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A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: In a forest, a mother in an orange shirt walks with her young daughter in pink, who points and exclaims, "Oh my god mommy, what are those bunnies doing?!" Panel 2: Close-up of the mother, glasses gleaming, calmly answering, "It may not look like it, sweetie, but they're making babies." Panel 3: The view pulls back to reveal the mother and child are actually standing in a vast high-tech laboratory, overlooking an enormous tunnel lined with rows of glowing incubation tanks, each containing a developing fetus-like creature stretching into the distance. The mother, now a scientist, says, "Something's wrong with growth. Increase the gonadotropin beta subunit HCG-beta." A worker replies, "Yes, Professor." The joke: the wholesome bunny-birds-and-bees explanation turns out to be a euphemism for an industrial fetal-cultivation facility. Votey aftercomic: a stark close-up of a roughly drawn bunny face with a word balloon coldly commanding, "Harvest more human cells."