a-monster-4
Original: a-monster-4 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Child: MOM! THERE'S A MONSTER UNDER MY BED!
Mother: WHERE?
Child: ABOUT 12,700 KILOMETERS DOWN, DEPENDING ON YOUR CHOICE OF ANGLE.
Caption (below panel): If you live in Australia, there is always an American under your bed.
Votey:
(No dialogue.) Caption is delivered visually: a man's face wearing a star-spangled, stars-and-stripes Uncle Sam style top hat is seen poking up from the lower-right corner against an all-black background.
Child: MOM! THERE'S A MONSTER UNDER MY BED!
Mother: WHERE?
Child: ABOUT 12,700 KILOMETERS DOWN, DEPENDING ON YOUR CHOICE OF ANGLE.
Caption (below panel): If you live in Australia, there is always an American under your bed.
Votey:
(No dialogue.) Caption is delivered visually: a man's face wearing a star-spangled, stars-and-stripes Uncle Sam style top hat is seen poking up from the lower-right corner against an all-black background.
Alt text
A blond child sits up in bed in a dark bedroom, calling out wide-eyed to his gray-haired mother (seen from behind at right): "MOM! THERE'S A MONSTER UNDER MY BED!" She asks, "WHERE?" The child replies, "ABOUT 12,700 KILOMETERS DOWN, DEPENDING ON YOUR CHOICE OF ANGLE" — roughly the diameter of the Earth. A caption below reads: "If you live in Australia, there is always an American under your bed." Votey: against a solid black field, the face of a man wearing a red-white-and-blue star-spangled Uncle Sam top hat peers up from the lower-right corner, like the "American" lurking on the far side of the planet.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.