cupcake
Original: cupcake on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (walking on a path with a man): What I love about children is they're so innocent.
Man: Are they? Hold on, let me get a marker and some cardboard.
Panel 2 (caption: SHORTLY...):
Close-up of a cardboard box with handwritten text on its side: "PRESS BUTTON. ONE PERSON YOU DON'T KNOW DIES AND YOU GET A CUPCAKE"
Panel 3:
Woman: What're you gonna do with it?
Man: Put it in the playground and wait thirty seconds.
Panel 4 (caption: AND SO...):
Woman: They're just sitting on the button. They're fighting over who can sit on it.
Man: Oh shit, Jenny got a plank with a nail in it, time to step in.
Votey:
A man (the same man, shown as a sketchy close-up of his face) shouts: Wait, you guys didn't even read the side of the box?
Woman (walking on a path with a man): What I love about children is they're so innocent.
Man: Are they? Hold on, let me get a marker and some cardboard.
Panel 2 (caption: SHORTLY...):
Close-up of a cardboard box with handwritten text on its side: "PRESS BUTTON. ONE PERSON YOU DON'T KNOW DIES AND YOU GET A CUPCAKE"
Panel 3:
Woman: What're you gonna do with it?
Man: Put it in the playground and wait thirty seconds.
Panel 4 (caption: AND SO...):
Woman: They're just sitting on the button. They're fighting over who can sit on it.
Man: Oh shit, Jenny got a plank with a nail in it, time to step in.
Votey:
A man (the same man, shown as a sketchy close-up of his face) shouts: Wait, you guys didn't even read the side of the box?
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a man and woman walk down a path; the woman says "What I love about children is they're so innocent," and the man replies "Are they? Hold on, let me get a marker and some cardboard." Panel 2, captioned SHORTLY, shows a close-up of a cardboard box with handwriting on its side reading "PRESS BUTTON. ONE PERSON YOU DON'T KNOW DIES AND YOU GET A CUPCAKE." Panel 3: the woman asks "What're you gonna do with it?" and the man answers "Put it in the playground and wait thirty seconds." Panel 4, captioned AND SO, shows two adults watching as the woman reports "They're just sitting on the button. They're fighting over who can sit on it," and the man, alarmed, says "Oh shit, Jenny got a plank with a nail in it, time to step in" — the joke being that the kids aren't pressing the murder button to get cupcakes, they're just brawling over the button itself. Votey aftercomic: a sketchy close-up of the man's face yelling "Wait, you guys didn't even read the side of the box?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.