accident-2
Original: accident-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child: MOM, DAD, WAS I... AN ACCIDENT? YOU KNOW, YOU CAN TELL ME.
Parent (off-panel, speech bubble): NOPE
Panel 2:
Parent (a woman with dark hair, glasses, blue shirt, pointing): THE WHOLE THING WAS PLANNED DOWN TO THE SECOND.
Panel 3:
Parent (holding up two fingers): THE GOAL WAS TO MAX THE ODDS, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME? WE'RE TALKING TIMING AND QUANTITY.
Panel 4:
Child (off-panel, speech bubble): THIS IS SO MUCH WORSE.
Parent (hand on cheek): HERE'S A DIAGRAM. I'LL USE MY CHEEKS TO MAKE SOUND EFFECTS.
Votey:
Parent (continuing, with a stressed/strained expression): OF COURSE, THIS IS ONLY ONE - THE END OF THE BEGINNING, BUT NOT THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
Child: MOM, DAD, WAS I... AN ACCIDENT? YOU KNOW, YOU CAN TELL ME.
Parent (off-panel, speech bubble): NOPE
Panel 2:
Parent (a woman with dark hair, glasses, blue shirt, pointing): THE WHOLE THING WAS PLANNED DOWN TO THE SECOND.
Panel 3:
Parent (holding up two fingers): THE GOAL WAS TO MAX THE ODDS, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME? WE'RE TALKING TIMING AND QUANTITY.
Panel 4:
Child (off-panel, speech bubble): THIS IS SO MUCH WORSE.
Parent (hand on cheek): HERE'S A DIAGRAM. I'LL USE MY CHEEKS TO MAKE SOUND EFFECTS.
Votey:
Parent (continuing, with a stressed/strained expression): OF COURSE, THIS IS ONLY ONE - THE END OF THE BEGINNING, BUT NOT THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A young child in a red shirt asks his parents, "Mom, Dad, was I... an accident? You know, you can tell me." A speech bubble from off-panel answers, "Nope." Panel 2: A woman with dark hair, glasses, and a blue shirt points a finger and says, "The whole thing was planned down to the second." Panel 3: She holds up two fingers and says, "The goal was to max the odds, do you understand me? We're talking timing and quantity." Panel 4: She presses a hand to her cheek; the child, now looking uneasy, says off-panel, "This is so much worse," while she says, "Here's a diagram. I'll use my cheeks to make sound effects." The joke: the kid hoped he wasn't an accident but instead gets an overly enthusiastic, graphic account of how deliberately he was conceived. Votey: A single panel close-up of the mother, now wide-eyed and slightly manic, adding, "Of course, this is only one - the end of the beginning, but not the beginning of the end."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.