an-accident
Original: an-accident on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Parent (a woman): I'm afraid you were an accident.
Child: That's okay! Lots of kids happen by accident. I'm just glad to have a loving mommy and daddy.
Panel 2:
Parent: No, I mean... like, we had a monkey and accidentally spilled gene-altering nano-enzymes into it, and it metamorphosed into what appears to be a human child.
Panel 3:
Child (now looking distressed/crying): Honestly? A little.
Parent: Are you upset?
Parent: I'll get you some bananas.
Votey:
No text. A small child stands at the lower left looking unhappy/sullen with arms crossed, while two adults (a man and a woman) stand together looking down, with a counter or table in the foreground.
Parent (a woman): I'm afraid you were an accident.
Child: That's okay! Lots of kids happen by accident. I'm just glad to have a loving mommy and daddy.
Panel 2:
Parent: No, I mean... like, we had a monkey and accidentally spilled gene-altering nano-enzymes into it, and it metamorphosed into what appears to be a human child.
Panel 3:
Child (now looking distressed/crying): Honestly? A little.
Parent: Are you upset?
Parent: I'll get you some bananas.
Votey:
No text. A small child stands at the lower left looking unhappy/sullen with arms crossed, while two adults (a man and a woman) stand together looking down, with a counter or table in the foreground.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A smiling woman tells a child, "I'm afraid you were an accident." The cheerful child replies, "That's okay! Lots of kids happen by accident. I'm just glad to have a loving mommy and daddy." Panel 2: The woman clarifies, "No, I mean... like, we had a monkey and accidentally spilled gene-altering nano-enzymes into it, and it metamorphosed into what appears to be a human child." Panel 3: The child's face crumples into tears. The mother asks, "Are you upset?" and adds, "I'll get you some bananas." The child answers, "Honestly? A little." The joke: the reassuring 'you were an accident' talk turns out to mean the kid is literally a mutated lab monkey, and the parent offers bananas as comfort. Votey (bonus panel): A wordless scene showing a small, sullen child with arms crossed at the lower left while two adults stand together looking down, behind a counter in the foreground.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.