2013-07-28
Original: 2013-07-28 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (at a laptop): "Why do you feel your mother never loved you?"
Panel 2:
A small robot replies: "Because she programmed me to feel that she never loved me so psychoanalysis students could practice on me."
Woman: "Too fast. Unrealistic. You need to be more reticent."
Panel 3:
Robot (now smiling): "Nothing I do is good enough for you!"
Votey:
Woman (speech bubble): "Too pathetic. Not realistic."
Below, a close-up of the woman looking down, frowning, drawn with messy hair.
Woman (at a laptop): "Why do you feel your mother never loved you?"
Panel 2:
A small robot replies: "Because she programmed me to feel that she never loved me so psychoanalysis students could practice on me."
Woman: "Too fast. Unrealistic. You need to be more reticent."
Panel 3:
Robot (now smiling): "Nothing I do is good enough for you!"
Votey:
Woman (speech bubble): "Too pathetic. Not realistic."
Below, a close-up of the woman looking down, frowning, drawn with messy hair.
Alt text
A three-panel comic. In panel one, a woman sitting at a laptop asks a small robot, "Why do you feel your mother never loved you?" In panel two the robot answers bluntly, "Because she programmed me to feel that she never loved me so psychoanalysis students could practice on me," and the woman critiques it: "Too fast. Unrealistic. You need to be more reticent." In panel three the robot, now grinning, tries again with a more emotionally loaded line: "Nothing I do is good enough for you!" The joke is that the robot is being coached to sound like a believably damaged human therapy patient. Votey: the woman, shown in close-up looking down and frowning, dismisses even that attempt with "Too pathetic. Not realistic."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.