Good Cop
Original: Good Cop on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Older man (gray hair, interrogator): "All right, Frank, time to do a little good cop/bad cop."
Panel 2:
Older man: "You're not supposed to tell the prisoner when you do that."
Panel 3:
Man with flame-like red hair and beard: "I'm the bad cop."
Older man: "Bad means bad, i.e., breaking the law, not incompetent."
Panel 4:
Man with red hair: "I'll be the one asking the questions."
Panel 5:
Older man: "I don't ask a question."
Man with red hair: "Sounds like it's time to bring in the good cop."
Panel 6:
Man with red hair: "What? Who?"
Older man: "Doesn't matter because I refuse to get someone to do it because I'm the bad cop."
Caption: THREE HOURS LATER
(Two figures sit at a table.)
One figure: "Ok, I just want the burglar to just stop."
Other figure: "Good ol' good cop / bad cop."
Votey:
A speech bubble: "You're free to go."
Another speech bubble: "What?"
Another speech bubble: "I'm a bad cop."
(A face on the right looks annoyed/squinting.)
Older man (gray hair, interrogator): "All right, Frank, time to do a little good cop/bad cop."
Panel 2:
Older man: "You're not supposed to tell the prisoner when you do that."
Panel 3:
Man with flame-like red hair and beard: "I'm the bad cop."
Older man: "Bad means bad, i.e., breaking the law, not incompetent."
Panel 4:
Man with red hair: "I'll be the one asking the questions."
Panel 5:
Older man: "I don't ask a question."
Man with red hair: "Sounds like it's time to bring in the good cop."
Panel 6:
Man with red hair: "What? Who?"
Older man: "Doesn't matter because I refuse to get someone to do it because I'm the bad cop."
Caption: THREE HOURS LATER
(Two figures sit at a table.)
One figure: "Ok, I just want the burglar to just stop."
Other figure: "Good ol' good cop / bad cop."
Votey:
A speech bubble: "You're free to go."
Another speech bubble: "What?"
Another speech bubble: "I'm a bad cop."
(A face on the right looks annoyed/squinting.)
Alt text
A six-panel comic. An older gray-haired interrogator tells a red-haired, bearded man named Frank it's time for good cop/bad cop, but Frank keeps misunderstanding: he announces "I'm the bad cop" as if confessing incompetence (the interrogator clarifies "bad" means breaking the law, not being bad at the job), insists he'll ask the questions and then says "I don't ask a question," and proposes bringing in the good cop without grasping who that would be. The interrogator refuses to fetch anyone "because I'm the bad cop." A caption reads THREE HOURS LATER, showing two figures at a table where one just wants the burglar to stop and the other muses "Good ol' good cop/bad cop." Votey: a hand-drawn panel where one cop says "You're free to go," a startled voice asks "What?", and the reply is "I'm a bad cop," beside an annoyed squinting face. The joke plays on the literal absurdity of an interrogator being a "bad cop" who is genuinely bad at and uncooperative with police work.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.