2011-01-27
Original: 2011-01-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: An elderly woman with gray hair and round glasses holds a box labeled "RUBBER BANDS."
Panel 2: The grandmother stretches a rubber band between her hands, frowning in concentration.
Panel 3: She strains, pulling the rubber band, now hooked over her nose and around her face.
Grandmother: HRRNGH...
Panel 4: Straining harder, eyes bulging, the rubber band stretched across her face.
Grandmother: GUURRGH!
Panel 5: She bites down on the rubber band, pulling it taut with both hands, eyes wide with effort.
Grandmother: MAAAA AAAH!
Panel 6: A young dark-haired woman stands beside the grandmother, looking distressed.
Young woman: OKAY, GRANDMA! I PROMISE - NO UNPROTECTED SEX!
Grandmother: GOOD GIRL.
Votey:
A man and the bespectacled woman sit together; she leans on him.
Woman: IT'S SAD THAT I'LL NEVER BE A GRANDMA.
Man: YOU'RE WEIRD.
Panel 2: The grandmother stretches a rubber band between her hands, frowning in concentration.
Panel 3: She strains, pulling the rubber band, now hooked over her nose and around her face.
Grandmother: HRRNGH...
Panel 4: Straining harder, eyes bulging, the rubber band stretched across her face.
Grandmother: GUURRGH!
Panel 5: She bites down on the rubber band, pulling it taut with both hands, eyes wide with effort.
Grandmother: MAAAA AAAH!
Panel 6: A young dark-haired woman stands beside the grandmother, looking distressed.
Young woman: OKAY, GRANDMA! I PROMISE - NO UNPROTECTED SEX!
Grandmother: GOOD GIRL.
Votey:
A man and the bespectacled woman sit together; she leans on him.
Woman: IT'S SAD THAT I'LL NEVER BE A GRANDMA.
Man: YOU'RE WEIRD.
Alt text
A six-panel comic. An elderly woman with gray hair and round glasses takes a rubber band from a box labeled "RUBBER BANDS." She stretches it between her hands, then strains harder and harder, the band hooked over her face, groaning "HRRNGH...", "GUURRGH!", and finally biting it taut and shrieking "MAAAAAAAH!" In the final panel, a distressed young dark-haired woman beside her promises, "OKAY, GRANDMA! I PROMISE - NO UNPROTECTED SEX!" The grandmother, the rubber band still stretched around her face, replies, "GOOD GIRL." The joke: the grandmother's grotesque rubber-band ordeal was a theatrical demonstration to scare her granddaughter into using contraception. Votey: a man and a bespectacled woman sit together; she leans on him and says, "IT'S SAD THAT I'LL NEVER BE A GRANDMA," and he replies, "YOU'RE WEIRD."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.