.
A blonde woman holds a large kitchen knife while standing close to a young man (seen from behind). She is smiling. Another person's face peeks in at the lower right, appearing to wear some kind of mask or disguise being pulled off.
Woman: IT'S ME, SON! IT'S ME! I WAS ONLY DRESSING LIKE THE GUY WHO KEPT YOU IN HIS BASEMENT FOR SIX YEARS TO PUNISH YOU FOR GETTING A B-MINUS ON YOUR HISTORY TEST!
Caption (below panel): "Pretty creative, huh?"
Votey:
A hand pats the young man on the head. He has a small, blank, slightly dazed expression.
Woman (offscreen, via speech bubble): I'LL LEAVE THIS FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT.
Alt text
A smiling blonde woman holds a large kitchen knife next to her grown son (shown from behind). A disguised face is being peeled away at the lower right, revealing she had been impersonating someone. She says: "It's me, son! It's me! I was only dressing like the guy who kept you in his basement for six years to punish you for getting a B-minus on your history test!" A caption reads "Pretty creative, huh?" In the votey panel, the mother pats her dazed-looking son on the head and says, "I'll leave this for you to think about." The joke is a horrifyingly disproportionate, abusive punishment played off casually as clever parenting.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.