2009-04-11
Original: 2009-04-11 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: HALLOWEEN TIPS: A GOOD COSTUME IS IN THE DETAILS
Main comic (single panel):
Two trick-or-treaters stand outside a house at night; a woman stands in the lit doorway.
Boy dressed as Frankenstein's monster (green face, bolts, orange shirt): "How'd you get so much more candy? I'm Frankenstein!"
Child in a white ghost sheet costume holding a jack-o'-lantern candy pail: "I'm the ghost of my dead father. I miss him. I miss him so much."
Frankenstein boy: "Well played."
Ghost child: "Thank you."
Votey:
The woman in the doorway speaks to the ghost child.
Woman: "I know your dad. I saw him at work today."
Ghost child: "Uh... He died on the way here." Then, in a smaller wavering voice: "Wooooooo!"
Main comic (single panel):
Two trick-or-treaters stand outside a house at night; a woman stands in the lit doorway.
Boy dressed as Frankenstein's monster (green face, bolts, orange shirt): "How'd you get so much more candy? I'm Frankenstein!"
Child in a white ghost sheet costume holding a jack-o'-lantern candy pail: "I'm the ghost of my dead father. I miss him. I miss him so much."
Frankenstein boy: "Well played."
Ghost child: "Thank you."
Votey:
The woman in the doorway speaks to the ghost child.
Woman: "I know your dad. I saw him at work today."
Ghost child: "Uh... He died on the way here." Then, in a smaller wavering voice: "Wooooooo!"
Alt text
An SMBC comic with an orange title banner reading "HALLOWEEN TIPS: A GOOD COSTUME IS IN THE DETAILS." In a single nighttime panel, two trick-or-treaters stand outside a house where a woman watches from the lit doorway. One boy wears a Frankenstein's-monster costume (green face, neck bolts, orange shirt) and asks, "How'd you get so much more candy? I'm Frankenstein!" The other child, in a simple white ghost sheet and holding a jack-o'-lantern candy bucket, replies, "I'm the ghost of my dead father. I miss him. I miss him so much." The Frankenstein boy concedes, "Well played," and the ghost answers, "Thank you" — the joke being that a heart-wrenching backstory is the costume detail that wins more candy. In the black-and-white votey, the woman in the doorway tells the ghost child, "I know your dad. I saw him at work today." Caught in the lie, the ghost stammers, "Uh... He died on the way here," then weakly adds, "Wooooooo!" to keep up the haunting act.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.