2014-06-19
Original: 2014-06-19 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Daughter: WOW! YOU KEPT MY BABY TEETH?
Mother: EVERY ONE!
Daughter: THAT'S SWEET.
Panel 2:
Mother: OH SALLY, IT'S JUST MOMMY STUFF. I ALSO KEPT YOUR HAIR AFTER YOUR HAIRCUTS.
Sally: HUH. ALL OF IT?
Panel 3:
Mother: YEP! AND YOUR NAILS AFTER WE CLIPPED THEM.
Sally: OKAY...
Panel 4:
Mother: ALSO SKIN. YOU'RE ALWAYS LOSING A LITTLE SKIN, Y'KNOW!
Sally: WHAT IN THE HELL
Panel 5:
Mother: EVERY TIME A CELL OF YOUR BODY DIED, I SAVED IT. SO FAR I HAVE THREE COMPLETE SALLIES, EXCEPT FOR NERVOUS SYSTEM CELLS, WHICH ARE LONG-LIVED... BUT I'LL GET 'EM.
Panel 6:
(A crowd of silhouetted figures; the mother stands among them looking unhinged. No dialogue.)
Panel 7:
Sally (or onlooker): THIS IS THE MOST TERRIFYING CASE OF EMPTY NEST SYNDROME I'VE EVER SEEN.
Mother: THE NEST ISN'T EMPTY...
Panel 8:
Mother: IT'S FULL OF BABIES.
Votey:
A close-up of the mother's face, manic and wide-eyed, with a speech bubble reading: "JUSSST MOMMY STUFF!"
Daughter: WOW! YOU KEPT MY BABY TEETH?
Mother: EVERY ONE!
Daughter: THAT'S SWEET.
Panel 2:
Mother: OH SALLY, IT'S JUST MOMMY STUFF. I ALSO KEPT YOUR HAIR AFTER YOUR HAIRCUTS.
Sally: HUH. ALL OF IT?
Panel 3:
Mother: YEP! AND YOUR NAILS AFTER WE CLIPPED THEM.
Sally: OKAY...
Panel 4:
Mother: ALSO SKIN. YOU'RE ALWAYS LOSING A LITTLE SKIN, Y'KNOW!
Sally: WHAT IN THE HELL
Panel 5:
Mother: EVERY TIME A CELL OF YOUR BODY DIED, I SAVED IT. SO FAR I HAVE THREE COMPLETE SALLIES, EXCEPT FOR NERVOUS SYSTEM CELLS, WHICH ARE LONG-LIVED... BUT I'LL GET 'EM.
Panel 6:
(A crowd of silhouetted figures; the mother stands among them looking unhinged. No dialogue.)
Panel 7:
Sally (or onlooker): THIS IS THE MOST TERRIFYING CASE OF EMPTY NEST SYNDROME I'VE EVER SEEN.
Mother: THE NEST ISN'T EMPTY...
Panel 8:
Mother: IT'S FULL OF BABIES.
Votey:
A close-up of the mother's face, manic and wide-eyed, with a speech bubble reading: "JUSSST MOMMY STUFF!"
Alt text
An eight-panel black-and-white comic. A grown daughter named Sally and her gray-haired mother talk. Sally is touched that her mother saved all her baby teeth, but the mother keeps adding to the list: she also kept all of Sally's cut hair, her clipped nails, and her shed skin. Sally grows alarmed ("WHAT IN THE HELL"). The mother, increasingly wild-eyed, explains she saved every cell of Sally's body as it died, so she now has three complete copies of Sally—except for slow-dying nervous-system cells, which she'll get eventually. A wide panel shows a crowd of shadowy silhouetted figures (the duplicate Sallies) surrounding the mother. Someone remarks this is the most terrifying case of empty nest syndrome they've ever seen; the mother replies the nest isn't empty—"IT'S FULL OF BABIES." Votey panel: an extreme close-up of the mother's manic, grinning face declaring "JUSSST MOMMY STUFF!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.