2012-05-26
Original: 2012-05-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Reporter (a woman with glasses, off-panel/foreground): SENATOR, WHAT'S YOUR STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE?
Senator (an older man in a suit with a red tie): IT SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED. I MEAN... HOW DO WE EXPLAIN THAT TO OUR CHILDREN?
Panel 2:
Reporter: GOT IT. SO YOUR CODE OF ETHICS IS TO OPPOSE THINGS THAT ARE HARD TO EXPLAIN TO KIDS.
Panel 3:
Senator: WELL, I DON'T-
Reporter: NOPE, THAT'S FINE! GOT IT, THANKS!
Panel 4 (a newspaper/website headline):
NewsNet
SENATOR OPPOSES GAY MARRIAGE.
(ALSO WAR, FOREPLAY, ARITHMETIC)
Votey:
(Handwritten text continuing the parenthetical list)
ALSO CONDOMS, DINNER ETIQUETTE, CHEMOTHERAPY.
Reporter (a woman with glasses, off-panel/foreground): SENATOR, WHAT'S YOUR STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE?
Senator (an older man in a suit with a red tie): IT SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED. I MEAN... HOW DO WE EXPLAIN THAT TO OUR CHILDREN?
Panel 2:
Reporter: GOT IT. SO YOUR CODE OF ETHICS IS TO OPPOSE THINGS THAT ARE HARD TO EXPLAIN TO KIDS.
Panel 3:
Senator: WELL, I DON'T-
Reporter: NOPE, THAT'S FINE! GOT IT, THANKS!
Panel 4 (a newspaper/website headline):
NewsNet
SENATOR OPPOSES GAY MARRIAGE.
(ALSO WAR, FOREPLAY, ARITHMETIC)
Votey:
(Handwritten text continuing the parenthetical list)
ALSO CONDOMS, DINNER ETIQUETTE, CHEMOTHERAPY.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A reporter (a woman with glasses) asks an older man in a suit, 'Senator, what's your stance on gay marriage?' He replies, 'It shouldn't be allowed. I mean... how do we explain that to our children?' Panel 2: The reporter, deadpan, says, 'Got it. So your code of ethics is to oppose things that are hard to explain to kids.' Panel 3: The senator starts to object, 'Well, I don't-' but the reporter cuts him off cheerfully, 'Nope, that's fine! Got it, thanks!' Panel 4: A NewsNet headline reads, 'SENATOR OPPOSES GAY MARRIAGE.' with a smaller line beneath: '(also war, foreplay, arithmetic).' The joke: taking the senator's reasoning to its absurd conclusion produces a list of unrelated things equally hard to explain to children. Votey (aftercomic): The parenthetical list continues in handwriting: 'Also condoms, dinner etiquette, chemotherapy.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.