escape
Original: escape on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Therapist: I want you to take all those bad thoughts. All that stress and anxiety and judgment and imagine it flowing out of your body into this goat.
(A patient lies on a couch; the therapist sits in a chair with a goat standing between them.)
Panel 2
Patient (named Roger, established later): Uh, okay?
Panel 3
Therapist (off-panel, from outside a building): Now, take the goat and throw it out the window.
Patient (from inside the building, small voice): What?
Panel 4
Therapist (a woman with curly dark hair, gripping the goat): Murder the stress-goat, Roger. MURDER IT.
(The goat stands beside her looking alarmed.)
Caption: My biblically-inspired psychotherapy practice was short lived.
Votey:
A close-up of the goat's hindquarters and rear hooves, seen from behind/below.
Therapist: I want you to take all those bad thoughts. All that stress and anxiety and judgment and imagine it flowing out of your body into this goat.
(A patient lies on a couch; the therapist sits in a chair with a goat standing between them.)
Panel 2
Patient (named Roger, established later): Uh, okay?
Panel 3
Therapist (off-panel, from outside a building): Now, take the goat and throw it out the window.
Patient (from inside the building, small voice): What?
Panel 4
Therapist (a woman with curly dark hair, gripping the goat): Murder the stress-goat, Roger. MURDER IT.
(The goat stands beside her looking alarmed.)
Caption: My biblically-inspired psychotherapy practice was short lived.
Votey:
A close-up of the goat's hindquarters and rear hooves, seen from behind/below.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A patient reclines on a therapy couch while a therapist sits across from them, with a goat standing between them. The therapist says, "I want you to take all those bad thoughts. All that stress and anxiety and judgment and imagine it flowing out of your body into this goat." Panel 2: A close-up of the patient looking skeptical, saying, "Uh, okay?" Panel 3: The exterior of a tall building; a speech bubble from outside says, "Now, take the goat and throw it out the window," and a small bubble from inside replies, "What?" Panel 4: A close-up of the therapist, a woman with curly dark hair, gripping the goat with an intense expression and white eyes. She says, "Murder the stress-goat, Roger. MURDER IT." The goat beside her looks alarmed. Caption below: "My biblically-inspired psychotherapy practice was short lived" (a reference to the biblical scapegoat ritual). Votey aftercomic: a close-up of the goat's rear end and two hooves seen from behind.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.