interrogation
Original: interrogation on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A police officer (Officer Lewis) leans toward a man, jabbing a finger at him while playing both "good cop" and "bad cop" at once.
Officer Lewis: "LOOK, LET ME HELP YOU. I WANT TO HELP YOU. I WANT TO HELP YOU YOU BY KICKING YOUR ASS IF I HAVE TO. BUT I KNOW YOU'RE A GOOD GUY. I KNOW THAT. BUT MY WIFE JUST LEFT ME AND I'M A LIT FUSE READY TO EXPLODE WITH LEGAL AID IF YOU'LL JUST GIVE ME SOME INFORMATION."
Caption below panel: "Due to budget cuts, Officer Lewis is forced to do the good-cop-bad-cop routine solo."
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "funniness" and the horizontal axis is labeled "length of punchline." A red curve starts low and sweeps sharply upward, showing funniness rising exponentially as the punchline gets longer.
A police officer (Officer Lewis) leans toward a man, jabbing a finger at him while playing both "good cop" and "bad cop" at once.
Officer Lewis: "LOOK, LET ME HELP YOU. I WANT TO HELP YOU. I WANT TO HELP YOU YOU BY KICKING YOUR ASS IF I HAVE TO. BUT I KNOW YOU'RE A GOOD GUY. I KNOW THAT. BUT MY WIFE JUST LEFT ME AND I'M A LIT FUSE READY TO EXPLODE WITH LEGAL AID IF YOU'LL JUST GIVE ME SOME INFORMATION."
Caption below panel: "Due to budget cuts, Officer Lewis is forced to do the good-cop-bad-cop routine solo."
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "funniness" and the horizontal axis is labeled "length of punchline." A red curve starts low and sweeps sharply upward, showing funniness rising exponentially as the punchline gets longer.
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Main panel: a police officer leans in aggressively toward a seated man, pointing a finger. Because of budget cuts he has to perform the "good cop / bad cop" interrogation routine entirely by himself, so his speech lurches between kindness and menace in a single breath: "Look, let me help you. I want to help you by kicking your ass if I have to. But I know you're a good guy. My wife just left me and I'm a lit fuse ready to explode... with legal aid if you'll just give me some information." A caption reads: "Due to budget cuts, Officer Lewis is forced to do the good-cop-bad-cop routine solo." Votey: a hand-drawn graph with a red curve rising exponentially; the y-axis is labeled "funniness" and the x-axis is labeled "length of punchline" — a self-aware joke that the long, rambling punchline is funnier the longer it runs.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.