drone
Original: drone on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A young man (Bobby) to a young woman: "I think your hair smells nice, Charlotte."
Charlotte (suddenly distracted, looking up): "Oh, Bobby th... what the?!"
Panel 2 (yellow caption box):
Charlotte (shouting up at the sky): "Mom! I told you! You can't use the autonomous flying drone to chaperone my dates!"
Panel 3 (yellow caption box, the drone's reply):
The drone: "This tactical chaperone unit only acquires position and temperature metadata. According to our legal counsel, it does not violate your right of privacy."
Panel 4:
A small grey eye-shaped drone hovers in the air. Charlotte gestures up at it angrily.
Panel 5:
Close-up of the eye-drone (a grey lens with a yellow iris).
Panel 6:
Charlotte (continuing to argue): "It's not even about that! If I see a giant eye behind me all day long, it shows a total lack of trust in me and my ability to make good decisions about my own life!"
Panel 7:
The eye-drone hovers; the tops of Charlotte's and Bobby's heads are visible below.
Panel 8:
Bobby looks back uneasily at Charlotte, who shouts furiously.
Panel 9:
Close-up of Charlotte's furious, gritted-teeth face.
Panel 10 (scene shifts to a control room / parents watching on screens):
A balding man in a red shirt, hand on his stomach: "She raises a good point."
Panel 11:
A woman with dark curly hair and glasses, looking worried/determined: "I'll accelerate the stealth program."
Votey:
Caption: "Soon..."
A huge looming face (the mother) and a smaller worried face (Charlotte) below it.
Charlotte (shouting): "Mom! Are you in my teeth?!"
A young man (Bobby) to a young woman: "I think your hair smells nice, Charlotte."
Charlotte (suddenly distracted, looking up): "Oh, Bobby th... what the?!"
Panel 2 (yellow caption box):
Charlotte (shouting up at the sky): "Mom! I told you! You can't use the autonomous flying drone to chaperone my dates!"
Panel 3 (yellow caption box, the drone's reply):
The drone: "This tactical chaperone unit only acquires position and temperature metadata. According to our legal counsel, it does not violate your right of privacy."
Panel 4:
A small grey eye-shaped drone hovers in the air. Charlotte gestures up at it angrily.
Panel 5:
Close-up of the eye-drone (a grey lens with a yellow iris).
Panel 6:
Charlotte (continuing to argue): "It's not even about that! If I see a giant eye behind me all day long, it shows a total lack of trust in me and my ability to make good decisions about my own life!"
Panel 7:
The eye-drone hovers; the tops of Charlotte's and Bobby's heads are visible below.
Panel 8:
Bobby looks back uneasily at Charlotte, who shouts furiously.
Panel 9:
Close-up of Charlotte's furious, gritted-teeth face.
Panel 10 (scene shifts to a control room / parents watching on screens):
A balding man in a red shirt, hand on his stomach: "She raises a good point."
Panel 11:
A woman with dark curly hair and glasses, looking worried/determined: "I'll accelerate the stealth program."
Votey:
Caption: "Soon..."
A huge looming face (the mother) and a smaller worried face (Charlotte) below it.
Charlotte (shouting): "Mom! Are you in my teeth?!"
Alt text
A SMBC comic. A young man tells a young woman, "I think your hair smells nice, Charlotte." Charlotte suddenly looks up, alarmed: "Oh, Bobby th... what the?!" A small grey eye-shaped drone with a yellow iris is hovering in the sky behind her. She yells up at it: "Mom! I told you! You can't use the autonomous flying drone to chaperone my dates!" The drone replies in a robotic legal tone: "This tactical chaperone unit only acquires position and temperature metadata. According to our legal counsel, it does not violate your right of privacy." Charlotte argues back, increasingly furious: "It's not even about that! If I see a giant eye behind me all day long, it shows a total lack of trust in me and my ability to make good decisions about my own life!" The scene cuts to a control room where her parents monitor her. A balding man in a red shirt says, "She raises a good point." A worried woman with curly hair and glasses (her mother) responds, "I'll accelerate the stealth program." Votey aftercomic, captioned "Soon...": an enormous looming surveillance-face fills the frame next to a small worried Charlotte, who screams, "Mom! Are you in my teeth?!" — the parents' answer to her complaint was not less surveillance but invisible, ever-closer surveillance.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.