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sorry

Original: sorry on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
A girl with brown hair and glasses holds a sheet of paper, reading from it to a boy with reddish-orange hair (seen from behind).
Girl (reading from paper): "I'm sorry, you're not in-network. We won't be able to deliver on a memory you will later see as funny, yet strangely beautiful in its innocence."

Caption (below panel): American kids don't "play doctor" like other kids.

Votey:
Close-up of the boy's face, now scowling with anger.
Boy: "I'll show you! I'm gonna be weirdly sexually repressed as an adult and I will express my sorrow as anger!"

Alt text

A two-panel comic. Main panel: a girl with brown hair and round glasses holds and reads from a sheet of paper to a boy with reddish-orange hair shown from behind, both standing against a green background. She reads in a bureaucratic insurance-denial tone: "I'm sorry, you're not in-network. We won't be able to deliver on a memory you will later see as funny, yet strangely beautiful in its innocence." A caption beneath reads: "American kids don't 'play doctor' like other kids." The joke is that the children's game of "playing doctor" has been turned into a denied health-insurance claim. Votey (aftercomic): a black-and-white close-up of the boy's face, scrunched with anger, shouting: "I'll show you! I'm gonna be weirdly sexually repressed as an adult and I will express my sorrow as anger!"

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.