2014-08-02
Original: 2014-08-02 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (main):
Child (on phone, sitting in a chair): "Dad? Is romantic love real? Like, is it affection between glowing minds in a dark cosmos, or is it as the Kandrian tells the foreigbani to get it to agree to make more babies?"
Child: "You're talking to someone in a committed, loving relationship. I believe it's real, but I'm based. Perhaps you should talk to someone who has necessarily had to take a more realistic view of human reproduction."
A voice from off-panel (Mom): "Mom, is romantic love real?"
Mom (speech bubble): "NOPE."
Votey:
A woman's face in close-up. Caption above her head: "I'M IN THIS FOR SEX."
Child (on phone, sitting in a chair): "Dad? Is romantic love real? Like, is it affection between glowing minds in a dark cosmos, or is it as the Kandrian tells the foreigbani to get it to agree to make more babies?"
Child: "You're talking to someone in a committed, loving relationship. I believe it's real, but I'm based. Perhaps you should talk to someone who has necessarily had to take a more realistic view of human reproduction."
A voice from off-panel (Mom): "Mom, is romantic love real?"
Mom (speech bubble): "NOPE."
Votey:
A woman's face in close-up. Caption above her head: "I'M IN THIS FOR SEX."
Alt text
A single wide panel shows a small child sitting in a chair, talking on a telephone in a dark, starry-cosmos setting. The child asks their dad a long, philosophical question: whether romantic love is real — something like affection between glowing minds in a dark cosmos, or just a trick to get people to agree to make more babies. The dad replies that he's in a committed, loving relationship and believes it's real, but suggests the child instead ask someone who has had to take a more realistic view of human reproduction. The child then asks, "Mom, is romantic love real?" and Mom's reply appears in a speech bubble: a flat "NOPE." Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of a woman's face with the caption above her reading, "I'M IN THIS FOR SEX."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.