fungus-amungus
Original: fungus-amungus on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single wide panel):
A group of four people stand on a dark hill, looking off to the right at a large black silhouette of a body lying on the ground, with a tentacle/fungal stalk rising from it.
First person (man with dark hair, shocked): OH MY GOD, HE'S DEAD.
Second person (woman with brown hair): THERE'S FUNGUS GROWING OUT OF HIS SPINE.
Third person (man with dark hair): IT MUST'VE BEEN CONTROLLING HIM.
Fourth person (man with red/orange hair, clutching his chest): NO WONDER HE HAD TO EAT SO MANY CALORIES. WHY DIDN'T ANY OF US REALIZE IT?
Caption below the panel:
It wasn't the fact of Cookie Monster's death that shook Sesame Street to its core, but the method of his demise.
Votey:
A close-up of a blue Cookie Monster-like creature with a sad, drooping expression in a dark room.
Cookie Monster: NO MORE SHALL ME WALK THESE SUNSWEPT STREETS.
A group of four people stand on a dark hill, looking off to the right at a large black silhouette of a body lying on the ground, with a tentacle/fungal stalk rising from it.
First person (man with dark hair, shocked): OH MY GOD, HE'S DEAD.
Second person (woman with brown hair): THERE'S FUNGUS GROWING OUT OF HIS SPINE.
Third person (man with dark hair): IT MUST'VE BEEN CONTROLLING HIM.
Fourth person (man with red/orange hair, clutching his chest): NO WONDER HE HAD TO EAT SO MANY CALORIES. WHY DIDN'T ANY OF US REALIZE IT?
Caption below the panel:
It wasn't the fact of Cookie Monster's death that shook Sesame Street to its core, but the method of his demise.
Votey:
A close-up of a blue Cookie Monster-like creature with a sad, drooping expression in a dark room.
Cookie Monster: NO MORE SHALL ME WALK THESE SUNSWEPT STREETS.
Alt text
A four-person group stands on a dark hillside staring at a large black silhouette of a corpse on the ground with a fungal stalk rising from it. They react: "Oh my god, he's dead." / "There's fungus growing out of his spine." / "It must've been controlling him." / "No wonder he had to eat so many calories. Why didn't any of us realize it?" The caption reads: "It wasn't the fact of Cookie Monster's death that shook Sesame Street to its core, but the method of his demise" — reframing Cookie Monster's relentless eating as a parasitic-fungus-controlled body (a Last of Us-style cordyceps gag). Votey: a close-up of a sad, droopy-eyed blue Cookie Monster in a dark room saying, "No more shall me walk these sunswept streets."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.