lie
Original: lie on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A child, silhouetted in a doorway, bursts in on his parents.
Child: MOM! DAD! WHAT WERE YOU DOING TO EACH OTHER?!
Panel 2: Close-up of the father's worried, sweating face.
Father (thinking): THINK OF A LIE THINK OF A LIE THINK OF A LIE THINK OF A LIE THINK OF A LIE...
Panel 3: The parents, both undressed, sit on the bed. The father (who has a flame-like red object on his head) speaks. The mother sits beside him with a blank expression; the child stands at the right edge.
Father: WE WERE HAVING CONVENTIONAL HIGHLY AFFECTIONATE PENIS-IN-VAGINA SEX!
Votey: Handwritten caption above a simple line drawing of a face looking downward with a slightly resigned expression.
Caption: Because we want more babies
Child: MOM! DAD! WHAT WERE YOU DOING TO EACH OTHER?!
Panel 2: Close-up of the father's worried, sweating face.
Father (thinking): THINK OF A LIE THINK OF A LIE THINK OF A LIE THINK OF A LIE THINK OF A LIE...
Panel 3: The parents, both undressed, sit on the bed. The father (who has a flame-like red object on his head) speaks. The mother sits beside him with a blank expression; the child stands at the right edge.
Father: WE WERE HAVING CONVENTIONAL HIGHLY AFFECTIONATE PENIS-IN-VAGINA SEX!
Votey: Handwritten caption above a simple line drawing of a face looking downward with a slightly resigned expression.
Caption: Because we want more babies
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: a child is silhouetted in a lit doorway, arms raised, shouting 'MOM! DAD! WHAT WERE YOU DOING TO EACH OTHER?!' Panel 2: an extreme close-up of the father's anxious, sweating face as he frantically thinks 'THINK OF A LIE THINK OF A LIE THINK OF A LIE...' Panel 3: the parents sit undressed on a bed beside their child, and the father blurts out the blunt, clinical truth instead: 'WE WERE HAVING CONVENTIONAL HIGHLY AFFECTIONATE PENIS-IN-VAGINA SEX!' The joke is that after all his panic to invent a lie, he defaults to total honesty. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn face gazing downward with a resigned look, captioned 'Because we want more babies.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.