moo
Original: moo on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A child looks up at a man (the father). Child: "DAD! TELL ME ONE OF YOUR DISCOUNTED DAD-JOKES!"
Panel 2: The man throws his head back, laughing with his mouth wide open.
Panel 3: The man, now with a small smile. Man: "WANT THE DISCOUNTED CON-GROVE COMETS?" Child (offscreen): "I DUNNO... WHAT?"
Panel 4: A herd of cattle. A large sound/text: "MOOOOOO TINY".
Panel 5: A scene of cattle/figures outside at night. Caption text: "AUTHORITIES PURSUED A MODEL THEM TO AN ILLEGAL MOOING OUTSIDE MADCAD."
Panel 6: A cow lit dramatically against a yellow/orange flash. Caption: "THEY WERE SLAIN AND/OR EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD." Sound text from the cow: "MOOO HVU".
Panel 7: The child, looking distraught. Child: "I'M SO GLAD NOW, PAPA. LIKE SOMETHING INSIDE ME IS TORN AND CANNOT BE PUT BACK TOGETHER."
Panel 8: The father, looking stricken/emotional. Father: "NO SO GLAD NOW, PAPA. LIKE SOMETHING INSIDE ME IS TORN AND CANNOT BE PUT BACK TOGETHER. I'M DAD."
(Note: several panels of fine print in this comic are rendered too small to read with full confidence; the cattle-joke captions above are a best-effort reading of low-resolution text.)
Votey: A hand-drawn black square border framing centered text: "SUDDENLY REGRETTING THAT THE TEXT IN THE LAST PANEL ISN'T 10 TIMES LONGER."
Panel 2: The man throws his head back, laughing with his mouth wide open.
Panel 3: The man, now with a small smile. Man: "WANT THE DISCOUNTED CON-GROVE COMETS?" Child (offscreen): "I DUNNO... WHAT?"
Panel 4: A herd of cattle. A large sound/text: "MOOOOOO TINY".
Panel 5: A scene of cattle/figures outside at night. Caption text: "AUTHORITIES PURSUED A MODEL THEM TO AN ILLEGAL MOOING OUTSIDE MADCAD."
Panel 6: A cow lit dramatically against a yellow/orange flash. Caption: "THEY WERE SLAIN AND/OR EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD." Sound text from the cow: "MOOO HVU".
Panel 7: The child, looking distraught. Child: "I'M SO GLAD NOW, PAPA. LIKE SOMETHING INSIDE ME IS TORN AND CANNOT BE PUT BACK TOGETHER."
Panel 8: The father, looking stricken/emotional. Father: "NO SO GLAD NOW, PAPA. LIKE SOMETHING INSIDE ME IS TORN AND CANNOT BE PUT BACK TOGETHER. I'M DAD."
(Note: several panels of fine print in this comic are rendered too small to read with full confidence; the cattle-joke captions above are a best-effort reading of low-resolution text.)
Votey: A hand-drawn black square border framing centered text: "SUDDENLY REGRETTING THAT THE TEXT IN THE LAST PANEL ISN'T 10 TIMES LONGER."
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic. A small child asks their father to tell one of his discounted dad-jokes; the father throws his head back laughing, then begins a convoluted pun-joke involving cattle and 'mooing.' Several panels show cows and night scenes with small caption text setting up the punning story (an illegal 'mooing,' authorities, a firing squad), rendered in text too small to read clearly. In the final two panels, the child says they feel as if something inside them is torn and cannot be put back together, and the father repeats almost the same anguished line, ending with the classic dad-joke swap: 'I'm Dad.' Votey (aftercomic): a simple black hand-drawn square frame with centered text reading 'Suddenly regretting that the text in the last panel isn't 10 times longer.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.