monotreme
Original: monotreme on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man with reddish, flame-like hair speaks to an echidna.
Man: "...and scientists call your kind 'monotreme.' You are a very rare, very weird sort of mammal, and a cousin of the echidna."
Panel 2: The echidna replies.
Echidna: "What does 'monotreme' mean?"
Panel 3: The man explains.
Man: "It's from the Greek, meaning 'one hole.'"
Panel 4: The man continues.
Man: "Like, you poop, pee, and, you know, do reproductive stuff with one orifice."
Panel 5: The man, looking pleased.
Man: "It's a scientifically interesting characteristic!"
Panel 6: The echidna, unimpressed.
Echidna: "Bite me, dingus."
Votey: A close-up of an echidna's snout / beak. Caption text reads: "You inefficient, monkey!"
Man: "...and scientists call your kind 'monotreme.' You are a very rare, very weird sort of mammal, and a cousin of the echidna."
Panel 2: The echidna replies.
Echidna: "What does 'monotreme' mean?"
Panel 3: The man explains.
Man: "It's from the Greek, meaning 'one hole.'"
Panel 4: The man continues.
Man: "Like, you poop, pee, and, you know, do reproductive stuff with one orifice."
Panel 5: The man, looking pleased.
Man: "It's a scientifically interesting characteristic!"
Panel 6: The echidna, unimpressed.
Echidna: "Bite me, dingus."
Votey: A close-up of an echidna's snout / beak. Caption text reads: "You inefficient, monkey!"
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A man with reddish flame-like hair lectures an echidna, explaining that scientists call its kind 'monotreme,' a rare weird mammal and cousin of the echidna. The echidna asks what 'monotreme' means. The man says it's Greek for 'one hole,' explaining that the animal poops, pees, and does reproductive stuff all through one orifice, and calls it a scientifically interesting characteristic. The echidna flatly responds, 'Bite me, dingus.' Votey: a close-up of the echidna's long snout, with the caption 'You inefficient, monkey!' — the echidna turning the mockery back on the multi-orificed human.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.