knock-knock-4
Original: knock-knock-4 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Person A: HEY! WANNA HEAR A JOKE? YOU WON'T WANNA TELL IN PUBLIC.
Person B: UH...
Person A: KNOCK KNOCK!
Panel 2:
Person B: WHO'S THERE?
Person A: WHITE.
Person B: WHITE WHO?
Person A: KNOCK KNOCK!
Panel 3:
Person B: WHO'S THERE?
Person A: BLACK.
Person B: BLACK WHO?
Person A: KNOCK KNOCK!
Panel 4:
Person B: WHO'S THERE?
Person A: BROWN.
Person B: BROWN WHO?
Person A: KNOCK KNOCK!
Panel 5:
Person B: WHO'S THERE?
Person A: YELLOW.
Person B: YELLOW WHO?
Person A: KNOCK KNOCK!
Panel 6:
Person B: WHO'S THERE?
Person A: RED.
Person B: RED WHO?
Person A: KNOCK KNOCK!
Panel 7:
Person B: WHO'S THERE?
Person A: ORANGE.
Person B: ...ORANGE WHO?
Panel 8:
Person A: ORANGE YOU GLAD THE PUNCHLINE ISN'T RACISTY?
Person B: SON OF A BITCH!
Votey:
(THIS IS BASED ON A TWITTER CONVERSATION I HAD AGES AGO. WOULD LOVE TO PROVIDE CREDIT BUT I CAN'T FIND IT!)
Person A: HEY! WANNA HEAR A JOKE? YOU WON'T WANNA TELL IN PUBLIC.
Person B: UH...
Person A: KNOCK KNOCK!
Panel 2:
Person B: WHO'S THERE?
Person A: WHITE.
Person B: WHITE WHO?
Person A: KNOCK KNOCK!
Panel 3:
Person B: WHO'S THERE?
Person A: BLACK.
Person B: BLACK WHO?
Person A: KNOCK KNOCK!
Panel 4:
Person B: WHO'S THERE?
Person A: BROWN.
Person B: BROWN WHO?
Person A: KNOCK KNOCK!
Panel 5:
Person B: WHO'S THERE?
Person A: YELLOW.
Person B: YELLOW WHO?
Person A: KNOCK KNOCK!
Panel 6:
Person B: WHO'S THERE?
Person A: RED.
Person B: RED WHO?
Person A: KNOCK KNOCK!
Panel 7:
Person B: WHO'S THERE?
Person A: ORANGE.
Person B: ...ORANGE WHO?
Panel 8:
Person A: ORANGE YOU GLAD THE PUNCHLINE ISN'T RACISTY?
Person B: SON OF A BITCH!
Votey:
(THIS IS BASED ON A TWITTER CONVERSATION I HAD AGES AGO. WOULD LOVE TO PROVIDE CREDIT BUT I CAN'T FIND IT!)
Alt text
An eight-panel comic between two stick figures. In the first panel, Person A offers to tell a joke they won't want to repeat in public, then starts a knock-knock joke. Across the next several panels, the joke runs through a series of color-named setups that all sound like they're building toward a racist punchline: White, Black, Brown, Yellow, Red. Each time Person B dutifully plays along ("Who's there?" ... "White who?") and Person A just restarts with "Knock knock!" instead of delivering a punchline, ratcheting up the dread. By the Orange round, Person B answers "...Orange who?" warily. In the final panel Person A delivers the actual punchline: "Orange you glad the punchline isn't racisty?" Person B, who had braced for something offensive, yells "Son of a bitch!" The joke is the classic "orange you glad" wordplay, weaponized to set up the listener's fear of a slur. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-lettered note reading "(This is based on a Twitter conversation I had ages ago. Would love to provide credit but I can't find it!)"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.