2009-03-19
Original: 2009-03-19 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An older man with grey hair and glasses stands on a sidewalk with a young girl in a pink shirt and yellow apron-dress, who looks sad and is pointing downward.
Man: "No, sweetie, he's not dead... Under extreme conditions, cats are known to divide asexually."
Caption (below panel): "And hey, what's more extreme than getting hit by a truck?"
Votey:
Girl: "How long do they stay motionless?"
Man: "Until you're old enough to accept death."
An older man with grey hair and glasses stands on a sidewalk with a young girl in a pink shirt and yellow apron-dress, who looks sad and is pointing downward.
Man: "No, sweetie, he's not dead... Under extreme conditions, cats are known to divide asexually."
Caption (below panel): "And hey, what's more extreme than getting hit by a truck?"
Votey:
Girl: "How long do they stay motionless?"
Man: "Until you're old enough to accept death."
Alt text
A black-and-white-bordered color comic. An older grey-haired man wearing glasses stands on a sidewalk beside a sad-looking little girl in a pink shirt and yellow apron-dress, who points downward at the ground. The man reassures her: "No, sweetie, he's not dead... Under extreme conditions, cats are known to divide asexually." A caption below reads: "And hey, what's more extreme than getting hit by a truck?" The joke is the man inventing absurd pseudo-science to avoid telling the girl her cat was killed. Votey (aftercomic, black-and-white sketch): The girl asks, "How long do they stay motionless?" and the man answers, "Until you're old enough to accept death."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.