2014-10-23
Original: 2014-10-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A young red-haired boy holds a green long-necked dinosaur toy and beams up at his father (off-panel).
Boy: I LOVE BRONTOSAURUS THE MOST! I LOVE BRONTOSAURUS EVEN MORE THAN YOU, DADDY!
Panel 2: A close-up of the father, a stern bearded man with round glasses and a mustache, looking displeased.
Panel 3: Caption banner: LATER...
The same bearded, bespectacled man, now older, stands at a lectern delivering a lecture.
Man: WE HAVE RECLASSIFIED THE SPECIES AS APATOSAURUS. BRONTOSAURUS NEVER EXISTED.
Votey:
Handwritten note:
Apatosaurus.
From the Greek απάτη,
meaning "deceit"
Boy: I LOVE BRONTOSAURUS THE MOST! I LOVE BRONTOSAURUS EVEN MORE THAN YOU, DADDY!
Panel 2: A close-up of the father, a stern bearded man with round glasses and a mustache, looking displeased.
Panel 3: Caption banner: LATER...
The same bearded, bespectacled man, now older, stands at a lectern delivering a lecture.
Man: WE HAVE RECLASSIFIED THE SPECIES AS APATOSAURUS. BRONTOSAURUS NEVER EXISTED.
Votey:
Handwritten note:
Apatosaurus.
From the Greek απάτη,
meaning "deceit"
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: a happy red-haired boy in a dark jacket cradles a green long-necked dinosaur toy and tells his off-panel father, "I love Brontosaurus the most! I love Brontosaurus even more than you, Daddy!" Panel 2: a close-up of the father, a stern bearded man with round spectacles, looking quietly offended. Panel 3, labeled "Later...": the same man, now grey and older, stands at a lectern giving a lecture and declares, "We have reclassified the species as Apatosaurus. Brontosaurus never existed." The joke is that the slighted father grew up to be a scientist and took revenge by erasing the dinosaur his son loved more than him. Votey aftercomic: a handwritten note reading "Apatosaurus. From the Greek απάτη, meaning 'deceit'" — implying the renaming was a deliberate, spiteful trick.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.