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2014-02-22

Original: 2014-02-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
Little girl: MOMMY, WHERE DO PUPPIES GO WHEN THEY DIE?

Panel 2:
Mother: TO A MAGICAL WONDERFUL PLACE WITH A GREAT BIG PARK AND ALL THE SNACKS THEY COULD WANT AND A ZILLION OTHER PUPPIES.

Panel 3:
Little girl: WOW! WOW!

Panel 4 (wide bottom panel):
Little girl (running to her father): DADDY! I WISH I WAS DEAD!

Votey:
Close-up on the father's face, looking grim behind glasses.
Father (thinking/correcting): "I WISH I WERE DEAD."

Alt text

A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A small girl with orange hair asks, "Mommy, where do puppies go when they die?" Panel 2: Her smiling mother in a blue shirt answers, "To a magical wonderful place with a great big park and all the snacks they could want and a zillion other puppies." Panel 3: The delighted girl exclaims, "Wow! Wow!" Panel 4 (wide): The girl runs excitedly toward her father, who sits looking glum in glasses, and shouts, "Daddy! I wish I was dead!" The mother watches from a doorway in the background. Votey (aftercomic): A close-up of the father's grim face behind his glasses, with a thought bubble grammatically correcting his daughter: "I wish I WERE dead."

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.