2013-09-03
Original: 2013-09-03 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Brown-haired daughter: Mom, do you really love me, or do you only love me because I carry 50% of your genetics?
Red-haired mother: Sweetie! Why would you ask that?
Panel 2:
Brown-haired daughter: Well, it just seems like you give your asexually cloned daughter twice as much attention and nutrition.
(A second, red-haired girl in a green shirt stands beside the brown-haired daughter.)
Panel 3:
Red-haired mother (face contorted with rage): How dare you?! I don't play favorites!
Panel 4:
Red-haired mother (embracing the red-haired cloned girl): I'm so sorry my little dumpling. Sorry you had to hear the mean words. We'll go out for ice cream later, just you and me.
Panel 5:
Red-haired mother (to the brown-haired daughter): And YOU will receive half of your calorie allotment today.
Brown-haired daughter: I'm gonna tell dad.
Panel 6:
Red-haired cloned girl: I share no kinship with that individual!
Votey:
Brown-haired daughter (off-panel, speech bubble): Dad! Mom said-
Dad (a bald man with sunglasses): Don't care. r=0.0
Brown-haired daughter: Mom, do you really love me, or do you only love me because I carry 50% of your genetics?
Red-haired mother: Sweetie! Why would you ask that?
Panel 2:
Brown-haired daughter: Well, it just seems like you give your asexually cloned daughter twice as much attention and nutrition.
(A second, red-haired girl in a green shirt stands beside the brown-haired daughter.)
Panel 3:
Red-haired mother (face contorted with rage): How dare you?! I don't play favorites!
Panel 4:
Red-haired mother (embracing the red-haired cloned girl): I'm so sorry my little dumpling. Sorry you had to hear the mean words. We'll go out for ice cream later, just you and me.
Panel 5:
Red-haired mother (to the brown-haired daughter): And YOU will receive half of your calorie allotment today.
Brown-haired daughter: I'm gonna tell dad.
Panel 6:
Red-haired cloned girl: I share no kinship with that individual!
Votey:
Brown-haired daughter (off-panel, speech bubble): Dad! Mom said-
Dad (a bald man with sunglasses): Don't care. r=0.0
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A brown-haired girl asks her red-haired mother, "Mom, do you really love me, or do you only love me because I carry 50% of your genetics?" The mother replies, "Sweetie! Why would you ask that?" The girl explains that her mother gives "your asexually cloned daughter twice as much attention and nutrition" — revealing a second red-haired girl in a green shirt standing beside her. The mother's face twists with fury: "How dare you?! I don't play favorites!" She then tenderly embraces the red-haired clone, cooing, "I'm so sorry my little dumpling... we'll go out for ice cream later, just you and me," while coldly telling the brown-haired daughter, "And YOU will receive half of your calorie allotment today." The daughter says, "I'm gonna tell dad." In the final panel the smug red-haired clone declares, "I share no kinship with that individual!" In the votey aftercomic, the daughter starts, "Dad! Mom said-" but a bald man in sunglasses cuts her off: "Don't care. r=0.0" — the genetic relatedness coefficient between a child and a non-biological father being zero.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.