surveillance
Original: surveillance on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child (holding a tablet, addressing parents): Mom, dad, I want to show you this surveillance video of the kitchen last night.
Panel 2:
Child (narrating over the video): As you can plainly see, mom took a large bakesale cookie, intended for children, spread cream cheese over said cookie, put powdered sugar on the cream cheese, consumed the whole as if it were a liquid bolus and her neck was a vast straw, and absconded into the darkness.
Panel 3:
Mom (defensive, sweating): That's a deepfake! Don't believe it! Google can do anything these days!
Panel 4:
Mom (shouting wildly, as the father and child look on): Then explain why the cookie is gone. Sheep! You are sheep of the tech industry!
Votey:
Mom (shouting, single close-up panel): You're in the pocket of Big Truth!
Child (holding a tablet, addressing parents): Mom, dad, I want to show you this surveillance video of the kitchen last night.
Panel 2:
Child (narrating over the video): As you can plainly see, mom took a large bakesale cookie, intended for children, spread cream cheese over said cookie, put powdered sugar on the cream cheese, consumed the whole as if it were a liquid bolus and her neck was a vast straw, and absconded into the darkness.
Panel 3:
Mom (defensive, sweating): That's a deepfake! Don't believe it! Google can do anything these days!
Panel 4:
Mom (shouting wildly, as the father and child look on): Then explain why the cookie is gone. Sheep! You are sheep of the tech industry!
Votey:
Mom (shouting, single close-up panel): You're in the pocket of Big Truth!
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a child holding a tablet says to their parents, "Mom, dad, I want to show you this surveillance video of the kitchen last night." Panel 2: the child narrates the footage: "As you can plainly see, mom took a large bakesale cookie, intended for children, spread cream cheese over said cookie, put powdered sugar on the cream cheese, consumed the whole as if it were a liquid bolus and her neck was a vast straw, and absconded into the darkness." Panel 3: the mother, wide-eyed and sweating, snaps, "That's a deepfake! Don't believe it! Google can do anything these days!" Panel 4: the mother screams hysterically while the father and child stand by, "Then explain why the cookie is gone. Sheep! You are sheep of the tech industry!" The joke flips conspiracy-style deepfake denialism onto a caught-red-handed cookie thief. Votey (aftercomic): a single close-up of the wild-eyed mother shouting, "You're in the pocket of Big Truth!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.