twins-2
Original: twins-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with brown hair: It's twins! I'm so excited!
Woman with dark hair: Twins! I'm excited too!
Panel 2:
Man (close-up, grinning): We can have double birthdays and we can dress them the same and give them rhyming names and-
Woman (deadpan, round glasses): Uh... yeah. That's why I'm excited too.
Panel 3 (labeled "EARLIER..."):
A doctor in a lab coat and glasses, holding a clipboard, speaks to the woman lying on an exam table.
Doctor: It's twins.
Woman: I've got a control group!
Votey:
A woman's face in profile (the dark-haired woman) appears beside hand-lettered text.
Text: You're not the father. My control husband is.
Man with brown hair: It's twins! I'm so excited!
Woman with dark hair: Twins! I'm excited too!
Panel 2:
Man (close-up, grinning): We can have double birthdays and we can dress them the same and give them rhyming names and-
Woman (deadpan, round glasses): Uh... yeah. That's why I'm excited too.
Panel 3 (labeled "EARLIER..."):
A doctor in a lab coat and glasses, holding a clipboard, speaks to the woman lying on an exam table.
Doctor: It's twins.
Woman: I've got a control group!
Votey:
A woman's face in profile (the dark-haired woman) appears beside hand-lettered text.
Text: You're not the father. My control husband is.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic about a couple expecting twins. Panel 1: A brown-haired man excitedly tells a dark-haired woman "It's twins! I'm so excited!" and she replies "Twins! I'm excited too!" Panel 2: Close-up of the grinning man rattling off plans "We can have double birthdays and we can dress them the same and give them rhyming names and-" while the woman, deadpan behind round glasses, says "Uh... yeah. That's why I'm excited too." Panel 3, labeled EARLIER: a doctor in a lab coat holds a clipboard and tells the woman on an exam table "It's twins," and she gleefully responds "I've got a control group!" The joke: she is excited about the twins as a scientific experiment, not as children. Votey aftercomic: the woman's profile beside hand-lettered text reading "You're not the father. My control husband is" -- extending the experiment gag to paternity.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.