2009-06-18
Original: 2009-06-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (imaginary scene):
A giant green-blue mattress monster with a purple mask and jagged teeth looms over a small caped superhero kid.
Mattress monster: "THIS IS THE END OF THE LINE, KID!"
Superhero kid: "NOT SO FAST, MISTER MATTRESS! I'VE GOT ONE TRICK YOU HAVEN'T ANTICIPATED!"
Panel 2 (reality):
A woman with brown hair faces a small red-haired boy in a blue shirt, standing in a doorway.
Woman: "SO... YOU WET THE BED AGAIN?"
Boy: "THAT'S THE SHORT VERSION, YEAH."
Votey:
Two figures on a couch; one explains earnestly while the other interrupts.
First figure: "IT'S ABOUT CHILDHOOD IMAG-"
Second figure: "IT'S A PEE JOKE."
A giant green-blue mattress monster with a purple mask and jagged teeth looms over a small caped superhero kid.
Mattress monster: "THIS IS THE END OF THE LINE, KID!"
Superhero kid: "NOT SO FAST, MISTER MATTRESS! I'VE GOT ONE TRICK YOU HAVEN'T ANTICIPATED!"
Panel 2 (reality):
A woman with brown hair faces a small red-haired boy in a blue shirt, standing in a doorway.
Woman: "SO... YOU WET THE BED AGAIN?"
Boy: "THAT'S THE SHORT VERSION, YEAH."
Votey:
Two figures on a couch; one explains earnestly while the other interrupts.
First figure: "IT'S ABOUT CHILDHOOD IMAG-"
Second figure: "IT'S A PEE JOKE."
Alt text
Two-panel comic. Panel 1, a grandiose imagined battle: a giant green-blue mattress monster with a purple bandit mask and jagged teeth towers over a tiny caped superhero kid. The monster bellows, "THIS IS THE END OF THE LINE, KID!" The kid points defiantly and shouts, "NOT SO FAST, MISTER MATTRESS! I'VE GOT ONE TRICK YOU HAVEN'T ANTICIPATED!" Panel 2 cuts to mundane reality: a brown-haired woman faces a small red-haired boy in a blue shirt standing in a doorway and asks flatly, "SO... YOU WET THE BED AGAIN?" The boy replies, "THAT'S THE SHORT VERSION, YEAH" — revealing the epic mattress showdown was the kid's imaginative spin on bedwetting. Votey (sketchy black-and-white add-on): two people on a couch; one starts to explain, "IT'S ABOUT CHILDHOOD IMAG-" and the other cuts in deadpan, "IT'S A PEE JOKE."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.