2014-01-08
Original: 2014-01-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A view from inside a car driving through a suburban neighborhood. A young girl with brown hair sits in the back seat holding a blue cardboard box labeled in handwriting "R.I.P. Mr. Scruffles".
Girl: DAD, WHERE DO KITTIES GO WHEN THEY DIE?
Panel 2: A man with glasses drives the car; the girl sits beside/behind him still holding the box.
Dad: SAME PLACE MOMMY WENT WHEN SHE LEFT US.
Panel 3: Close-up of the girl's face.
Girl: TO YOUR FORMER BEST FRIEND'S HOUSE?
Panel 4: Exterior view of a house with the car parked outside; the girl walks toward the house carrying the box.
Dad: YEAH. SEE IF YOU CAN FIT IT THROUGH THE MAIL SLOT.
Votey:
Close-up of the smiling dad's face.
Dad: ISN'T DADDY-DAUGHTER DAY FUN?
Girl: DAD, WHERE DO KITTIES GO WHEN THEY DIE?
Panel 2: A man with glasses drives the car; the girl sits beside/behind him still holding the box.
Dad: SAME PLACE MOMMY WENT WHEN SHE LEFT US.
Panel 3: Close-up of the girl's face.
Girl: TO YOUR FORMER BEST FRIEND'S HOUSE?
Panel 4: Exterior view of a house with the car parked outside; the girl walks toward the house carrying the box.
Dad: YEAH. SEE IF YOU CAN FIT IT THROUGH THE MAIL SLOT.
Votey:
Close-up of the smiling dad's face.
Dad: ISN'T DADDY-DAUGHTER DAY FUN?
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic set in and around a car driving through a suburb. Panel 1: from inside the car, a young girl with brown hair in the back seat holds a blue cardboard box handwritten "R.I.P. Mr. Scruffles" and asks, "Dad, where do kitties go when they die?" Panel 2: her bespectacled dad drives, answering, "Same place mommy went when she left us." Panel 3: close-up of the girl, who replies, "To your former best friend's house?" Panel 4: the car is parked outside a house and the girl walks toward it carrying the box; dad says, "Yeah. See if you can fit it through the mail slot." The joke: dad isn't burying the cat or mourning his wife so much as dumping both on the ex-friend / new partner's doorstep. Votey: a close-up of the dad grinning widely as he says, "Isn't daddy-daughter day fun?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.