Pumpkin
Original: Pumpkin on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Fairy Godmother (in a pink hooded cloak, arms outstretched): And with my magic, Cinderella, that pumpkin will turn into a carriage when the sun sets.
(Cinderella, a blonde woman, stands beside a pumpkin on a table, looking uncertain.)
Panel 2:
Cinderella: Wait. So... tonight... that pumpkin suddenly expands to twenty times it's size?
Fairy Godmother: Yes.
Panel 3:
Cinderella: And then at midnight it shrinks back and just looks like pumpkin? Like regular old pumpkin. Like, anyone who saw it would say "that's just a pumpkin."
Fairy Godmother: Right. Why?
Panel 4 (captioned "Later..."):
Cinderella (serving food to two children at a dinner table, the stepmother seated across): Have some more roast squash, beloved stepmother.
Stepmother: Oh. Maybe just one more bite.
Votey:
Cinderella (frowning, irritated): Now, turn some mice into dudes for me.
Fairy Godmother (in a pink hooded cloak, arms outstretched): And with my magic, Cinderella, that pumpkin will turn into a carriage when the sun sets.
(Cinderella, a blonde woman, stands beside a pumpkin on a table, looking uncertain.)
Panel 2:
Cinderella: Wait. So... tonight... that pumpkin suddenly expands to twenty times it's size?
Fairy Godmother: Yes.
Panel 3:
Cinderella: And then at midnight it shrinks back and just looks like pumpkin? Like regular old pumpkin. Like, anyone who saw it would say "that's just a pumpkin."
Fairy Godmother: Right. Why?
Panel 4 (captioned "Later..."):
Cinderella (serving food to two children at a dinner table, the stepmother seated across): Have some more roast squash, beloved stepmother.
Stepmother: Oh. Maybe just one more bite.
Votey:
Cinderella (frowning, irritated): Now, turn some mice into dudes for me.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A fairy godmother in a pink hooded cloak spreads her arms over a pumpkin and tells a blonde woman, "And with my magic, Cinderella, that pumpkin will turn into a carriage when the sun sets." Cinderella looks skeptical. Panel 2: Cinderella asks, "Wait. So... tonight... that pumpkin suddenly expands to twenty times it's size?" The godmother answers, "Yes." Panel 3: Cinderella continues, "And then at midnight it shrinks back and just looks like pumpkin? Like regular old pumpkin. Like, anyone who saw it would say 'that's just a pumpkin.'" The godmother replies, "Right. Why?" Panel 4, labeled "Later...": Cinderella cheerfully serves food at a dinner table to two children while her stepmother sits across from her, saying "Have some more roast squash, beloved stepmother." The stepmother, looking queasy, says "Oh. Maybe just one more bite" — the joke being that Cinderella has cooked and fed the magic carriage-pumpkin (which looks like an ordinary squash) to her stepmother. Votey aftercomic: A close-up of a scowling, irritated Cinderella demanding of the godmother, "Now, turn some mice into dudes for me."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.