2009-01-03
Original: 2009-01-03 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with thinning hair sits at a table holding a pen and a sheet of paper, an interview/adoption form in front of him. A woman with gray hair sits across from him, seen from behind. The man speaks.
Man: "Out of curiosity, how many children do you think it would take to carry a man around on a two-foot wide pedestal?"
Caption (below panel): Apparently, the orphanage has a bias against single parents.
Votey:
View of a man standing on a small round two-foot-wide pedestal that is being carried by children beneath it; the legs and shoes of the man stand on top of the platform while a child's face is visible underneath, straining.
A child (under the pedestal): "Man, those guys are jerks."
A man with thinning hair sits at a table holding a pen and a sheet of paper, an interview/adoption form in front of him. A woman with gray hair sits across from him, seen from behind. The man speaks.
Man: "Out of curiosity, how many children do you think it would take to carry a man around on a two-foot wide pedestal?"
Caption (below panel): Apparently, the orphanage has a bias against single parents.
Votey:
View of a man standing on a small round two-foot-wide pedestal that is being carried by children beneath it; the legs and shoes of the man stand on top of the platform while a child's face is visible underneath, straining.
A child (under the pedestal): "Man, those guys are jerks."
Alt text
Main comic, single panel: A balding man sits at a table during what appears to be an adoption interview, holding a pen over a form. A gray-haired woman sits across from him, viewed from behind. He asks, "Out of curiosity, how many children do you think it would take to carry a man around on a two-foot wide pedestal?" A caption below reads: "Apparently, the orphanage has a bias against single parents." The joke: he wants to adopt children only to use them as labor to carry him on a pedestal. Votey (black-and-white aftercomic): A man stands on a small round two-foot-wide pedestal that is being carried by children hidden underneath it. One child's straining face is visible below the platform, saying, "Man, those guys are jerks."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.