2013-03-14
Original: 2013-03-14 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Mother (a woman with brown hair and round glasses, wearing a green shirt): "...he had a parasite that needed to get its host eaten by a fox on the other side. It lesioned his sensorimotor cortex, causing it to waddle forward uncontrollably."
(A red-haired boy in a blue shirt listens, looking unsettled.)
Panel 2:
Caption banner: EARLIER...
The red-haired boy (off-panel, speech bubble): "Hey Mom! Why did the chicken cross the road?"
(The mother sits looking weary; the grinning boy appears small in the lower-right corner.)
Votey:
Close-up sketch of the mother's face, leaning in intensely.
Mother: "And it could happen to you."
Mother (a woman with brown hair and round glasses, wearing a green shirt): "...he had a parasite that needed to get its host eaten by a fox on the other side. It lesioned his sensorimotor cortex, causing it to waddle forward uncontrollably."
(A red-haired boy in a blue shirt listens, looking unsettled.)
Panel 2:
Caption banner: EARLIER...
The red-haired boy (off-panel, speech bubble): "Hey Mom! Why did the chicken cross the road?"
(The mother sits looking weary; the grinning boy appears small in the lower-right corner.)
Votey:
Close-up sketch of the mother's face, leaning in intensely.
Mother: "And it could happen to you."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel one: a weary mother with round glasses and a green shirt earnestly explains to her wide-eyed red-haired son, 'He had a parasite that needed to get its host eaten by a fox on the other side. It lesioned his sensorimotor cortex, causing it to waddle forward uncontrollably.' Panel two, captioned 'EARLIER...', shows the same mother sitting deflated while the grinning little boy in the corner has just asked, 'Hey Mom! Why did the chicken cross the road?' The joke: she answered the simple kids' riddle with a grim, detailed parasitology lecture. Votey: a rough close-up of the mother's intense face leaning in, adding, 'And it could happen to you.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.