2012-02-25
Original: 2012-02-25 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption): THERE WAS AN OLD LADY.
Scene: An elderly woman with gray hair, wearing a pink robe, sits in a red armchair in a cozy living room, knitting something yellow. A grandfather clock and framed pictures are on the walls.
Panel 2 (caption): WHO LIVED IN A SHOE.
Scene: A large boot-shaped house with windows, a door, and laces, set in a fenced suburban yard.
Panel 3 (caption): SHOES ARE NOT PERMITTED BY CITY ZONING LAW.
Scene: A man in a gray uniform and cap (an official) hands a document to the old woman, who stands in her doorway looking dismayed.
Panel 4 (caption): SHE LIVES IN A NURSING HOME NOW.
Scene: The old woman sits alone in a wheelchair in a bare, dark room.
Votey:
Close-up of the old woman's face, distressed.
Old woman: I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!
Scene: An elderly woman with gray hair, wearing a pink robe, sits in a red armchair in a cozy living room, knitting something yellow. A grandfather clock and framed pictures are on the walls.
Panel 2 (caption): WHO LIVED IN A SHOE.
Scene: A large boot-shaped house with windows, a door, and laces, set in a fenced suburban yard.
Panel 3 (caption): SHOES ARE NOT PERMITTED BY CITY ZONING LAW.
Scene: A man in a gray uniform and cap (an official) hands a document to the old woman, who stands in her doorway looking dismayed.
Panel 4 (caption): SHE LIVES IN A NURSING HOME NOW.
Scene: The old woman sits alone in a wheelchair in a bare, dark room.
Votey:
Close-up of the old woman's face, distressed.
Old woman: I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!
Alt text
A four-panel comic that parodies the nursery rhyme. Panel 1, captioned 'THERE WAS AN OLD LADY,' shows a gray-haired elderly woman in a pink robe knitting in a red armchair in a cozy room with a grandfather clock. Panel 2, captioned 'WHO LIVED IN A SHOE,' shows a large boot-shaped house with windows, a door, and laces in a fenced yard. Panel 3, captioned 'SHOES ARE NOT PERMITTED BY CITY ZONING LAW,' shows a uniformed official handing the dismayed woman an official document at her door. Panel 4, captioned 'SHE LIVES IN A NURSING HOME NOW,' shows the woman alone in a wheelchair in a bare dark room. The joke: the whimsical nursery-rhyme premise is crushed by mundane zoning bureaucracy. Votey: a black-and-white close-up of the old woman's distressed face as she cries, 'I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.