dadnapping
Original: dadnapping on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Kidnapper (a bald, bearded man on a phone): "I HAVE KIDNAPPED YOUR FATHER AND YOU WILL PAY THE RANSOM OR NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN."
Panel 2:
The son (a man with curly hair, on a phone, looking angry): "LIAR! SAY SOMETHING ONLY MY DAD WOULD SAY."
Panel 3:
Kidnapper (now seen with the captured father tied up in the background): "HE SAYS 'SOMETHING ONLY MY DAD WOULD SAY'."
Panel 4:
The son (calm, resigned expression): "GO AHEAD AND KILL HIM."
Votey:
A caption reads: "START WITH THE TONGUE." Below it is a line drawing of the curly-haired son's head and shoulders.
Kidnapper (a bald, bearded man on a phone): "I HAVE KIDNAPPED YOUR FATHER AND YOU WILL PAY THE RANSOM OR NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN."
Panel 2:
The son (a man with curly hair, on a phone, looking angry): "LIAR! SAY SOMETHING ONLY MY DAD WOULD SAY."
Panel 3:
Kidnapper (now seen with the captured father tied up in the background): "HE SAYS 'SOMETHING ONLY MY DAD WOULD SAY'."
Panel 4:
The son (calm, resigned expression): "GO AHEAD AND KILL HIM."
Votey:
A caption reads: "START WITH THE TONGUE." Below it is a line drawing of the curly-haired son's head and shoulders.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a bald, bearded man on the phone says he has kidnapped the listener's father and demands ransom. Panel 2: a curly-haired man on the phone shouts "Liar! Say something only my dad would say." Panel 3: the kidnapper, with the bound father visible tied up behind him, replies "He says 'something only my dad would say'." Panel 4: the curly-haired son, now calm and resigned, says "Go ahead and kill him" — the joke being his father is so dull and literal that the kidnapper relaying that exact useless phrase proves it's really him, and the son no longer cares to save him. Votey: a line drawing of the son's head with the caption "Start with the tongue," escalating his cold indifference into instructing the kidnapper to begin torturing his father.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.