2015-02-09
Original: 2015-02-09 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (with long dark hair, green shirt): The itsy bitsy spider was trapped in purgatory.
Panel 2:
Woman: Endlessly repeating the same Sisyphean story.
Panel 3:
Woman: He climbs and he falls, so it knows that time is passing.
Panel 4:
Woman (arms raised dramatically): But nothing is achieved, though the toil is everlasting.
Panel 5:
Girl (off to the side): Mom, I think you're dealing poorly with the divorce.
Mom: Hey. You wanna hear this song about Mary's co-dependent lawn?
Votey:
A woman with glasses and a flat, deadpan expression, speaking: I will tell you now of Autocrat Cole.
Woman (with long dark hair, green shirt): The itsy bitsy spider was trapped in purgatory.
Panel 2:
Woman: Endlessly repeating the same Sisyphean story.
Panel 3:
Woman: He climbs and he falls, so it knows that time is passing.
Panel 4:
Woman (arms raised dramatically): But nothing is achieved, though the toil is everlasting.
Panel 5:
Girl (off to the side): Mom, I think you're dealing poorly with the divorce.
Mom: Hey. You wanna hear this song about Mary's co-dependent lawn?
Votey:
A woman with glasses and a flat, deadpan expression, speaking: I will tell you now of Autocrat Cole.
Alt text
A five-panel comic. A mother with long dark hair recites a grim, poetic retelling of "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" to her child. Panel 1: "The itsy bitsy spider was trapped in purgatory." Panel 2: "Endlessly repeating the same Sisyphean story." Panel 3: "He climbs and he falls, so it knows that time is passing." Panel 4, arms raised dramatically: "But nothing is achieved, though the toil is everlasting." Panel 5: a young girl says, "Mom, I think you're dealing poorly with the divorce," and the mom cheerfully deflects, "Hey. You wanna hear this song about Mary's co-dependent lawn?" The joke is the mother projecting her divorce bleakness onto innocent nursery rhymes. Votey: a deadpan woman in glasses announces, "I will tell you now of Autocrat Cole," teasing yet another grim nursery-rhyme rewrite (Old King Cole).
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.