slug
Original: slug on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (dark hair, red shirt): Billy! Don't pour salt on that slug! It's mean!
Billy (boy with orange hair, holding a salt shaker): Actually, scientists haven't confirmed that I feel pain. I might just be a stimulus-response machine that's attempting to avoid damage. Salt away!
(A slug sits on the ground nearby.)
Panel 2:
Woman: But you can talk. That means you can think.
The slug: Thinking just makes me want the salt more, kids!
Votey:
Close-up on the slug's face, looking up with wide eyes.
The slug: Salt me, children!
Woman (dark hair, red shirt): Billy! Don't pour salt on that slug! It's mean!
Billy (boy with orange hair, holding a salt shaker): Actually, scientists haven't confirmed that I feel pain. I might just be a stimulus-response machine that's attempting to avoid damage. Salt away!
(A slug sits on the ground nearby.)
Panel 2:
Woman: But you can talk. That means you can think.
The slug: Thinking just makes me want the salt more, kids!
Votey:
Close-up on the slug's face, looking up with wide eyes.
The slug: Salt me, children!
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. In the first panels a dark-haired woman in a red shirt tells a boy named Billy, who is holding a salt shaker, "Billy! Don't pour salt on that slug! It's mean!" Billy replies, "Actually, scientists haven't confirmed that I feel pain. I might just be a stimulus-response machine that's attempting to avoid damage. Salt away!" The woman counters, "But you can talk. That means you can think." The twist: it is the green slug on the ground that has been speaking, not Billy. The slug answers, "Thinking just makes me want the salt more, kids!" In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the slug's face with wide eyes eagerly says, "Salt me, children!" The joke is that the slug enthusiastically argues for its own salting.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.