2010-10-25
Original: 2010-10-25 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with reddish-orange hair (in a lab coat): "So, how was your first time travel."
Woman with dark hair (in a lab coat): "Great! I went back and changed things so the word 'eight' is now pronounced 'sodomized.'"
Panel 2:
Man: "I don't get it. Why?"
Panel 3:
Woman: "Why was six afraid of seven?"
Panel 4:
Man: "Because seven..."
Panel 5:
The man looks down, dismayed, working it out. (No dialogue.)
Panel 6:
Man (to the woman, deadpan): "Well played."
Votey:
The woman, grinning widely, says: "And nine is now your mom."
Man with reddish-orange hair (in a lab coat): "So, how was your first time travel."
Woman with dark hair (in a lab coat): "Great! I went back and changed things so the word 'eight' is now pronounced 'sodomized.'"
Panel 2:
Man: "I don't get it. Why?"
Panel 3:
Woman: "Why was six afraid of seven?"
Panel 4:
Man: "Because seven..."
Panel 5:
The man looks down, dismayed, working it out. (No dialogue.)
Panel 6:
Man (to the woman, deadpan): "Well played."
Votey:
The woman, grinning widely, says: "And nine is now your mom."
Alt text
A six-panel comic between two scientists in lab coats: a man with reddish-orange hair and a woman with dark hair. Panel 1: The man asks, "So, how was your first time travel." The woman beams: "Great! I went back and changed things so the word 'eight' is now pronounced 'sodomized.'" Panel 2: The man, puzzled: "I don't get it. Why?" Panel 3: The woman, grinning: "Why was six afraid of seven?" Panel 4: The man begins: "Because seven..." Panel 5: He looks down, dismayed, as the joke (seven 'ate'/'sodomized' nine) dawns on him. Panel 6: Resigned and deadpan, he says, "Well played." The joke: in the classic riddle 'seven ate nine,' her time-travel edit makes the punchline obscene. Votey: A rough hand-drawn close-up of the grinning woman delivering one more line: "And nine is now your mom."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.