adult
Original: adult on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption): WHEN I WAS A KID:
Young man (pointing at a TV): Why don't people in horror movies just LEAVE the haunted house?
Panel 2 (caption): AS AN ADULT:
Older man (now with glasses, pointing at a TV): Why don't the dead pay rent if they're there all night? Mortgage ain't free, GHOST.
Votey:
A ghost (a simple white spectral figure with an angry frown) replies: Bro, you try getting work as an ethereal specter.
Young man (pointing at a TV): Why don't people in horror movies just LEAVE the haunted house?
Panel 2 (caption): AS AN ADULT:
Older man (now with glasses, pointing at a TV): Why don't the dead pay rent if they're there all night? Mortgage ain't free, GHOST.
Votey:
A ghost (a simple white spectral figure with an angry frown) replies: Bro, you try getting work as an ethereal specter.
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Panel 1 is labeled "When I was a kid:" and shows a young red-haired man pointing angrily at an off-panel TV, saying, "Why don't people in horror movies just LEAVE the haunted house?" Panel 2 is labeled "As an adult:" and shows the same man, now older and wearing glasses, still pointing at the TV but with a different complaint: "Why don't the dead pay rent if they're there all night? Mortgage ain't free, GHOST." The joke is that childhood frustration with horror-movie logic has been replaced by adult frustration about money and rent. Votey (bonus panel): A simple white cartoon ghost with an angry frown fires back, "Bro, you try getting work as an ethereal specter."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.