2010-08-19
Original: 2010-08-19 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Girl (kneeling in prayer at a bedside): Dear God... please cure my daddy.
Reply (yellow speech bubble): Sorry, no can do, but if he DOES pull through, you can feel free to thank me.
Panel 2:
Girl: Dear Philosophy... please make my daddy's illness acceptable.
Reply (blue speech bubble): Reality is inscrutable so the concept of "dad" is not clearly meaningful. A better question would be--
Panel 3:
Girl: Dear Science... please cure my daddy.
Reply (green speech bubble): It is DONE!
Panel 4 (girl smiling, hands clasped happily):
(no text)
Panel 5:
Reply (green speech bubble): Yeah, I'll probably be able to say that in 50 years.
Votey:
A man's face in profile, speech bubble: + or - 100
Girl (kneeling in prayer at a bedside): Dear God... please cure my daddy.
Reply (yellow speech bubble): Sorry, no can do, but if he DOES pull through, you can feel free to thank me.
Panel 2:
Girl: Dear Philosophy... please make my daddy's illness acceptable.
Reply (blue speech bubble): Reality is inscrutable so the concept of "dad" is not clearly meaningful. A better question would be--
Panel 3:
Girl: Dear Science... please cure my daddy.
Reply (green speech bubble): It is DONE!
Panel 4 (girl smiling, hands clasped happily):
(no text)
Panel 5:
Reply (green speech bubble): Yeah, I'll probably be able to say that in 50 years.
Votey:
A man's face in profile, speech bubble: + or - 100
Alt text
A girl kneels in prayer at the bedside of her sick father across four scenes. First she prays, "Dear God... please cure my daddy," and a yellow voice replies, "Sorry, no can do, but if he DOES pull through, you can feel free to thank me." Next she prays, "Dear Philosophy... please make my daddy's illness acceptable," and a blue voice replies, "Reality is inscrutable so the concept of 'dad' is not clearly meaningful. A better question would be--" Then she prays, "Dear Science... please cure my daddy," and a green voice declares, "It is DONE!" The girl beams with hands clasped in delight. But the green voice continues, "Yeah, I'll probably be able to say that in 50 years." Votey: a man's face in profile with a speech bubble reading "+ or - 100", hedging the timeline even further.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.